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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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.As ...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 worlds 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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Fracture
Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 31,95 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02249-6
EAN 9780465022496
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an ...
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Neanderthal Man
In Search of Lost Genomes
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05495-4
EAN 9780465054954
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins. Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s ...
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Blum, Gabriella; Wittes, Benjamin
The Future of Violence
Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting A New Age of Threat
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 39,85 €
ISBN 978-0-465-08974-1
EAN 9780465089741
Two legal scholars explore the security and political implications of revolutionary new technologies from drones to 3-D printers, and explain how governments must adapt to our brave new world of dispersed threats From drone warfare in the Middle East to the NSA digital spying, the U.S. government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to ...
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The Fall of the Ottomans
The Great War in the Middle East
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 485 páginas
PVP: 31,95 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02307-3
EAN 9780465023073
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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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A Most Imperfect Union
A Contrarian History of the United States
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03669-1
EAN 9780465036691
Enough with the dead white men! The true story of the United States lies with its most overlooked and marginalized peoples-the workers, immigrants, housewives, and slaves who built America from the ground up, and who made this country what it is today. In A Most Imperfect Union, cultural critic Ilan Stavans and award-winning cartoonist Lalo ...
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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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A Mad Catastrophe
The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02835-1
EAN 9780465028351
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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The King of Infinite Space
Euclid and His Elements
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06571-4
EAN 9780465065714
For more than two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, the world's first mathematical treatise. The system of shapes and space it describes is at once so powerful and so natural that it has intrigued men and women for centuries, and continues to be taught in classrooms around the world. In The ...
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The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03125-2
EAN 9780465031252
Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with "benevolent autocrats," leaving ...
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Mindless
Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-465-01844-4
EAN 9780465018444
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Too Big to Know
. Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-465-08596-5
EAN 9780465085965
"Insightful A guidebook to this brave new universe of knowledge." -Boston Globe With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-465-08597-2
EAN 9780465085972
"Original and important [The Folly of Fools] is a remarkable book, thick with ideas." -Financial Times.A New York Times Notable Book of 2012.Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive-but deceit and ...
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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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