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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18640-6
EAN 9780300186406
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and into our own time-and asks whether humankind can "weaken the grip war has on us." Praise for the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17202-7
EAN 9780300172027
In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important-and unexpected-conclusions about what type of democracy works best.Praise for the previous edition:"Magnificent. . . . The ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18791-5
EAN 9780300187915
Jonathan Harris is professor of the history of Byzantium at Royal Holloway, University of London."A remarkable book, which offers numerous fresh insights and weaves a gripping and deeply moving story that constantly startles us with its newness, its originality, and its balance. Byzantines, Turks, Latins - Harris breathes new life into these long-dead characters and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18779-3
EAN 9780300187793
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18651-2
EAN 9780300186512
One of the only Westerners well acquainted with Assad sheds new light on the ophthalmologist-turned-tyrant and how his regime failed SyriaWhen Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18772-4
EAN 9780300187724
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the 'Final Solution', Heydrich ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18812-7
EAN 9780300188127
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13441-4
EAN 9780300134414
For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians ...
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If you already know Hindi then learning Urdu is mostly about learning a new alphabet and some new vocabulary. I've been studying Hindi since five years but noticed that there was a clear difference between my Hindi courses and Bollywood songs. Turns out that many of the songs were written by Muslims who would be ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18813-4
EAN 9780300188134
John A. Daly is the Liddell Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. "A clearly written, vividly illustrated discussion of 'internal advocacy'-that is, advocacy inside organizations-combining the best of traditional and contemporary research from a variety of disciplines with a host of historical ...
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Wellington's Wars
The Making of a Military Genius
- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16417-6
EAN 9780300164176
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate and controversial new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12124-7
EAN 9780300121247
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18144-9
EAN 9780300181449
'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18157-9
EAN 9780300181579
The Wars of the Roses (1455 85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished historian Michael Hicks examines the difficult economic, military, and financial crises and explains, for the first ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16680-4
EAN 9780300166804
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-300-18166-1
EAN 9780300181661
Sin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17881-4
EAN 9780300178814
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and ...
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