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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles-the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg-that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 715 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-307-95930-0
EAN 9780307959300
A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-70163-3
EAN 9780307701633
Misanthropy, atrocity, the Midwest--Gass revisits some familiar themes in this novel, though this ride is smoother than its epic predecessor, The Tunnel (1995). The hero of this engaging, melancholy novel is Joseph Skizzen, an Ohio music professor who consistently dissembles to get ahead in life, from the driver's license he faked to get his first ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 24,45 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59328-3
EAN 9780307593283
A unique and revelatory work of musical history: the first book to examine in great depth what is perhaps the best known and most popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last 200 years.Music critic Matthew Guerrieri reaches back before Beethoven's time to examine what ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59688-8
EAN 9780307596888
A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped-the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-307-95888-4
EAN 9780307958884
From the author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index, a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love, and of the impossibility of understanding, much less controlling, it.In these seven beautifully wrought variations on a theme, a series of characters trace and retrace eternal yet ever-changing patterns of love ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 308 páginas
PVP: 29,35 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27216-4
EAN 9780307272164
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, former foreign editor, correspondent, and publisher of "The Wall Street Journal"--a uniquely informed, authoritative, and illuminating look at Saudi Arabia today.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-71206-7
EAN 9780375712067
Now in paperback, the powerful selected work of Simon Armitage, the most distinctive poetic voice of contemporary Britain.Simon Armitage is arguably the leading British poet of the past twenty years. His knowledge of the English just as they are ("a gentleman farmer / living on reduced means, a cricketer's widow, / sowing a kitchen garden ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 349 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-307-26564-7
EAN 9780307265647
The spellbinding story--part fairy tale, part suspense--of Klimt's most famous painting, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time: the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious, "degenerate'' artist who painted it; the now-vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange twisted fate that befell it.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 38,30 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59341-2
EAN 9780307593412
A second volume of collected lyrics by the iconic music artist features accompanying discussions of his experiences in the theater, memories about some of his important collaborations and dissections of what he believes to be his most significant successes and failures, providing additional coverage of his creative process and non-sequitur pieces.
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In BACK TO WORK, former US President Bill Clinton details the urgent challenges facing the United States and offers a plan to get America back into the future business. This essential book outlines Clinton'svision to move the US out of economic crisis and lay foundations for long-term prosperity. He offers specific recommendations on getting the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-307-26844-0
EAN 9780307268440
One of our greatest art and cultural critics now takes on Rome's complicated history as a city, an empire, an origin of Western art and civilization, and as his own inspiration. Robert Hughes opens this authoritative, searingly smart history with his own arrival in Rome in 1958, as a wide-eyed twenty-year-old from Australia. We see ...
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A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 279 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-375-86903-7
EAN 9780375869037
It has been fifty years and millions of readers since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason.Now we have a remarkable 50th anniversary edition to honor this universally adored and deeply influential novel. This special edition will ...
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