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- Anchor, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56733-2
EAN 9780525567332
The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, ...
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- Anchor, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56547-5
EAN 9780525565475
At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in nineteenth-century New England.When a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the ...
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Hidden Valley Road
Inside the Mind of an American Family
- Anchor, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56264-1
EAN 9780525562641
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their ...
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- Anchor, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56275-7
EAN 9780525562757
Soon to be a motion picture starring Colin Firth and directed by Pat O'Connor.The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin the German-Jewish critic and philosopher has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city ...
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- Anchor, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-593-08067-2
EAN 9780593080672
Elizabeth Bowen's deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples' peaceful lives as a long-concealed secret explodes to the surface. The repercussions ripple through four different families connected by the ...
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The Evolution Of Beauty
How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
- Anchor, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80457-0
EAN 9780345804570
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences'what Darwin termed 'the taste for the beautiful''create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum'reviving Darwins own views'presents a unique scientific vision for how natures splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves. Deep ...
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- Anchor, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-307-47376-9
EAN 9780307473769
Jeremy Logan, the renowned enigmologist, has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now.When Logan travels to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book, he discovers the remote community ...
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To be a Machine
Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
- Anchor, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-101-91159-4
EAN 9781101911594
A provocative and entertaining journey into the world of tech visionaries, Silicon Valley billionaires, and brilliant eccentrics dedicated to the enhancement and ultimate salvation of mankind.Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology of our senses, intelligence, and lifespans with technology. Its supporters have reached a critical mass and now include some of ...
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A Little Life
National Book Award for Fiction Shortlist ; Baileys Women's Shortlist 2016
- Anchor, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7270-7
EAN 9780804172707
A Little Life follows four college classmates broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, ...
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- Anchor, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-101-87231-4
EAN 9781101872314
Twenty unforgettable stories the best of the year by celebrated writers as well as new and emerging voices. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories roam the world, from the glamorous beaches of the Riviera ...
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Five decades of Maeve's articles for the Irish Times, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am ...
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- Anchor, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-39033-2
EAN 9780307390332
A quartet of novellas chronicling the lives of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America, from the award-winning author Mary Gordon.In the four novellas that make up this absorbing and exquisite collection, Mary Gordon offers beautifully rendered, deeply psychological stories about the relationships between Americans abroad and Europeans in the U.S., historical and contemporary. Here ...
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Stone Mattress
Nine Wicked Tales
- Anchor, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7350-6
EAN 9780804173506
In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In "Lusus Naturae," a young woman, ...
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- Anchor, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80603-1
EAN 9780345806031
Books, libraries, and newspapers have at last become things of the past. Now handheld Memes allow for constant communication and entertainment. They can even anticipate our needs, dialing the doctor before we know we're sick, or prompting us with words we can't recall. Yet a few dedicated wordsmiths are still laboring on the final print ...
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Empress Dowager Cixi
The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Anchor, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,40 €
ISBN 978-0-307-45670-0
EAN 9780307456700
From the author of Mao and Wild Swans comes the epic biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of tradition to bring a medieval empire into the modern age.Empress Dowager Cixi ("Tsu-Shee") is the most important woman in Chinese history. At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as one ...
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- Anchor, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-45548-2
EAN 9780307455482
In this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth. As Toby explains their origins to the curious ...
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- Anchor, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,88 €
ISBN 978-0-307-45592-5
EAN 9780307455925
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- Anchor, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-47365-3
EAN 9780307473653
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history--the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world--Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter ...
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- Anchor, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
ISBN 978-0-307-27989-7
EAN 9780307279897
The fourth installment of Alexander McCall Smith's Portuguese Irregular Verbs series featuring Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, a maddening, ridiculous, utterly inspired comic creation.Professor Doctor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regarded Portuguese Irregular Verbs (200 copies sold) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city ...
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