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- Yale University Press, 2015
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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
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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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- 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: 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: 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: 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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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, 2014
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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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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20612-8
EAN 9780300206128
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.
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Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19653-5
EAN 9780300196535
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, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20888-7
EAN 9780300208887
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20531-2
EAN 9780300205312
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and ...
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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 904 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4
EAN 9780300208634
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence.The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women ...
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Jonathan Swift
His Life and His World
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20541-1
EAN 9780300205411
From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language.
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17647-6
EAN 9780300176476
Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heartfelt feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author's significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20535-0
EAN 9780300205350
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich-and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at ...
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