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Uncommon grounds
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Mark Pendergrast |
Coffee has been banned as a creator of revolutionary sedition, vilified as the worst health-destroyer on earth and praised as the boon of mankind. Its history provides a window through which to view … |
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Microsoft Secrets
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Michael A. Cusumano,Richard W. Selby |
"Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Beyond the un… |
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Food and energy resources
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David Pimentel,Carl W. Hall |
De invloed van energie, land en water op de voedselproduktie wordt door een aantal deskundigen in afzonderlijke hoofdstukken weergegeven. De bedoeling ervan is dat het als achtergrondinformatie dient… |
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44 hours or strike!
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Anne Dublin |
The Toronto Dressmakers' Strike of 1931 brings young sisters Sophie and Rose together in their fight for better working conditions, decent wages, and for their union. It's a tough battle as distrust … |
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Les textiles
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Kathryn Whyman |
Qu'est-ce qu'un textile? Les jeunes découvriront dans cet ouvrage les étapes de fabrication et les multiples utilisations des textiles. Une mini-bande dessinée et des fiches techniques complètent l'o… |
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Le livre
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R. Alberto |
Editeurs, libraires, diffuseurs ou bibliothécaires, s'appuyant sur leur travail de chaque jour, les contributeurs montrent ce qui est dès maintenant possible pour relever le défi du livre indépendant… |
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L'Univers des jeux vidéo
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Frédéric Le Diberder,Alain Le Diberder |
Une édition largement refondue et actualisée de ##Qui a peur des jeux vidéo?## (SDM : 9406760). Les auteurs abordent l'ensemble des aspects du phénomène : son histoire, son économie, sa sociologie. |
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Most beautiful woman in the world
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Paul Moir |
This is an intoxicating blend of high fashion, industrial sabotage, alluring romance and hard-hitting action. Traveling at warp-speed from the suites of New York City to the jungles of Cambodia to th… |
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East winds, west winds
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Mahdī ʻĪsá Ṣaqr |
Set among the oil wells of the Basra region of southern Iraq, where the writer spent much of his working life, this novel draws on the author's own experiences to paint a picture at once subtle and v… |
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Qu'est-ce qu'un livre aujourd'hui ?
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Christian Thorel |
Avec le numérique, le texte est désormais partout. A tel point que la vieille question de la spécificité du livre doit être reposée. Parmi les contributions : Qu'est-ce qu'un livre ? (R. Chartier) ; … |
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The Road Ahead
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Bill Gates |
Bill Gates' 1995 analysis of the impact of information and computer technology on society and predictions about the future. Includes a great overview of ancient counting machines to mainframe big-iro… |
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Dynasties
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David Landes |
RothschildsMorgansFordsToyodaAgnellisRockefellersGuggenheimsDynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry – as well as pots of money and powe… |
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Out of Gas
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David Goodstein |
"In this book, David Goodstein, professor of physics at Caltech, explains the underlying scientific principles of the inevitable fossil fuel crisis we face, and the closely related peril to the Earth… |
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Twilight in the Desert
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Matthew R. Simmons |
Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew… |
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