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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16569-1
EAN 9780691165691
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself'the historical as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16564-6
EAN 9780691165646
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians ...
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