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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
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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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
PVP: 21,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16412-0
EAN 9780691164120
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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
PVP: 66,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-61220-1
EAN 9780691612201
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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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