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Mostrando 900 libros encontrados (45 páginas)
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Gordon, Gary; Gordon, Hannah; Gordon, Rebecca; McMahon, Liz
The joy of SET
The many mathematical dimensions of a seemingly simple card game
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19232-1
EAN 9780691192321
A mathematical exploration of the popular card game SETHave you ever played the addictive card game SET? Have you ever wondered about the connections between games and mathematics? If the answer to either question is "yes," then The Joy of SET is the book for you! The Joy of SET takes readers on a fascinating ...
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Finding Fibonacci
The quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19230-7
EAN 9780691192307
A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Although most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16775-6
EAN 9780691167756
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy ...
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The House of Government
A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1128 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19272-7
EAN 9780691192727
The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative ...
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Digital Cash
The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators--from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to ...
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Unsolved
The history and mystery of the world's greatest ciphers from Ancient Egypt to online secret societies
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19229-1
EAN 9780691192291
A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his wallet and an enciphered message taped to his abdomen. In 1912, a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich came into possession ...
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Not Working
Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18124-0
EAN 9780691181240
A candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy we think. Don't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine--it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage--the underemployed--and how their plight is contributing to widespread despair, a worsening drug ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19147-8
EAN 9780691191478
A clear, accessible exploration of how and why we love by prominent philosopher and bestselling author Harry FrankfurtIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, ...
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Faces of Muhammad
Western perceptions of the Prophet of Islam form the Middle Ages to today
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16706-0
EAN 9780691167060
Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an ...
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The Crime of Aggression
The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16987-3
EAN 9780691169873
A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instead of collective state responsibility, our leaders are now personally subject to indictment for crimes of aggression, from ...
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The life of Saint Teresa of Avila
A biography
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16493-9
EAN 9780691164939
The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun ...
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The Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped Modern Thought
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 335 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19228-4
EAN 9780691192284
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his religious skepticism and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith, now hailed ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19122-5
EAN 9780691191225
The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality--a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18891-1
EAN 9780691188911
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began ...
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Ivashina, Victoria; Lerner, Josh
Patient Capital
The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18673-3
EAN 9780691186733
How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problemsThere has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change and decaying infrastructure. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to ...
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Adaptative markets
Financial evolution at the speed of thought
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 543 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19136-2
EAN 9780691191362
A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe. The debate is one of the biggest in economics, and the ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 584 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19225-3
EAN 9780691192253
From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by strangers and asked to comment on current events far from his own research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual ...
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Masada
From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16710-7
EAN 9780691167107
A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children--the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple--reportedly took ...
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Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become an injustice committed against society .How did this happen?In this book, Malcolm Bull ...
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The Code of Capital
How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 316 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17897-4
EAN 9780691178974
A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthCapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created ...
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