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The Dollar Trap
How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16112-9
EAN 9780691161129
The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming displacement as the main reserve currency. Yet, as The Dollar Trap powerfully argues, the financial crisis, ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15749-8
EAN 9780691157498
"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah BerlinThis volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which ...
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Will you be Alive Ten Years from Now?
And Numoerous Other Curious Questions in Probability
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15680-4
EAN 9780691156804
What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? Will you be alive ten years from now? These are just some of the one-of-a-kind probability puzzles that acclaimed popular math writer Paul Nahin offers in this lively and informative book.Nahin brings probability to ...
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Albert Einstein, The Human Side
Glimpses from his Archives
Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker who asked whether Einstein believed in a personal ...
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Einstein on Politics
His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and the Cold War, to the effort to establish a Jewish homeland, Einstein was ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14868-7
EAN 9780691148687
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16024-5
EAN 9780691160245
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the ...
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Einstein and the Quantum
The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13968-5
EAN 9780691139685
Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light--the core of what we now ...
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Mass Flourishing
How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15898-3
EAN 9780691158983
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16014-6
EAN 9780691160146
This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages.The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This paperback edition includes sections unique to the ultimate collection--"On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and ...
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Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15957-7
EAN 9780691159577
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14473-3
EAN 9780691144733
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 696 páginas
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15700-9
EAN 9780691157009
Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a ...
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Berlin, Isaiah; Hardy, Henry; Lilla, Mark
Against the Current
Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition)
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 36,17 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14741-3
EAN 9780691147413
This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented ...
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The Unpredictable Species
What makes Humans Unique
The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are locked into predictable patterns of behavior that were fixed by genes, and refutes the claim that language ...
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Human Capitalism
How Economic Growth has made us Smarter...and more Unequal
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15732-0
EAN 9780691157320
a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer--it is also making ...
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