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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 15,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13395-9
EAN 9780691133959
"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages.But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14361-3
EAN 9780691143613
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,19 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13645-5
EAN 9780691136455
Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 584 páginas
PVP: 26,19 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14322-4
EAN 9780691143224
In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this view in Violence, arguing that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. It is the exception, not the ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,44 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14432-0
EAN 9780691144320
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 29,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14325-5
EAN 9780691143255
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was ...
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Gamma
Exploring Euler's Constant
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14133-6
EAN 9780691141336
Among the myriad of constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is g, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery.In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13669-1
EAN 9780691136691
This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural ...
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Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend.Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a ...
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The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
. Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13793-3
EAN 9780691137933
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval ...
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Shakespeare and Elizabeth
The Meeting of Two Myths
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12806-1
EAN 9780691128061
Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. Shakespeare and Elizabeth is the first book to explore the rich history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how ...
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The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 52,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14131-2
EAN 9780691141312
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,93 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14126-8
EAN 9780691141268
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,54 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14130-5
EAN 9780691141305
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was one of the most prominent evolutionists of the late nineteenth century. A close companion of Charles Darwin, Huxley developed a reputation as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his relentless defense of evolutionary theory. Huxley was also an ardent supporter of social reform, particularly in his call for quality education at all levels. ...
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Pessimism
Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14112-1
EAN 9780691141121
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13570-0
EAN 9780691135700
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 24,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12389-9
EAN 9780691123899
Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14096-4
EAN 9780691140964
Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's new book reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history ...
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