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Marc Bloch - A Life In History

de Carole (University Of North Carolina, Wilmington) Fink

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1991 book was the first biography of Marc Bloch (1886â€"1944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death. Based largely on Bloch's private letters, diaries and papers, as well as on other unpublished documents, it traces the remarkable life of this French-Jewish patriot under the Third Republic.
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'Nature And The Greeks' And 'Science And Humanism'

de Erwin Schrodinger

31,79€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The text of two series of lectures given by one of the great philosopher-scientists of the century.
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Secularization Of The European Mind In The Nineteenth Century

de Owen Chadwick

34,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century, identifying and exploring both the social and the intellectual aspects of this momentous change.
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'Nature And The Greeks' And 'Science And Humanism'

de Erwin Schrodinger

31,79€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Multivalued Fields: In Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, And Gravitation - In Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, And Gravitation

de Hagen (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Kleinert

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Provides students and researchers with supplementary reading material for graduate courses on phase transitions, quantum field theory, gravitational physics, and differential geometry. This book lays the foundations of the theory of fluctuating multivalued fields with numerous applications.
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The Child And The Book - A Psychological And Literary Exploration

de Nicholas Tucker

48,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Children's responses to literature are equally fascinating from the psychological and the literary point of view. Nicholas Tucker's exploratory study traces the relationship between the child and the book using both these perspectives, from the baby's first picture book to the moment when the adolescent reader takes up adult literature.
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Tales Of The Yanomami - Daily Life In The Venezuelan Forest

de Jacques Lizot

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The author lived for over 15 years with the Yanomami Indians in the Venezuelan forest and in this book he has written an account which allows them to speak for themselves, in stories told by Yanomami individuals. They describe shamanism, magic and sorcery and conflict between other villages.
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Richelieu And Olivares

de J. H. (University Of Oxford) Elliott

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A comparative portrait of Richelieu and Olivares, as personalities and as statesmen, drawn through study of their policies and their mutual struggle. This book also offers insights into 17th-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.
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Feminist Literary Studies - An Introduction

de K. K. (University Of Adelaide) Ruthven

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 K. K. Ruthven looks at the impact of Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism on feminist critical practice; the argument that literary language has been shaped by masculine bias; and feminist claims for distinctive styles and traditions of women's writing. An original and provocative study that serves as a valuably clear and sympathetic guide to the complexities of an important issue.
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Under This Blazing Light

de Amos Oz

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This collection â€" published here in English for the first time â€" brings together a number of political, personal and literary pieces by Israel's most celebrated living novelist. Their refreshing blend of scepticism and idealism will attract new readers while delighting those already familiar with Oz's writings.
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The Arab Predicament - Arab Political Thought And Practice Since 1967

de Fouad Ajami

31,09€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? Fouad Ajami seeks to answer a range of related questions in his illuminating study of the constraints and possibilities facing the Arab world today. This revised 1992 edition of Ajami's acclaimed study was updated and renews the book's status as an indispensable guide to the politics of the Arab world.
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The Great Wall Of China - From History To Myth

de Arthur Waldron

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Arthur Waldron reveals that the notion of an ancient and continuously existing Great Wall, one of modern China's national symbols and a legend in the eyes of the West, is in fact a myth. It is also the subject of an awesome mythology, embedded in both learned and popular imaginations, which has grown up and now obscured the historical record.
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The Byzantine Lady - Ten Portraits, 1250â€“1500

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a lively collection of ten biographies of aristocratic ladies of the Byzantine empire in its final years. The stories of their lives offer a new perspective on the Byzantine empire, and a fascinating insight into the lives of women in past times.
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Reliable Knowledge - An Exploration Of The Grounds For Belief In Science

de John M. Ziman

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Reliable Knowledge offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends.
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The Outer Reaches Of Life

de John R. Postgate

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 John Postgate's fascinating exploration of the invisible world of microbes provides new clues to the origin and evolution of terrestrial life, and reveals the remarkable resilience and potential of life itself.
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Space, Time And Man - A Prehistorian'S View

de Grahame (University Of Cambridge) Clark

28,39€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 'Grahame Clark studies the human animal in a vast perspective of space and time, showing how the adventure of human exploration has shaped our understanding of the world and of our place in it. It is a remarkable survey, taking a broad sweep, and probably only Grahame Clark, author of World Prehistory, could have written a work so comprehensive in its scope.' Colin Renfrew
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The Myth Of The Magus

de E. M. Butler

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Magus, a legendary magician of superhuman powers, is an archetype central to myth and religion across many cultures. Identifying its anthropological origins in ancient rituals, E. M. Butler goes on to trace its subsequent development.
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Disraeli - A Brief Life

de Paul Smith

39,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This concise study of Disraeli, aimed at the general reader as much as at the student, stands in contrast to the many full-length studies which continue to appear. It focuses on the substantial reassessment of Disraeli's career and personality which is currently taking place.
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The Rise And Rule Of Tamerlane

de Beatrice Forbes (Tufts University, Massachusetts) Manz

32,45€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the first full study of an extraordinary person, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines Tamerlane as the founder of a nomad conquest dynasty and as a supremely talented individual, raising many current questions about the mechanisms of state formation, the dynamics of tribal politics, and the relations of tribes to central leadership.
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The Pastons And Their England - Studies In An Age Of Transition

de H. S. Bennett

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This account of the Pastons' England reveals an age of historical transition as it was played out in the daily challenges of individual lives.
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Beyond Science - The Wider Human Context

de John (University Of Cambridge) Polkinghorne

24,33€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 John Polkinghorne examines the nature of scientific inquiry itself and the human context in which science operates. The book looks to issues of meaning and value, as well as more practical aspects of the discipline.
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The Secularization Of The European Mind In The Nineteenth Century

de Owen (University Of Cambridge) Chadwick

35,15€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century, identifying and exploring both the social and the intellectual aspects of this momentous change.
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Black Holes And The Universe

de I.D. Novikov e Igor D. Novikov

41,90€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A popular account of the properties and significance of black holes.
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Path To Genocide - Essays On Launching The Final Solution

de Christopher R. Browning

22,98€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An authoritative and compelling account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy between 1939 and 1942.
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