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After playing a mild-mannered funeral home director in SIX FEET UNDER, Michael C. Hall makes a smooth transition to serial killer in this original crime drama. But the twist in this smart show is that Dexter chooses to prey only on other serial killers.As a child, Dexter is adopted by a cop (James Remar) who ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02836-4
EAN 9780674028364
When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In Four Centuries of Don Quixote, he revisits the quintessential Spanish novel a ...
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Adam's Fallacy
A Guide to Economic Theology
- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,93 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02729-9
EAN 9780674027299
This book could be called The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics. Like Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, ...
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The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 B.C. But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over forty plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of which nearly a thousand fragments survive. ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99624-3
EAN 9780674996243
In "The Learned Banqueters", Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century ad) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range ...
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The Highly Civilized Man
Richard Burton and the Victorian World
- Harvard University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02552-3
EAN 9780674025523
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 422 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02409-0
EAN 9780674024090
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- Harvard University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99620-5
EAN 9780674996205
In "The Learned Banqueters", Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the 2nd century A.D.) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99621-2
EAN 9780674996212
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- Harvard University Press, 2006
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02229-4
EAN 9780674022294
"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 648 páginas
PVP: 55,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02233-1
EAN 9780674022331
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and ...
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One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women's writing of the imperial period (221 B.C.E.-1911 C.E.). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving insights into the lives and feelings of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02154-9
EAN 9780674021549
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- Harvard University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99616-8
EAN 9780674996168
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire and fiction - giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture. The selections span 12 centuries, from Homer to Saint Jerome. The texts and translations ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-01828-0
EAN 9780674018280
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of ...
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Reading Edition
- Harvard University Press, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 696 páginas
PVP: 45,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-01824-2
EAN 9780674018242
Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 34,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-01822-8
EAN 9780674018228
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- Harvard University Press, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 38,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-01772-6
EAN 9780674017726
Though the Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
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- Harvard University Press, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 284 páginas
PVP: 21,19 €
ISBN 978-0-674-01638-5
EAN 9780674016385
In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human ...
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