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Escape from Rome
The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
- Princeton, 2019
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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- Princeton, 2019
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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Insomniac Dreams
Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
- Princeton, 2019
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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- Princeton, 2019
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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Tales of Impossibility
The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity
- Princeton, 2019
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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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 696 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19647-3
EAN 9780691196473
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book, Jurgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19689-3
EAN 9780691196893
A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the close connections ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17643-7
EAN 9780691176437
An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14544-0
EAN 9780691145440
A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But ...
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Reading Old Books
Writing with Traditions
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19400-4
EAN 9780691194004
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17420-4
EAN 9780691174204
An essential companion to a timeless spiritual classicThe Lotus Sutra is among the most venerated scriptures of Buddhism. Composed in India some two millennia ago, it affirms the potential for all beings to attain supreme enlightenment. Donald Lopez and Jacqueline Stone provide an essential reading companion to this inspiring yet enigmatic masterpiece, explaining how it ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19646-6
EAN 9780691196466
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the modern Middle EastIn Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, describes how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present. He tells ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19597-1
EAN 9780691195971
Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays out the evidence for a much broader and more ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19524-7
EAN 9780691195247
Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets. Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a ...
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House of Augustus
A Historical Detective Story
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 263 páginas
PVP: 45,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18007-6
EAN 9780691180076
A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14 AD), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace" originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19606-0
EAN 9780691196060
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. With a new foreword by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and virtual reality ...
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Essential reading for understanding the international economy-now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history-from the classical gold standard to today's post-Bretton Woods "nonsystem." Bringing the story ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15652-1
EAN 9780691156521
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and ...
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Calculus reordered
A history of the Big Ideas
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18131-8
EAN 9780691181318
How our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom, and why calculus pedagogy needs to changeCalculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus grew to what we know today. ...
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Visions of Empire
How five Imperial Regimes shaped the World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19280-2
EAN 9780691192802
What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire sheds critical new light on their rulers--who they were, how they justified their ...
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