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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16565-3
EAN 9780691165653
Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out'a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that covered ...
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic
The Princeton Thesis
Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world--including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, ...
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Would you Kill the Fat Man?
The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16563-9
EAN 9780691165639
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the ...
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Chirot, Daniel; Montgomery, Scott L
The Shape of the New
Four Big Ideas and How they Made the Modern World
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15064-2
EAN 9780691150642
This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today.A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New offers unforgettable portraits of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, ...
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Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14828-1
EAN 9780691148281
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government the commune arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15726-9
EAN 9780691157269
J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies--a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here is his gripping insider's account of how a ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 36,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16381-9
EAN 9780691163819
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The Devil Wins
A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16321-5
EAN 9780691163215
Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europes transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie'that is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable to lie. This popular account offers a clear ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15933-1
EAN 9780691159331
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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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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 36,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16626-1
EAN 9780691166261
In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, now cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008 9 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices in the United ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 568 páginas
PVP: 66,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14853-3
EAN 9780691148533
Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history'through maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. This book, the first encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history, takes an integrated, multicontinental approach that emphasizes the dynamics of change and ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16417-5
EAN 9780691164175
This annual anthology brings together the years finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else'and you dont need to be a mathematician to enjoy ...
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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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John Napier
Life, Logarithms and Legacy
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 41,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15570-8
EAN 9780691155708
ohn Napier (1550-1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms'an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the slide rule: the two would serve humanity as the principal means of calculation until the mid-1970s. Yet, despite Napiers pioneering efforts, his life and work have not ...
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Kurzban, Robert; Weeden, Jason
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind
How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit it
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16111-2
EAN 9780691161112
When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it. Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates us politically, this book explores how self-interest ...
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American Pulp
How Paperbacks brought Modernism to Main Street
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15060-4
EAN 9780691150604
There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes. a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized ...
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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 · 248 páginas
PVP: 21,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16352-9
EAN 9780691163529
What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics'and it has defied solution to this day. In ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16393-2
EAN 9780691163932
In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang lingers a question at the heart of our very existence: why does the universe contain matter but almost no antimatter? The laws of physics tell us that equal amounts of matter and antimatter were produced in the early universe'but then something odd happened. Matter ...
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