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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17654-3
EAN 9780691176543
Computers are everywhere. Some of them are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those in appliances, cars, medical equipment, transportation systems, power grids, and weapons.We never see the myriad computers that quietly collect, share, and sometimes leak vast amounts of personal data about us. Through computers, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17582-9
EAN 9780691175829
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 36,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16640-7
EAN 9780691166407
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology--from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today. In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17644-4
EAN 9780691176444
Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work.The result is an indispensable book ...
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Gutfreund, Hanoch; Renn, Jürgen
The Road to Relativity : The History and Meaning of Einstein's "the Foundation of General Relativity" Featuring
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17581-2
EAN 9780691175812
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17414-3
EAN 9780691174143
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass.Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16521-9
EAN 9780691165219
The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence.This book ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 816 páginas
PVP: 47,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16787-9
EAN 9780691167879
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17564-5
EAN 9780691175645
In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the exponentially increasing inequality within countries. Exploring globalization's role in the ...
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Harris, Michael (Professional Architectural and Interior Photographer)
Mathematics Without Apologies : Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17583-6
EAN 9780691175836
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15363-6
EAN 9780691153636
The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, ...
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Irrational Exuberance
Revised and Expanded Edition
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17312-2
EAN 9780691173122
In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008-9 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16502-8
EAN 9780691165028
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases ...
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Drelichman, Mauricio; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17377-1
EAN 9780691173771
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at one famous case--the debts and defaults ...
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Torture and Twilight of Empire
from Algiers to Baghdad
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17348-1
EAN 9780691173481
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds ...
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Ancient Religions, Modern Politics
The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17334-4
EAN 9780691173344
Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16719-0
EAN 9780691167190
This concise but comprehensive book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hösle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science.Starting with the ...
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Enlightenment Symbols
A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17337-5
EAN 9780691173375
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today? In Enlightening ...
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The Age of the Crisis of Man
Thought and Fiction in America, 1933 1973
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17329-0
EAN 9780691173290
In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a ...
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Not for Profit
Why Democracy needs the Humanities
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17332-0
EAN 9780691173320
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education ...
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