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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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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 39,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50457-8
EAN 9780674504578
Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Bernard Harcourt offers a powerful critique of what he calls the expository society, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care.
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In this deeply informed exchange, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz present an antidote to the polarizing rhetoric and obscurantism that define our time: honest dialogue. Guided by a commitment to the belief that no idea is above scrutiny and no people beneath dignity, Harris and Nawaz challenge each other, and their readers, to discover common ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-28604-7
EAN 9780674286047
Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era's rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-28608-5
EAN 9780674286085
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Modern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s-well before the Internet. Michael Schudson shows how the "right to know" has defined a new era for democracy-less focus on parties and elections, more pluralism and more players, year-round monitoring of government, and a blurring line between politics and society, public and private.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-08816-0
EAN 9780674088160
At a time when science is seen as an engine of economic growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen understanding of the cost-benefit calculations made by individuals and institutions as they compete for resources and reputation in scientific fields. She highlights especially the growing gap between the biomedical sciences and physics/engineering.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-08806-1
EAN 9780674088061
Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings-or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors' perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-08815-3
EAN 9780674088153
Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided humanities scholars for decades. Rodowick steps back from arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1980s, he calls for dialogue on an ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities.
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In a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals-courage, contemplation, and compassion-that once gave life meaning. Here, Mark Edmundson makes an impassioned attempt to defend the value of these ancient ideals and to resurrect Soul in the modern world.
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Crossing the Bay of Bengal
The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-28724-2
EAN 9780674287242
For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.
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After Nature
A Politics for the Anthropocene
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 26,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50480-6
EAN 9780674504806
Thomas Piketty whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has established itself as an indispensable guide for students and general readers in ...
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