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Mostrando 900 libros encontrados (45 páginas)
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Conley, Dalton; Fletcher, Jason
The genome factor
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18316-9
EAN 9780691183169
For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social life than ever before.The Genome Factor describes the astonishing ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18351-0
EAN 9780691183510
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machinesThe 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 years ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16282-9
EAN 9780691162829
How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries--and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries--music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, ...
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Three stones make a wall
The story of Archaeology
In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things." Carter's fabulous discovery is ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17070-1
EAN 9780691170701
The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry--and a term of derision--in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the ...
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Adaptation and natural selection
A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18286-5
EAN 9780691182865
Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection--the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams's famous work in ...
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Weimar Germany
Promise and tragedy
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18305-3
EAN 9780691183053
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century--one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the ...
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Morson, Gary Saul; Schapiro, Morton
Cents and sensibility
What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18322-0
EAN 9780691183220
In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities--especially the study of literature--offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith's heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17911-7
EAN 9780691179117
A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believeThe Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor. Around 1500, it took on a more formal structure ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14583-9
EAN 9780691145839
The life and times of the New Testament's most mystifying and incendiary bookFew biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding the past, present, and future. Others ...
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The Internet Trap
How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15926-3
EAN 9780691159263
A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economyThe Internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online--and grab all the profits from the attention economy. The Internet Trap explains how this happened.This provocative and timely ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18126-4
EAN 9780691181264
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18277-3
EAN 9780691182773
An essential guide to recognizing bogus numbers and misleading dataNumbers are often intimidating, confusing, and even deliberately deceptive--especially when they are really big. The media loves to report on millions, billions, and trillions, but frequently makes basic mistakes or presents such numbers in misleading ways. And misunderstanding numbers can have serious consequences, since they can ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18044-1
EAN 9780691180441
A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes--good and bad--are possible.Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17841-7
EAN 9780691178417
Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau argue that the core problem with the Euro lies in the ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 19,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17771-7
EAN 9780691177717
A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A.A. Long--one of the ...
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Midlife
A philosophical guide
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 14,96 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18328-2
EAN 9780691183282
How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18113-4
EAN 9780691181134
The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18120-2
EAN 9780691181202
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water ...
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Exile, Statelessness, and Migration
Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16725-1
EAN 9780691167251
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century--in particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss. Informed by their Jewish identity and experiences ...
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