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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15766-5
EAN 9780691157665
This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in astonishingly few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his innovative use of social media to disseminate his views. The short quotations presented here have been carefully selected ...
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The Joy of Secularism
11 Essays for How We Live Now
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15602-6
EAN 9780691156026
Can secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the secular view simply affirm a dog-eat-dog universe? At a time when the issues of religion, evolution, atheism, fundamentalism, Darwin, and science fill headlines and invoke controversy, The Joy of Secularism provides a balanced and thoughtful approach for understanding an enlightened, sympathetic, and relevant ...
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Line in the Sand
A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15613-2
EAN 9780691156132
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15655-2
EAN 9780691156552
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15639-2
EAN 9780691156392
The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's ...
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Soul Dust
The Magic of Consciousness
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15637-8
EAN 9780691156378
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads. ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14012-4
EAN 9780691140124
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 50,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15084-0
EAN 9780691150840
This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of thinking about war over more than 350 ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15635-4
EAN 9780691156354
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for ...
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Makers of Ancient Strategy
From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15636-1
EAN 9780691156361
In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that ...
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The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15629-3
EAN 9780691156293
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15668-2
EAN 9780691156682
Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15230-1
EAN 9780691152301
Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen timeless tales--from "Puss in Boots" to "Little Red Riding Hood"--is still fresh and bold, giving readers ...
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Guesstimation 2.0
Solving today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 377 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15080-2
EAN 9780691150802
Guesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything--quickly--and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance, where more and more leading businesses test applicants using estimation questions just like ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15634-7
EAN 9780691156347
What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to ...
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The Subprime Solution
. How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15632-3
EAN 9780691156323
The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold measures to solve it. He calls for an ...
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Dostoevsky
A Writer in his Time
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 984 páginas
PVP: 35,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15599-9
EAN 9780691155999
Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the ...
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Taming the Gods
Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 142 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15605-7
EAN 9780691156057
For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12881-8
EAN 9780691128818
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