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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 452 páginas
PVP: 45,30 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99711-0
EAN 9780674997110
Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. 125 AD in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens, where he began a lifelong allegiance to Platonic philosophy. In the later 150s, he married Pudentilla of Oea, a wealthy widow, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99687-8
EAN 9780674996878
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 700 páginas
PVP: 25,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99646-5
EAN 9780674996465
Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum before he fell chronically ill in the early 140s and retreated to Pergamums healing shrine of Asclepius. By ...
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Metaphrastes, Symeon; Papaioannou, Stratis
Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 396 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97506-4
EAN 9780674975064
Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection of rewritings of saints lives originally intended to be read at services for Christian feast days. Yet Symeon Metaphrastess stories also abound in transgression and violence, punishment and redemption, love and miracles. They resemble Greek novels of the first ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 928 páginas
PVP: 27,16 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97492-0
EAN 9780674974920
The eleven books of poetry by Venantius Fortunatus include well-loved hymns, figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and elegies in the voices of abandoned or exiled women. The sixth-century poet began his career in northern Italy before moving to Gaul, where he wrote for the remainder of his life'praising kings and elites of the Merovingian dynasty ...
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Boushey, Heather; Delong, J. Bradford; Steinbaum, Marshall
After Piketty - The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50477-6
EAN 9780674504776
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 330 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50482-0
EAN 9780674504820
Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nations shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgeralds deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 310 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97154-7
EAN 9780674971547
Ever since the International Monetary Funds first bailout of Greeces sinking economy in 2010, the phrase 'Greek debt' has meant one thing to the countrys creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97228-5
EAN 9780674972285
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides ...
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Macarthur, David; Putnam, Hilary; Putnam, Ruth Anna
Pragmatism as a Way of Life - The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-96750-2
EAN 9780674967502
Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical 'positions' as experiments in deliberate living. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do justice to the depth and complexity of reality. In this new collection, he and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 310 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97248-3
EAN 9780674972483
No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their 'motherland' has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most savage battles have been fought, the highest death tolls paid. Having prevailed over Mongol hordes and vanquished Napoleon and Hitler, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97227-8
EAN 9780674972278
Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the worlds great essayists guides us through the rich commentary that money has ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97200-1
EAN 9780674972001
Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessors abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchevs 'Secret Speech' of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalins infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05776-0
EAN 9780674057760
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08880-1
EAN 9780674088801
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies'along with the forms of devotion'this central symbol of Christianity inspires.Jesuss death on the cross posed a dilemma for ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54509-0
EAN 9780674545090
The Boatman gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene epoch. As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that he himself'a land surveyor by trade'was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 250 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05037-2
EAN 9780674050372
When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the worlds 1.5 ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 540 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97198-1
EAN 9780674971981
On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time 'the real Revolution' had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castros ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65954-4
EAN 9780674659544
Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness. Animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 420 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97211-7
EAN 9780674972117
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor ...
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