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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 blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17382-5
EAN 9780691173825
The Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post-World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations of Germany's reconstruction lay in the country's first democratic experiment, the Weimar ...
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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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How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17311-5
EAN 9780691173115
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 47,09 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15724-5
EAN 9780691157245
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Madness in Civilization
A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-17344-3
EAN 9780691173443
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought ...
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Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one ...
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The China Model
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17304-7
EAN 9780691173047
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as "political meritocracy." The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 520 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-11979-3
EAN 9780691119793
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are ...
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Out of the Ashes
A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 888 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17307-8
EAN 9780691173078
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress and proud of their imperial command over the globe, only ...
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