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The Heart of the Declaration
The Founders' Case for an Activist Government
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21618-9
EAN 9780300216189
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding documentFrom one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of ...
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The End of the Asian Century
War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21222-8
EAN 9780300212228
An urgently needed risk map of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stabilitySince Marco Polo, the West has waited for the Asian Century. Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12586-3
EAN 9780300125863
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents ...
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American Enlightenments
Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19257-5
EAN 9780300192575
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary WarThe accepted myth of the American Enlightenment suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21689-9
EAN 9780300216899
A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish stateOften dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700 1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. Under his rule, Spain was a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21513-7
EAN 9780300215137
Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilizationWith wonder, wit, and flair and in record time and space geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the ...
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August 1914
France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20827-6
EAN 9780300208276
A haunting portrait of France at warOn August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks.Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone the worst catastrophe in French ...
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Eternity's Sunrise
The Imaginative World of William Blake
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22364-4
EAN 9780300223644
In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his lifeWilliam Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20834-4
EAN 9780300208344
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle AgesThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ...
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The Consolations of Mortality
Making Sense of Death
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21925-8
EAN 9780300219258
A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan DidionFor those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal life provides its own kind of immortality; that true immortality would be awful; and that we ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22348-4
EAN 9780300223484
A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all agesHow did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated ...
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The Edge of Reason
A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20823-8
EAN 9780300208238
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving or even discussing divisive issuesReason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21717-9
EAN 9780300217179
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the ...
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The Most Good You Can Do
How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21986-9
EAN 9780300219869
Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical ...
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Life and Work
Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21536-6
EAN 9780300215366
Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20883-2
EAN 9780300208832
In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion-from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first century-with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young readers, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20733-0
EAN 9780300207330
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meaningsSince the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired ...
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Franz Liszt
Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world's first international megastar. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811 1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21531-1
EAN 9780300215311
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 632 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22170-1
EAN 9780300221701
Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to LondonThe terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. ...
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