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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06207-8
EAN 9780674062078
In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 490 páginas
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05274-1
EAN 9780674052741
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age that sooner or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06198-9
EAN 9780674061989
Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones and much of what we think we know is wrong. This clear and powerful book dismantles myth after myth to bring compassionate and accurate understanding ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 550 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04856-0
EAN 9780674048560
John and George Keats Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John's words embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George's 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap across four thousand miles onto the tabula rasa of the American dream, created in John an abysm ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
PVP: 28,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05972-6
EAN 9780674059726
Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science. Galileo's Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day, steeped as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06180-4
EAN 9780674061804
Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, a moment's monument. From the Renaissance to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 860 páginas
PVP: 47,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05544-5
EAN 9780674055445
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China's boldest strategist.Once described by Mao Zedong as a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06195-8
EAN 9780674061958
In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world's leading historians of Russia follows the country's history from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians' persistent appearances in today's headlines. The second edition covers the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitrii Medvedev and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06181-1
EAN 9780674061811
In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning conspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Twenty humanist intellectuals were quickly arrested, tortured on ...
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As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the 20th Century.Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99568-0
EAN 9780674995680
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06039-5
EAN 9780674060395
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 434 páginas
PVP: 21,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06028-9
EAN 9780674060289
When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 33,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05580-3
EAN 9780674055803
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation's pre-revolutionary past. In this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06019-7
EAN 9780674060197
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods ...
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PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05792-0
EAN 9780674057920
The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had--in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann--"a different look." Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned ...
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