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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 28,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18093-9
EAN 9780691180939
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17020-6
EAN 9780691170206
How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbols The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17978-0
EAN 9780691179780
A delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi's classic The Art of War by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC.C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful graphic adaptation of Sunzi's Art of War, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18096-0
EAN 9780691180960
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17438-9
EAN 9780691174389
A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments when we wait for sleep to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18090-8
EAN 9780691180908
As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other.It's also ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15708-5
EAN 9780691157085
A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18097-7
EAN 9780691180977
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 584 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18102-8
EAN 9780691181028
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18103-5
EAN 9780691181035
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious traditions has taken on a new and critical urgency.He ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18105-9
EAN 9780691181059
Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings.This was Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17928-5
EAN 9780691179285
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 103,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16028-3
EAN 9780691160283
An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historiansBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress, and, after the 2016 presidential election, Obama's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18210-0
EAN 9780691182100
An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historiansBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress, and, after the 2016 presidential election, Obama's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17435-8
EAN 9780691174358
A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global scienceWe take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? Is it truly as healthy as we tend to think? How does the system itself shape what scientists do? The Secret Life of Science takes a clear-eyed and provocative look ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17466-2
EAN 9780691174662
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18053-3
EAN 9780691180533
The story of the search for life on Mars-and the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go ...
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Casagrande-Kim, Roberta; Chipman, Leigh; Steven Harvey, Y.
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18184-4
EAN 9780691181844
Within a century of the Arab Muslim conquest of vast territories in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam became the inheritor of the intellectual legacy of classical antiquity. In an epochal cultural transformation between the eighth and tenth centuries CE, most of what survived in classical Greek literature and thought was translated from Greek ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17508-9
EAN 9780691175089
An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made themAdvances in psychology have revolutionized our understanding of the human mind. Imaging technology allows researchers to monitor brain activity, letting us see what happens when we perceive, think, and feel. But technology is only part of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15174-8
EAN 9780691151748
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy.Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and ...
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