Télécharger le livre :  Race And Culture
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Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilization.

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-04-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Migrations And Cultures
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Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-04-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Justice Fallacies
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2023-09-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Einstein Syndrome
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The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject of late-talking children. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental disorders or autism, there is a certain...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2021-08-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Conquests and Cultures
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This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2021-08-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Charter Schools and Their Enemies
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Winner of the 2021 Hayek Book PrizeA leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians, and liberal educators who threaten to dismantle their success.The black-white educational achievement gap -- so much discussed...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2020-07-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Vision Of The Annointed
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One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2019-07-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Discrimination and Disparities
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An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2019-03-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Discrimination and Disparities
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An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2018-03-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Wealth, Poverty and Politics
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In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2016-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Basic Economics
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The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-12-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Intellectuals and Race
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Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in AmericaIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2013-03-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Intellectuals and Society
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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2012-03-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Thomas Sowell Reader
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A one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America's most respected and cited authors These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal,...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2011-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Economic Facts and Fallacies
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Thomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2011-03-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Dismantling America
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These wide-ranging essays -- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues -- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2010-08-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Housing Boom and Bust
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This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and the even more "creative" marketing of financial securities...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2010-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Applied Economics
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The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems -- housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations -- is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-12-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Late-Talking Children
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The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings of scientific research.The author's own experiences as the father of...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethnic America
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This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-01

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