Œuvres avec Basic Books

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What We Owe the Future (2022)

Sortie : 16 août 2022 (États-Unis). Philosophie, Essai

Résumé · The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more—or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all,... Voir plus

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Voyagers (2021)

The Settlement of the Pacific

Sortie : 15 juin 2021 (Australie). Essai, Histoire

livre de Nicholas Thomas (II)

Résumé · An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a... Voir plus

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Political Junkies (2020)

From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy

Sortie : juillet 2020 (États-Unis). Histoire, Politique & économie, Version originale

livre de Claire Bond Potter

Résumé · A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed — and fractured — American politics With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it’s easy to believe that the internet changed politics entirely. In Political Junkies,... Voir plus

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Land of Tears (2019)

The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Sortie : 3 décembre 2019 (États-Unis). Histoire, Version originale

livre de Robert Harms

Résumé · In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert... Voir plus

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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (2018)

Sortie : 27 février 2018. Culture et société, Politique et économie

livre de Bernard E. Harcourt

Résumé · Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States--one rooted in the modes of warfare... Voir plus

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The Evolution of Desire (2017)

Strategies of Human Mating

Sortie : 27 décembre 2017 (États-Unis). Psychologie, Version originale

livre de David M. Buss

Résumé · If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000... Voir plus

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Empress of the East (2017)

How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

Sortie : 19 septembre 2017. Biographie, Histoire, Version originale

livre de Leslie Peirce

Résumé · In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all... Voir plus

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How to Be a Stoic (2017)

Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

Sortie : 9 mai 2017 (États-Unis). Essai, Version originale

livre de Massimo Pigliucci

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What the F (2016)

What the F : What swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves

Sortie : 13 septembre 2016. Culture et société

livre de Benjamin K. Bergen

Résumé · It may be starred, beeped, and censored–yet profanity is so appealing that we can’t stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.