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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16223-4
EAN 9780231162234
Chosen from the nominees and winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards, this year's anthology covers a range of developments in culture, commerce, society, and politics, from the passing of Steve Jobs to the controversy over breast cancer research funding, from the ongoing trauma of battle-scarred soldiers to the resurgence of issues concerning women's safety ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13617-4
EAN 9780231136174
In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 30,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16133-6
EAN 9780231161336
Closely reading the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Hunter Vaughan establishes a connection between phenomenology and image-philosophy to analyze the moving image and its challenge to conventional modes of thought. Striving to establish a clear foundation for the recent field of inquiry called film-philosophy, he devises a systematic theory of film's philosophical function ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16044-5
EAN 9780231160445
Since its inception, philosophy has been more than an abstract search for truth or body of knowledge. It perfects one's understanding by means of discussion and dialogue and personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. Philosophers such as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet they share a common method of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15319-5
EAN 9780231153195
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15871-8
EAN 9780231158718
In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 605 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15731-5
EAN 9780231157315
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16073-5
EAN 9780231160735
The Best Business Writing 2012 reflects the year's most intriguing reporting and rigorous investigative journalism at a time of dramatic economic crisis and upheaval. Covering bad business behavior, the intersection of politics and money, and big-picture analysis, the volume fills a longstanding gap for those seeking diverse, enriching, and lively perspectives on the business world.This ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 632 páginas
PVP: 45,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15921-0
EAN 9780231159210
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13182-7
EAN 9780231131827
While the security of the state affects the security of women, does it also hold that the security of women help determine the security of states? Provocatively affirming this claim, Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, proving the situation of women to be a vital variable in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15394-2
EAN 9780231153942
Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings on the subject are largely scant, implicit, or discordant with each ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15940-1
EAN 9780231159401
The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 will be one of our richest collections to date, full of award-winning pieces covering the year's most intriguing events. Some essays for the anthology created their own controversies, such as Michael Hastings's The Runaway General, which forced the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal within days of its being published ...
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By dividing the creation of matter, energy, life, and mind into three big bangs, Holmes Rolston III brings into focus a history of the universe that respects both scientific discovery and the potential presence of an underlying intelligence. Matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms but with a remarkable capacity for generating heavier elements. The size ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 39,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15856-5
EAN 9780231158565
At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote an essay on Vladimir Nabokov that the author called "brilliant." In 1991, after gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, that has become standard reading. This collection features essays written ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15931-9
EAN 9780231159319
The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Along the way, the authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 96,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15262-4
EAN 9780231152624
In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15759-9
EAN 9780231157599
"In this book Udi Aloni, causing a power fault in the ruling liberal attitude by way of short-circuiting different levels of ideology, art, and thought; rewrites the Oedipus myth and rejects liberal Zionism. Who but Aloni can combine the tremendous poetic power of creating new myths with the perspicuous mind of a cold theoretician? Who ...
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