Résultats pour "Thomas Sowell" dans Biographies et mémoires

Comment devient-on le plus jeune Français à partir vers la Station spatiale ? Comment passer de sa Normandie natale aux pas de tir de Baïkonour et de Cap Canaveral ? Pour la première fois, Thomas Pesquet se raconte sans détour, dans un récit très personnel aussi drôle que surprenant. Il nous entraîne des coulisses de l’école des astronautes jusqu’au frisson du décollage, partage le quotidien de ses 396 jours à bord de l’ISS et l’émerveillement de découvrir, flottant dans le vide intersidéral, notre planète si fragile.

Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life. As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite...

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.