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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 460 páginas
PVP: 61,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21529-8
EAN 9780300215298
In 1600 Rome was the center of the artistic world. This fascinating book offers a new look at the art and architecture of the great Baroque city at this time of major innovation especially in painting, largely owing to the presence of Annibale Carracci (1560 1609) and Caravaggio (1571 1610). Rome was a magnet for ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21677-6
EAN 9780300216776
An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-an often brutal and seemingly irrational time of superstition, miracles, and strange relics. The aggressive pursuit of heretics and attempts to control the "Holy Land" might ...
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London, Anat; Schwartz, Michael
Neuroimmunity
A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains Healthy and Young
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20347-9
EAN 9780300203479
Pathbreaking research offers new hope for treating brain diseases and injuries and for maintaining brain health even into old ageIn the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21610-3
EAN 9780300216103
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their worldThe Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story ...
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Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21695-0
EAN 9780300216950
A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known kingPhilip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21694-3
EAN 9780300216943
China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21137-5
EAN 9780300211375
The 2014 winner of the Yale Drama Series The play does not have a tragic ending, though you will be certain that it must. But it is a tragic story. It is the tragedy of lives lived without hope of deliverance. . . . I will leave you to read the play and determine how ...
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Eternity's Sunrise
The Imaginative World of William Blake
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20067-6
EAN 9780300200676
William 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 symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21680-6
EAN 9780300216806
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologically, the volume re-creates the experience of Thoreau's readers as they followed his developing ideas over time.Jeffrey ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 52,40 €
ISBN 978-1-85709-573-9
EAN 9781857095739
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was one of the greatest portraitists of his time. The first large-scale book devoted to the topic, this handsome volume features portraits that shed light on Goya and his subjects, as well as on the politically turbulent and culturally dynamic era in which they lived. Whether portraying royalty, philosophers, ...
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The Maisky Diaries
Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 632 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18067-1
EAN 9780300180671
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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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 244 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18141-8
EAN 9780300181418
How 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 by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 138 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-00137-2
EAN 9780300001372
In this book, Dr. Jung, who has been the author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind. Using a wealth of material from ancient and medieval gnostic, alchemistic, and occultistic literature, he discusses the religious symbolism of unconscious processes ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21355-3
EAN 9780300213553
An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and work Selected as one of the 10 best science and technology books of 2015 by The Economist After billions of dollars and fifty years of effort, researchers are finally cracking the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18007-7
EAN 9780300180077
The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21233-4
EAN 9780300212334
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21275-4
EAN 9780300212754
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed--Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview had arrived, focusing now on observation, experiment, and mathematical reasoning.This engaging book takes us ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21274-7
EAN 9780300212747
2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social consequences.Journalist Tom Clark ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18027-5
EAN 9780300180275
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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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18987-2
EAN 9780300189872
In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. ...
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