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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97185-1
EAN 9780674971851
In the 1880s, Europeans descended on Africa and grabbed vast swaths of the continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Rogue Empires follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men whose actions touched off the scramble for Africa. Many of them were would-be kings who sought to establish ...
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Marvellous Thieves
Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54505-2
EAN 9780674545052
Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 190 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08895-5
EAN 9780674088955
Groping around a familiar room in the dark, or learning to read again after a traumatic brain injury; navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar, or envisioning a scene through the eyes of a character'all of these are expressions of one fundamental property of life, Alain Berthoz argues. They are instances of vicariance, when the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 266 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-72498-3
EAN 9780674724983
With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their representation in popular entertainment. War games and other media, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and threat scenarios ...
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Feminist in a Software Lab
Difference + Design
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 286 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-72894-3
EAN 9780674728943
For over a dozen years, the Vectors lab has experimented with digital scholarship through its online publication, Vectors, and through Scalar, a multimedia authoring platform. The history of this software lab intersects a much longer tale about computation in the humanities, as well as tensions about the role of theory in related projects.In the provocative ...
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Digital Giza
Visualizing the Pyramids
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73123-3
EAN 9780674731233
The Pyramids on the Giza Plateau represent perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world, capturing on tomb walls frozen moments from almost every aspect of life in ancient Egypt. This book, by one of the foremost experts on the history of Giza, explores new approaches to 'cataloging' the site, highlighting efforts at the ...
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Unlikely Partners
Chinese Reforms, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97113-4
EAN 9780674971134
Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their countrys borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nations tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light Chinas productive exchanges ...
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Making Faces
The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 450 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-72552-2
EAN 9780674725522
Humans possess the most expressive faces in the animal kingdom. Adam Wilkins presents evidence ranging from the fossil record to recent findings of genetics, molecular biology, and developmental biology to reconstruct the fascinating story of how the human face evolved. Beginning with the first vertebrate faces half a billion years ago and continuing to dramatic ...
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Preparing for War
The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54573-1
EAN 9780674545731
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of ...
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Mere Civility
Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 260 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54549-6
EAN 9780674545496
Today, politicians and intellectuals warn that we face a crisis of civility and a veritable war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating diversity as well as active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this conversational virtue appears critical. But is civility really a virtue? Or is it, as critics ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 324 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97136-3
EAN 9780674971363
Why read Kants Critique of Judgment today? Does this classic of aesthetic theory still possess the vitality to prompt those of us engaged with art and criticism to think more deeply about issues that move us, issues such as the force of aesthetic experience, the essence of art, and the relationship of beauty and meaning? ...
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Sources of Knowledge
On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-41611-6
EAN 9780674416116
How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge? The skeptic finds this question impossible to answer. If we can err, then it seems the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong. Most contemporary epistemologists agree with the skeptic that we can never believe on grounds that ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 378 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-33372-7
EAN 9780674333727
The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Lukács and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzonis Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a ...
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Wisdom Won from Illness
Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry'psychoanalysis and moral philosophy'that seem to have little to say to one another but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live.Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient Greek philosophers for insight into what constitutes the life ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 230 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97143-1
EAN 9780674971431
Tensions between religious freedom and equality law are newly strained in America. As lawmakers work to protect LGBT citizens and women seeking reproductive freedom, religious traditionalists assert their right to dissent from what they see as a new liberal orthodoxy. Some religious advocates are going further and expressing skepticism that egalitarianism can be defended with ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97139-4
EAN 9780674971394
Chinas labor landscape is changing, and it is transforming the global economy in ways that we cannot afford to ignore. Once-silent workers have found their voice, organizing momentous protests, such as the 2010 Honda strikes, and demanding a better deal. Chinas leaders have responded not only with repression but with reforms. Are Chinas workers on ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 832 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66039-7
EAN 9780674660397
Maghas The Killing of Shishupala, written in the seventh century, is a celebrated example of the Sanskrit genre known as mahakavya, or great poem. This adaptation from the epic Mahabharata tells the story of Shishupala, who disrupts Yudhishthiras coronation by refusing to honor Krishna, the kings principal ally and a manifestation of divinity. When Shishupala ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66042-7
EAN 9780674660427
In 1752, the Bengali poet Bharatchandra Ray completed a long narrative poem dedicated to the glory of Annada, Shivas consort and the divinity who, as her name proclaims, 'bestows the bounty of rice.'A poet well versed in Sanskrit, Persian, and Hindi'all of which enrich his work'Bharatchandra took up the literary performance genre ma?galkavya and thoroughly ...
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Success and Suppression
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97158-5
EAN 9780674971585
The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europes relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in which important Arabic traditions reached the peak of their influence in Europe. On the other hand, it is the time when the West began to forget, and even actively suppress, ...
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Freud
In His Time and Ours
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 530 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65956-8
EAN 9780674659568
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours.Roudinesco traces Freud's life from ...
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