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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21250-1
EAN 9780300212501
In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Commandments become the Ten Commandments? When did that happen? There are several versions of the Decalogue in ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21274-7
EAN 9780300212747
2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social consequences.Journalist Tom Clark ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21277-8
EAN 9780300212778
Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse.But the notion that abstinence from consumption brings benefits to states, societies, or individuals ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18027-5
EAN 9780300180275
Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18780-9
EAN 9780300187809
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18987-2
EAN 9780300189872
In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18478-5
EAN 9780300184785
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from the internationally celebrated Alberto ManguelCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question Why? has appeared under ...
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The Old Boys
The Decline and Rise of the Public School
- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18992-6
EAN 9780300189926
To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner's vibrant history of Great Britain's public schools, from the ...
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Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 180 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18949-0
EAN 9780300189490
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21254-9
EAN 9780300212549
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-300-20546-6
EAN 9780300205466
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14429-1
EAN 9780300144291
A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to themWith his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
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PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21276-1
EAN 9780300212761
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community ...
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Artists under Hitler
Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19747-1
EAN 9780300197471
A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany"What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of ...
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Family Politics
Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11211-5
EAN 9780300112115
An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century's first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life.In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and ...
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The Hundred Years War
A People's History
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13451-3
EAN 9780300134513
What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their worldThe Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
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PVP: 71,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20805-4
EAN 9780300208054
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- Yale University Press, 2014
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PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20610-4
EAN 9780300206104
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19805-8
EAN 9780300198058
A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literatureIn this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, ...
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The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19897-3
EAN 9780300198973
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