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The Future of Violence Gabriella Blum , Benjamin Wittes Two legal scholars explore the security and political implications of revolutionary new technologies from drones to 3-D printers, and explain how governments must adapt to our brave new world of dispersed threats. From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2015-03-10 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Confucius Michael Schuman Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2015-03-03 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Creatures of a Day Irvin D. Yalom "The publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate." -- Steven Pinker In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles -- as well as his own -- to come to terms with the two great challenges of... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2015-02-24 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Shame Shelby Steele The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s -- when we came together as a nation to fight... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2015-02-24 ePub 14,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Half-Life Frank Close It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him to disappear? Was he simply a physicist, or also a spy and communist radical? A protege of Enrico Fermi,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2015-02-03 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Last Warrior Andrew F Krepinevich , Barry D Watts Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2015-01-06 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Cause of All Nations Don H Doyle When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-30 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Blood Bankers James S Henry Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-16 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Eureka Chad Orzel When it comes to science, too often people say "I just don't have the brains for it" -- and leave it at that. Why is science so intimidating, and why do people let themselves feel this way? What makes one person a scientist and another disinclined even to learn how to... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-09 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Pattern On The Stone W. Daniel Hillis Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize -- and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates -- is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-09 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Massacre John Merriman From a pre-eminent Yale historian comes the first popular history of the 1871 Paris Commune, a seminal episode in modern European history. The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-09 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Basic Economics Thomas Sowell The bestselling citizen's guide to economics “Basic Economics reveals in every chapter why Thomas Sowell is one of America’s greatest thinkers. It is must-reading for anyone who wants the truth about how the laws of economics govern so many of the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-02 ePub 19,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
All Eyes are Upon Us Jason Sokol The Northeastern United States -- home to abolitionism and a refuge for blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South -- has had a long and celebrated history of racial equality and political liberalism. After World War II, the region appeared poised to continue this legacy,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-12-02 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
How Brains Think William H. Calvin If you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're "smart." But "intelligence" is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them; or if you're trying to speak a... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-11-25 ePub 6,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Laboratory Earth Steven H Schneider Laboratory Earth taps the relevant knowledge from physical, biological, and social sciences needed to study the planet holistically. This so-called Earth Systems Science fosters a new way to understand the Earth and our roles as inhabitants, with the purpose of building... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-11-25 ePub 6,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Origin Of The Universe John D Barrow There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-11-25 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Pony Fish's Glow George C. Williams We may regard ourselves as the most advanced species on the planet, but have we really reached our optimum design? Isn't't there always room for improvements? Before you answer, let noted evolutionary biologist George C. Williams remind you of both the exquisite... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-11-25 ePub 7,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Between Two Worlds Malcolm Gaskill In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-11-11 ePub 16,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Founders' Son Richard Brookhiser Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding-Washington, Paine, Jefferson-and their great documents-the Declaration of... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-10-14 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Lonely War Nazila Fathi In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. "They have given your photo to snipers," a government source warned her. Soon after, with undercover agents closing... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-10-14 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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