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The Universe in a Mirror
. The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It (New in Paper)
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 18,14 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14635-5
EAN 9780691146355
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. But it took an ...
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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 · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14570-9
EAN 9780691145709
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ...
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Nothing Less than Victory
Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13518-2
EAN 9780691135182
The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking an ambitious ...
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Economic Gangsters
Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,54 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14469-6
EAN 9780691144696
Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the ...
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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, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 412 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13933-3
EAN 9780691139333
For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ...
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The Soulful Science (revised edition)
What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters
- Princeton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 394 páginas
PVP: 19,44 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14316-3
EAN 9780691143163
For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in economics, how economic thinking ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14277-7
EAN 9780691142777
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 20,74 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14124-4
EAN 9780691141244
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature.This revised bilingual edition of ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13317-1
EAN 9780691133171
When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace. But just ...
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The Poison King
. The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12683-8
EAN 9780691126838
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king ...
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No Enchanted Palace
. The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 22,04 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13521-2
EAN 9780691135212
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13385-0
EAN 9780691133850
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The Cognitive Challenge of War
Prussia 1806
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-13581-6
EAN 9780691135816
Responding to the enemy's innovation in war presents problems to soldiers and societies of all times. This book traces Napoleon's victory over Prussia in 1806 and Prussia's effort to recover from defeat to show how in one particular historical episode operational analyses together with institutional and political decisions eventually turned defeat to victory.The author moves ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 22,04 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14334-7
EAN 9780691143347
In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ideas of the preceding ...
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