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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20998-3
EAN 9780300209983
The physics of stuff protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space as nothingness extended in all directions, a kind of theater in which physics could unfold. But both quantum theory and relativity ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22149-7
EAN 9780300221497
An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda's operations chief, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage plan for jihadis ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21488-8
EAN 9780300214888
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold WarA native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation's territory by another since ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22751-2
EAN 9780300227512
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011 including Libya, ISIS, and the Chilcot findings Ledwidge shows how lessons continue to go unlearned.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22466-5
EAN 9780300224665
An enthralling account of World War II across all its theaters through the eyes and experiences of the top journalists who witnessed itLuminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22270-8
EAN 9780300222708
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21781-0
EAN 9780300217810
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21880-0
EAN 9780300218800
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and cultureIn this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of today's important scientific and cultural as well as philosophical debates, following the inroads being ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21618-9
EAN 9780300216189
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding documentFrom one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21222-8
EAN 9780300212228
An urgently needed risk map of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stabilitySince Marco Polo, the West has waited for the Asian Century. Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12586-3
EAN 9780300125863
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19257-5
EAN 9780300192575
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary WarThe accepted myth of the American Enlightenment suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21689-9
EAN 9780300216899
A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish stateOften dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700 1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. Under his rule, Spain was a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21513-7
EAN 9780300215137
Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilizationWith wonder, wit, and flair and in record time and space geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20827-6
EAN 9780300208276
A haunting portrait of France at warOn August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks.Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone the worst catastrophe in French ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22364-4
EAN 9780300223644
In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his lifeWilliam Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20834-4
EAN 9780300208344
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle AgesThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21925-8
EAN 9780300219258
A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan DidionFor those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal life provides its own kind of immortality; that true immortality would be awful; and that we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22348-4
EAN 9780300223484
A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all agesHow did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20823-8
EAN 9780300208238
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving or even discussing divisive issuesReason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, ...
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