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Haskel, Jonathan; Westlake, Stian
Capitalism without Capital
The Rise of the Intangible Economy
- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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Darwin's unfinished symphony
How Culture Made the Human Mind
- Princeton, 2018
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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The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17861-5
EAN 9780691178615
A revealing insider's account of the power--and limitations--of functional MRI The ability to read minds has long been a fascination of science fiction, but revolutionary new brain-imaging methods are bringing it closer to scientific reality. The New Mind Readers provides a compelling look at the origins, development, and future of these extraordinary tools, revealing how ...
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Hitler's american model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18306-0
EAN 9780691183060
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece ...
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John Sides; Lynn Vavreck; Michael Tesler
Identity Crisis : The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17419-8
EAN 9780691174198
A gripping in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump's historic victory Donald Trump's election victory stunned the world. How did he pull it off? Was it his appeal to alienated voters in the battleground states? Was it Hillary Clinton and the scandals associated with her long career in politics? Were key ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18303-9
EAN 9780691183039
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17719-9
EAN 9780691177199
A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, which is one of the greatest ever written ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17905-6
EAN 9780691179056
A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this gripping revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 246 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18250-6
EAN 9780691182506
How investor expectations move markets and the economyThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15710-8
EAN 9780691157108
A history of unparalleled scope that charts the global transformation of Christianity during an age of profound political and cultural changeChristianity in the Twentieth Century charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity. ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18114-1
EAN 9780691181141
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one of the ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17670-3
EAN 9780691176703
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Its army was not renowned for offensive prowess, its finances ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17253-8
EAN 9780691172538
Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17458-7
EAN 9780691174587
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17750-2
EAN 9780691177502
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking--and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against-on its head. The ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18038-0
EAN 9780691180380
Despite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 616 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18109-7
EAN 9780691181097
How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced ...
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