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Mindless Simon Head We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) -- the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-02-11 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Neanderthal Man Svante Pääbo A preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?Neanderthal Man tells the riveting personal and scientific story of the quest... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-02-11 ePub 10,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment George Marsden In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-02-11 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Capitalism for the People Luigi Zingales Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-02-11 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Depths Jonathan Rottenberg Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-02-11 ePub 13,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Witch Must Die Sheldon Cashdan In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-02-04 ePub 8,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Churchill's Folly Christopher Catherwood As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-01-14 ePub 8,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Upside of Down Charles Kenny America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower -- so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-01-07 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Monkey's Voyage Alan De Queiroz Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-01-07 ePub 14,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Too Big to Know David Weinberger "If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-01-07 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited Richard Florida A provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed.Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2014-01-07 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Two Koreas Robert Carlin , Don Oberdorfer An acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-12-10 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Heir to the Empire City Edward P Kohn Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P.... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-12-10 ePub 12,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Dreadful Deceit Jacqueline Jones In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-12-10 ePub 9,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Great Debate Yuval Levin An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-12-03 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
America's Great Game Hugh Wilford From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-12-03 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Tell Matthew Hertenstein Every day we make predictions based on limited information, in business and at home. Will this company's stock performance continue? Will the job candidate I just interviewed be a good employee? What kind of adult will my child grow up to be? We tend to dismiss our... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-11-12 ePub 9,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Gap Thomas Suddendorf There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our closest animal relatives sit unobtrusively in their dwindling... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-11-12 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Cure in the Code Peter W Huber Never before have two revolutions with so much potential to save and prolong human life occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life's code, create precisely targeted... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-11-12 ePub 15,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Anarchy, State, and Utopia Robert Nozick The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement) First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2013-11-12 ePub 11,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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