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NOVEDAD!!- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25133-3
EAN 9780300251333
Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the state and the church. But by 1809 Napoleon had ordered the Pope's arrest. Ambrogio Caiani provides a pioneering account of their tempestuous relationship, shedding new light on the conflict that would forever shape relations between the Catholic church and the modern state.
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-28014-2
EAN 9780300280142
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy Robertson thoughtfully and readably capture s the essence of this great man and his great life. It's a must read for any aspiring Stoic. Ryan Holiday, 1 New York Times bestselling author of ...
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Madrid
A New Biography
The miraculous story of Madrid how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27869-9
EAN 9780300278699
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like pandemic, a Freudian state of mind like the Oedipus complex, or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imitators, we have been continually falling under the Greeks' ...
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Cha, Victor/Pacheco Pardo, Ramon
Korea
A New History of South and North
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27870-5
EAN 9780300278705
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . .. A crisp and balanced account. Christopher Harding, The Telegraph Korea has a long, riveting history it is also a divided nation. South Korea ...
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Spain
The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27868-2
EAN 9780300278682
Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable two-party system has splintered, with disruptive new parties on the far left and far right.No government has ...
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Hampson, Roger; Shadbolt, Nigel
As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26829-4
EAN 9780300268294
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the ...
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26747-1
EAN 9780300267471
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Lost Fatherland
Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26755-6
EAN 9780300267556
How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic's first foreign minister, the ...
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Ignorance
A Global History
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27650-3
EAN 9780300276503
"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance" Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for education" Stefan Bauer, History Today "Dazzling . . .a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance" David Armitage A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every ...
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NATO
A New History
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27011-2
EAN 9780300270112
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but ...
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Battleground
10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 37,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26342-8
EAN 9780300263428
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and ...
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Seven Crashes
The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26339-8
EAN 9780300263398
The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into good crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and bad crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s ...
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- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27649-7
EAN 9780300276497
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for ...
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Crassus
The First Tycoon
- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27417-2
EAN 9780300274172
Marcus Licinius Crassus (115â 53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Rome's first modern political financier. Instead, Crassus and his ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 56,80 €
ISBN 978-0-300-27266-6
EAN 9780300272666
A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent ...
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The No-State Solution
A Jewish Manifesto
- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 36,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25128-9
EAN 9780300251289
A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25774-8
EAN 9780300257748
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world.But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2023
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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Spain
The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
- Yale University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26039-7
EAN 9780300260397
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond. Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable ...
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