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One of fiction's most well-loved novels, this 19th-century classic continues to capture the hearts of contemporary readers with its notions of marriage, dating, and romance. Leading authors in the area of women's literature and romance contribute to this fresh collection of essays on everything from Lydia's scandalous marriage to George Wickham to the female-dominated Bennett ...
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- Perseus, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02527-5
EAN 9780465025275
The six easiest chapters from Feynman's landmark work, Lectures on Physics-- specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader.
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- Perseus, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02203-8
EAN 9780465022038
In Economic Facts and Fallacies , Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, ...
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- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en guaflex · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-262-9
EAN 9781846682629
This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to ...
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- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-1-56858-612-0
EAN 9781568586120
Eduardo Galeano is determined to forget that history is usually written by the victors. He favours the voiceless and the vulnerable. Mirrors is a narrative history of the world that condenses into its scintillating fragments radically altered visions of the landmark events on this earth, and of the landmark individuals who pass history from hand ...
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In this masterly book, now in a revised and updated fourth edition, Michael Jacobs looks with fresh eyes at all the traditional delights of Andalucia while doing full justice to the lesser-known aspects of the region. He examines the underrated local food and drink, the extraordinarily varied natural scenery, the composers and writers who created ...
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- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02073-7
EAN 9780465020737
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- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7382-0861-9
EAN 9780738208619
From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s.
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Backstabbing for Beginners
My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-1-56858-441-6
EAN 9781568584416
The year is 1997. C. Michael Soussan, an idealistic young graduate, has recently accepted his dream job at the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme, helping Iraqi civilians survive the impact of economic sanctions. Under conflicting guidance, the program would oversee the use of 64 billion petrodollars against a backdrop of simmering international tension that constantly threatens ...
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Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach a new mode of thinking linked highly diverse areas of ...
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- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-306-81884-4
EAN 9780306818844
An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard traces one man's adventure-filled journey through today's Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into the past. Setting out to gain insight into the lives of Iranians and Afghans today, ...
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Thousand Mile Song
Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 287 páginas
PVP: 14,29 €
ISBN 978-0-465-01889-5
EAN 9780465018895
In Thousand Mile Song, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds. Interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music, Rothenberg tells the story of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean. Along the way, ...
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Why does E = mc2
(and why should we care?)
- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,95 €
ISBN 978-0-306-81911-7
EAN 9780306819117
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light while exploding commonly held misconceptions they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. ...
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Reinventing the Sacred
A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-01888-8
EAN 9780465018888
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere? In this bold and fresh look at ...
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- Perseus, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 202 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-56858-434-8
EAN 9781568584348
In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story the board rooms and trading floors of ...
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