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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 dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15895-2
EAN 9780691158952
The Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging and fascinating collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads. Droll and sad, spirited and apprehensive, The Fourth Pig reflects the hopes and forebodings of its era but also resonates with those of today. It is a testament to the talents of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), who ...
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Told Again
Old Tales Told Again
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15921-8
EAN 9780691159218
Originally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales, showcasing the formidable talents of a writer who used magical realism before the term had even been invented. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the most celebrated writers of childrens literature during the first half of the twentieth century'so ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16295-9
EAN 9780691162959
At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16083-2
EAN 9780691160832
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from ...
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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 · 200 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16408-3
EAN 9780691164083
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then controversial theory ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16407-6
EAN 9780691164076
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out--from building ...
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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, which ...
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The Consolations of Writing
Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 37,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16180-8
EAN 9780691161808
Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13863-3
EAN 9780691138633
Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources from court-martial cases ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 37,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14142-8
EAN 9780691141428
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it ...
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The Amazons
Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 536 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14720-8
EAN 9780691147208
Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16389-5
EAN 9780691163895
Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16359-8
EAN 9780691163598
The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14985-1
EAN 9780691149851
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network.They traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships, not only to raid, but ...
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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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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 52,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15781-8
EAN 9780691157818
More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents ...
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Aristotle's Ethics
Writings from the Complete Works
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15846-4
EAN 9780691158464
Aristotles moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was felt well beyond antiquity into the Middle Ages, particularly through the writings of St. ...
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