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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14473-3
EAN 9780691144733
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies ...
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Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy
Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history ...
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Berlin, Isaih; Hardy, Henry; Ignatieff, Michael
The Hedgehog and the Fox
An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Second Edition)
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many ...
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Cicero Tullius, Marcus; Freeman, Philip
How to Run a Country
An ancient guide for modern leaders
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15657-6
EAN 9780691156576
Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical ...
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- Princeton, 2012
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PVP: 50,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15084-0
EAN 9780691150840
This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of thinking about war over more than 350 ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15635-4
EAN 9780691156354
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 60,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13515-1
EAN 9780691135151
During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier--a leading figure and a founder ...
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Not for Profit
Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15448-0
EAN 9780691154480
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education ...
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How to Win an Election
An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15408-4
EAN 9780691154084
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15453-4
EAN 9780691154534
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars. When has governmental sponsorship succeeded in boosting growth, and when has it fallen terribly short? Should the government ...
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The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15036-9
EAN 9780691150369
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Empires of the Silk Road
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15034-5
EAN 9780691150345
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13815-2
EAN 9780691138152
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on New York's Third Avenue, Auden's analysis of Western ...
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In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon, residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal - a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in ...
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Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science and technology issues, and to become the next generation of world leaders. From the physics of energy to climate change, and from spy technology to quantum computers, this is the only textbook to focus on ...
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Political Hypocrisy
The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14815-1
EAN 9780691148151
What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. The most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy. Political Hypocrisy is ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 49,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14701-7
EAN 9780691147017
This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14289-0
EAN 9780691142890
The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. String theory has been called the "theory of everything." It seeks to describe all the fundamental forces of nature. It encompasses gravity and quantum mechanics in one unifying theory.But it is unproven ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14592-1
EAN 9780691145921
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14325-5
EAN 9780691143255
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was ...
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