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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 230 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73478-4
EAN 9780674734784
From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger, an impresario for a 'jargon ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66015-1
EAN 9780674660151
Every four years, millions of Americans find themselves asking why they choose their presidents through the peculiar mechanism called the Electoral College'an arcane institution that narrows election campaigns to swing states and can permit the loser of the popular vote to become president. Why are a states electoral votes awarded on a winner-take-all basis? Why ...
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Steiker, Carol S.; Steiker, Jordan M.
Courting Death
The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73742-6
EAN 9780674737426
Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time.In the ...
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The Good Occupation
American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54570-0
EAN 9780674545700
Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was Americas 'good war.' Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japans surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles Americas transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary ...
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Ezrachi, Ariel; Stucke, Maurice E.
Virtual Competition
The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54547-2
EAN 9780674545472
Shoppers with Internet access and a bargain-hunting impulse can find a universe of products at their fingertips. In this thought-provoking exposé, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke invite us to take a harder look at todays app-assisted paradise of digital shopping. While consumers reap many benefits from online purchasing, the sophisticated algorithms and data-crunching that make ...
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The Menorah
From the Bible to Modern Israel
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08879-5
EAN 9780674088795
The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western worlds oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the menorah ...
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Dark Ghettos
Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97050-2
EAN 9780674970502
Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihans report on the black family and the Kerner Commissions investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor'such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime'as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. ...
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Against the normative proto-Mexican and criollista reading of Grandeza mexicana (1604), El imperio de la virtud positions Bernardo de Balbuenas work in an Atlantic context and hence interprets it as a political assertion of the natural right of peninsular émigrés to rule New Spain. The book offers an updated biography of Balbuena that reminds us ...
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Trastornos del cerebro
Una inmersión rápida
- Tibidabo Ediciones, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 156 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-84-9117-208-6
EAN 9788491172086
El ser humano tiene el privilegio de tener el órgano más complicado que hay en la naturaleza: el cerebro. A pesar de las investigaciones y de las aproximaciones que se han realizado en cuanto a su funcionamiento, sigue siendo un misterio. Los trastornos cerebrales son múltiples y variados, pudiendo acontecer en cualquier momento de la ...
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- Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-3-88221-495-6
EAN 9783882214956
Es gibt Dinge, die nicht verschwinden. Zu ihnen gehört auch die Gewalt. Die "Gewaltaversion" (Jan Phillip Reemtsma) zeichnet nicht die Moderne aus. Die Gewalt ist proteischer als man denkt. Sie verändert nur ihre Erscheinungsform. Heute zieht sie sich in subkutane, subkommunikative, kapillare und neuronale Räume zurück und nimmt eine mikrophysische Form an, die auch ohne ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-388-4
EAN 9781784783884
A gripping narrative history of the English Revolution and the radical LevellersThe Levellers, revolutionaries that grew out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men including John Lilburne, Richard Overton, ...
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The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain's most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London's East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the ...
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The genealogy of today's disruptive protest movementsFrom environmental activists chaining themselves to logging equipment and blockading nuclear plants to Global Justice protesters disrupting the World Trade Organization summit to Black Lives Matter shutting down freeways, direct action protest has been a defining feature of radical activism in the United States over the last 40 years. ...
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Pulitzer Prize for History 2016
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer s ...
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Introduce your baby to a roaring world of rumbling trucks with this delightful, interactive board book that has four big, double-sided peekaboo tabs to pull out and push back. There are big, bold photographs of all kinds of different trucks to look at, each with simple questions for adults to read and share. Little hands ...
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Treasure Palaces
Great Writers visit Great Museums
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-690-9
EAN 9781781256909
From a stunning villa on sunny Capri with Ali Smith to an unlikely temple in the heart of Copenhagen with Alan Hollinghurst, Treasure Palaces brings together over twenty of the world's greatest writers to give their own personal tours of the museums that have awed, haunted and inspired them. Join Andrew Motion as he muses ...
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- Picador USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07875-9
EAN 9781250078759
More addictive and mind-blowing true tale from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles MiltonThe second installment in Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past.Covering everything from adventure, war, murder ...
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- Marixverlag, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-3-7374-1014-4
EAN 9783737410144
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716) hat in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte v.a. als Philosoph und Mathematiker seinen Platz. Nicht weniger richtungsweisend ist sein politisches Denken. Seine Prägung erhielt er durch die Zeitumstände seiner Lebensspanne. Geboren in der Schlussphase des Drei igjährigen Krieges, wuchs er in einem allgemeinen Wiederaufbau-Denken auf. Wie sollte die Welt nun neu konstruiert werden? Seine ...
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- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312863-2
EAN 9780143128632
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the twentieth-century by general editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a ...
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- Penguin USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312817-5
EAN 9780143128175
In this mega-bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is. Fortysomething mother of two Josephine Cortes is at a crossroads. She has just moved to a posh new apartment in Paris after ...
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