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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17854-7
EAN 9780691178547
Elements of Mathematics takes readers on a fascinating tour that begins in elementary mathematics-but, as John Stillwell shows, this subject is not as elementary or straightforward as one might think. Not all topics that are part of today's elementary mathematics were always considered as such, and great mathematical advances and discoveries had to occur in ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16064-1
EAN 9780691160641
How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of womenJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic-the false notion that secularism is a guarantee of gender equality.Drawing on a ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17830-1
EAN 9780691178301
From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about itHow important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17852-3
EAN 9780691178523
Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a plethora of situations that explore the science and ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 568 páginas
PVP: 47,99 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16711-4
EAN 9780691167114
Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17781-6
EAN 9780691177816
Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non-science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton.This problem book features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16426-7
EAN 9780691164267
In 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But what do these ominous proclamations, from across the political spectrum, mean? From the influx of immigrants in the 1950s to contemporary worries about ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17701-4
EAN 9780691177014
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17837-0
EAN 9780691178370
" A magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review"Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial TimesIn the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 35,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17853-0
EAN 9780691178530
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17721-2
EAN 9780691177212
What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, and if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science?What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17814-1
EAN 9780691178141
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-42. What happened? ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17819-6
EAN 9780691178196
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 584 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16894-4
EAN 9780691168944
The first comprehensive political history of the communist party Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A.James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17847-9
EAN 9780691178479
In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17812-7
EAN 9780691178127
We human beings had no say in existing-we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains.When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified-but faith is not knowledge. ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1128 páginas
PVP: 37,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17694-9
EAN 9780691176949
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 35,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17717-5
EAN 9780691177175
This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems from axioms, it has often been asked: which axioms are needed to prove a given theorem? Only in the ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 323 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16372-7
EAN 9780691163727
Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17527-0
EAN 9780691175270
Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the "Phoenicians" never ...
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