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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Haskel, Jonathan; Westlake, Stian
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18329-9
EAN 9780691183299
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18309-1
EAN 9780691183091
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18281-0
EAN 9780691182810
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind--and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture--evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18325-1
EAN 9780691183251
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18085-4
EAN 9780691180854
What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. Political Hypocrisy is a timely, and timeless, book on the problems of sincerity and truth in politics, and how ...
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