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Hampson, Roger; Shadbolt, Nigel
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26829-4
EAN 9780300268294
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27650-3
EAN 9780300276503
"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance" Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for education" Stefan Bauer, History Today "Dazzling . . .a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance" David Armitage A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27011-2
EAN 9780300270112
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 37,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26342-8
EAN 9780300263428
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26339-8
EAN 9780300263398
The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into good crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and bad crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27649-7
EAN 9780300276497
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27417-2
EAN 9780300274172
Marcus Licinius Crassus (115â 53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Rome's first modern political financier. Instead, Crassus and his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 56,80 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27266-6
EAN 9780300272666
A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25128-9
EAN 9780300251289
A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25774-8
EAN 9780300257748
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world.But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25502-7
EAN 9780300255027
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26039-7
EAN 9780300260397
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond. Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27048-8
EAN 9780300270488
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 "Valuable . . .offers many lessons for Western policy makers today."-Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal "The lessons are sobering."-The Economist Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics ...
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Martin, Colin; Parker, Geoffrey
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 768 páginas
PVP: 60,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25986-5
EAN 9780300259865
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel-and then a fierce naval battle-foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events.The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26463-0
EAN 9780300264630
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . .. A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."-New Yorker"A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26812-6
EAN 9780300268126
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century "What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . .an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Yet the times are such ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26803-4
EAN 9780300268034
A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret documents-including many that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 29,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26817-1
EAN 9780300268171
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times " A masterly analysis."-Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25366-5
EAN 9780300253665
A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the origins of mark making to art's pivotal role in culture today Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Charlotte Mullins brings art to life ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26154-7
EAN 9780300261547
Perennial wisdom from one of history's most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers "He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well-bravely, boldly, patiently-to what life threw at us. That's what we should be doing now."-Ryan Holiday, Reading List email The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus was one of the most influential teachers of his ...
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