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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65970-4
EAN 9780674659704
In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri awaited permission from Rome to continue his mission to convert the Tibetan people to Christianity. In the meantime, he forged ahead with an ambitious project: a treatise, written in classical Tibetan, that would refute key Buddhist doctrines. If he could convince the Buddhist ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 48,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04551-4
EAN 9780674045514
Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 226 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97568-2
EAN 9780674975682
Achilles warrior and hero by the protocols of Western culture, should never cry. And yet Homeric epic is full of his tears and those of his companions at Troy. This path-blazing study by Hélène Monsacré shows how later ideals of stoically inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision presented in the Iliad and Odyssey. ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97153-0
EAN 9780674971530
In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, far right is pejorative, used by liberals to tar these groups with the taint of Fascism, Nazism, and other discredited ideologies. Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg's ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,61 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73772-3
EAN 9780674737723
One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05969-6
EAN 9780674059696
I'm not a scientist is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage, and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased explanation to readers. Politicians, activists, business spokespersons, and religious leaders with their own ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97195-0
EAN 9780674971950
During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy'the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. The bloody deeds of December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war crimes trial in American history. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97226-1
EAN 9780674972261
When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 48,94 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97063-2
EAN 9780674970632
Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji War in East Africa. Recently, historians have emphasized the role of German military culture in shaping the horrific violence of these conflicts, tracing a line from German atrocities ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97218-6
EAN 9780674972186
Deaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police occur annually? What circumstances provoke police to shoot to kill? Who dies? The lack of answers to these basic questions points to a crisis in American government that urgently requires the attention of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97521-7
EAN 9780674975217
Society and Economy'a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology'is the first full account of Mark Granovetters ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97177-6
EAN 9780674971776
Hegels philosophy of history'which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization'is widely regarded as a failure today. In Does History Make Sense? Terry Pinkard argues that Hegels understanding of historical progress is not the kind of teleological or progressivist account that its detractors claim, but is based on a ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05762-3
EAN 9780674057623
The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel), composed during the period of conflict between Persia and the Byzantine Empire for control over Palestine, is the first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich but understudied text, illuminating its distinctive literary features and the complex ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97196-7
EAN 9780674971967
For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.Despite humans deeply ingrained bias ...
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Democracy
A Case Study
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 690 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97145-5
EAN 9780674971455
To all who declare that American democracy is broken'riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth'history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nations founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is still standing. When should we believe the doomsayers? In Democracy: A Case Study, historian David Moss adapts ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 310 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-04826-3
EAN 9780674048263
Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal, and many people have personally experienced a destructive breach of loyalty. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal and the loosening of its hold is a sign of the strain ...
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Blake; Or, The Huts of America
A Corrected Edition
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08872-6
EAN 9780674088726
Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861 1862) is one of the most important African American and indeed American works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is ...
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Music as Biology
The Tones We Like and Why
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 164 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54515-1
EAN 9780674545151
The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why ...
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The Roots of Urban Renaissance
Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 356 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97150-9
EAN 9780674971509
Displaying gleaming new shopping centers and refurbished row houses, Harlem today bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlems widely noted 'Second Renaissance' to a surprising source: the radical 1960s social movements that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny.In the post-World ...
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Antitrust Law in the New Economy
Google, Yelp, LIBOR, and the Control of Information
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97142-4
EAN 9780674971424
Markets run on information. Buyers make decisions by relying on their knowledge of the products available, and sellers decide what to produce based on their understanding of what buyers want. But the distribution of market information has changed, as consumers increasingly turn to sources that act as intermediaries for information'companies like Yelp and Google. Antitrust ...
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