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Between 1350 and 1750-a time of empires, exploration, and exposure to radically different lands and cultures-the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed History of the World series, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas during this pivotal period: Eurasia between Russia and Japan; the Muslim world ...
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll's imaginative creation of Wonderland-a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era.Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates ...
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- Belknap Press, 2015
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PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50467-7
EAN 9780674504677
Like its state emblem the double-headed eagle, Russia has always looked to both East and West for secure trade routes, allies, and defensible frontiers. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian history in a full-color atlas depicting the essential cultural, political, economic, and military developments of Russia's past.From the first Slavic migrations to the ...
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Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.Patrice Gueniffey is ...
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Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. ...
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If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round-never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You're Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from ...
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In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In defending its independence, Ethiopia cast doubt on the assumption that all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans, and opened a breach that would lead to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from ...
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- Belknap Press, 2015
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PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41669-7
EAN 9780674416697
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How did the French Revolution's ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions.Between 1793 and ...
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Crossroads of War
A Historical Atlas of the Middle East
- Belknap Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-59849-2
EAN 9780674598492
From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile to modern-day Iraq and Iran. Crossroads of War captures five millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full-color maps, accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary.The lands of the Middle East were home to a succession of ...
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Curious Behavior
Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
- Belknap Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,99 €
ISBN 978-0-674-28413-5
EAN 9780674284135
Robert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread-in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human behaviors. Upon investigation, these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be uniquely valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species.Many activities ...
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- Belknap Press, 2014
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PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72871-4
EAN 9780674728714
Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns. Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of ...
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- Belknap Press, 2014
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PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72901-8
EAN 9780674729018
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head.Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and ...
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- Belknap Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04793-8
EAN 9780674047938
The calamity that proved lethal for Pompeii inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations, including Renoir, Freud, Hirohito, Mozart, Dickens, Twain, Rossellini, and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven is the thread of Ingrid Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.
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- Belknap Press, 2013
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PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05807-1
EAN 9780674058071
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Rome's fall, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt has written a full history of Latin from antiquity to ...
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- Belknap Press, 2013
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PVP: 24,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72586-7
EAN 9780674725867
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- Belknap Press, 2013
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PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72474-7
EAN 9780674724747
To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself--obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion. ...
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Political Emotions
Why Love Matters for Justice
- Belknap Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72465-5
EAN 9780674724655
Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love--intense attachments outside our control--can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy. How can ...
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