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Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science and technology issues, and to become the next generation of world leaders. From the physics of energy to climate change, and from spy technology to quantum computers, this is the only textbook to focus on ...
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Political Hypocrisy
The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14815-1
EAN 9780691148151
What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. The most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy. Political Hypocrisy is ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 49,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14701-7
EAN 9780691147017
This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14711-6
EAN 9780691147116
A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife's soul or body. And two deaf ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15109-0
EAN 9780691151090
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14289-0
EAN 9780691142890
The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. String theory has been called the "theory of everything." It seeks to describe all the fundamental forces of nature. It encompasses gravity and quantum mechanics in one unifying theory.But it is unproven ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14592-1
EAN 9780691145921
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14325-5
EAN 9780691143255
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was ...
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Gamma
Exploring Euler's Constant
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14133-6
EAN 9780691141336
Among the myriad of constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is g, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery.In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through ...
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The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 52,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14131-2
EAN 9780691141312
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13570-0
EAN 9780691135700
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 86,04 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12511-4
EAN 9780691125114
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14115-2
EAN 9780691141152
Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 67,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13571-7
EAN 9780691135717
The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 29,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13708-7
EAN 9780691137087
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In The Crisis of the Twelfth Century, acclaimed historian Thomas Bisson asks what it was ...
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13873-2
EAN 9780691138732
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else ...
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George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,84 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13648-6
EAN 9780691136486
Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13544-1
EAN 9780691135441
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many questioned whether the large number of political appointees in the Federal Emergency Management Agency contributed to the agency's poor handling of the catastrophe, ultimately costing hundreds of lives and causing immeasurable pain and suffering. The Politics of Presidential Appointments examines in depth how and why presidents use political ...
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