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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 269 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-0081-5
EAN 9781421400815
Review Quotes:"Dean's List" offers a thoughtful, common-sense approach to higher education that allows every student to achieve. Many books will tell you how to get an "A" in class, but this book encourages you to do more--to explore college life, embrace new challenges, and become independent.--Maureen T."Book Bargains and Previews" (01/01/2011)Review Quotes:To achieve success in ...
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"A rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life." -- "British Journal of the History of Science"
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PVP: 21,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-3938-2
EAN 9780801839382
In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent ...
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Much more than the biography of a family. It is in large measure the biography of an era . . . The reader comes away with the feeling that he has witnessed a panorama of intellectual history which transcends the records of individual failures and weaknesses.
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All a Novelist Needs
Colm Toibin on Henry James
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 148 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-9779-5
EAN 9780801897795
This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, "The Master," Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.Known for his acuity and originality, Toibin is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this ...
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Bargaining for what we want or need is a part of our everyday lives. But how often do we stop to consider all the factors that go into the bargaining process? How often do we look at the strategies and tactics available to us? And how often do we hurt our own position by failing ...
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Gross, Paul R.; Levitt, Norman
Higher Superstition : The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science
In this text, scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the academic left. This paperback edition includes a new afterword by the authors.
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"If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet."-from the Introduction ...
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Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and ...
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"Since the earliest days," writes Richard Chase in this classic study, "the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance." In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry ...
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"He was a man who often was incapable of conducting himself properly in the most elementary social interactions. His only continuing contacts with women were limited to his mother, nieces, and housekeepers. He was a man who knew the power of money and desired it, but refused to work for it, preferring to live off ...
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PVP: 18,13 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-2218-6
EAN 9780801822186
This brilliant study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 48,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-9073-4
EAN 9780801890734
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a geopolitics that puts Russia at the center of a number of axes: European-Asian, Christian-Muslim-Buddhist, Mediterranean-Indian, Slavic-Turkic, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8018-8665-2
EAN 9780801886652
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