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This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 "The Political Economy of International Relations", the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end ...
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First published more than a decade ago, Globalizing Capital remains an indispensable part of the economic literature today. Written by renowned economist Barry Eichengreen, this classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. Brief and lucid, Globalizing Capital is intended not only for economists, but also a general ...
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The Horse, the Wheel and Language
. How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14818-2
EAN 9780691148182
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the ...
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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 dura · 322 páginas
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13562-5
EAN 9780691135625
Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives ...
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A Political Philosophy in Public Life
Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14406-1
EAN 9780691144061
This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged that if his socialist party won power he would govern Spain in accordance with the principles laid ...
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What's Luck Got to Do with It?
. The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13890-9
EAN 9780691138909
Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several flips have turned up tails? What's Luck Got to Do with It? takes a lively ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,29 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14472-6
EAN 9780691144726
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Empires in World History
Power and the Politics of Difference
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12708-8
EAN 9780691127088
Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14595-2
EAN 9780691145952
In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets. As he showed in two now ...
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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 · 400 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14568-6
EAN 9780691145686
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today.Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, ...
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How Mathematicians Think
. Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to create Mathematics
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 425 páginas
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14599-0
EAN 9780691145990
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think ...
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Not for Profit
Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 178 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14064-3
EAN 9780691140643
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of ...
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The Company of Strangers
The Natural History of Economic Life (revised ed)
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14646-1
EAN 9780691146461
The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the financial crisis that succeeded it.Drawing on insights ...
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A Certain Ambiguity
A Mathematical Novel
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14601-0
EAN 9780691146010
While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay ...
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Numbers Rule
. The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 24,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13994-4
EAN 9780691139944
Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and mathematicians. Numbers Rule traces the epic quest by these thinkers to create a more perfect democracy and adapt to the ever-changing demands that each new ...
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- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 22,04 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14617-1
EAN 9780691146171
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars ...
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The Best of All Possible Worlds
. A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14531-0
EAN 9780691145310
In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of these three men represents a profoundly important moment in the history of philosophical and religious thought.In The Best of All Possible Worlds, ...
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Last Books, Last Looks
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,14 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14534-1
EAN 9780691145341
In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the ...
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