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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72465-5
EAN 9780674724655
Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love--intense attachments outside our control--can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy. How can ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07235-0
EAN 9780674072350
This is a primer on the Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaums innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues that much humanitarian policy today violates basic human values; instead, she offers a unique means of redirecting government and development policy toward helping each of us lead a full and creative life.If a countrys Gross Domestic Product ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07225-1
EAN 9780674072251
The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the same large question. He develops original ...
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"He was a supreme artist in the intimacies and connections that bind people together or tear them apart," says Leon Edel in his introduction to this collection of Henry James's best letters. Edel has chosen, from the four-volume epistolarium already published, those letters which especially illuminate James's writing, his life, his thoughts and fancies, his ...
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Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar. James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greateat self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Mr. Edel, respecting James's view that only the best of a writer's letters deserve publication, ...
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In this, the second volume of Leon Edel's superb edition of the letters, we see Henry James in his thirties, pursuing his writing in Paris and London and finding his first literary successes in "Daisy Miller" and "The Portrait of a Lady." The letters of these years, describing for family and friends in Boston the ...
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The third volume of Leon Edel's superb edition of "Henry James"'s letters finds the novelist settled in Europe and his expatriation complete. The letters of this time reflect the growth of James's literary and personal friendships and introduce the reader to the frescoed palazzos, Palladian villas, and great estates of the Roseberys, the Rothschilds, the ...
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This volume, the conclusion of Leon Edel's splendid edition, rounds off a half century of work on James by the noted biographer-critic. In the letters of the novelist's last twenty years a new Henry James is revealed. Edel's generous selection shows us, as he says, a "looser, less formal, less distant" personality, a man writing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07251-0
EAN 9780674072510
Jeremy Bernstein guides readers through high-energy physics from early twentieth-century atomic models to leptons, mesons, quarks, and the newly discovered Higgs boson, drawing them into the excitement of a universe where 80 percent of all matter has never been identified. From molecules to galaxies, the more we discover, the less we seem to know.From molecules ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06638-0
EAN 9780674066380
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeares Sonnets, she serves as an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06604-5
EAN 9780674066045
In spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an abominable poem about the king. So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense?In this captivating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06631-1
EAN 9780674066311
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be offensive to Victorians.More than ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 996 páginas
PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06231-3
EAN 9780674062313
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from England were heavily ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 215 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06014-2
EAN 9780674060142
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02678-0
EAN 9780674026780
Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, hunger was viewed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03338-2
EAN 9780674033382
Drawing heavily on Chinese sources, "The Generalissimo" reveals fascinating aspects of Chiang Kai-shek's life. Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03218-7
EAN 9780674032187
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 13,56 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02370-3
EAN 9780674023703
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-01382-7
EAN 9780674013827
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 37,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-48526-6
EAN 9780674485266
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