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Banville, John; Berlin, Isaiah; Hardy, Henry
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Chapters in the history of ideas (Second edition)
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political pluralism. In The Crooked Timber of ...
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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 · 840 páginas
PVP: 154,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-61316-1
EAN 9780691613161
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Ulysses' Sail
An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 38,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-60572-2
EAN 9780691605722
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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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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15945-4
EAN 9780691159454
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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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Beautiful Game Theory
How Soccer Can Help Economics
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 41,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14402-3
EAN 9780691144023
A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can illuminate many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses soccer ...
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Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike
The Butterfly Defect
How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 41,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15470-1
EAN 9780691154701
Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of local events now cascade over national borders and the fallout of financial meltdowns and environmental disasters affects everyone. The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening ...
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Philology
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14564-8
EAN 9780691145648
Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more. In short, philology was the ...
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Liberalism
The Life of an Idea
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15689-7
EAN 9780691156897
Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many decades--veteran political observer Edmund Fawcett traces the ideals, successes, and failures ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16099-3
EAN 9780691160993
Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known ...
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Count Like an Egyptian
A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16012-2
EAN 9780691160122
The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. In fact, it can't be understood using our current computational methods. Count Like an Egyptian provides a fun, hands-on introduction to the intuitive and often-surprising art of ancient Egyptian ...
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Ruling Russia
Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16148-8
EAN 9780691161488
When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet today's Russia appears to be retreating from democracy, not progressing toward it. Ruling Russia is the only book of its kind to trace the history of modern Russian politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of ...
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Impossible Subjects
Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16082-5
EAN 9780691160825
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime ...
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Tambora
The Eruption That Changed the World
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15054-3
EAN 9780691150543
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Amid devastating storms, drought, and floods, communities worldwide endured famine, ...
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The Recursive Mind
The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16094-8
EAN 9780691160948
The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I think, therefore I am," is an example of recursive ...
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The NSA Report
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16320-8
EAN 9780691163208
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials."--The NSA ReportThis is ...
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