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Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, renowned ...
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How to Grow Old
Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16770-1
EAN 9780691167701
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In "How to Grow Old," the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all--and why you might ...
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- Princeton, 2016
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PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16928-6
EAN 9780691169286
In "The Soul of the World," renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive--and to understand what ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14378-1
EAN 9780691143781
In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian William Goetzmann argues the exact opposite--that the development of finance has made the growth of civilizations possible. Goetzmann explains that finance ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16934-7
EAN 9780691169347
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material ...
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- Princeton, 2016
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PVP: 29,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16742-8
EAN 9780691167428
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In "The Serengeti Rules," award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering ...
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More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants.But how much do we really know ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16929-3
EAN 9780691169293
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore.The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting ...
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Like a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness. But people tend to forget the majesty that Arab ...
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Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it ...
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The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air
Three Godly Discourses
- Princeton, 2016
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PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17047-3
EAN 9780691170473
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Soren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, and ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14517-4
EAN 9780691145174
The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unexpected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that gap: they find ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 61,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-11713-3
EAN 9780691117133
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We human beings had no say in existing--we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains.When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified--but faith is not knowledge. ...
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Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history ...
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The Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12570-1
EAN 9780691125701
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16965-1
EAN 9780691169651
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy ...
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The Gunpowder Age
China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 43,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13597-7
EAN 9780691135977
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-42. What happened? ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 39,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14912-7
EAN 9780691149127
The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe--not just ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 47,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17282-8
EAN 9780691172828
This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field, he is most famous for two books--a notoriously nationalistic 1927 ...
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