Editorial Columbia
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A New Foreign Policy
Beyond American Exceptionalism
- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18848-7
EAN 9780231188487
The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and America first isolationism in foreign policy will not make America ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 15,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17597-5
EAN 9780231175975
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17753-5
EAN 9780231177535
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this ...
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Self and Emotional Life
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15831-2
EAN 9780231158312
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17963-8
EAN 9780231179638
Can science and art find common ground? Are scientific and artistic quests mutually exclusive? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric Kandel, whose interests span the fields of science and art, explores how reductionism the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable ideas has been used by scientists and artists alike to ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18405-2
EAN 9780231184052
In this passionate and powerful book-part manifesto, part plan of action-the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental objectives in shaping policy.In focusing too much on economic ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17191-5
EAN 9780231171915
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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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17821-1
EAN 9780231178211
Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches, fundamentally altering the shape of cinema.Alter traces the essay film's origins to early ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18519-6
EAN 9780231185196
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno is working on a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer.When he notices that this man's real name has crept into his ...
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- Columbia, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15689-9
EAN 9780231156899
In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current trends continue, the Asian civilian space competition could become a military race. To better understand these emerging dynamics, James Clay Moltz conducts the first in-depth policy analysis of Asia's fourteen leading space programs, concentrating ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17069-7
EAN 9780231170697
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 35,67 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18071-9
EAN 9780231180719
Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17808-2
EAN 9780231178082
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. Some of it is considered outdated; in some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century.In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18173-0
EAN 9780231181730
In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Hollmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile phones today, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging and versatile introduction ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17833-4
EAN 9780231178334
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each ...
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Modern Slavery
A Global Perspective
- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 60,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15846-6
EAN 9780231158466
Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and forced labor in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing system that strips people of their dignity for the sake of profit-and to link the suffering of the enslaved to the ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18009-2
EAN 9780231180092
In response to unprecedented environmental degradation, activists and popular movements have risen up to fight the crisis of climate change and the ongoing devastation of the earth. The environmental movement has undeniably influenced even its adversaries, as the language of sustainability can be found in corporate mission statements, government policy, and national security agendas. However, ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17783-2
EAN 9780231177832
Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17405-3
EAN 9780231174053
In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. He finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later Christians. Though Christian clerical ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18336-9
EAN 9780231183369
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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