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Everyday Calculus
Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15755-9
EAN 9780691157559
Calculus. For some of us, the word conjures up memories of ten-pound textbooks and visions of tedious abstract equations. And yet, in reality, calculus is fun, accessible, and surrounds us everywhere we go. In Everyday Calculus, Oscar Fernandez shows us how to see the math in our coffee, on the highway, and even in the ...
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Math Bytes
Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16060-3
EAN 9780691160603
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The Transformation of the World
A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1192 páginas
PVP: 50,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14745-1
EAN 9780691147451
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 26,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15763-4
EAN 9780691157634
For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of the classical world. In this book, renowned historian Averil Cameron presents an original and personal ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16157-0
EAN 9780691161570
In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive--and to understand what ...
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America in the World
A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16175-4
EAN 9780691161754
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? Americans have been grappling with questions like these throughout the nation's history, and especially since the emergence of the United States as a major ...
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Two Cheers for Anarchism
Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16103-7
EAN 9780691161037
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, ...
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Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 888 páginas
PVP: 50,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15172-4
EAN 9780691151724
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract notions like liberty ...
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The Bankers' New Clothes
What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16238-6
EAN 9780691162386
The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth. The Bankers' New Clothes examines this claim and the narratives used by bankers, politicians, and regulators to rationalize the lack of reform, exposing ...
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16237-9
EAN 9780691162379
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16244-7
EAN 9780691162447
Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago--over a century before its mathematical development ...
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1177 B.C.
The Year Civilization Collapsed
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6
EAN 9780691140896
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an ...
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Enlightening Symbols
A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15463-3
EAN 9780691154633
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today? In Enlightening ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15081-9
EAN 9780691150819
The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to consult Delphi's oracular priestess; to set up monuments to the gods; and to take ...
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Mirror, Mirror
The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16142-6
EAN 9780691161426
Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon Blackburn, the author of such ...
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The Son Also Rises
Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16254-6
EAN 9780691162546
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ...
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GDP
A Brief but Affectionate History
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15679-8
EAN 9780691156798
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013--or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008--just as the world's financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece's chief statistician ...
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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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In Search of Sacred Time
Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15645-3
EAN 9780691156453
It is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled for clerical use in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a best seller. By 1500, there were more copies ...
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Calomiris, Charles W.; Haber, Stephen H
Fragile by Design
The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15524-1
EAN 9780691155241
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the ...
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