ISBN: 9780691209852 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2020
A collection of select quotations aby renowned artist and pop icon Keith HaringKeith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his...
ISBN: 9780691156224 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2012
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In "Blind Spots", leading business...
ISBN: 9780691209067 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 232 Rok wydania: 2020
Nine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphonesEvery day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from...
ISBN: 9780691165646 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2015
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work....
ISBN: 9780691202631 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Marcia Bjornerud Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2020
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow...
ISBN: 9780691154565 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 200 Rok wydania: 2012
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark...
ISBN: 9780691156682 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2012
Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, "New York Times" economics...
ISBN: 9780691191386 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2019
A dynamic exploration of infinityIn Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its...
ISBN: 9780691162393 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2014
Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the...
ISBN: 9780691152639 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 280 Rok wydania: 2011
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few...
ISBN: 9780691146010 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2010
Subtitled, }A Mathematical Novel{. A fictional introduction to concepts in maths.
ISBN: 9780691150093 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2011
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss - it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With...
ISBN: 9780691229850 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780691175577 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2017
"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice,...
ISBN: 9780691192116 Oprawa: twarda Autor: Plutarch Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2019
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled...
ISBN: 9780691145921 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2010
Shortlisted for the 2009 }Financial Times/ Goldman Sachs Business Book Of The Year{ award, and ahead of the eventual winner in the online poll, this incisive book explores the role of human...
ISBN: 9780691217079 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780691170275 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 544 Rok wydania: 2016
Amazons - fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world - were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon...
ISBN: 9780691233635 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 136 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780691208015 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2021