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What the Body Knows
A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System
NOVEDAD!!- Yale University Press, 2026
Libro · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28688-5
EAN 9780300286885
A leading scientist's guide to the way our immune system protects us but only most of the time What is our immune system, and how does it work? A vast array of cells, proteins and chemicals spring into action whenever our bodies are damaged, but immunity is not something you can see, touch, or feel. ...
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Themistocles
The Rise and Fall of Athens s Naval Mastermind
NOVEDAD!!- Yale University Press, 2026
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25659-8
EAN 9780300256598
A portrait of the Athenian politician and general Themistocles, tracing his political development, his victory at the Battle of Salamis, and his exile in Persia Themistocles (524 459 BC) came of age just as a newly democratic and empowered Athens was emerging. He would become an instrumental political and military figure, fighting in the Battle ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Yale University Press, 2026
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28431-7
EAN 9780300284317
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th century's most important musical figures. Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2026
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28687-8
EAN 9780300286878
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and ...
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A Guide to Infinity
Ten Mathematical Journeys
- Yale University Press, 2026
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28479-9
EAN 9780300284799
An accessible introduction to mathematical infinity for the endlessly curious Infinity has traditionally been a topic for philosophers, physicists, and artists, and it can be large, scary, or highly metaphorical. For mathematicians, however, infinity is not frightening or hopelessly abstract (though it is certainly big) but rather is a normal part of their work. In ...
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Naples 1925
Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28866-7
EAN 9780300288667
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Selection Well-written and well-translated. Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by ...
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Francis of Assisi
The Life of a Restless Saint
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28865-0
EAN 9780300288650
One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82 1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians and other spiritual seekers, from medieval ascetics to 1960s hippies and modern environmentalists.The poverello wrote poems praising the sun, moon, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28554-3
EAN 9780300285543
Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers of art, literature, and culture. Polizzotti shows how many forms of popular ...
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Choose Wisely
Rationality, Ethics and the Art of Decision-Making
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28399-0
EAN 9780300283990
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24614-8
EAN 9780300246148
A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs Where has our planet come from, and what lies beneath its surface? How have we come to understand its past and present environments, and what does its future look ...
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The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome
A History of the Ptolemies
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28494-2
EAN 9780300284942
A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age. Its early rulers restored and even expanded Egyptian power. Over a span of 300 years the period was witness ...
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Infanta
The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 44,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28283-2
EAN 9780300282832
The first full biography of Catalina Micaela, infanta of Spain and duchess of Savoy Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court in Madrid to Turin to begin a new life as ...
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Can Europe Survive?
The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27300-7
EAN 9780300273007
A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing, polarised world dominated by Chinese-American rivalry. The European Union and its surrounding nonmember states, despite initial successes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, have ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28275-7
EAN 9780300282757
An acclaimed economist's observations on four years of events that have shaped the world In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty takes measure of the world since 2021: leaders grappling with the aftershocks of a global pandemic; politics shifting rightward in Europe and America; ...
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Martin, Colin; Parker, Geoffrey
Armada
The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28524-6
EAN 9780300285246
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023 Will surely become the definitive account. Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in ...
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The Medieval Moon
A History of Haunting and Blessing
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27828-6
EAN 9780300278286
A vivid new history of how medieval people around the world perceived the moon When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was at once powerful and fragile, distant and intimate-and sometimes all this at once. The moon could convey love, beauty, and gentleness; but it could also ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28338-9
EAN 9780300283389
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail and insightful analysis. . .. Whenever he can, the author takes advantage of opportunities to peer beneath the ...
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28112-5
EAN 9780300281125
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27513-1
EAN 9780300275131
Adapted into an award-winning film by Mario Camus In the arid province of Extremadura in 1960s Spain, life on a country estate carries on as it has for centuries: wealthy landowners live in luxury while workers endure lives of poverty and humiliation. Amid this exploitation and injustice live Régula, an estate's gatekeeper, and her husband, ...
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London
A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28424-9
EAN 9780300284249
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council housing, stuccoed Italianate terraces, a Bauhaus-inspired library. But these buildings are not just functional. They are evidence ...
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