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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 696 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17272-9
EAN 9780691172729
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jurgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17441-9
EAN 9780691174419
The first publication of Albert Einsteins travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before. Einstein's lengthy itinerary consisted of stops in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 49,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13684-4
EAN 9780691136844
How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18117-2
EAN 9780691181172
J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies-a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here is his gripping insider's account of how a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17690-1
EAN 9780691176901
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is close to mathematics," while Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen went further, writing music explicitly ...
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