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The Measure of Civilization
How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-691-16086-3
EAN 9780691160863
In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958318-9
EAN 9780099583189
Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century - from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star - and he recorded them with matchless power. This landmark volume brings together Hemingway's most important, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19718-1
EAN 9780300197181
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Governing the World
The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present
- Penguin USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312394-1
EAN 9780143123941
A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutionsThe story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. ...
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Glittering Images
A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
- Vintage, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27802-9
EAN 9780307278029
One of our most omnivorously talented cultural critics --the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn-- presents a primer of Western art's defining moments, from the tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas's digitallyenhanced duel in Revenge of the Sith. America's premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that made her famous: the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-958097-2
EAN 9780199580972
In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time.Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we put our faith in them to help win ...
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- Macmillan, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 612 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-3682-5
EAN 9781447236825
Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103493-5
EAN 9780141034935
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the ...
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- Anova Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84994-076-4
EAN 9781849940764
A fascinating collection of the most significant plans, sketches, drawings and illustrations that have changed the way we think about the world. From primitive cave paintings to the complicated DNA double helix drawn by Crick and Watson, they chart dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the world and its history. This fascinating book encompasses everything ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-363-6
EAN 9780871403636
From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of ...
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A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3214-7
EAN 9780745332147
This magisterial analysis of human history - from 'Lucy', the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process.Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and ...
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- Penguin USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312304-0
EAN 9780143123040
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." ("Los Angeles Times") One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and original history. Structured as a series of ...
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- Scribe Publications, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-914484-96-4
EAN 9781914484964
A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order. The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals but they are running out.And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution will reduce our reliance on nuclear power, ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-394-7
EAN 9781846683947
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today. There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when ...
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- Harper Collins, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749289-3
EAN 9780007492893
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition. We are overwhelmed by information - from our phones, our televisions, our computers, our newspapers. This new edition of Information is Beautiful has been revised throughout with over 20 updates and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84614-290-1
EAN 9781846142901
Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In "Baudelaire's Folly", Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later called 'the Modern.' His protagonist is Charles Baudelaire: poet of nerves, art lover, pioneering ...
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- Penguin USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 20,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312206-7
EAN 9780143122067
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist"Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." --Wall Street Journal" W ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force." --Boston GlobeWestern civilization's ...
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A witty, personal and entertaining meditation on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance. Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost. Paper is the technology through which and with which we have made sense of the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18774-8
EAN 9780300187748
Love - unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting - is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the ...
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