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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17569-0
EAN 9780691175690
In Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one to nine, looking at their history, applications, and connections to various areas of mathematics, including number theory, geometry, chaos theory, numerical analysis, and mathematical physics. For instance, why do eight perfect card shuffles leave a standard deck of cards ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 44,39 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17605-5
EAN 9780691176055
Contrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as good infrastructure and institutions. In Beating the Odds, two of the world's leading development economists begin with this paradox to explain what is wrong with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17462-4
EAN 9780691174624
The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16605-6
EAN 9780691166056
Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17596-6
EAN 9780691175966
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent--more than a million people. A century later, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1032 páginas
PVP: 30,36 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17565-2
EAN 9780691175652
Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17165-4
EAN 9780691171654
The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class--not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority--defend their comfortable status at a cost. Middle-class voting against regulation and increased taxation that would remedy pressing social ills ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17164-7
EAN 9780691171647
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objective science, but is continually evolving as it is shaped by specific ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17166-1
EAN 9780691171661
Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that affects us all. He tells the fascinating story of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17602-4
EAN 9780691176024
Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17570-6
EAN 9780691175706
The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17593-5
EAN 9780691175935
In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose.It only measures output: more cars, more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17573-7
EAN 9780691175737
Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the ...
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Pop-Eleches, Grigore; Tucker, Joshua A.
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 39,63 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17559-1
EAN 9780691175591
It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. Communism's Shadow instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 60,28 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16868-5
EAN 9780691168685
The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17484-6
EAN 9780691174846
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafes and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a truck into crowds of holiday goers at the beaches of Nice, and two weeks later an elderly French ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17580-5
EAN 9780691175805
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17265-1
EAN 9780691172651
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales--in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical powers--have been told through the centuries, in many languages and cultures, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 50,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16872-2
EAN 9780691168722
During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system. Without using the term "globalization," they identified a shift toward technological, economic, cultural, and political interconnectedness and developed a "globalist" ideology ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17592-8
EAN 9780691175928
The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, ...
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