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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16631-5
EAN 9780691166315
"A triumph! Sayer's indispensable work is at once magisterial and puckish, authoritative and subversive, intellectually dense and brilliantly accessible."--Michael Beckerman, New York University"This is a fascinating and brilliantly written narrative that combines elements of literary guide, biography, cultural history, and essay. Writing with warm engagement, and drawing on his detailed knowledge of Czech literature, art, ...
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The First Edition
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 568 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16059-7
EAN 9780691160597
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16279-9
EAN 9780691162799
Every year more and more Europeans, including Germans, are embracing Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts--a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16472-4
EAN 9780691164724
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16409-0
EAN 9780691164090
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory describing the interactions of light with charged particles. Using ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16350-5
EAN 9780691163505
Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. In this book, Avner Ash and Robert Gross guide readers through the mathematics they need to understand this captivating problem.The key to the conjecture lies in elliptic curves, ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 239 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15936-2
EAN 9780691159362
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Berlin, Isaiah; Gray, John; Hardy, Henry
The Roots of Romanticism
(Second edition)
In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a bravura intellectual performance--delivered in Washington in 1965, recorded by the BBC, and broadcast several times. A published version has been ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16147-1
EAN 9780691161471
In 1932, world-renowned physicist Wolfgang Pauli had already done the work that would win him the 1945 Nobel Prize. He was also suffering after a series of troubling personal events. He was drinking heavily, quarrelling frequently, and experiencing powerful, disturbing dreams. Pauli turned to C. G. Jung for help, forging an extraordinary intellectual conjunction not ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 346 páginas
PVP: 49,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-61284-3
EAN 9780691612843
Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese world ...
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Masters of the Universe
Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16101-3
EAN 9780691161013
Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free-market politics. Far from ...
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The Transformation of the World
A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1192 páginas
PVP: 50,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14745-1
EAN 9780691147451
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of ...
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Two Cheers for Anarchism
Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16103-7
EAN 9780691161037
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, ...
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16237-9
EAN 9780691162379
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for ...
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The Measure of Civilization
How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-16086-3
EAN 9780691160863
In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16353-6
EAN 9780691163536
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1448 páginas
PVP: 87,28 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13870-1
EAN 9780691138701
This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16024-5
EAN 9780691160245
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16014-6
EAN 9780691160146
This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages.The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This paperback edition includes sections unique to the ultimate collection--"On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and ...
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Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15957-7
EAN 9780691159577
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and ...
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