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Sputnik Sputnik Paul Dickson "On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launced the first man-made object into space, a 184-pound satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. Wh… OL108513W
James Madison and the spirit of republican self-government James Madison and the spirit of republican self-government Colleen A. Sheehan In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison's National Gazette essays of 179192 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces the evolution of Madison's conception of… OL11876982W
The Nine The Nine Jeffrey Toobin Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people wh… OL119176W
Ireland and the land question 1800-1922 Ireland and the land question 1800-1922 Michael J. Winstanley This pamphlet makes use of the most recent revisionist literature to reassess the view, much propagated by nationalist sources, that Ireland was a land of impoverished peasants oppressed by English l… OL13504717W
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus Max Weber In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and th… OL1362905W
Africa United Africa United Steve Bloomfield,Steve Bloomfield Africa United is the story of modern-day Africa told through its soccer. Traveling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield meets players and fans, politicians and rebel le… OL15175533W
The Whole World Is Watching The Whole World Is Watching Todd Gitlin "The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. Acclaimed media critic Todd Gi… OL15215145W
Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll **The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: how violence develops and where it can lead** (original German title: *Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen k… OL15394878W
The net delusion The net delusion E. Morozov,Eduardo G. Murillo,Evgeny Morozov In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also e… OL15415061W
Psychiatrists-- the men behind Hitler Psychiatrists-- the men behind Hitler Thomas Röder The result of years of research, this highly explosive and well-documented book will reveal the hidden forces behind the Nazi movement during the Third Reich -- which not only inspired the atrocities… OL15839271W
The persistence of the color line The persistence of the color line Randall Kennedy "Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on … OL16140147W
The Boy Who Could Change the World The Boy Who Could Change the World Aaron Swartz La 4e de couverture indique : "Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) etait programmeur informatique, essayiste et hacker-activiste. Convaincu que l'acces a la connaissance constitue le meilleur outil d'emancipati… OL17312502W
Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Chantal Bouchard "Did the Quebec "habitant" of the nineteenth century speak "Parisian French" or "French-Canadian patois?" And does this matter? And is the joual of the 1960s a language or a sub-standard version of F… OL17393135W
After the Paris attacks After the Paris attacks Edward M. Iacobucci,Stephen John Toope Pre sentation de l'e diteur : "The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. In the afte… OL17708483W
What do economists contribute? What do economists contribute? Daniel B. Klein Economists direct their research mainly to the technical frontiers of the discipline. But the actual decisions of political economy are made not by experts but by ordinary public officials and voters… OL18265913W
Blueprint for revolution Blueprint for revolution Srdja Popovic "In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling… OL19999140W
The identity of Zhiqing The identity of Zhiqing Weiyi Wu "Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than … OL20023281W
Reinventing government for the twenty-first century Reinventing government for the twenty-first century G. Shabbir Cheema,Dennis A. Rondinelli This title explores the issues involved in preparing governments throughout the world for the challenges of globalization. Governments that seek to participate in and benefit from a world becoming mo… OL20587519W
Du langage aux langues Du langage aux langues Ranka Bijeljac,Roland Breton Malgre les differences qui existent entre les langues, elles partagent un grand nombre de proprietes et presentent un meme niveau de complexite. La geographie des langues et leur dynamique sont indis… OL20619623W
Les frontières mondialisées Les frontières mondialisées Sabine Dullin,Etienne Forestier-Peyrat,Nicolas Delalande,Julien Jeandesboz "Les frontières concentrent les paradoxes de la mondialisation : alors que leur déclin semblait programmé après la fin de la Guerre froide, l'intensification contemporaine des circulations et échange… OL24280766W
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