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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
50th Anniversary Edition
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52740-8
EAN 9780262527408
Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this influential book includes a new preface by the author that identifies proposals that seem to be of lasting significance, reviews ...
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Conflict in Ukraine
The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02904-9
EAN 9780262029049
The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy building a partnership with Russia. It also ...
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The Minimalist Program
20th Anniversary Edition
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 45,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52734-7
EAN 9780262527347
In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author.In four essays, Chomsky attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the essays formulating and progressively ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52713-2
EAN 9780262527132
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he ...
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Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weiman, Joachim
Measuring Happiness
The Economics of Well-Being
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 36,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02844-8
EAN 9780262028448
Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s, however, other values began to gain ground: peace, political participation, civil rights, environmentalism. Happiness economics a somewhat incongruous-sounding branch of what has been called the dismal ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52756-9
EAN 9780262527569
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, pataphysics--the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions--has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 34,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02856-1
EAN 9780262028561
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Lives of the Laureates
Twenty Three Nobel Economists
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 37,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02796-0
EAN 9780262027960
Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three Nobel Prize laureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light on the processes of intellectual discovery and creativity. The accounts are accessible ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1024 páginas
PVP: 41,10 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-160-3
EAN 9781584351603
The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.--from GlobesIn Globes -- the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy -- the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical ...
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Keynes
Useful Economics for the World Economy
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 134 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02831-8
EAN 9780262028318
As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an accessible introduction to Keynesian ideas that connects Keynes's insights to today's global economy and offers readers a way to understand ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-159-7
EAN 9781584351597
A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and transferred to the cemetery of Clamart when his pornographic novels are discovered A photograph taken by Hessling on Christmas night, 1943, of a young woman nailed alive to the village gate of Novimgorod; Hessling asks his friend Wolfgang Borchert ...
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Frank, Thomas; Lehmann, Chris; Summers, John
No Future for You
Salvos from "The Baffler"
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02833-2
EAN 9780262028332
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been blunting the cutting edge of American culture and politics for a quarter of a century. Here's Thomas Frank on the upward-falling cult of expertise in ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52643-2
EAN 9780262526432
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. Some ...
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Collision Course
Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02773-1
EAN 9780262027731
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that growth is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-134-4
EAN 9781584351344
First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic book series Fantomas: The Elegant Menace. With his characteristic ...
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Barth, James R; Caprio Jr, Gerard; Levine, Ross
Guardians of Finance
Making Regulators work for Us
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52684-5
EAN 9780262526845
The recent financial crisis was an accident, a perfect storm fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan. ...
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It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work to take up a series of government positions--as Minister of Finance and as Boris Yeltsin's acting Prime Minister--in the early ...
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What Have We Learned?
Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02734-2
EAN 9780262027342
Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to rethink basic theory. George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate and one of ...
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The Bubble Economy
Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02743-4
EAN 9780262027434
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more profitable to make money from other people's money than by ...
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The War on Learning
Gaining Ground in the Digital University
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02738-0
EAN 9780262027380
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each other, they are really both taking part in ...
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