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The Limits of Partnership
U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15297-4
EAN 9780691152974
The Limits of Partnership offers a riveting narrative on U.S.-Russian relations since the Soviet collapse and on the challenges ahead. It reflects the unique perspective of an insider who is also recognized as a leading expert on this troubled relationship. American presidents have repeatedly attempted to forge a strong and productive partnership only to be ...
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The War of the Sexes
How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15972-0
EAN 9780691159720
As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of ...
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Desbordes, François; Petter, Jean-Jacques
Primates of the World
An Illustrated Guide
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 36,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15695-8
EAN 9780691156958
This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar--among the smallest primates known to exist--to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, the book features 72 splendid color plates, facing-page descriptions of ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 35,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15988-1
EAN 9780691159881
Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century.Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish ...
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The Empire Trap
The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 568 páginas
PVP: 44,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15582-1
EAN 9780691155821
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy ...
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The Universe in Zero Words
The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16016-0
EAN 9780691160160
Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then, should a history of mathematics--the universal language of science--keep ...
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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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Pursuits of Wisdom
Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15970-6
EAN 9780691159706
This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems. Rather, ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 22,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15953-9
EAN 9780691159539
T"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because ...
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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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Economic Lives
How Culture Shapes the Economy
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15810-5
EAN 9780691158105
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic ...
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The Founder's Dilemmas
Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15830-3
EAN 9780691158303
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