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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28728-0
EAN 9780520287280
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities were pacifist groups that opposed American wars, or religious groups ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29326-7
EAN 9780520293267
This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey. Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give a reader a sense of what is at stake with a birds-eye view of the geopolitics of the ...
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This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism's complex history from antiquity to the present day and find that terror, long the weapon of the ...
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The Fifth Beginning
What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29312-0
EAN 9780520293120
'I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.' This inscription in Tutankhamens tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archeologist Robert Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, ...
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How would you Rule?
Legal Puzzles, Brainteasers, and Dilemmas from the Law's Strangest Cases
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29058-7
EAN 9780520290587
How Would You Rule is a lighthearted introduction to fundamental concepts of law through strange but true legal cases. Each chapter tells the story of a different case and presents the main arguments of the opposing parties. The twist? Before the ruling of the court is revealed, readers are challenged to put themselves in the ...
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Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua; Solnit, Rebecca
Nonstop Metropolis
A New York City Atlas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28595-8
EAN 9780520285958
Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable, unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts, from linguists to historians of music, urbanism, and ethnography to environmental journalists, amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five ...
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Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-520-29264-2
EAN 9780520292642
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs ...
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Aparicio, Rosa; Haller, William; Portes, Alejandro
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28630-6
EAN 9780520286306
Much like the United States, Western Europe has experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the countrys population is foreign-born. Spanish Legacies, written by internationally known experts on immigration, explores ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28997-0
EAN 9780520289970
The world is facing an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called ...
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A Sea of Glass
Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28568-2
EAN 9780520285682
It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvells eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed away for decades in a Corning Museum of Glass storage ...
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Plastic Reason
An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28813-3
EAN 9780520288133
Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central nervous system by showing that basic embryogenetic processes'most spectacularly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 39,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28783-9
EAN 9780520287839
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New ...
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The Principia
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 616 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29074-7
EAN 9780520290747
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues ...
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Unruly Equality
US Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28675-7
EAN 9780520286757
The first intellectual and social history of American anarchist thought and activism across the twentieth centuryIn this highly accessible history of anarchism in the United States, Andrew Cornell reveals an astounding continuity and development across the century. Far from fading away, anarchists dealt with major events such as the rise of Communism, the New Deal, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 792 páginas
PVP: 50,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27994-0
EAN 9780520279940
The surprising final chapter of a great American life.When the first volume of Mark Twains uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorists life and times. This third and final volume crowns and ...
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Maclaran, Pauline; Otnes, Cele C
Royal Fever
The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27366-5
EAN 9780520273665
No monarchy has proved more captivating than that of the British Royal Family. Across the globe, an estimated 2.4 billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on television. In contemporary global consumer culture, why is the British monarchy still so compelling? Rooted in fieldwork conducted from 2005 to 2014, this book ...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling and Cracking Up
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 35,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28758-7
EAN 9780520287587
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28759-4
EAN 9780520287594
The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 872 páginas
PVP: 42,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28578-1
EAN 9780520285781
Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspection'we cannot see ourselves as ...
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