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Life's Engines
How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15537-1
EAN 9780691155371
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possibleand how ...
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Relativity, The Special and The General Theory
100th Anniversary Edition
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 30,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16633-9
EAN 9780691166339
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was 'to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16561-5
EAN 9780691165615
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16567-7
EAN 9780691165677
The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16628-5
EAN 9780691166285
he Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by ...
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The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16607-0
EAN 9780691166070
This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has ...
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Men Women and Chain Saws
Gender in the Modern Horror Film
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16629-2
EAN 9780691166292
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only ...
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How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15705-4
EAN 9780691157054
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to ...
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Gutfreund, Hanoch; Renn, Jürgen
The Road to Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein's The Foundation of General Relativity Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein s Masterpiece
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16253-9
EAN 9780691162539
This richly annotated facsimile edition of 'The Foundation of General Relativity' introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einsteins theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einsteins thought. Presented here is a beautiful facsimile ...
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A History of the Armenian Genocide
They can live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 45,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14730-7
EAN 9780691147307
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent'more than a million people. A century later, ...
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Pagans and Philosophers
The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 41,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14255-5
EAN 9780691142555
From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the 'Problem of Paganism,' which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans ...
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One Day in the Life of the English Language
A Microcosmic Usage Handbook
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16507-3
EAN 9780691165073
Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, 'This is the correct form. Learn it''books that lay out a grammar, but dont inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from the printed works of a single, typical day in the life of ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16482-3
EAN 9780691164823
In sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. Selected from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, and focusing on ...
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Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16039-9
EAN 9780691160399
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules'for ...
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In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as ...
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Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16555-4
EAN 9780691165554
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16579-0
EAN 9780691165790
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful ...
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The Locust and the Bee
Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16574-5
EAN 9780691165745
The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different ...
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The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16583-7
EAN 9780691165837
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of ...
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Cells to Civilizations
The Principles of Change that Shape Life
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16560-8
EAN 9780691165608
Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living ...
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