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Catao, Luis; Obstfeld, Maurice
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18893-5
EAN 9780691188935
Leading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalizationGlobalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed, disenfranchised, and angry. Luis Catao and Maurice Obstfeld bring together some of today's top economists to assess the benefits, costs, and daunting policy challenges of globalization. This timely and accessible ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19686-2
EAN 9780691196862
A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 76,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18361-9
EAN 9780691183619
Jung's legendary American lectures on dream interpretationIn 1936 and 1937, C. G. Jung delivered two legendary seminars on dream interpretation, the first on Bailey Island, Maine, the second in New York City.Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process makes these lectures widely available for the first time, offering a compelling look at Jung as he presents ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 584 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19592-6
EAN 9780691195926
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19549-0
EAN 9780691195490
The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance. As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19648-0
EAN 9780691196480
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did. Drawing on six dozen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19590-2
EAN 9780691195902
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability-people are just smarter than all the rest. But Robert Boyd argues that culture-our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19598-8
EAN 9780691195988
How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 520 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15139-7
EAN 9780691151397
A panoramic new history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16880-7
EAN 9780691168807
The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevityNano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale'the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet'and introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Sonia Contera gives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18365-7
EAN 9780691183657
A vivid and accessible new translation of Ciceros influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods'from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless local divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19211-6
EAN 9780691192116
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous and massive Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17692-5
EAN 9780691176925
In this concise history of philosophy's world-shaping impact, Scott Soames demonstrates that the modern world-including its science, technology, and politics-simply would not be possible without the accomplishments of philosophy. Firmly rebutting the misconception of philosophy as ivory-tower thinking, Soames traces its essential contributions to fields as diverse as law and logic, psychology and economics, relativity ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17900-1
EAN 9780691179001
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 40,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19086-0
EAN 9780691190860
An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest playsShakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The Merchant of Venice, for example, draws from "A Pound of Flesh," while King Lear begins in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 696 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17218-7
EAN 9780691172187
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 49,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19075-4
EAN 9780691190754
For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life-and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19690-9
EAN 9780691196909
Nabokov's dream diary-published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Dunne. The purpose was to test the theory that time may ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18229-2
EAN 9780691182292
From Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help drive economic eventsIn a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19296-3
EAN 9780691192963
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straightedge problems-squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, doubling the ...
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