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The Measure of Civilization
How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-16086-3
EAN 9780691160863
In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16353-6
EAN 9780691163536
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1448 páginas
PVP: 87,28 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13870-1
EAN 9780691138701
This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16024-5
EAN 9780691160245
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16014-6
EAN 9780691160146
This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages.The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This paperback edition includes sections unique to the ultimate collection--"On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and ...
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Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15957-7
EAN 9780691159577
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and ...
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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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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 36,17 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14741-3
EAN 9780691147413
This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented ...
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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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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 808 páginas
PVP: 43,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15813-6
EAN 9780691158136
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he ...
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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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