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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 864 páginas
PVP: 49,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73796-9
EAN 9780674737969
Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy carefully onto ...
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McNeill, J. R. / Engelke, Peter
The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54503-8
EAN 9780674545038
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.The Earth has entered a new age the Anthropocene in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-74384-7
EAN 9780674743847
Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the purpose of politics should be to combat domination, and he shows what this means in practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution.Ian Shapiro makes ...
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Saving the Media
Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65975-9
EAN 9780674659759
Julia Cagé explains the economics and history of the media crisis and offers a solution: a nonprofit media organization, midway between a foundation and a joint stock company, supported by readers, employees, and innovative financing such as crowdfunding. Her business model is inspired by a central idea: that news, like education, is a public good.The ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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ISBN 978-0-674-08893-1
EAN 9780674088931
A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land.
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The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66003-8
EAN 9780674660038
Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why when it comes to race too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
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From Shame to Sin
The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 316 páginas
PVP: 35,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66001-4
EAN 9780674660014
When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded the mutilation of men caught in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50495-0
EAN 9780674504950
One of political philosophys most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the fields normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism.Raymond Geuss is one of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1008 páginas
PVP: 48,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05809-5
EAN 9780674058095
A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 46,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50494-3
EAN 9780674504943
Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abul-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. Marking a high point in a long, rich tradition of Persian historical writing, it served as a model for historians across the Persianate world. The work is at once ...
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Democracy's Slaves
A Political History of Ancient Greece
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 186 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66007-6
EAN 9780674660076
The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known is the administrator who ran the state but who was himself a slave. Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to the cradle of Western democracy, ancient Athens, where the functioning ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-74390-8
EAN 9780674743908
Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane OMara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed ...
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Napalm was invented on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo-more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki-and went on to incinerate 64 Japanese cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08807-8
EAN 9780674088078
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative-part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history-brings our own world into sharper view.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08809-2
EAN 9780674088092
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 Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii.
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London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96798-4
EAN 9780674967984
A falling apple inspired the law of gravity-or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But why do such stories endure as explanations of how science happens? Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50497-4
EAN 9780674504974
That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Römer makes clear, a wealth of evidence allows us to piece together a reliable account of the origins and evolution of the god of Israel. Römer draws on a long tradition of historical, philological, and exegetical work and on ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08835-1
EAN 9780674088351
The classic London fogs-thick yellow "pea-soupers"-were born in the industrial age and remained a feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and the lasting effects on our culture and imagination of these urban spectacles.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08834-4
EAN 9780674088344
What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism's origins and growth as a political and economic movement. Now with a new preface.
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