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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15303-2
EAN 9780691153032
"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. FeynmanNobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was that rarest of creatures--a towering scientific genius who could make himself ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14209-8
EAN 9780691142098
wo hundred and sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst--the end-Permian extinction--wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, may have ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16831-9
EAN 9780691168319
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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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16989-7
EAN 9780691169897
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle."--Albert Einstein, 1936Albert Einstein's universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics, as Andrew Robinson demonstrates in this authoritative, accessible, and richly illustrated biography. The main narrative is enriched by twelve essays by well-known ...
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Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 888 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16971-2
EAN 9780691169712
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract notions like liberty ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16848-7
EAN 9780691168487
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed ...
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The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 36,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16976-7
EAN 9780691169767
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1192 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16980-4
EAN 9780691169804
A comprehensive examination of the nineteenth century, "The Transformation of the World" offers a panoramic portrait of a world in flux. Jurgen Osterhammel, a scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era to present a sophisticated global history of breathtaking magnitude and ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16981-1
EAN 9780691169811
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world--the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal vents--and exposes the eternal darkness of ...
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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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Eye and Brain
The Psychology of Seeing
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16516-5
EAN 9780691165165
Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16799-2
EAN 9780691167992
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the ...
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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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Coming of Age in Second Life
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16834-0
EAN 9780691168340
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods ...
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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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Five Days in August
How World War II Became a Nuclear War
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16843-2
EAN 9780691168432
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the ...
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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 of nature ...
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