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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-653-8
EAN 9780871406538
A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 42,95 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-663-7
EAN 9780871406637
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. It was the forerunner of our digital age, improbably a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-010-1
EAN 9781631490101
A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-341-6
EAN 9781631493416
This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master.Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-680-4
EAN 9780871406804
From Delmonicos to Sylvias to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants. Combining a historians rigor with a foodie s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-023-1
EAN 9781631490231
In a hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel brings us a story (literally) ripped from the headlines of a bygone era.In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat on Manhattans Upper East Side. Resolved to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-707-8
EAN 9780871407078
No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine. It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence of Augustine-the once-hedonistic pagan turned ascetic theologian and defender of the early Christian Church-over all the subsequent history of Europe. Augustine 's political philosophy is pregnant ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-848-8
EAN 9780871408488
A guiding light to America's Founding Fathers, Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy. In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-438-1
EAN 9780871404381
In this episodic narrative of intellectual and artistic development, famed American composer Glass describes his involvement in the avant-garde music and art scenes in New York in the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as learning harmony and counterpoint in Paris from the brilliant composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger in the 1960s. He recounts touring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-865-5
EAN 9780871408655
"Remains a marvel: a sparkling, erudite, idiosyncratic tour through the human experience. . . . What a pageant this charming narrator continues to offer us!"-Wall Street Journal Winner of the first John Newberry Medal, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind, originally written for the author's grandchildren, has charmed generations with its warmth and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-841-9
EAN 9780871408419
A teenage girl and her unraveling family travel cross-country in preparation for the Rapture in this radiant, highly anticipated debut.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-314-8
EAN 9780871403148
When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street in Kill My Mother.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-100-7
EAN 9780871401007
Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-385-8
EAN 9780871403858
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career both his successes and his failures and his motivations for becoming a biologist. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-741-2
EAN 9780871407412
"Under James's uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new."-Stephen Greenblatt The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation-decades in the making-gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-706-1
EAN 9780871407061
In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly empirical cast of mind was brought to bear on a stunning range of subjects and the resulting system dominated European thought from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-705-4
EAN 9780871407054
For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, Machiavelli's influence on the modern state is explored in this book. In On Machiavelli, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the godfather of realpolitik. Often outraging popular opinion, Machiavelli eschewed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-720-7
EAN 9780871407207
From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness'just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If YouveHeard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1136 páginas
PVP: 53,10 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-710-8
EAN 9780871407108
Now presented in a beautiful new edition, Complete Poems 1904 1962 showcases E. E. Cummings's transcendent body of work, collected in its entirety. This edition of E. E. Cummings's Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-169-4
EAN 9780871401694
Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.
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