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Fortress America Elaine Tyler May An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-12 ePub 10,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Moral Combat R. Marie Griffith From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control -- sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-12 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Beethoven's Eroica James Hamilton-Paterson An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-05 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Last Man Who Knew Everything David N. Schwartz The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi.... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-05 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Goddess of Anarchy Jacqueline Jones From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-05 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Exact Thinking in Demented Times Douglas R Hofstadter , Karl Sigmund A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-05 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Grass Roots Emily Dufton How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-12-05 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
American Aristocrats Harry S Stout The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalismAmerican Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-11-21 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
War in 140 Characters David Patrikarakos A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. Whether you are a president or a terrorist, if you... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-11-14 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
How We Talk N. J. Enfield An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-11-14 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Designing Reality Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld , Neil Gershenfeld , Alan Gershenfeld That's the promise, and peril, of the third digital revolution, where anyone will be able to make (almost) anything Two digital revolutions -- computing and communication -- have radically transformed our economy and lives. A third digital revolution is here:... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-11-14 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Most Elegant Equation David Stipp An award-winning science writer introduces us to mathematics using the extraordinary equation that unites five of mathematics' most important numbers Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry." This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi)... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-11-07 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Alone Together Sherry Turkle A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-11-07 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Pentagon's Wars Mark Perry A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadershipThe Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert Mark Perry... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-10-24 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Messiah Jonathan Keates From Handel's renowned biographer, the story of one of the most celebrated compositions of Western classical music, Handel's famous oratorio, Messiah In the late summer of 1741, George Friderick Handel, composed an oratorio set to words from the King James Bible, rich... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-10-24 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Second World Wars Victor Davis Hanson A "breathtakingly magisterial" account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-10-17 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Quantum Labyrinth Paul Halpern The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-10-17 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Lost Kingdom Serhii Plokhy From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-10-10 ePub 14,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory Art Friedman , Leonard Susskind The third volume in the bestselling physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-09-26 Collection : The Theoretical Minimum ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Winning at New Products Robert G. Cooper For more than two decades, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent product development is vital to corporate growth and how to maximize your chances of success. Citing the author's... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2017-09-19 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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