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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19078-5
EAN 9780691190785
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 960 páginas
PVP: 44,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16712-1
EAN 9780691167121
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18230-8
EAN 9780691182308
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20400-0
EAN 9780691204000
A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be easily evaded by savvy internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be enormously effective. Taking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17722-9
EAN 9780691177229
Why the living world may be the next great frontier of physicsThe frontiers of physics can seem impossibly remote-located in the invisible quantum realm or the farthest reaches of the cosmos. But one of physics' most exciting frontiers lies much closer than we realize: within our own bodies and other living organisms, which display astonishingly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 600 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17198-2
EAN 9780691171982
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jurgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17548-5
EAN 9780691175485
How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 37,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20396-6
EAN 9780691203966
The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18274-2
EAN 9780691182742
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 616 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15404-6
EAN 9780691154046
An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings are therefore never far away in this authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography, which offers a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 228 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20263-1
EAN 9780691202631
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 46,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19503-2
EAN 9780691195032
A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. In this book, Michael Koortbojian ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19596-4
EAN 9780691195964
Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the "Phoenicians" never actually existed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19399-1
EAN 9780691193991
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time.He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17952-0
EAN 9780691179520
The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain set in motion the first mass flight and expulsion in modern European history. Philipp Ther provides needed perspective on todays 'refugee crisis,' demonstrating how Europe ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19324-3
EAN 9780691193243
An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes. This would have become the first edition of Spinoza's controversial masterpiece in English, but the translation remained unpublished because ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17870-7
EAN 9780691178707
Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion-whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers-fail ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19616-9
EAN 9780691196169
How collective intelligence can transform business, government, and our everyday livesA new field of collective intelligence has emerged in recent years, prompted by digital technologies that make it possible to think at large scale. This "bigger mind"-human and machine capabilities working together-could potentially solve the great challenges of our time. Gathering insights from the latest ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19593-3
EAN 9780691195933
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18376-3
EAN 9780691183763
Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injusticePolitical equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income inequality observed in the United States and other rich ...
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