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What Democracy is For
On Freedom and Moral Government
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14116-9
EAN 9780691141169
In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. Yet he shows that democracy's freedom is on ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 86,04 €
ISBN 978-0-691-12511-4
EAN 9780691125114
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Hulsmann, John C. x{0026} Mitchell, A. Wess
The Godfather Doctrine
A Foreign Policy Parable
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 9,04 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14147-3
EAN 9780691141473
The Godfather Doctrine draws clear and essential lessons from perhaps the greatest Hollywood movie ever made to illustrate America's changing geopolitical place in the world and how our country can best meet the momentous strategic challenges it faces.In the movie The Godfather, Don Corleone, head of New York's most powerful organized-crime family, is shockingly gunned ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Shah
Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14040-7
EAN 9780691140407
On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the focus of worldwide scrutiny and controversy. But, as Amin Saikal shows, this was far from the beginning of Iran's troubles.Saikal examines the ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14134-3
EAN 9780691141343
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 13,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14129-9
EAN 9780691141299
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14115-2
EAN 9780691141152
Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead ...
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 11,93 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14107-7
EAN 9780691141077
Most policymakers in the United States and Israel have it wrong: Hezbollah isn't a simple terrorist organization--nor is it likely to disappear any time soon. Following Israel's war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, the Shi'i group--a hybrid of militia, political party, and social services and public works provider--remains very popular in the Middle ...
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Farewell to Alms
A Brief Economic History of the World
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14128-2
EAN 9780691141282
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of ...
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Animal Spirits
. How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14233-3
EAN 9780691142333
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, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 19,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13525-0
EAN 9780691135250
In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom into the public discussion of long-term U.S.-Muslim relations.Intelligence insider Emile Nakhleh ...
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14132-9
EAN 9780691141329
With a new introduction by Michael Williams, a new afterword by David Bromwich, and the previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert
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- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 67,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13571-7
EAN 9780691135717
The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of ...
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Europe in the Era of Two World Wars
From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-14122-0
EAN 9780691141220
How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars and civil wars twice ...
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On the Wings of Time
Rome, The Incas, Spain, and Peru
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14095-7
EAN 9780691140957
Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result of Andeans and ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 29,94 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13708-7
EAN 9780691137087
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In The Crisis of the Twelfth Century, acclaimed historian Thomas Bisson asks what it was ...
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