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Aristotle's Politics
Writings from the Complete Works
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17345-0
EAN 9780691173450
Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he remains a central figure in political theory. This essential volume presents Aristotle's complete political writings--including his Politics, Economics, and Constitution of Athens--in their most authoritative translations, taken from the complete works that is universally recognized as the standard ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17335-1
EAN 9780691173351
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible--and how ...
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Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern
Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936 1941
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17340-5
EAN 9780691173405
From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of this landmark seminar, presenting the sessions devoted to dream interpretation and its history. Here we witness Jung as both clinician and teacher: impatient and ...
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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned
Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16165-5
EAN 9780691161655
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17322-1
EAN 9780691173221
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15198-4
EAN 9780691151984
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his ...
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The Wisdom of Frugality
Why Less Is More - More or Less
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15508-1
EAN 9780691155081
From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be ...
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How to win an Argument
An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16433-5
EAN 9780691164335
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17314-6
EAN 9780691173146
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class ...
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The Machiavellian Moment
Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17223-1
EAN 9780691172231
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17390-0
EAN 9780691173900
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17325-2
EAN 9780691173252
Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions, and gradually departs to examine its more abstract varieties and manifestations--as bilateral, translatory, rotational, ornamental, ...
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The Extravagant Universe
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17318-4
EAN 9780691173184
The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 87,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17228-6
EAN 9780691172286
In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us. Supreme virtuoso of the ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16737-4
EAN 9780691167374
The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. But it was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago school achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17247-7
EAN 9780691172477
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as "Animal Liberation," "Practical Ethics," "Rethinking Life and Death," and "The Life You Can Save," he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17379-5
EAN 9780691173795
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Exploring trade ...
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The Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17383-2
EAN 9780691173832
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be ...
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Wandering Greeks
The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17380-1
EAN 9780691173801
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17213-2
EAN 9780691172132
The world is drowning in cash--and it's making us poorer and less safe. In "The Curse of Cash," Kenneth Rogoff, one of the world's leading economists, makes a persuasive and fascinating case for an idea that until recently would have seemed outlandish: getting rid of most paper money.Even as people in advanced economies are using ...
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