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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18231-5
EAN 9780691182315
How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred ...
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Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17895-0
EAN 9780691178950
How religious beliefs and practices can influence the wealth of nationsWhich countries grow faster economically--those with strong beliefs in heaven and hell or those with weak beliefs in them? Does religious participation matter? Why do some countries experience secularization while others are religiously vibrant? In The Wealth of Religions, Rachel McCleary and Robert Barro draw ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16921-7
EAN 9780691169217
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19191-1
EAN 9780691191911
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government--and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18386-2
EAN 9780691183862
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and ...
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