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The Extravagant Universe
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17318-4
EAN 9780691173184
The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a dark energy that makes ...
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- Princeton, 2016
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PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17325-2
EAN 9780691173252
Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions, and gradually departs to examine its more abstract varieties and manifestations--as bilateral, translatory, rotational, ornamental, ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17390-0
EAN 9780691173900
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the ...
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The Machiavellian Moment
Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17223-1
EAN 9780691172231
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17314-6
EAN 9780691173146
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class ...
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How to win an Argument
An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16433-5
EAN 9780691164335
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of ...
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The Wisdom of Frugality
Why Less Is More - More or Less
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15508-1
EAN 9780691155081
From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be ...
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- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-341-6
EAN 9781631493416
This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master.Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916 1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-224-10128-8
EAN 9780224101288
Funny and smart as hell' Bill GatesEvery time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.Her whole new collection once again showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-408-9
EAN 9781784784089
In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. The fall of the ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-690-8
EAN 9781784786908
The Communist Manifesto,is the most influential political call-to-arms ever written. In the century and a half since its publication the world has been shaken repeatedly by those who sought to make its declamations a reality.But the focus of this modern edition is not primarily the vivid history of Marx and Engels' most important work. Rather, ...
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- Fantagraphic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
ISBN 978-1-60699-971-4
EAN 9781606999714
A supernaturally strong medieval widow must decide how to use her powers in this graphic novel.In a plague-ravaged medieval city, survival is a harsher fate than death. As corpses accumulate around her, Agnes, a young widow possessed of supernatural strength, must weigh her obligations to the dead and dying against her desire to protect what ...
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- Square Fish, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 6,95 €
ISBN 978-1-250-09055-3
EAN 9781250090553
Here is the long-awaited sequel to the New York Times-bestselling The Girl Who Could Fly, about a boy who teams up with the flying girl and other exceptional children to save the world. The sequel to the best-selling The Girl Who Could Fly centers on Piper's friend Conrad Harrington, son of the soon-to-be president, whose ...
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- Random House USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 768 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-679-64483-5
EAN 9780679644835
he next installment in the acclaimed New Yorker decades series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers. The 1960s is known as one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century. From the peak of the Civil Rights Movement and the assassination of ...
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- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311158-0
EAN 9780143111580
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Año 2035. Tras la devastadora guerra nuclear que destruyó la Tierra, la gente ha erigido una nueva civilización en las profundidades del metro de Moscú. Pero la aparente seguridad de las estaciones del metro esconde algo. Dos años después de que Artyom salvara a la población del metro de una catástrofe, los conflictos ideológicos están ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05774-0
EAN 9780465057740
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europes home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust.In An Iron Wind, historian Peter Fritzsche draws ...
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- Bilboquet, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 36 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-2-84181-443-5
EAN 9782841814435
Tout le monde connaît l'histoire d'Hansel et Gretel. Tout du moins leur version de l'histoire.Mais a-t-on déjà confronté les deux points de vue de ce même récit ?Comment cultiver le discernement chez l'enfant et lui apprendre le libre arbitre ?Voici la mise en miroir de deux versions d'une même histoire.A vous de vous faire votre ...
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- Bloomsbury USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 9,65 €
ISBN 978-1-68119-073-0
EAN 9781681190730
When Apple's mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels whole again. She will have an answer to her burning question - why did you go? And she will have someone who understands what it means to be a teenager - unlike Nana. But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her ...
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- William Morrow, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-06-256433-7
EAN 9780062564337
God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider is on his doorstep about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting . . ...
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