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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17647-6
EAN 9780300176476
Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heartfelt feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author's significant contributions to modern political philosophy, making a ...
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Hard Times
The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20377-6
EAN 9780300203776
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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Hirata, Keiko; Warschauer, Mark
Japan
The Paradox of Harmony
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18607-9
EAN 9780300186079
Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and success, for decades Asia's premier economic giant. Yet it remains a nation hobbled by rigid gender roles, protectionist policies, and a defensive, inflexible corporate system that has helped bring about political ...
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1940
FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler-the Election amid the Storm
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-20574-9
EAN 9780300205749
The spellbinding story of the Roosevelt-Willkie election season, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the worldIn 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency-Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie-found themselves ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20535-0
EAN 9780300205350
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich-and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at ...
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Voyaging in Strange Seas
The Great Revolution in Science
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17379-6
EAN 9780300173796
An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of CookIn 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed-Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A ...
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Brazil
The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16560-9
EAN 9780300165609
A knowledgeable appreciation of a complex, vital South American giant, destined to be one of the world's premier economic powersExperts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the ...
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The Spanish Inquisition
A Historical Revision
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18051-0
EAN 9780300180510
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish ...
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The Great Plague
A People's History
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17381-9
EAN 9780300173819
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20571-8
EAN 9780300205718
What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20530-5
EAN 9780300205305
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20407-0
EAN 9780300204070
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18610-9
EAN 9780300186109
Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this masterful translation. In ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8
EAN 9780300203998
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come byHow to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20393-6
EAN 9780300203936
In times of economic crisis austerity becomes a rallying cry, but what does history tell us about its chances for success?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 ...
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The Invention of News
How the World Came to Know About Itself
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 465 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-17908-8
EAN 9780300179088
The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaperLong 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. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18641-3
EAN 9780300186413
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and ...
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Fragile Empire
How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20522-0
EAN 9780300205220
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 42,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20729-3
EAN 9780300207293
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures-lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable lack of jargon-distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20346-2
EAN 9780300203462
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