The past decade has witnessed extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence. But what precisely is it and where does its future lie?In this brilliant, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Matt...
Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their...
A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the...
Una serie de asesinatos. Unas valiosas estatuas mayas. ŻMaldición milenaria o el juego de un codicioso ladrón?A series of murders. Some valuable Mayan statues. An ancient curse or the game of a...
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth...
Tras la Verdad, la Desaparición. SOLO DICKER PODÍA SUPERARSE A SÍMISMO. Más de 4.000.000 de lectores la están esperando. Por el ganador del Premio Goncourt des Lycéens, del Gran Premio de Novela de...
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century,...
Cuarto volumen de la serie «La Torre Oscura». El ka-tet consiguevencer al tren y sigue su camino hacia la Torre Oscura mientras Roland desvela la trágica historia de su juventud.Roland y su ka-tet...
"A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy" is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to...
Robert T. Kiyosaki, autor de Padre rico, padre pobre -el libro sobrefinanzas personales n? 1 en el mundo-, revela por qué algunas personas trabajan menos, ganan más, pagan menos impuestos y...
Una extraordinaria fábula sobre el sueño americano. Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, es el arquetipo de los legendarios años veinte en los que todo parecía posible, tiempo de...
By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make this possible?In this brilliantly wide-ranging,...
Una familia distinguida, apegada a tradiciones antiquísimas, nos muestra los conflictos que surgen entre padres e hijos.Pearl S. Buck ha sabido describir en sus libros el punto justo en que se...
If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a...
First published in 1979, Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare has established itself as a seminal work in ecology. Now with a new foreword żeby ecologist and writer Cristina Eisenberg, this penetrating...
A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuriesFew countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the...
This widely acclaimed introduction to N = 1 supersymmetry and supergravity is aimed at readers familiar with relativistic quantum field theory who wish to learn about the supersymmetry algebra....
Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the...
Offering a treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through...
Resulta difícil vivir en un mundo apocalíptico y, para sobrellevarlo, una mujer escribe un diario. Intenta, con ese gesto, reunir las fuerza s para salvarse de la destrucción total. Para sobrevivir...
«Los libros de Robin Sharma están ayudando a personas de todo el mundo a llevar vidas mejores.»Paulo Coelho Robin Sharma es uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en liderazgo y desempeño....
With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion żeby 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet. How is that to be achieved?In this brilliantly insightful, one...
__________________________________________________'Fresh, entertaining, funny and moving' RODDY DOYLE'A touching tale of how one woman survives a tough beginning to eventually end up...