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The Money Makers
How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
- Basic Books, 2015
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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The Collapse
The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04990-5
EAN 9780465049905
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was ...
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A Mad Catastrophe
The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05795-5
EAN 9780465057955
The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.As ...
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Brainwashed
The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-06291-1
EAN 9780465062911
What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI-functional magnetic resonance imaging-was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude to romantic love. But although brain scans and other neurotechnologies have provided groundbreaking ...
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- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-465-07525-6
EAN 9780465075256
After Germany's defeat in World War II, the victorious Allies faced the daunting task of negotiating a lasting peace. On July 17, 1945, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill gathered in Potsdam, a quiet suburb of Berlin, to discuss, as Churchill put it, "the gravest matters in the world."Award-winning historian Michael Neiberg vividly captures ...
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- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05667-5
EAN 9780465056675
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the ...
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- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02551-0
EAN 9780465025510
Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the ...
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- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06298-0
EAN 9780465062980
For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and ...
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Linked
. How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-465-08573-6
EAN 9780465085736
A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. The nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08598-9
EAN 9780465085989
"An engaging tour of vital math for a modern world . A wonderfully accessible book." -Scientific American Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated. In In Pursuit of the ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08999-4
EAN 9780465089994
"A fun, spunky, wise little book that would be helpful to both the consumers of the news and its purveyors." -Washington Post In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle-the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and ...
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A fascinating and colorful journey into the microscopic but massively influential worlds of germs, bacteria, and virusesWith the wit of Bill Bryson and the spirit of Natalie Angier, Idan Ben-Barak takes us on a fantastic voyage into the infinitesimal world of microbiology. In The Invisible Kingdom, he introduces us to the amazing lives of genes, ...
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Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
A History of the Papacy
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-06182-2
EAN 9780465061822
From Saint Peter to John Paul II, a brilliantly lucid and comprehensive single-volume history of the papacy by a distinguished religious scholarOne of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the Papacy has also been among the most controversial. From the founding of the Christian Church in the first century AD to the ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06185-3
EAN 9780465061853
A novel by the masterful storyteller and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom interweaves the philosophical life of Benedict Spinoza with the story of the obsessive Nazi "philosopher" Alfred Rosenberg Annotation: A novel by the masterful storyteller and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom interweaves the philosophical life of Benedict Spinoza with the story of the obsessive Nazi "philosopher" Alfred Rosenberg
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Alone Together
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03146-7
EAN 9780465031467
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 ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02797-2
EAN 9780465027972
Essential advice on problem solving from physics' clearest teacherFeynman's Tips on Physics is a book in two parts. The first will be a treat for any Feynman fan: it includes a memoir by Matthew Sands about the origins of the Feynman Lectures on Physics, and is dominated by four lectures, delivered with the rest of ...
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Massive
The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-05873-0
EAN 9780465058730
A prize-winning science writer's history of the forty-year search for the Higgs boson, and the intense rivalries, clashing egos, and grand ambition that led to a world-changing discoveryThe biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God" particle, or Higgs ...
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The Abacus and the Cross
The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03144-3
EAN 9780465031443
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, ...
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- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-02828-3
EAN 9780465028283
Controversial and bestselling economist Dambisa Moyo tackles one of the most vital geopolitical stories of our time: China's aggressive global crusade to secure natural resources.Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance-their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life-few people who are not economists ...
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Six Not-So Easy Pieces
Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time
- Basic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02526-8
EAN 9780465025268
Taken from his celebrated Caltech lectures, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces is more challenging in its content than the previous volume Six Easy Pieces (Penguin 1998), providing an exhilarating analysis of one of the most important general areas of modern theoretical physics: Relativity.The lectures, delivered in Feynman's inimitable style, begin by dealing with issues of symmetry before ...
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