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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18337-6
EAN 9780231183376
Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E.Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving ...
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Beckert, Sven; Desan, Christine; VVAA
American capitalism
New histories
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18525-7
EAN 9780231185257
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more. But ...
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19385-6
EAN 9780231193856
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism's multipronged assault ...
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- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 488 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18602-5
EAN 9780231186025
Today, any kid can rattle off the names of dozens of dinosaurs. But it took centuries of scientific effort and a lot of luck to discover and establish the diversity of dinosaur species we now know. How did we learn that Triceratops had three horns? Why don't many paleontologists consider Brontosaurus a valid species? What ...
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Hot Carbon
Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18670-4
EAN 9780231186704
There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to estimating the age of artifacts--carbon dating--carbon-14 helped reveal new chronologies of human civilization and geological time.Everything containing carbon, the basis of all life, could be ...
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Emancipation After Hegel
Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19270-5
EAN 9780231192705
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about ...
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The theory that changed everything
"On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17809-9
EAN 9780231178099
Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of it are even considered outdated. In some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century.In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned cognitive scientist ...
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The limits of Tolerance
Enlightenment values and Religious fanaticism
The modern notion of tolerance--the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good--emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious ...
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Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth.Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The ...
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Vice, Crime and Poverty
How the western imagination invented the Underworld
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18742-8
EAN 9780231187428
Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates--part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the ...
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The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13779-9
EAN 9780231137799
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western ...
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The Putin System
An opposing view
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 64,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19030-5
EAN 9780231190305
A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia--how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule--remains opaque and often misunderstood.In The Putin System, Grigory Yavlinsky, a Russian economist ...
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The politics of losing
Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19006-0
EAN 9780231190060
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one hundred years later, once again ...
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Morphing Intelligence
From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18736-7
EAN 9780231187367
What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses ...
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Energy Kingdoms
Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17930-0
EAN 9780231179300
After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain--went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some ...
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A german officer in occupied Paris
The War Journals, 1941-1945
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12740-0
EAN 9780231127400
Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important and most controversial writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed memoir from the western front, Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted the war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during the Second World War, ...
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Incomparable Empires
Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17857-0
EAN 9780231178570
The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the world republic of letters. But what if this ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17535-7
EAN 9780231175357
Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory ...
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Lacan
Anti-Philosophy 3
- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17148-9
EAN 9780231171489
Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and public illuminations of his complex ideas yet remain little known.This book, the transcript of Badiou's year-long seminar on ...
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Elman, Benjamin; Pollock, Sheldon
What China and India once were
The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future
- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 382 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18471-7
EAN 9780231184717
In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to ...
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