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Krupp
A History of the Legendary German Firm
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15340-7
EAN 9780691153407
The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its ...
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- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15453-4
EAN 9780691154534
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars. When has governmental sponsorship succeeded in boosting growth, and when has it fallen terribly short? Should the government ...
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Why Size Matters
From Bacteria to Blue Whales
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15233-2
EAN 9780691152332
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows that humans have ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15315-5
EAN 9780691153155
This 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 2011" makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and readers don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them.
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This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or 'international regimes', through which cooperation has taken place in the world political ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13013-2
EAN 9780691130132
Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said, "something in death that is better for the good than for the bad." Yet, as Johnston shows, all existing theological conceptions of the afterlife are either incoherent or at odds with the workings of nature. ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15234-9
EAN 9780691152349
Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers how grand ideas about the connections between individual liberty, ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15260-8
EAN 9780691152608
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15255-4
EAN 9780691152554
In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people--facing the same economic circumstances--would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration--and of Identity Economics.Identity economics is ...
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Fault Lines
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15263-9
EAN 9780691152639
Economist Raghuram Rajan warned about the global financial crisis long before it hit, but few listened. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame the crisis on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15307-0
EAN 9780691153070
This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and complex history for general readers, tourists, and anyone else ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15265-3
EAN 9780691152653
How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and ...
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This Time it's Different
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15264-6
EAN 9780691152646
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that ...
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The Whites of their Eyes
The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15300-1
EAN 9780691153001
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15247-9
EAN 9780691152479
How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves ...
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1989
The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15241-7
EAN 9780691152417
There are unique periods in history when a single year witnesses the total transformation of international relations. The year 1989 was one such crucial watershed. This book uses previously unavailable sources to explore the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago and the effects they have had on our world ...
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