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In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows ...
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Frydman, Roman; Goldberg, Michael D.
Beyond Mechanical Markets
Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14577-8
EAN 9780691145778
"The year 2008 saw not only financial failure but the failure of an idea, the economic theory in which financial markets are mechanically determined to settle at equilibrium and economically efficient prices. Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg demonstrate clearly the fallacy of that idea. Their powerful analysis provides insights which can help us reduce the ...
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In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon, residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal - a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in ...
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This book, which inaugurates the "Princeton Monographs in Philosophy" series, starts from Plato's analogy in the Republic between conflict in the soul and conflict in the city. Plato's solution required reason to impose agreement and harmony on the warring passions, and this search for harmony and agreement constitutes the main tradition in political philosophy up ...
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First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential "Provincializing Europe" addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15016-1
EAN 9780691150161
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness.Perrow argues that rather than ...
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- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14778-9
EAN 9780691147789
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability to identify birds. Unlike other guides, which provide isolated individual photographs or illustrations, ...
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During the course of this century, gauge invariance has slowly emerged from being an incidental symmetry of electromagnetism to being a fundamental geometrical principle underlying the four known fundamental physical interactions. The development has been in two stages. In the first stage (1916-1956) the geometrical significance of gauge-invariance gradually came to be appreciated and the ...
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Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite
Evolution and the Modular Mind
- Princeton, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14674-4
EAN 9780691146744
We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind.Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they ...
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The Crest of the Peacock 2nd ed
The Non-European Roots of Mathematics
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 610 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13526-7
EAN 9780691135267
From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. George Gheverghese Joseph takes us on a breathtaking multicultural tour of the roots and ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14810-6
EAN 9780691148106
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological ...
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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 blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 20,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14823-6
EAN 9780691148236
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier. Pythagoras may have been the first ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14724-6
EAN 9780691147246
"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: ...
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The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14884-7
EAN 9780691148847
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14822-9
EAN 9780691148229
Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true: Conclusions that, for example, tell us that a losing sports team can become a winning one by adding worse players than its opponents. Or ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14804-5
EAN 9780691148045
Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today. Now, in this incisive book, Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly ...
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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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