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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 47,09 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15724-5
EAN 9780691157245
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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-17309-2
EAN 9780691173092
In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates to Plutarch to Cicero, Lane reminds us that the ...
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Picard, Jacques L.; Revel, Jacques; Steinberg, Michael P.; Zertal, Idith
This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers of Jewish Modernity features entries on political figures such as Walther Rathenau, Rosa Luxemburg, and David ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17302-3
EAN 9780691173023
Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17150-0
EAN 9780691171500
Between the late twelfth century and the mid fourteenth, Castile saw a reordering of mental, spiritual, and physical space. Fresh ideas about sin and intercession coincided with new ways of representing the self and emerging perceptions of property as tangible. This radical shift in values or mentalités was most evident among certain social groups, including ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17326-9
EAN 9780691173269
The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications--from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics within everyone's ...
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