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Blending military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind, distinguished historian Wilson offers an absorbing portrait of the decline of one of the world's great powers. The result is a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world, as well as a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents.
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-312-36315-4
EAN 9780312363154
For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought to us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Raymond Carver, Norman Mailer, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, Ralph Ellison, Martin Amis, and more.
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42759-7
EAN 9780312427597
Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and writes about the 1960s hippie culture. Annotation: Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and writes about the 1960s hippie culture.
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42811-2
EAN 9780312428112
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower, and its king ceased to sign himself Rex Imperator.This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people. Among them ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42778-8
EAN 9780312427788
John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane look like now--or are we looking for the wrong signs?In this ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42806-8
EAN 9780312428068
Arnaldur Indridason took the international crime fiction scene by storm after winning England's CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave. Now, with the highly anticipated Voices, this world-class sensation treats American readers to another extraordinary Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson thriller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector ...
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The Terror Dream
Fear and Fantasy in post 9/11 America
- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42800-6
EAN 9780312428006
In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 324 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42790-0
EAN 9780312427900
In" The World Without Us, "Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42798-6
EAN 9780312427986
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42684-2
EAN 9780312426842
A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of "M" and "A Death in Brazil" comes "Midnight in Sicily." South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,70 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42768-9
EAN 9780312427689
Based on the "many worlds" theory of quantum physics which posits the existence of parallel universes, The Man Who Turned Into Himself is a psychological thriller about a man who suddenly slips through the fabric of his reality, and is dropped into a strange, turbulent universe--our own. A suspenseful, mind-bending noir that addresses our deepest ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42756-6
EAN 9780312427566
The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 12,80 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42748-1
EAN 9780312427481
In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one ...
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- Picador USA, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42678-1
EAN 9780312426781
An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their ...
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At the Same Time
Essays and Speeches
- Picador USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42671-2
EAN 9780312426712
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century.At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was ...
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- Picador USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,40 €
ISBN 978-1-250-00872-5
EAN 9781250008725
In November 1918, socialist revolution sweeps across Germany, transforming Berlin, already ravaged by war, into a political battleground. Four women from the slums are discovered dead, all with identical markings on their back. When the fifth turns out to be Rosa Luxemburg, a leader of the suppressed socialist uprising, the political police complicate the investigations ...
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- Picador USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42724-5
EAN 9780312427245
Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom ...
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- Picador USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42732-0
EAN 9780312427320
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archeological dig. Bone by bone, the body is unearthed, and the brutalizing history of a ...
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The Echo Maker
NBA 2006
- Picador USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42643-9
EAN 9780312426439
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns ...
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