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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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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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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 Keyness insights to todays global economy and offers readers a way to understand ...
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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 ...
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Frank, Thomas; Lehmann, Chris; Summers, John
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02833-2
EAN 9780262028332
Theres never been a better time to be outside the consensus'and if you dont believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine thats been blunting the cutting edge of American culture and politics for a quarter of a century. Heres Thomas Frank on the upward-falling cult of expertise in Washington, ...
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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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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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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 Cortázars 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
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 Yeltsins acting Prime Minister--in the early ...
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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52584-8
EAN 9780262525848
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52616-6
EAN 9780262526166
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01999-6
EAN 9780262019996
Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovative drugs, these researchers aim to redesign existing organisms and even construct completely novel biological entities. Some synthetic biologists see themselves as designers, inventing new products and applications. But if biology ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02671-0
EAN 9780262026710
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of zizekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Zizek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52600-5
EAN 9780262526005
Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society -- and ethics -- change with robotics? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02682-6
EAN 9780262026826
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
ISBN 978-0-262-52605-0
EAN 9780262526050
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, manipulation, and force are so much more effective in our current ...
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