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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20457-4
EAN 9780691204574
A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. In this short, accessible book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17746-5
EAN 9780691177465
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 318 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20222-8
EAN 9780691202228
A must-read financial history for investors navigating today's volatile global marketsFollowing an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the largest sovereign default in history. In Bankers and Bolsheviks, Hassan Malik tells the story of this boom and bust, chronicling the experiences of leading financiers of the day as they navigated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20351-5
EAN 9780691203515
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states-not sovereign states-drove European expansion, building the world's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17708-3
EAN 9780691177083
How to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought-one that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief, lively chapters that draw from Shakespeare's world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills vital ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20414-7
EAN 9780691204147
There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. Yet, it's now clear that genes are not the only basis of heredity. In Extended Heredity, evolutionary biologists Russell Bonduriansky ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20226-6
EAN 9780691202266
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20403-1
EAN 9780691204031
How happiness became mandatory-and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion-one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20250-1
EAN 9780691202501
A compelling interpretation of a foundational concept of Jewish religious lifeThe love of God is arguably the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling and wonder ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19492-9
EAN 9780691194929
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20229-7
EAN 9780691202297
A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading thinkersMathematics is a model of precision and objectivity, but it appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How can these two aspects of mathematics be reconciled? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20245-7
EAN 9780691202457
A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Yet the Palestinians-the would-be beneficiaries of this vision for a comprehensive regional settlement-remain without a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20397-3
EAN 9780691203973
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the nation that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19578-0
EAN 9780691195780
The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19214-7
EAN 9780691192147
A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498-1539) thought so. In the winelands of sixteenth-century Germany, he witnessed the birth of a poisonous new culture of bingeing, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20449-9
EAN 9780691204499
An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs-and the men and women who made themIn Our Minds, Our Selves, distinguished psychologist and writer Keith Oatley provides an engaging, original, and authoritative history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the men and women ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20296-9
EAN 9780691202969
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly based on mathematical principles. Yet Eli Maor argues that it is music ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20416-1
EAN 9780691204161
Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach usInsects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls takes readers on a wondrous journey ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 504 páginas
PVP: 46,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13514-4
EAN 9780691135144
Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe--and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics and the value ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15118-2
EAN 9780691151182
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mind--and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture--evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin's Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals ...
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