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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation. Covering the major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of Western photography. This fundamental...
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2023.
Language
Español
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Los formatos en audio y especialmente el pódcast han abierto nuevas posibilidades comunicativas y creativas. Es un ecosistema en ebullición y evolución constante, que tiene una amplia repercusión en todas las audiencias, pero especialmente en los millennials a través de una nueva manera de contar historias, reales o de ficción. El ascenso es global, pero no puede entenderse sin su relación con algunas tendencias informativas y comunicativas...
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In this new paperback edition of the classic bestseller, you'll be taken on a hilarious, fast-paced ride through the history of ideas. Author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture foolishly use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the world. With four new chapters on putting the ideas in the book to work, updated references and over 50 corrections and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward for a discipline which is rich in potential. This shortform book offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance for contemporary business studies as well as the social sciences more broadly, as well as practitioners interested in historical perspectives. This book not only provides a comprehensive review of how the discipline of business history has evolved over the last...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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This book examines the progress of research and practical use of lasers chronologically, covering the fundamental science in detail alongside fascinating biographical sketches of famous physicists and summaries of seminal papers. It supplies helpful drawings of prototype devices, conceptual diagrams to aid in understanding, and remarkable historical photographs. The Second Edition features new chapters on ultrashort pulse lasers and nonlinear optics,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Wir leben bekanntermaßen in höchst visuellen Zeiten. Bilder prägen unser Denken, Fühlen und Sehen – aber unseren technologischen Fortschritt? Aber ja – haetten Sie gedacht, dass die Erfindung der Google-Bildersuche einzig und allein J.Los Kleiderwahl zur Grammyverleihung 2000 zu verdanken ist? Oder dass eine Wette über Pferdehufe beim Galopp zur Erfindung der ersten elektrischen Kameraverschlüsse führte? Dass ein berühmtes Porträt...
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
Estos últimos años han estado marcados por la corrección política antiliberal. El resultado de ello ha sido reforzar la idea de que nuestros males son culpa de la libertad y que debemos ser cada vez menos libres. Y siempre hay políticos dispuestos a que lo seamos. Carlos Rodríguez Braun refuta este pensamiento único en Panfletos liberales III: «la crisis no ha sido producida por la libertad sino por el intervencionismo. No es verdad...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire In Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change?, celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of and reasons for Rome's fall in the West. Steeped in applications of elite theory to the later Roman Empire, the author discusses several interconnected issues that influenced the decline...
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By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob") reveals those rules and helps you apply them.
Martin's Clean Architecture doesn't merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Our world is burdened with disappearing economic growth, a deteriorating environment, limited natural resources, and not just too many people, but too many old people. Really? While such pessimism may mark you as a wise soul at the neighborhood cocktail party, it isn't supported by the facts. Yes, there are reasons to worry, as there have always been. But there are far more reasons to be optimistic, as author Laurence Siegel explains in his fascinating...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer. --
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