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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17809-7
EAN 9780691178097
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.'' This highly engaging book explores the ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17822-6
EAN 9780691178226
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17823-3
EAN 9780691178233
Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless expose of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17660-4
EAN 9780691176604
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17597-3
EAN 9780691175973
Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion.Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17832-5
EAN 9780691178325
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices.In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17846-2
EAN 9780691178462
What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions-ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that, providing a new ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 28,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17773-1
EAN 9780691177731
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive.This ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17813-4
EAN 9780691178134
Image for The Confidence Trap : A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the PresentClick to enlargeThe Confidence Trap : A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Presentby David RuncimanFormat:Paperback 416 pagesPublisher:Princeton University PressImprint:Princeton University PressEdition:RevisedISBN:9780691178134Published:26 Nov 2017Classifications:USA, European history, History of the Americas, Political science ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17811-0
EAN 9780691178110
To Infinity and Beyond explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and art. Eli Maor examines the role of infinity, as well as its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on the human mind--from the "horror infiniti" of the Greeks to the works of ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17815-8
EAN 9780691178158
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique ...
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David Stasavage; Kenneth Scheve
Taxing the Rich : A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17829-5
EAN 9780691178295
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17831-8
EAN 9780691178318
What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16683-4
EAN 9780691166834
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17782-3
EAN 9780691177823
Why we need to think more like economists to successfully combat terrorismIf we are to correctly assess the root causes of terrorism and successfully address the threat, we must think more like economists do. This is the argument of Alan Krueger's What Makes a Terrorist, a book that explains why our tactics in the fight ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17533-1
EAN 9780691175331
A lavishly illustrated book that explores the language of curves that spans the human body, science, engineering, and artCurves are seductive. These smooth, organic lines and surfaces-like those of the human body-appeal to us in an instinctive, visceral way that straight lines or the perfect shapes of classical geometry never could. In this large-format book, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16794-7
EAN 9780691167947
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context On October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions he found in An Experiment with Time by the British philosopher John ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16935-4
EAN 9780691169354
A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words--the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin biographer Janet Browne, The Quotable Darwin draws ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17735-9
EAN 9780691177359
How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "Bible nation" Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded as a Christian nation, based on a "biblical worldview." But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals in other ways. ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17810-3
EAN 9780691178103
Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, � , e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y,, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery. In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey ...
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