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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13815-2
EAN 9780691138152
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on New York's Third Avenue, Auden's analysis of Western ...
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In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon, residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal - a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in ...
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Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science and technology issues, and to become the next generation of world leaders. From the physics of energy to climate change, and from spy technology to quantum computers, this is the only textbook to focus on ...
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Political Hypocrisy
The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14815-1
EAN 9780691148151
What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. The most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy. Political Hypocrisy is ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 49,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14701-7
EAN 9780691147017
This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14289-0
EAN 9780691142890
The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. String theory has been called the "theory of everything." It seeks to describe all the fundamental forces of nature. It encompasses gravity and quantum mechanics in one unifying theory.But it is unproven ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14592-1
EAN 9780691145921
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14325-5
EAN 9780691143255
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was ...
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Gamma
Exploring Euler's Constant
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14133-6
EAN 9780691141336
Among the myriad of constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is g, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery.In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through ...
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The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 52,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14131-2
EAN 9780691141312
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13570-0
EAN 9780691135700
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14115-2
EAN 9780691141152
Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 67,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13571-7
EAN 9780691135717
The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of ...
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13873-2
EAN 9780691138732
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else ...
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Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen
The Defence of Reason in Descartes' Meditations
In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for the truth of our beliefs? Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen provides ...
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- Princeton, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12294-6
EAN 9780691122946
A 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken ...
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Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists : Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread O
- Princeton, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 51,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12128-4
EAN 9780691121284
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- Princeton, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 51,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-11382-1
EAN 9780691113821
In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference, political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, they envision a system of reciprocal knowledge and esteem, in which the affirming glance of others lets everyone be who they ...
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- Princeton, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 47,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-04391-3
EAN 9780691043913
In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of Naficy's work. Although the experience of expatriation varies greatly from one person ...
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Braguinsky, Serguey; Yavlinsky, Grigory
Incentives and Institutions
The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia
- Princeton, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 241,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-00993-3
EAN 9780691009933
Here, for the first time, two of Russia's leading economists provide an authoritative analysis of the transition to a democratic market economy that has taken place in Russia since 1990.Serguey Braguinsky, a Russian economist with extensive international experience, and Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal "Yabloko" party and a major public figure in Russia, focus ...
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