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Economics in two lessons
Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15494-7
EAN 9780691154947
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes--and failures--of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17474-7
EAN 9780691174747
An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18175-2
EAN 9780691181752
An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the agesJohn Boardman is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greece, and his acclaimed books command a broad readership. In this book, he looks beyond the life of Alexander the Great in ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18299-5
EAN 9780691182995
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18300-8
EAN 9780691183008
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17691-8
EAN 9780691176918
An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicistPaul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists think. Always entertaining, the problems range from ancient catapult conundrums to the puzzling physics of a ...
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Evolution's bite
A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18283-4
EAN 9780691182834
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17018-3
EAN 9780691170183
A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 43,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17268-2
EAN 9780691172682
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 664 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17909-4
EAN 9780691179094
A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its ...
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Newton the Alchemist
Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17487-7
EAN 9780691174877
A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly became "the last of the magicians." Newton the Alchemist unlocks the secrets of Newton's ...
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Setting the People Free
The Story of Democracy
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18003-8
EAN 9780691180038
Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17161-6
EAN 9780691171616
How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more important than ever to understand race and racism. But do we? In this original and provocative book, acclaimed ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18312-1
EAN 9780691183121
In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio H sle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science, from the Middle Ages to today. A Short History of German Philosophy addresses the philosophical changes brought about by ...
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Ireland's immortals
A history of the gods of irish myths
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18304-6
EAN 9780691183046
Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation's languages, the book describes how Ireland's pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era--and how they were ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16788-6
EAN 9780691167886
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president--Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood--and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16745-9
EAN 9780691167459
How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a ...
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- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18278-0
EAN 9780691182780
How you can become better at solving real-world problems by learning creative puzzle-solving skillsWe solve countless problems--big and small--every day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions--much less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Are we doomed to this muddle--or is there a practical way to learn to ...
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The myth of the eternal return
Cosmos and History
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18297-1
EAN 9780691182971
First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates ...
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The real PLanet of the Apes
A new story of human origins
- Princeton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18280-3
EAN 9780691182803
Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to ...
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