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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 178 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22644-7
EAN 9780300226447
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires ...
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The Only Game In Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22263-0
EAN 9780300222630
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21804-6
EAN 9780300218046
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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The Gift of the Gab
How Eloquence Works
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22640-9
EAN 9780300226409
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned expert ...
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Simulacra
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22396-5
EAN 9780300223965
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion.Her poems cross historical boundaries ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22709-3
EAN 9780300227093
A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22642-3
EAN 9780300226423
Far from being a defect that may indicate Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, Draaisma claims, forgetting is one of memory's crucial capacities.In fact, forgetting is essential. Weaving together an engaging array of literary, historical, and scientific sources, the author considers forgetting from every angle. He pierces false cliches and asks important questions: Is a ...
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Lawrence of Arabia's War
The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 35,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22639-3
EAN 9780300226393
A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22645-4
EAN 9780300226454
A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in the writings ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-1-85709-609-5
EAN 9781857096095
The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485--1541). The two men met in Rome in 1511, shortly after Sebastiano's arrival from his native city, and while Michelangelo ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21895-4
EAN 9780300218954
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, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22641-6
EAN 9780300226416
In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20998-3
EAN 9780300209983
The physics of stuff protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space as nothingness extended in all directions, a kind of theater in which physics could unfold. But both quantum theory and relativity ...
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The Master Plan
ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22149-7
EAN 9780300221497
An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda's operations chief, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage plan for jihadis ...
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The Crimean Nexus
Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21488-8
EAN 9780300214888
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold WarA native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation's territory by another since ...
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Losing Small Wars
British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22751-2
EAN 9780300227512
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011 including Libya, ISIS, and the Chilcot findings Ledwidge shows how lessons continue to go unlearned.
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Reporting War
How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22466-5
EAN 9780300224665
An enthralling account of World War II across all its theaters through the eyes and experiences of the top journalists who witnessed itLuminary 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 ...
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The Six Day War
The Breaking of the Middle East
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22270-8
EAN 9780300222708
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21781-0
EAN 9780300217810
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country's borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21880-0
EAN 9780300218800
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and cultureIn this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of today's important scientific and cultural as well as philosophical debates, following the inroads being ...
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