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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19204-8
EAN 9780691192048
The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-21026-1
EAN 9780691210261
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19560-5
EAN 9780691195605
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20348-5
EAN 9780691203485
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 46,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14981-3
EAN 9780691149813
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20452-9
EAN 9780691204529
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 21,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20401-7
EAN 9780691204017
How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies deploying elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20457-4
EAN 9780691204574
A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. In this short, accessible book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17746-5
EAN 9780691177465
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 318 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20222-8
EAN 9780691202228
A must-read financial history for investors navigating today's volatile global marketsFollowing an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the largest sovereign default in history. In Bankers and Bolsheviks, Hassan Malik tells the story of this boom and bust, chronicling the experiences of leading financiers of the day as they navigated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20351-5
EAN 9780691203515
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states-not sovereign states-drove European expansion, building the world's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17708-3
EAN 9780691177083
How to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought-one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief, lively chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills vital ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20414-7
EAN 9780691204147
There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. Yet, it's now clear that genes are not the only basis of heredity. In Extended Heredity, evolutionary biologists Russell Bonduriansky ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20226-6
EAN 9780691202266
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20250-1
EAN 9780691202501
A compelling interpretation of a foundational concept of Jewish religious lifeThe love of God is arguably the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling and wonder ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19492-9
EAN 9780691194929
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20229-7
EAN 9780691202297
A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading thinkersMathematics is a model of precision and objectivity, but it appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How can these two aspects of mathematics be reconciled? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20245-7
EAN 9780691202457
A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Yet the Palestinians-the would-be beneficiaries of this vision for a comprehensive regional settlement-remain without a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20397-3
EAN 9780691203973
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the nation that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19578-0
EAN 9780691195780
The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow ...
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