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Vice, Crime, and Poverty
How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld
- Columbia, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 48,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18743-5
EAN 9780231187435
Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degeneratesâ part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering ...
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- Columbia, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-70455-7
EAN 9780231704557
In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing ...
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The Shape of Sex
Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19551-5
EAN 9780231195515
The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of "hermaphrodites"-as individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender binaries were called-from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define "the human" so often hinged on ideas about hermaphrodites. DeVun examines a host of ...
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- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19041-1
EAN 9780231190411
As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security, systems designed to keep us safe have also heightened the potential for catastrophe. The constant pressure of climate change, geopolitical conflict, and our tendency to ignore what is hard to grasp exacerbates potential ...
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- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12741-7
EAN 9780231127417
Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Junger faithfully kept a journal in ...
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- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18850-0
EAN 9780231188500
The idea that business is only about the money doesn't hold true in the twenty-first century, when companies around the world are giving up traditional distinctions in order to succeed. Yet our expectations for businesses remain under the sway of an outdated worldview that emphasizes profits for shareholders above all else. The Power of And ...
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- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19732-8
EAN 9780231197328
Value investing is not just a system for success in the market. It is also an intellectual toolkit for achieving a deeper understanding of the world. In The Joys of Compounding, the value investor Gautam Baid builds a holistic approach to value investing and philosophy from his wide-ranging reading, combining practical approaches, self-cultivation, and business ...
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- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19578-2
EAN 9780231195782
Nothing fills us with a sense of wonder like fossils. What looks at first like a simple rock is in fact a clue that reveals the staggering diversity of ancient environments, the winding pathways of evolution, and the majesty of a vanished earth. But as much as one might daydream of digging a hole in ...
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The First Political Order
How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19466-2
EAN 9780231194662
Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global ...
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A Nation Like All Others
A Brief History of American Foreign Relations
- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17567-8
EAN 9780231175678
Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation's founding through the present day, the diplomatic historian Warren I.Cohen ...
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- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 42,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19374-0
EAN 9780231193740
Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale, and this history deeply informs the present.In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world ...
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A New Foreign Policy
Beyond American Exceptionalism
- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18849-4
EAN 9780231188494
The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and "America first" unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America ...
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Peace on Our Terms
The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War
- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19510-2
EAN 9780231195102
In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women met separately, crafted their own agendas, and captured global headlines with a message that was ...
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Origins of Darwin's Evolution
Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place
- Columbia, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17685-9
EAN 9780231176859
Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was so important to Darwin's initial theories and line of thinking that he said as much in the very first paragraph of On the Origin of Species (1859) and later in his autobiography. His methods ...
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- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17736-8
EAN 9780231177368
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides in recent years in understanding aspects of the brain, yet we still struggle with seemingly fundamental questions about how the brain works. What lessons can we learn from neuroscience's successes and failures? What kinds of ...
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Ten years after the crash
Financial Crises and Regulatory Responses
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19284-2
EAN 9780231192842
The 2008 financial crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of the global regulatory environment, ushering in a stream of new rules and laws to combat the perceived weakness of the financial system. While the global economy came back from the ...
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- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18996-5
EAN 9780231189965
In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun-but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi ...
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- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17110-6
EAN 9780231171106
In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named "Nim Chimpsky" in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language.Initially, Terrace ...
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
- Columbia, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18337-6
EAN 9780231183376
Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E.Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving ...
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