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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16353-6
EAN 9780691163536
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasnt until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1448 páginas
PVP: 87,28 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13870-1
EAN 9780691138701
This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and ...
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Drelichman, Mauricio; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15149-6
EAN 9780691151496
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at one famous case--the debts and defaults ...
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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 · 368 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16017-7
EAN 9780691160177
Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly challenges this view using insights from postcolonial studies ...
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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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A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16018-4
EAN 9780691160184
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was ...
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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 blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15194-6
EAN 9780691151946
This unique book treats more than 300 species--all the regularly occurring birds likely to be encountered by observers--and the guide's attractive pages provide a real-life approach to bird identification. Beautiful, in-focus scenes present birds in various plumages and in lifelike poses set in identifiable British and Irish habitats. The plates also illustrate how a bird's ...
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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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Mimesis
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 616 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16022-1
EAN 9780691160221
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a ...
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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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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16026-9
EAN 9780691160269
This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great ...
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The Passions and the Interests
Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16025-2
EAN 9780691160252
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15402-2
EAN 9780691154022
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off 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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