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- Princeton, 2018
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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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein
The Far East, Palestine and Spain 1922-1923
- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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Music by Numbers
From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18096-0
EAN 9780691180960
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On Gravity
A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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