Télécharger le livre :  Empire of Illusion

A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of...
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Parution : 2009-07-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Gangs in Garden City

For the past five years, journalist Sarah Garland has followed the lives of current and former gang members living in Hempstead on the border of Garden City, Long Island. Affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street, their troubling personal stories expose the cruel...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2009-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  China Safari

China has now taken Great Britain's place as Africa's third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions,China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent...
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Parution : 2009-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Lords of the Land

Lords of the Land tells the tragic story of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the 1967 war and Israel's devastating victory over its Arab neighbors, catastrophe struck both the soul and psyche of the state of Israel. Based on years...
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Parution : 2009-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Mirrors

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism."Mirrors,...
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Parution : 2009-05-26

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Télécharger le livre :  A World I Loved

"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the events that have...
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Parution : 2009-05-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The Silence and the Scorpion

On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chavez. Led by Pedro Carmona and Carlos Ortega, the opposition represented a cross-section of society furious with Chavez's economic policies,...
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Parution : 2009-05-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad...
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Parution : 2009-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Wag the Dog

Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elaborate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add...
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Parution : 2009-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Truth About Camp David

The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the creation of a new myth. Syrian and Palestinian intransigence was blamed for the current disastrous state of...
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Parution : 2009-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Kill the Messenger

Soon to be a major motion picture!Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the...
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Parution : 2009-04-28

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Télécharger le livre :  A People's History of Science

We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and...
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Parution : 2009-04-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Before the Storm

“A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with...
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Parution : 2009-03-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage brings together testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq. Through their eyes, we learn how the mechanics of war lead to the abuse and frequent...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2009-02-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Gods that Failed

Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability...
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Parution : 2009-02-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Meltdown

America's economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market, and stocks have suffered their worst losses since the Great Depression. Faced with a complex and spiraling crisis, the government has poured billions of taxpayer cash into...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2009-01-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Man Who Pushed America to War

This is the true story of Ahmad Chalabi, fraudster, statesman, banker, math whiz and aesthete, whose legendary charisma and charm -- and almost hypnotic powers of persuasion - helped propel the United States to war in Iraq.This extraordinary investigative biography -...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2008-12-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Backstabbing for Beginners

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, the gripping true story of a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves. "What made this episode in our collective history possible...
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Parution : 2008-11-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Salvation Boulevard

Some cases test a private investigator's wits, others test his courage, and still others, his character. In Salvation Boulevard, P.I. Carl Van Wagener has found a case that tests them all, and then goes on to test his soul. A professor is dead and a suspect -- who has...
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Parution : 2008-10-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The American Dream

For some, the American Dream is a pre-fab house in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a two-week vacation at the end of the year. To others, it is working a push fruit cart in Oakland in order to put food on the family's table in Oaxaca. In The American Dream Harmon Leon...
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Parution : 2008-09-23

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