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The No-State Solution
A Jewish Manifesto
- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25128-9
EAN 9780300251289
A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25774-8
EAN 9780300257748
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world.But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25502-7
EAN 9780300255027
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from ...
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Spain
The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26039-7
EAN 9780300260397
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond. 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 ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27048-8
EAN 9780300270488
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 "Valuable . . .offers many lessons for Western policy makers today."-Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal "The lessons are sobering."-The Economist Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics ...
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Martin, Colin; Parker, Geoffrey
Armada
The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588
- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 768 páginas
PVP: 60,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25986-5
EAN 9780300259865
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel-and then a fierce naval battle-foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events.The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26463-0
EAN 9780300264630
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . .. A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."-New Yorker"A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual ...
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Time for Socialism
Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26812-6
EAN 9780300268126
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century "What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . .an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Yet the times are such ...
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- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26803-4
EAN 9780300268034
A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret documents-including many that ...
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Collapse
The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26817-1
EAN 9780300268171
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times " A masterly analysis."-Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25366-5
EAN 9780300253665
A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the origins of mark making to art's pivotal role in culture today Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Charlotte Mullins brings art to life ...
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- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26154-7
EAN 9780300261547
Perennial wisdom from one of history's most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers "He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well-bravely, boldly, patiently-to what life threw at us. That's what we should be doing now."-Ryan Holiday, Reading List email The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus was one of the most influential teachers of his ...
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- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26144-8
EAN 9780300261448
Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers"The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through history and offer opinions about what went right and what went wrong . . ...
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Domina
The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25484-6
EAN 9780300254846
A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar ...
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The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26046-5
EAN 9780300260465
From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present "An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."-Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."-Robert Wilson, Wall Street Journal From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan ...
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- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25191-3
EAN 9780300251913
A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry-itself written entirely in verse How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms-all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic ...
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- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 37,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23041-3
EAN 9780300230413
The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal--that is, to bring together ...
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- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25350-4
EAN 9780300253504
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- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25503-4
EAN 9780300255034
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times A fizzing, exhilarating book. Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London Delightful.' New York Times Book Review What is poetry? If music is ...
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