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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 257 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19446-3
EAN 9780300194463
Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro, Dahl's successor as Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale and a leading contemporary authority on democracy. One chapter deals with the prospects for democracy in ...
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Prisoners, Lovers and Spies
The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21260-0
EAN 9780300212600
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the first history of invisible writing, uncovered through stories about scoundrels and heroes. Spies were imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret communications. Yet, successfully hidden writing helped save lives, win battles, and ...
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Isaac and Isaiah
The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21232-7
EAN 9780300212327
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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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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The Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20867-2
EAN 9780300208672
Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive perspective, focusing on the relationship between information and society and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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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
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PVP: 26,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19578-1
EAN 9780300195781
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, examining the allure of the performing arts for both the artist and the audience member while addressing the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21250-1
EAN 9780300212501
In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Commandments become the Ten Commandments? When did that happen? There are several versions of the Decalogue in ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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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
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PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21277-8
EAN 9780300212778
Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse.But the notion that abstinence from consumption brings benefits to states, societies, or individuals ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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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
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PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18780-9
EAN 9780300187809
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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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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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18478-5
EAN 9780300184785
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from the internationally celebrated Alberto ManguelCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question Why? has appeared under ...
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The Old Boys
The Decline and Rise of the Public School
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18992-6
EAN 9780300189926
To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner's vibrant history of Great Britain's public schools, from the ...
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Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 180 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18949-0
EAN 9780300189490
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21254-9
EAN 9780300212549
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-300-20546-6
EAN 9780300205466
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14429-1
EAN 9780300144291
A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to themWith his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21276-1
EAN 9780300212761
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community ...
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