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- Princeton, 2019
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
The Wealth of Religions
The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging
- Princeton, 2019
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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After victory
Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars
- Princeton, 2019
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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- Princeton, 2019
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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- Princeton, 2019
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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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 832 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17999-5
EAN 9780691179995
A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. ...
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Active Defense
China's Military Strategy since 1949
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 396 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15213-4
EAN 9780691152134
What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls "strategic guidelines." What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to ...
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Muirhead, Russell; Rosenblum, Nancy L.
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18883-6
EAN 9780691188836
How the New Conspiracists are undermining democracy, and what can be done about it. Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump.In A Lot of People Are ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16160-0
EAN 9780691161600
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imagination Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 324 páginas
PVP: 33,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17492-1
EAN 9780691174921
A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the greatest war stories ever told--Julius Caesar's pitiless account of his brutal campaign to conquer GaulImagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying army--a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16132-7
EAN 9780691161327
A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19206-2
EAN 9780691192062
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse ...
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The Apple of His Eye
Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19011-2
EAN 9780691190112
The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with the Muslim world, one that has received little ...
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Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
Private Order and Public Institutions
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17208-8
EAN 9780691172088
How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutionsFrom around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process of state formation, culminating in the largest state the ancient Mediterranean ...
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A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international orderWhile work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China ...
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Rights as Weapons
Instruments of conflict, tools of power
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16604-9
EAN 9780691166049
An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind's highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political combatants have also used rights belligerently, to batter despised communities, demolish existing institutions, and smash ...
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Irrationality
A history of the dark side of reason
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17867-7
EAN 9780691178677
A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value.Discovering that reason is the defining ...
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Darkness by design
The hidden power in Global Capital Markets
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18066-3
EAN 9780691180663
An expos of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying array of competing ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19134-8
EAN 9780691191348
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such ...
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The origin of the Jews
The quest for roots in a rootless age
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19165-2
EAN 9780691191652
The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some ...
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