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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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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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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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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 historian ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16869-2
EAN 9780691168692
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world. With masterful storytelling and color illustrations, Heretics! offers a unique introduction to the birth of modern thought ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15558-6
EAN 9780691155586
For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing, in both number and importance. Bruce Lawrence tells the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-17460-0
EAN 9780691174600
The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17577-5
EAN 9780691175775
Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17589-8
EAN 9780691175898
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why.Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, ...
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