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- Princeton, 2017
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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- Princeton, 2017
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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- Princeton, 2017
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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- Princeton, 2017
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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- Princeton, 2017
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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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17591-1
EAN 9780691175911
In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional limerick. Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula shares the fascinating story of this groundbreaking formula--long regarded as the gold standard for mathematical beauty--and shows why it still lies at the heart ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17562-1
EAN 9780691175621
Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth's surface with an average depth of more than two miles--yet humans had never ventured more than a few hundred feet below the waves. One of the great scientific and archaeological feats of ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17600-0
EAN 9780691176000
Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, Paul Nahin ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17599-7
EAN 9780691175997
Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of spherical trigonometry, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used this forgotten art to chart the heavens and the Earth. Once at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia, the discipline was also a mainstay of mathematics education for ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16743-5
EAN 9780691167435
Let's be honest, we've all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without always thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it's hard to know how to think about these tough challenges, much less what to do about them. One Nation Undecided takes on some of today's thorniest issues ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16878-4
EAN 9780691168784
Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 245 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17486-0
EAN 9780691174860
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, he didn't invent--Fibonacci's greatest contribution was ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16875-3
EAN 9780691168753
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 584 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17015-2
EAN 9780691170152
Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17242-2
EAN 9780691172422
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 104 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17476-1
EAN 9780691174761
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17595-9
EAN 9780691175959
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials. In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17601-7
EAN 9780691176017
Around 200,000 years ago, a man--identical to us in all important respects--lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 66,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15772-6
EAN 9780691157726
This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16779-4
EAN 9780691167794
The standard model of particle physics describes our current understanding of nature's fundamental particles and their interactions, yet gaps remain. For example, it does not include a quantum theory of gravity, nor does it explain the existence of dark matter. Once complete, however, the standard model could provide a unified description of the very building ...
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