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- Princeton, 2008
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PVP: 22,43 €
ISBN 978-0-691-10282-5
EAN 9780691102825
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- Princeton, 2008
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PVP: 41,93 €
ISBN 978-0-691-07082-7
EAN 9780691070827
From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. It chronicles the work of mathematicians from Descartes and Newton to Russell and Hilbert and many, ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,96 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13528-1
EAN 9780691135281
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-13422-2
EAN 9780691134222
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,44 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13794-0
EAN 9780691137940
Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady control of the money supply--matters profoundly in the management ...
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13873-2
EAN 9780691138732
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else ...
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Under Crescent and Cross
The Jews in the Middle Ages
- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,43 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13931-9
EAN 9780691139319
Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--and the first in-depth explanation of why ...
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- Princeton, 2008
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PVP: 17,93 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13626-4
EAN 9780691136264
More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue ...
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George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,84 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13648-6
EAN 9780691136486
Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them--a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, ...
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Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773). One of the most important and original works in the history of literary criticism, this ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13544-1
EAN 9780691135441
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many questioned whether the large number of political appointees in the Federal Emergency Management Agency contributed to the agency's poor handling of the catastrophe, ultimately costing hundreds of lives and causing immeasurable pain and suffering. The Politics of Presidential Appointments examines in depth how and why presidents use political ...
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- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,64 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13638-7
EAN 9780691136387
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal vigorously defends the ...
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The Sense of the Past
Essays in the History of Philosophy
- Princeton, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,44 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13408-6
EAN 9780691134086
Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever published of Williams's essays on the history of ...
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What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something ...
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In the Beginning was the Deed
Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern--all complemented ...
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