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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. Delanys 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 Blakes escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the ...
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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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Barabási, Albert-László; Loscalzo, Joseph; Silvermann, Edwin K.
Network Medicine
Complex Systems in Human Disease and Therapeutics
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
PVP: 98,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-43653-4
EAN 9780674436534
Big data, genomics, and quantitative approaches to network-based analysis are combining to advance the frontiers of medicine as never before. Network Medicine introduces this rapidly evolving field of medical research, which promises to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. With contributions from leading experts that highlight the necessity of a team-based approach in ...
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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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- 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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The War Within
Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 302 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97155-4
EAN 9780674971554
In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history.The ...
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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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The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium
An Essay in Natural History
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 324 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73712-9
EAN 9780674737129
One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon'the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. ...
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The First European
A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 470 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65966-7
EAN 9780674659667
The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexanders achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds ...
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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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