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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 9780465038299
EAN 9780465038299
Not since Richard Feynman has a Nobel Prize-winning physicist written with as much panache as Robert Laughlin does in this revelatory and essential book. Laughlin proposes nothing less than a new way of understanding fundamental laws of science. In this age of superstring theories and Big-Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as ...
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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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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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Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's last theorem captured the imaginations of mathematicians for more than three centuries. For some, it became a wonderful passion. For others it was an obsession that led to deceit, intrigue, or insanity. In a volume filled with the clues, red herrings, and suspense of a mystery novel, ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 361 páginas
PVP: 26,96 €
ISBN 978-0-465-01453-8
EAN 9780465014538
The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, ...
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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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PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02073-7
EAN 9780465020737
This is a profoundly smart science book and an inspiring memoir about change that is detailed and complex, quirky and engaging. Readers will connect with Sue's struggles, discoveries, and triumphs. When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan.She saw the city in an astonishingly new way. With each ...
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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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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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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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