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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 39,95 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-490-9
EAN 9780871404909
Here, Rudiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749-1832) awakened a burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski scoured Goethe's oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as his correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35370-9
EAN 9780393353709
For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilising of regimes. Now, on the cusp of "going paperless", Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60939-4
EAN 9780393609394
There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 466 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35415-7
EAN 9780393354157
The crisis of 2008 ended the illusion of a golden era in which many people imagined that prosperity and political calm would continue to spread indefinitely. In a world now racked by slowing growth and mounting unrest, how can we discern which nations will thrive and which will fail? Shaped by prize-winning author Ruchir Sharma's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25429-7
EAN 9780393254297
We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35399-0
EAN 9780393353990
In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however-the burst of the housing bubble in 2007 set off a domino ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35413-3
EAN 9780393354133
Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and has made possible its greatest social reforms. Secondly, the recent attention to economic inequality has a long history.From the founders' generation to the present, America's egalitarian tradition has ...
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Siegel, Daniel J.; Solomon, Marion
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 44,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71176-9
EAN 9780393711769
How People Change explores the complexities of attachment, the brain, mind and body as they aid change during psychotherapy. Research is presented about the properties of healing relationships and communication strategies that facilitate change in the social brain. Contributors include Irving Yalom, Peter Levine, Bruce Perry, Jessica Benjamin and others.
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Gordon-Reed, Annette; Onuf, Peter S.
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,95 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-251-8
EAN 9781631492518
Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now, a Pulitzer ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-252-5
EAN 9781631492525
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent.Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24117-4
EAN 9780393241174
A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab Spring. The governments of Tunisia and Egypt had already fallen; those of Libya and Yemen would soon follow. Watching the chaos ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-324-9
EAN 9781631493249
Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only "mastered that scholarship" but has now rendered it in "an original way, and deepened ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 680 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-92705-4
EAN 9780393927054
This Norton Critical Edition is based on a revised and annotated version of the Pickthall translation of the Qur'an. Topics include the scholarly traditions of the study of qur'anic origins; the centuries of commentary, analysis and intellectual dissemination that have created a library of qur'anic literature; the history of translations; and the ways the Qur'an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71144-8
EAN 9780393711448
From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and centre. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears. In Brain Bytes, neuroscience educators Eric Chudler and Lise Johnson get right to it, asking and answering more than ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35358-7
EAN 9780393353587
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared.Fifty-seven people died and the lives of many others were changed forever. Steve Olson interweaves history, science and vivid ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60892-2
EAN 9780393608922
For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. 5.6 million Danes live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent but remain content. At a time when the Western world is focused on unemployment woes, government ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35432-4
EAN 9780393354324
In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Photos.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35385-3
EAN 9780393353853
An exploration of the unswerving artistic vision underlying Beethoven's symphonies, from a leading scholar of the composer's works.Lewis Lockwood's compelling story introduces each symphony as an individual artwork and traces the creative background of each, set against the contemporary political upheavals, the growth of concert life and the relationship to his major works in other ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-235-8
EAN 9781631492358
The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect Pontius Pilate. Presiding over the trial and execution of Jesus, Pilate is a figure who has straddled history and legend for over two thousand years. Now, Aldo Schiavone presents a comprehensive, revisionist ...
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