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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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Erasmus, Man of Letters
The Construction of Charisma in Print
- Princeton, 2015
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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- Princeton, 2015
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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- 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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The China Model
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16645-2
EAN 9780691166452
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as "political meritocracy." The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the ...
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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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Against Massacre
Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16669-8
EAN 9780691166698
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16652-0
EAN 9780691166520
In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. AsThe Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. ...
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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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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 33,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16789-3
EAN 9780691167893
Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and ...
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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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- 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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