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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28342-6
EAN 9780300283426
A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present.Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This Little History is about some that have not.John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-300-28340-2
EAN 9780300283402
The thrilling story of archaeological adventure, and astonishing discoveries around the globe Archaeology tells the story of our ancestors: how they lived, what they believed in and how their cultures developed over millennia. Brian Fagan introduces us to pharaohs' tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown, mysterious Stonehenge, and Pompeii the city buried ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28343-3
EAN 9780300283433
A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn. Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
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ISBN 978-0-300-28341-9
EAN 9780300283419
A vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today's graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on the entire glorious span of human literary activity, here guides readers on a journey through the looking glass' to show ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
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ISBN 978-0-300-28326-6
EAN 9780300283266
A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . A wonderful introduction for anyone who's ever felt curious about almost anything. Sarah Bakewell, author of How To Live: ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
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ISBN 978-0-300-28325-9
EAN 9780300283259
The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages The World has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H.Gombrich brings to life the full story of human experience on Earth. He paints a colourful picture of remarkable people and events, from ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28322-8
EAN 9780300283228
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die, is there anything else to come? And what will it be like? ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
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ISBN 978-0-300-28324-2
EAN 9780300283242
An accessible account of the history of economics through the ideas of great thinkers A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer. Laura Garmeson, Financial Times Economics explains the world. For example, the fact that you're holding this book in your hands puts you ...
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28323-5
EAN 9780300283235
From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, this book reveals language's myriad intricacies and quirks. It sheds light on the development of unique linguistic styles, the origins of obscure accents, and the search for the first written word.
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King Dollar
The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27096-9
EAN 9780300270969
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- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-300-27908-5
EAN 9780300279085
A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal's bone flute to the festivals of Glastonbury and Coachella, human beings have always made and enjoyed music. Covering a remarkable range, including Indian raga, Javanese gamelan, ...
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Julian
Rome's Last Pagan Emperor
- Yale University Press, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28187-3
EAN 9780300281873
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports but what if it hadn't been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25133-3
EAN 9780300251333
Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the state and the church. But by 1809 Napoleon had ordered the Pope's arrest. Ambrogio Caiani provides a pioneering account of their tempestuous relationship, shedding new light on the conflict that would forever shape relations between the Catholic church and the modern state.
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28007-4
EAN 9780300280074
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos M. N. Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28014-2
EAN 9780300280142
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy Robertson thoughtfully and readably capture s the essence of this great man and his great life. It's a must read for any aspiring Stoic. Ryan Holiday, 1 New York Times bestselling author of ...
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Madrid
A New Biography
The miraculous story of Madrid how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27869-9
EAN 9780300278699
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like pandemic, a Freudian state of mind like the Oedipus complex, or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks' ...
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Cha, Victor/Pacheco Pardo, Ramon
Korea
A New History of South and North
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27870-5
EAN 9780300278705
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . .. A crisp and balanced account. Christopher Harding, The Telegraph Korea has a long, riveting history it is also a divided nation. South Korea ...
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Spain
The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27868-2
EAN 9780300278682
Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable two-party system has splintered, with disruptive new parties on the far left and far right.No government has ...
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Hampson, Roger; Shadbolt, Nigel
As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26829-4
EAN 9780300268294
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the ...
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