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Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
- Ballantine, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-8350-0
EAN 9780812983500
Those who loved Robert F. Kennedy as well as those who hated him will both find much to enjoy in Tye's biography of Kennedy's life and times. Journalist Tye removes some of the rough edges of a man often presented as ruthless and obsessive in his early political career, and offers a balanced account of ...
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From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright and wonder unforgettable tales that will take you to where your darkest fears await. Whether it's a mysterious impenetrable mist camouflaging bizarre, otherworldly terrors that could herald the destruction of humanity or an eerie-looking child's toy that ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 60,28 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16868-5
EAN 9780691168685
The world of money is being transformed as households and organizations face changing economies and new currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin and Apple Pay gain ground. What is money, and how do we make sense of it? Money Talks is the first book to offer a wide range of alternative and unexpected explanations of ...
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Pop-Eleches, Grigore; Tucker, Joshua A.
Communism's Shadow : Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 39,63 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17559-1
EAN 9780691175591
It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. Communism's Shadow instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17573-7
EAN 9780691175737
Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17593-5
EAN 9780691175935
In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose.It only measures output: more cars, more ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17570-6
EAN 9780691175706
The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17602-4
EAN 9780691176024
Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17166-1
EAN 9780691171661
Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that affects us all. He tells the fascinating story of ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17164-7
EAN 9780691171647
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objective science, but is continually evolving as it is shaped by specific ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17165-4
EAN 9780691171654
The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class--not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority--defend their comfortable status at a cost. Middle-class voting against regulation and increased taxation that would remedy pressing social ills ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1032 páginas
PVP: 30,36 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17565-2
EAN 9780691175652
Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17596-6
EAN 9780691175966
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent--more than a million people. A century later, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16605-6
EAN 9780691166056
Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17462-4
EAN 9780691174624
The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics ...
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- Lonely Planet, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1056 páginas
PVP: 32,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78657-416-9
EAN 9781786574169
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- Seix Barral, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-84-322-3273-2
EAN 9788432232732
El turista es, por definición, un ser en apariencia despreocupado, busca el descanso, una promesa de felicidad, una franquicia del paraíso. Vive en un tiempo irreal, una vida entre paréntesis: el verano, un fin de semana largo, una escapada, cualquier periodo vacacional con fecha de caducidad. Si no la tuviese, condenado a perpetuidad como las ...
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- CPI Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-89869-969-2
EAN 9780898699692
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Lía, después de vivir en Tarifa una estrepitosa historia de amor con Hugo, regresa a Barcelona hecha añicos. Su amiga Manu la acoge y le da treinta días para rehacerse. Mientras, Perpetua, la madre de Lía, ajena al drama que vive su hija, continúa enviándole cartas a Tarifa creyendo que sigue allí. La ayuda incondicional ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Enrique Krauze, Yoani Sánchez y Álvaro Vargas Llosa, entre muchos otros, abordan en esta obra el desastre que acompaña la llegada del populismo y diseccionan sus diferentes formas y máscaras, desde el populismo nacionalista de Trump o Le Pen hasta el radicalismo de izquierdas de Podemos. España, pero ...
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