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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19164-5
EAN 9780691191645
A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and personalist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15883-9
EAN 9780691158839
An exploration of the art of mathematics through 99 different proofs of the same theoremThis lively and compelling book offers a unique, multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwise unremarkable equation in distinct historical, formal, and imaginative styles that range from "Medieval," "Topological," and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16009-2
EAN 9780691160092
A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19010-5
EAN 9780691190105
Why nationalism is a permanent political force--and how it can be harnessed once again for liberal endsAround the world today, nationalism is back--and it's often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes, reinforcing the view that it is fundamentally reactionary and antidemocratic. But Yael (Yuli) Tamir makes a passionate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17279-8
EAN 9780691172798
How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political ...
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