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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
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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
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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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Lost Fatherland
Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26755-6
EAN 9780300267556
How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic's first foreign minister, the ...
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Ignorance
A Global History
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27650-3
EAN 9780300276503
"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance" Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for education" Stefan Bauer, History Today "Dazzling . . .a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance" David Armitage A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every ...
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NATO
A New History
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27011-2
EAN 9780300270112
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but ...
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Battleground
10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 37,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26342-8
EAN 9780300263428
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and ...
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Seven Crashes
The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26339-8
EAN 9780300263398
The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into good crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and bad crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27649-7
EAN 9780300276497
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for ...
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