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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14091-9
EAN 9780691140919
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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Life's Engines
How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15537-1
EAN 9780691155371
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible and ...
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Relativity, The Special and The General Theory
100th Anniversary Edition
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 30,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16633-9
EAN 9780691166339
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16561-5
EAN 9780691165615
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16628-5
EAN 9780691166285
he Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by ...
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The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16607-0
EAN 9780691166070
This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has ...
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Men Women and Chain Saws
Gender in the Modern Horror Film
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16629-2
EAN 9780691166292
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only ...
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How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15705-4
EAN 9780691157054
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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Gutfreund, Hanoch; Renn, Jürgen
The Road to Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein's The Foundation of General Relativity Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein s Masterpiece
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16253-9
EAN 9780691162539
This richly annotated facsimile edition of The Foundation of General Relativity introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einstein's thought. Presented here is a beautiful facsimile ...
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One Day in the Life of the English Language
A Microcosmic Usage Handbook
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16507-3
EAN 9780691165073
Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, This is the correct form. Learn it books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from the printed works of a single, typical day in the life ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16482-3
EAN 9780691164823
In sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. Selected from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, and focusing on ...
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Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16039-9
EAN 9780691160399
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules ...
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In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as ...
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Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16555-4
EAN 9780691165554
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, ...
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The Locust and the Bee
Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16574-5
EAN 9780691165745
The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different ...
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The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16583-7
EAN 9780691165837
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16565-3
EAN 9780691165653
Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that ...
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic
The Princeton Thesis
Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world--including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15726-9
EAN 9780691157269
J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies--a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here is his gripping insider's account of how a ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15933-1
EAN 9780691159331
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