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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-984881-59-5
EAN 9781984881595
Why did Russia attack Ukraine? Will China invade Taiwan and launch WWIII? Why has the number of civil wars reached their highest level in decades? Why are so many cities in the Americas plagued with violence? And finally, what can any of us do about it?It feels like we're surrounded by violence. Each conflict seems ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 45,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98708-1
EAN 9780674987081
A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis. Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption irrespective ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 29,55 €
ISBN 978-1-915294-22-7
EAN 9781915294227
What is the true cause of inflation, wealth inequality, and our collective disregard for ecological accountability?In The Natural Order of Money, author and entrepreneur Roy Sebag expertly explores the intrinsic relationship between people, money, and nature by asking a few simple questions: Why do we, in our modern society, expect food as if it were ...
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Libro · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-399-40709-0
EAN 9781399407090
Imagine designing a race that only you could win. Now imagine that race was your life. You're done with living by other people's rules.It's time to define your own version of success and set free your inner maverick. Success is something that many of us are encouraged to pursue from a young age - but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-398-50105-8
EAN 9781398501058
As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West. Or so we are told. After the events of 9/11 and the advent of the 'war on terror', this narrative seemed prophetic.But, as Peter Oborne reveals in this masterful new analysis, the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199049-1
EAN 9780141990491
To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1511-6
EAN 9781529115116
This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future... 'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery' Lewis Dartnell The stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-52380-3
EAN 9780241523803
How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-43179-5
EAN 9780241431795
A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51763-5
EAN 9780241517635
Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are the problem, it's that our collective goals result in five political 'traps'.Democracy: we all want a say in how we're governed, but it's impossible to have any ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-739-0
EAN 9781788167390
oris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians.They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199909-8
EAN 9780141999098
A bold new theory for the origins of our ongoing political instability, from the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller National Populism What has caused the recent seismic changes in British politics, including Brexit and a series of populist revolts against the elite? Why did so many people want to overturn the status quo? Where ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199544-1
EAN 9780141995441
From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-031-7
EAN 9781802060317
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice.But as best-selling author Cathy O'Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is increasingly being weaponized -- used as a way to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198894-8
EAN 9780141988948
From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-593-18600-8
EAN 9780593186008
Now in paperback, the ambitious, discussable big think book by an influential economist, about the power of diversity and humanity's growth, via a multidisciplinary approach that examines exactly what sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, charting humanity's rocketing journey from subsistence in two centuries a relative blink of the eye.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0989-4
EAN 9781529109894
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from 1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-4633-2
EAN 9781529146332
Claer Barrett is the voice of reason in the cost of living crisis, teaching us what we need to know about money, in an accessible way that anyone can understand. By unpicking our emotional relationship with money, she gets to the heart of how our financial habits are formed - and reveals seven powerful yet ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25502-7
EAN 9780300255027
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from ...
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