Of the many problems we face today, some are natural calamities and must be accepted and faced with equanimity. Others, however, are of our own making, created by misunderstanding, and can be corrected. One such type arises from the conflict of...
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Биографии и мемуары, История
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
THE STORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER
At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time,...
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith--and are trained from...
Математика, Образовательная, прикладная, научно-популярная литература
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill...
A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of...
Pendant des années, Alain Rey a enchanté les matins de France Inter avec son mot du jour. Aujourd'hui il nous offre une sélection de ses chroniques écrites entre 2000 et 2005, quatre cents mots qui vont de « Racaille et Voyou » à « Victime...
История, Публицистика
A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"
The “War Against Drugs”: who started it, and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics, for the people most affected by it?
One hundred thousand deaths later — with the vast majority of those killed innocent...
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A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that. Now two pioneering scientists draw on their...
A pattern...
Другие документальные, История
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
20th Anniversary Edition
Published with a new afterword from the author―the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions....