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An Equation for every Occasion
52 Formulas and Why They Matter
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-1491-1
EAN 9781421414911
In An Equation for Every Occasion, John M. Henshaw tells fifty-two entertaining true stories, each inspired by a different mathematical equation. His succinct, easy-to-read narratives come from the spheres of sports, business, history, the arts, science, and technology. Anecdotes about famous equations, like E=mc2, appear alongside tales of not-so-famous-but equally fascinating-equations, such as the one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 53,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-1102-6
EAN 9781421411026
James H. Lebovic explores the logic of seeking peace in an arms race. Flawed Logics offers a compelling intellectual history of U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear arms control.Lebovic thoroughly reviews the critical role of ideas and assumptions in U.S. arms control debates, tying them to controversies over U.S. nuclear strategy from the birth of the atomic age ...
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ISBN 978-1-4214-0979-5
EAN 9781421409795
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One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred Kaplan recreates the world of Henry James: his friendships with Edith ...
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The Vulgar Question of Money
Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-0964-1
EAN 9781421409641
It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in ...
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Competing with the Soviets
Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-0771-5
EAN 9781421407715
For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself, and science figured prominently in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 536 páginas
PVP: 38,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-0639-8
EAN 9781421406398
"Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide" is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to i ek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. ...
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PVP: 86,85 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-8679-9
EAN 9780801886799
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-0587-2
EAN 9781421405872
In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty - because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity - provides a model for justice. "Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime" makes a significant departure ...
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ISBN 978-1-4214-0615-2
EAN 9781421406152
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This classic book on the Icelandic language was written to aid the military, the businessman, the traveler, or any foreign resident in Iceland. Originally published in 1945, the grammar gives reliable information on pronunciation, inflexions, and syntax of the language. The texts are partly grammatical exercises for the beginner, partly colloquial dialogues, or descriptions of ...
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PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-0351-9
EAN 9781421403519
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ISBN 978-1-4214-0110-2
EAN 9781421401102
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-9818-1
EAN 9780801898181
Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have ...
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