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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-0452-0
EAN 9781541604520
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-0295-3
EAN 9781541602953
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context.Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-1762-9
EAN 9781541617629
The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders.Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel traces this surprising history, exposing the hidden ways ...
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Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-4437-3
EAN 9781541644373
The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional histories of music, Gioia contents, downplay those elements of music that are considered disreputable or irrational-its deep ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-9938-0
EAN 9781541699380
First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark Pendergrast uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as a window through which to view broad historical themes: the clash and blending ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09381-6
EAN 9780465093816
In 22 BC, amid a series of natural disasters and political and economic crises, a mob locked Rome's senators into the Senate House and threatened to burn them alive if they did not make Augustus dictator. Why did Rome--to this day one of the world's longest-lived republics--exchange freedom for autocracy?Mortal Republic is a new history ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-5416-1728-5
EAN 9781541617285
"I don't think there is anyone in the academy these days capable of more patient and attentive reading of the constitutional text than Akhil Amar."--Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of BooksIn The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06469-4
EAN 9780465064694
1619 offers a new interpretation of the significance of Jamestown in the long trajectory of American history. Jamestown, the cradle of American democracy, also saw the birth of our nation's greatest challenge: the corrosive legacy of slavery and racism that have deepened and entrenched stark inequalities in our society. After running Jamestown under martial law ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09669-5
EAN 9780465096695
In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo-and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab foot soldiers, Armenian bowmen, and European knights, the battlefield was the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09695-4
EAN 9780465096954
Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in mathematics, science, and philosophy and to build a strong foundation for scientific investigation. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09365-6
EAN 9780465093656
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude.We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09776-0
EAN 9780465097760
The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love.If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-05298-1
EAN 9780465052981
While Franklin Delano Roosevelts first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges'a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet'to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09685-5
EAN 9780465096855
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalogue of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece and driven a wedge between northern and southern Europe terrorist attacks in Paris, Cologne, Brussels, and Nice growing aggression from Russia in Ukraine ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-994-5
EAN 9781780749945
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09683-1
EAN 9780465096831
The story of the doomed competition between two of physics' greatest to create a grand unified theory Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05774-0
EAN 9780465057740
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europes home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust.In An Iron Wind, historian Peter Fritzsche draws ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
EAN 9780465048984
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06699-5
EAN 9780465066995
An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization If I had been present at the Creation, the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults in the universe would have been avoided. Known as El Sabio, the Wise, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04969-1
EAN 9780465049691
Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors ...
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