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Beethoven's Symphonies
An Artistic Vision
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07644-8
EAN 9780393076448
More than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composer's mind, unveiling a creative process of astonishing scope and originality.For musicians and nonmusicians alike, Beethoven's symphonies stand at the ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,05 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-106-1
EAN 9781631491061
The legendary Jules Feiffer presents his first noir graphic novel. Spiced with the deft humour for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centres on five formidable women linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. Featuring a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08302-6
EAN 9780393083026
A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world.The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24227-0
EAN 9780393242270
A leading American philosopher brings the tools of his trade to contentious contemporary debates.How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents?How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports?How can we talk sensibly about God?In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting takes a philosopher's scalpel to modern life's biggest questions and the most ...
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Orthodox Jew Yigal Amir, twenty years ago this November, remains the most consequential event in the country's recent history. Killing a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the assassination, as Rabin plotted political deals he hoped would lead to peace and Amir plotted murder. ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-23969-0
EAN 9780393239690
A Norton Anthology that illuminates how literature can help build ethically responsible leaders.What is the connection between literature and leadership? Are leaders born or are they made? Elizabeth D. Samet, the author of the award-winning Soldier's Heart and a professor of English at West Point, brings to this anthology her profound experiences as a teacher ...
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The Courage to Act
A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
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Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich's Berlin flat. Coming of age in the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's silent film industry. While Dietrich's depiction of Lola Lola in The Blue Angel catapulted her to Hollywood stardom, ...
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On Marx
Revolutionary and Utopian
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-060-6
EAN 9781631490606
A lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx. When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret ...
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On Machiavelli
The Search for Glory
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-058-3
EAN 9781631490583
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli. In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic ...
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On Aristotle
Saving Politics from Philosophy
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-057-6
EAN 9781631490576
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 ...
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35168-2
EAN 9780393351682
Bob Stanley musician, music critic, and unabashed fan recounts the progression from the Beach Boys to the Pet Shop Boys to the Beastie Boys; explores what connects doo wop to the sock hop; and reveals how technological changes have affected pop production. Working with a broad definition of pop one that includes country and metal, ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35163-7
EAN 9780393351637
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-114-6
EAN 9781631491146
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour.Whether attempting to explicate "the ...
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Palimpsest
A History of the Written Word
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-05885-7
EAN 9780393058857
A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2322-5
EAN 9780811223225
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-93633-9
EAN 9780393936339
The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. In his "Author's Note" to 'Twixt Land and Sea, Conrad writes of his two "Calm-pieces" ("The Secret Sharer" and The Shadow-Line) and his two "Storm-pieces" (The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and "Typhoon"). This edition is based on ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35116-3
EAN 9780393351163
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2149-8
EAN 9780811221498
A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to sit down to write ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24326-0
EAN 9780393243260
Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, ...
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