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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17334-4
EAN 9780691173344
Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16719-0
EAN 9780691167190
This concise but comprehensive book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hösle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science.Starting with the ...
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The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe. With more than 165 entries, the book combines ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16436-6
EAN 9780691164366
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wisdom and style extend far beyond politics to encompass a compelling philosophy of life as well. In The Quotable Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, offers a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17337-5
EAN 9780691173375
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today? In Enlightening ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17329-0
EAN 9780691173290
In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17332-0
EAN 9780691173320
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17345-0
EAN 9780691173450
Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he remains a central figure in political theory. This essential volume presents Aristotle's complete political writings--including his Politics, Economics, and Constitution of Athens--in their most authoritative translations, taken from the complete works that is universally recognized as the standard ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17335-1
EAN 9780691173351
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible--and how ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17340-5
EAN 9780691173405
From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of this landmark seminar, presenting the sessions devoted to dream interpretation and its history. Here we witness Jung as both clinician and teacher: impatient and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16165-5
EAN 9780691161655
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17322-1
EAN 9780691173221
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15198-4
EAN 9780691151984
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15508-1
EAN 9780691155081
From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16433-5
EAN 9780691164335
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17314-6
EAN 9780691173146
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17223-1
EAN 9780691172231
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17390-0
EAN 9780691173900
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17325-2
EAN 9780691173252
Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions, and gradually departs to examine its more abstract varieties and manifestations--as bilateral, translatory, rotational, ornamental, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17318-4
EAN 9780691173184
The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes ...
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