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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23452-7
EAN 9780300234527
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy helpful, or harmful? While the answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, the unfamiliar language and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economic concepts, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23445-9
EAN 9780300234459
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 616 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23416-9
EAN 9780300234169
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and European history. Using a framework derived ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23438-1
EAN 9780300234381
A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23450-3
EAN 9780300234503
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets, is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23455-8
EAN 9780300234558
An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22464-1
EAN 9780300224641
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18682-6
EAN 9780300186826
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21000-2
EAN 9780300210002
A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empire-and an incisive look forward as the nation retreats from the global stage A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule ...
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Heretics and Believers
A History of the English Reformation
- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 33,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23458-9
EAN 9780300234589
A sumptuously written people's history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history-the first major overview for general readers in a generation-argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23461-9
EAN 9780300234619
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war Most accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23335-3
EAN 9780300233353
A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23287-5
EAN 9780300232875
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20036-2
EAN 9780300200362
An expose of Hitler's relationship with film and his influence on the film industry A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and directors. Here, Bill Niven offers a powerful argument for reconsidering Hitler's fascination with film as ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23106-9
EAN 9780300231069
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism-that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on-he demonstrates in each case ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23415-2
EAN 9780300234152
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20851-1
EAN 9780300208511
Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation's cultural, political, and socioeconomic history. This succinct, scholarly study covers important historical events, including the Cromwellian ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23424-4
EAN 9780300234244
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1000 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11254-2
EAN 9780300112542
A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 616 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18609-3
EAN 9780300186093
From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur," "as if doctrine is not given." Reproducing the texts' often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or ...
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