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Libro · 576 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-05742-5
EAN 9780520057425
Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukacs, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's ...
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The Unmaking of the Middle East
A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
Libro · 484 páginas
PVP: 16,84 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26170-9
EAN 9780520261709
Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: "Why do they hate us?" Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 36,34 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25652-1
EAN 9780520256521
Spectacular in scope and visually brilliant, this atlas presents a sweeping history of the American West through more than 600 original, full-color maps and extended captions. From the earliest human inhabitants and the first European explorers to the national parks and retirement resorts of today, this extensive collection chronicles the West from uncharted territory to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-20571-0
EAN 9780520205710
To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,19 €
ISBN 978-0-520-24979-0
EAN 9780520249790
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On Earth
Last Poems and an Essay
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 81,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25197-7
EAN 9780520251977
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Radio, Film and the Death of Weimar Culture
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 316 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25997-3
EAN 9780520259973
This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republic's left-leaning culture of innovation and experimentation. Peter Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), a novel that questioned the autonomy and coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 295 páginas
PVP: 18,14 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26006-1
EAN 9780520260061
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this ...
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When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition is testament to the formative effect that ...
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This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals - including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his ...
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Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece "Death in Venice." Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, "The Black Swan" evinces Mann's mastery of psychological analysis and his compelling interest in the intersection of the physical ...
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Caesar's Calendar
Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 386 páginas
PVP: 17,44 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25801-3
EAN 9780520258013
The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 251 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25803-7
EAN 9780520258037
"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. Why Classical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 286 páginas
PVP: 14,38 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25812-9
EAN 9780520258129
When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,36 €
ISBN 978-0-520-20103-3
EAN 9780520201033
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The Search for Meaning
A Short History
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 313 páginas
PVP: 17,93 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25793-1
EAN 9780520257931
In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to ...
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Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girlsthe author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry.This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject ...
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