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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 696 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19647-3
EAN 9780691196473
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book, Jurgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19689-3
EAN 9780691196893
A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the close connections ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17643-7
EAN 9780691176437
An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14544-0
EAN 9780691145440
A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19400-4
EAN 9780691194004
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17420-4
EAN 9780691174204
An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classicThe Lotus Sutra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it affirms the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone provide an essential reading companion to this inspiring yet enigmatic masterpiece, explaining how it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19646-6
EAN 9780691196466
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the modern Middle EastIn Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, describes how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present. He tells ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19597-1
EAN 9780691195971
Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays out the evidence for a much broader and more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19524-7
EAN 9780691195247
Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets. Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 263 páginas
PVP: 45,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18007-6
EAN 9780691180076
A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14 AD), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace" originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19606-0
EAN 9780691196060
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. With a new foreword by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and virtual reality ...
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Essential reading for understanding the international economy-now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history-from the classical gold standard to today's post-Bretton Woods "nonsystem." Bringing the story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15652-1
EAN 9780691156521
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18131-8
EAN 9780691181318
How our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom, and why calculus pedagogy needs to changeCalculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus grew to what we know today. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19280-2
EAN 9780691192802
What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire sheds critical new light on their rulers--who they were, how they justified their ...
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Gordon, Gary; Gordon, Hannah; Gordon, Rebecca; McMahon, Liz
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19232-1
EAN 9780691192321
A mathematical exploration of the popular card game SETHave you ever played the addictive card game SET? Have you ever wondered about the connections between games and mathematics? If the answer to either question is "yes," then The Joy of SET is the book for you! The Joy of SET takes readers on a fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19230-7
EAN 9780691192307
A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Although most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16775-6
EAN 9780691167756
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1128 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19272-7
EAN 9780691192727
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative ...
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The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators--from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to ...
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