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On Stalin's Team
The Year of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 40,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14533-4
EAN 9780691145334
Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late ...
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The New York Nobody Knows
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16970-5
EAN 9780691169705
As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever.Putting his feet to the test, he decided that ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 37,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16850-0
EAN 9780691168500
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have ...
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The Terrorist's Dilemma
Managing Violent Covert Organizations
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16630-8
EAN 9780691166308
The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own internal documents, Jacob Shapiro provocatively discusses the core managerial challenges that terrorists face and illustrates how their political goals interact with the operational ...
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Calomiris, Charles W.; Haber, Stephen H
Fragile by Design
The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 584 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16835-7
EAN 9780691168357
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households.Analyzing the political ...
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The Meaning of the Library
A Cultural History
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16639-1
EAN 9780691166391
From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. Generously illustrated, The Meaning of the Library examines this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the ...
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Creating Symmetry
The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 40,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16173-0
EAN 9780691161730
This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks a sort of potato-stamp method Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns: dazzling art images where the beauty ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13970-8
EAN 9780691139708
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 696 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16584-4
EAN 9780691165844
This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 48,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16578-3
EAN 9780691165783
This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. Impelled by ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16566-0
EAN 9780691165660
Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of ...
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Margins and Metropolis
Authority across the Byzantine Empire
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16662-9
EAN 9780691166629
his volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out ...
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Unrivalled Influence
Women and Empire in Byzantium
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16670-4
EAN 9780691166704
Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse ...
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Out of Ashes
A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 744 páginas
PVP: 45,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15279-0
EAN 9780691152790
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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Single Digits
In Praise of Small Numbers
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 30,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16114-3
EAN 9780691161143
The numbers one through nine have remarkable mathematical properties and characteristics. For instance, why do eight perfect card shuffles leave a standard deck of cards unchanged? Are there really six degrees of separation between all pairs of people? And how can any map need only four colors to ensure that no regions of the same ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 476 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16442-7
EAN 9780691164427
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth ...
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter
A Portrait of Descartes
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16575-2
EAN 9780691165752
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16562-2
EAN 9780691165622
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, ...
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The Physicist and the Philosopher
Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16534-9
EAN 9780691165349
On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16052-8
EAN 9780691160528
In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the exponentially increasing inequality within countries. Exploring globalization's role in the ...
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