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The measure of the universe
Par Isaac Asimov. 1983
Many people have difficulty in grasping the size of our universe. By using examples of various measurements -- length, pressure,…
time and temperature -- Asimov explains how to relate the unimaginable. For example, the tallest man on record was 9 feet tall while the smallest dinosaur was the size of a chicken. 1983.The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more
Par Chris Anderson. 2006
The logic of life: uncovering the new economics of everything
Par Tim Harford. 2008
If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this…
really rational behaviour? And how come your boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational beings after all. 2008.Astrophysics for young people in a hurry
Par Gregory Mone, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2019
Pourquoi E=mc2?: et comment ça marche? ((Quai des sciences).)
Par Brian Cox, J. R Forshaw, Guy Chouraqui. 2012
" Savez-vous que vous voyagez à la vitesse de la lumière ? Et non seulement vous, mais votre chaise, votre…
table, votre maison, la Terre elle-même ? Bien sûr, nous ne parlons pas ici d'un voyage dans l'espace en trois dimensions, mais dans la structure profonde de l'univers : l'espace-temps. Vous trouvez cela difficile à croire ? Pourtant, c'est bien ce que nous dit la fameuse équation d'Einstein : E = mc2 ! En talentueux passeurs de savoirs, Brian Cox et Jeff Forshaw nous révèlent dans ce livre les mystères de la théorie de la relativité. Grâce à eux, même sans bagage mathématique, vous pourrez percer les secrets de l'équation la plus célèbre du monde ! " -- 4e de couv. 2012. Titre uniforme: Why does E = MC²?Les travailleurs face au pouvoir
Par Louis Favreau. 1972
Ce livre s'adresse d'abord et avant tout aux militants du mouvement ouvrier québécois. Il est un instrument de travail pour…
les militants préoccupés de relier les luttes immédiates qu'ils mènent à partir de leur syndicat, de leur coopérative, de leur comité de citoyens aux luttes à faire pour transformer en profondeur les structures économiques et politiques du Québec. 1972.An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Modern Library college editions)
Par Adam Smith, Edwin Cannan, Richard F Teichgraeber. 1965
The philosopher's theories of value, population and distribution had tremendous influence on such men as Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx.…
First published in 1776. 1965. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Le travail noir et l'ébconomie de demain
Par Alfred Sauvy, Rosine Klatzmann, Anita Hirsch. 1984
Le nouvel état industriel: essai sur le système économique américain ((Bibliothèque des sciences humaines))
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1967
Le système du monde, du XVe siècle à nos jours
Par Immanuel Wallerstein. 1980
Le capitalisme mondial ((Économie en liberté, ISSN 0768-0988).)
Par Charles Albert Michalet. 1976
Le mètre du monde
Par Denis Guedj. 2000
Simple, comme l'économie ((Champs, ISSN 0151-8084 ; 26. Champ historique))
Par Alain Dubuc. 1987
The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else
Par Hernando De Soto. 2000
The author explains capitalism's failure in developing countries and offers a practical plan for transforming weak economies. Observing that citizens…
of these nations often lack registered titles to their property, he argues that governments must establish legally integrated systems of ownership and markets to convert work and savings to capital and reward individual enterprise. 2000.View from a height
Par Isaac Asimov. 1964
The cosmological milk shake: a semi-serious look at the size of things
Par Robert Ehrlich. 1994
A physicist's humourous short essays concerning the size, weight, and distance of objects. Answers such questions as "How Tall Can…
Trees Grow?", "How Far Is the Sun?", and "What Does Air Weigh?" 1994.The worldly philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
Par Robert L Heilbroner. 1967
The fearsome dilemma: simultaneous inflation and unemployment
Par Alex N McLeod. 1994
An economist discusses the problem of how inflation and unemployment have been managed since 1939. McLeod notes that while inflation…
has been controlled in most industrialized countries, economic output has remained below capacity, and so unemployment has been high. McLeod argues that the instruments now used to control inflation are inadequate, and often make unemployment worse. He presents several possible approaches which might avoid this dilemma. 1994.The affluent society
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1958
Conventional wisdom has it that John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" spawned the neoliberalism we see in Bill Clinton, Tony…
Blair, and other world leaders. The economist's prose, lofty but still easily manageable, laid down the gauntlet for the post-cold war class struggle that was still far in the future in 1958. Galbraith saw the widening gap between the richest and the poorest as an emergent threat to economic stability, and proposed significant investment in parks, transportation, education, and other public amenities - what we now call infrastructure - to ameliorate these differences and postpone depression and revolution indefinitely. 1958.Relativity: the special and the general theory
Par Albert Einstein. 1961
Scientist Albert Einstein presents his theory of relativity--the measurement and study of space and time--for the layman who "is not…
conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." Originally published in 1916. This fifteenth edition includes five appendixes. 1961. Uniform title: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.