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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-04898-0
EAN 9780674048980
The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895."The truth is rarely pure and never simple," declares Algernon ...
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Frontiers of Possession
Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 41,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73538-5
EAN 9780674735385
Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.Frontiers of Possession ...
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The History of Akbar
Akbarnama
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 46,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-42775-4
EAN 9780674427754
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 throughout the Persianate world. The work is at once ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-18728-3
EAN 9780674187283
The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of contemporary empiricists. "From Empiricism to Expressivism" is a far-reaching reinterpretation ...
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A Land of Aching Hearts
The Middle East in the Great War
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73549-1
EAN 9780674735491
A century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East during those years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of those who endured this cataclysmic event, and their profound sense of sacrifices made in vain.The ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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ISBN 978-0-674-73675-7
EAN 9780674736757
Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how educators can put curiosity at the center of the classroom.Despite ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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ISBN 978-0-674-74409-7
EAN 9780674744097
Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions imperil a global resource: a biosphere capable of supporting life as we know it. What is the fair way to share this scarce resource across present and future generations, and across regions of the world? This study offers a new perspective based on the guiding ethics of sustainability and egalitarianism.Sustainability is ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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ISBN 978-0-674-99644-1
EAN 9780674996441
Theocritus (early third century BCE), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned poet who followed the aesthetic, developed a generation earlier by Philitas of Cos (LCL 508), of refashioning traditional literary forms in original ways through ...
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Making Space
How the Brain Knows where Things Are
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-86321-7
EAN 9780674863217
Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous power to figuring out simple details about spatial relationships. Jennifer Groh traces this mental detective work to show how the brain creates our sense of location, and makes the case that the brain's systems for thinking about space may be the systems of thought ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04848-5
EAN 9780674048485
America has always been a composite of racially blended peoples, never a purely white Anglo-Protestant nation. The Mexican American historian Neil Foley offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico's northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build.According to census projections, ...
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The Struggle for Pakistan
A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05289-5
EAN 9780674052895
In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region.Established as a homeland for India's ...
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 685 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-43000-6
EAN 9780674430006
The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-28438-8
EAN 9780674284388
Lockhart's 'Mathematician's Lament' outlined how we introduce mathematics to students in the wrong way. This book explains how mathematics should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to mathematic phobia.
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72501-0
EAN 9780674725010
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72599-7
EAN 9780674725997
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It never happened.Today, after a bruising electoral defeat, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 48,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97970-3
EAN 9780674979703
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric-the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has come to dominate the study of poetry-both of which neglect what ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
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PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72682-6
EAN 9780674726826
In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What are death and immortality? He joins a sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. Belief in God is one manifestation of ...
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The Summits of Modern Man
Mountaineering after the Enlightenment
- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04799-0
EAN 9780674047990
Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world's most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07238-1
EAN 9780674072381
The world's most renowned critical theorist who defined the field of postcolonial studies has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient, she argues that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.During the past twenty years, the world's most ...
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