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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1000 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11254-2
EAN 9780300112542
A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 616 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18609-3
EAN 9780300186093
From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur," "as if doctrine is not given." Reproducing the texts' often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or ...
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The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep
Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 30,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23072-7
EAN 9780300230727
Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense "A few pages into David Satter's truly terrifying book, one realizes that his title is smack-on accurate: modern Russia is a frightening member of the world community to an extent of which most persons are blissfully unaware."-Joseph C. Goulden, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19760-0
EAN 9780300197600
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner ...
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Forgotten Continent
A History of the New Latin America
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22465-8
EAN 9780300224658
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that much of Central and South America, though less poor, less unequal, and better educated than ...
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An American Genocide
The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 43,65 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23069-7
EAN 9780300230697
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the ...
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Hitler's Soldiers
The German Army in the Third Reich
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22880-9
EAN 9780300228809
A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22882-3
EAN 9780300228823
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ...
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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22339-2
EAN 9780300223392
An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves and celebrates their recent discoveryIn February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity vibrations in space-time, called gravitational waves. Humanity can now tune in to a cosmic orchestra. We have heard the ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 11,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23221-9
EAN 9780300232219
Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22712-3
EAN 9780300227123
A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so weighted with legend and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22869-4
EAN 9780300228694
A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22881-6
EAN 9780300228816
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion-from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21936-4
EAN 9780300219364
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities-revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides-that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as much as one-third of the global population, and reveals ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 178 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22644-7
EAN 9780300226447
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires ...
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The Only Game In Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22263-0
EAN 9780300222630
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21804-6
EAN 9780300218046
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets, is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth ...
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The Gift of the Gab
How Eloquence Works
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22640-9
EAN 9780300226409
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned expert ...
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Simulacra
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize
- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22396-5
EAN 9780300223965
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion.Her poems cross historical boundaries ...
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- Yale University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22709-3
EAN 9780300227093
A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe ...
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