Marc: 4072 books
Le patriote
Littérature canadienne; roman d'aventures
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.
Extrait :
En 1838, la ville de New-York n’était pas ce que nous la pouvons voir aujourd’hui ; mais elle était déjà très importante...
by Marc Julien
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Le domaine de l’hydraulique industrielle est vaste et représente une spécialité du génie mécanique qui est très souvent méconnue. Ce manuel a pour but de réunir l’information nécessaire afin de former des techniciens en hydraulique dans le cadre de leur formation au niveau collégial....
The Politics of Eloquence
David Hume's Polite Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
History has shown us that the power of political speech can be put to both positive and manipulative ends - while rhetoric is a powerful tool for those who seek to persuade others to adopt their views, it can also be employed to foment factionalism and undermine the very basis of a democratic society....
Clash of Extremes
The Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between...
Courting Disaster
How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bush’s 2006 speech explaining the CIA’s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few know more about these CIA...
Cadillac Desert
The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
"The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights,...
Flag
An American Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive,...
The Cold War and After
History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this...
The Brink
President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union...
by Marc Olden
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A meticulous account of the greatest drug scourge the country has ever seen
Before crack, there was cocaine. In 1972, New Yorkers bought more powdered cocaine than heroin, and they paid dearly for it. Pimps, rock stars, UN delegates, and high school students all turned on with snow. Some used...
by Marc Goldfinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
This is the ultimate book about recovering from hell, even complicated with major mental illness. Do you use when you want to and even when you don't want to? This is the book for you. Drop into my mind and see how it works. You can recover, even if you don't think so. Check it out! Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. It's always today.
How the University Works
Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the...
Mars Landing 2012
Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the anticipation of humankind’s most ambitious planetary expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6, 2012 (EST), NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft will complete its 255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale...
by Marc Crépon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars—or more precisely the memories of war—of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim’s death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies....