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Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this study is based. In the surprising and revealing links between them - links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages and professional disappointments - Barbara Johnson maps the co-ordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every ...
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Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death? This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction betweenm trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, as well as the trials of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 282 páginas
PVP: 29,84 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03557-7
EAN 9780674035577
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 18,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03466-2
EAN 9780674034662
Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations in small pocket pads and school theme books throughout his life. These notebooks, transcribed and presented here in their entirety for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03583-6
EAN 9780674035836
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs' short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery", published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs' autobiography. It is an exciting addition ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 536 páginas
PVP: 19,44 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03472-3
EAN 9780674034723
Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman'the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story. With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,44 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03473-0
EAN 9780674034730
As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. Divided by Faith begins in ...
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Campbell, Keith; Shweber, Silvan S.; Tudge, Colin
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,44 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03452-5
EAN 9780674034525
Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed'in their worldview, in their work, and in their day'this book provides powerful insights into the lives of two critical figures and into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1128 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03594-2
EAN 9780674035942
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along'a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more ...
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