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Quantum Steampunk
The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-4372-0
EAN 9781421443720
The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy. Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds (as well as centuries) apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-4349-2
EAN 9781421443492
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-9412-1
EAN 9780801894121
Published to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography gives 21st-century readers a unique and authoritative account of the man John F. Kennedy called "one of the transcendent moral influences of our century." Schweitzer is celebrated around the world as a European pioneer of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 55,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2267-1
EAN 9781421422671
"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."-Albert Einstein The year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just settled into Gottingen University when Albert Einstein visited to lecture on his nearly finished ...
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The Great Mistake
How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2162-9
EAN 9781421421629
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear solutions on the horizon. ...
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Inventing the Pinkertons: or Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries and Thugs
Being a story of the nation s most famous (and infamous) detective agency
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2056-1
EAN 9781421420561
Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkertons National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capitals tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2040-0
EAN 9781421420400
Crime scene investigation'or CSI'has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. But where did this ensemble of investigative specialists and scientific techniques come from?In Murder and the Making ...
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Blue Marble Health
An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2046-2
EAN 9781421420462
In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylors National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States economic prowess and first-world status, an estimated 12 million Americans living at ...
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Contested Conventions
The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787 1789
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2026-4
EAN 9781421420264
There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose ...
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Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2069-1
EAN 9781421420691
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"'including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics'is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age of the conquistadors through the United States recent ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, Revolution and Resistance ...
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Between Church and State
Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2058-5
EAN 9781421420585
Today, the ongoing controversy about the place'or lack of place'of religion in public schools is a burning issue in the United States. Prayer at football games, creationism in the classroom, the teaching of religion and morals, and public funding for private religious schools are just a few of the subjects over which people are skirmishing. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2050-9
EAN 9781421420509
During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians'Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks'perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsars World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women, and children died while trying to escape over ...
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Knowledge Games
How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
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PVP: 30,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-1920-6
EAN 9781421419206
Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier's Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and pitfalls ...
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An Equation for Every Occasion
Fifty-Two Formulas and Why They Matter
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PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-1983-1
EAN 9781421419831
With this fun romp through the world of equations we encounter in our everyday lives, you'll find yourself flipping through the stories of fifty-two formulas faster than a deck of cards. John M. Henshaw's intriguing true accounts, each inspired by a different mathematical equation, are both succinct and easy to read. His tales come from ...
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Zbig
The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski
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PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-1980-0
EAN 9781421419800
Zbigniew Brzezinski's multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy has led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in public service, including a stint as President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He is a renowned policy analyst and author who frequently appears as a commentator on popular ...
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Misa, Thomas J. / Yost, Jeffrey R.
Fastlane
Managing Science in the Internet World
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 50,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-1710-3
EAN 9781421417103
Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, "high modern" social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior-and to remake the world in the image of their new model man. In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why ...
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