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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60864-9
EAN 9780393608649
A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic. Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library x{0026} Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens's own ...
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This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely. - Contemporary perspectives by Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Monroe Gregory, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. - Essays by William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely, Henry ...
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Blood at the Root
A Racial Cleansing in America
A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black ...
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A Stranger's Mirror
New and Selected Poems 1994-2014
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35331-0
EAN 9780393353310
Longlisted for the National Book AwardA selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets.Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary ...
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Indelible Ink
The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ashes to Ashes.The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech ...
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An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians ...
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Wise Bauer, Susan; Wise, Jessie
The Well-Trained Mind
A Guide to Classical Education at Home
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
PVP: 41,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25362-7
EAN 9780393253627
Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child's education by doing it yourself.The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from ...
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You must Change your Life
The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35492-8
EAN 9780393354928
The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke is commissioned to write a book about Rodin, ...
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American Revolutions
A Continental History 1750-1804
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 44,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08281-4
EAN 9780393082814
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding.Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35338-9
EAN 9780393353389
Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes. Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books. One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this smart, clear and timely book (Washington Post). Still essential and still timely ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35327-3
EAN 9780393353273
After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta's first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they're assigned is chilling: a serial murderer who seems to be violently targeting Atlanta's wealthiest black ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-28438-6
EAN 9780393284386
This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvere Monod's superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan's expanded annotations. - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890. - Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens' time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in ...
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This Norton Critical Edition includes: -The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Bronte, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes. -"Contexts," highlighting Jane Eyre as a bildungsroman through diary entries and letters by the author about her experiences as a student, teacher, and governess as well as her feelings about friendship, love, and ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35341-9
EAN 9780393353419
Rethinking economics, from the inside out.In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly ...
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The Ethics of Invention
Technology and the Human Future
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07899-2
EAN 9780393078992
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, ...
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The Rye Baker
Classic Breads from Europe and America
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24521-9
EAN 9780393245219
To many Americans, rye bread is a bland, store-bought loaf with an oval cross-section and, sometimes, a sprinkling of caraway. But true rye bread the kind that stands at the center of northern and eastern European food culture is so much more. In The Rye Baker, Stanley Ginsberg brings this overlooked grain into the culinary ...
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Domesticated
Evolution in a Man-Made World
Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization the Middle East is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate association with ...
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- Norton, 2016
Estuche encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1312 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-243-3
EAN 9781631492433
Ten years in the making, comes a literary work Like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's ...
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The Dream of Reason
A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35298-6
EAN 9780393352986
"His book...supplant s all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell." A. C. Grayling Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings ...
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The Immortal Evening
A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35306-8
EAN 9780393353068
A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. The author of the highly acclaimed Posthumous Keats, praised as full of . . . those fleeting moments we call genius (Washington Post), now provides a window into the lives of Keats and his contemporaries in this ...
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