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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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.
Romance and Reason : Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past
- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
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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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16256-0
EAN 9780691162560
How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, who ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17219-4
EAN 9780691172194
Ten lessons from history on the dos and don'ts of analyzing political riskOur baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the rise of political risk analysis, both as a ...
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Straight Talk on Trade
Ideas for a Sane World Economy
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17784-7
EAN 9780691177847
An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in todays global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17557-7
EAN 9780691175577
Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 43,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17495-2
EAN 9780691174952
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16726-8
EAN 9780691167268
From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 960 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17705-2
EAN 9780691177052
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G.Hopkins takes readers ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16144-0
EAN 9780691161440
A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth century By the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on a political experiment of an unprecedented scale outside the newly ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18081-6
EAN 9780691180816
Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17833-2
EAN 9780691178332
Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. Pericles of Athens is ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17246-0
EAN 9780691172460
A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin's theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17416-7
EAN 9780691174167
A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statisticsIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17503-4
EAN 9780691175034
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly 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, Rx{0026}D, or software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17224-8
EAN 9780691172248
A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups Boko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17863-9
EAN 9780691178639
The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and ...
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