Editorial Norton
Mostrando 728 libros encontrados (37 páginas)
-
With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E. E. Cummings in his lifetime.It spans his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, and through his last valedictory sonnets. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
To the Secretary
Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24658-2
EAN 9780393246582
A former American diplomat reveals a disconnect between Washington policymakers and those who work in US embassies.When the world awoke on November 28, 2010, and read the first of the 251,287 State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warned, 'It will be the September 11th of world diplomacy.' The WikiLeaks ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
The Book
A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24479-3
EAN 9780393244793
Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Erik Spiekermann, typographerWe may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-189-4
EAN 9781631491894
In a 'lively, sparkling, and sharp-edged' (Arthur Goldhammer) new translation, Guy de Maupassants most beloved works are reintroduced to twenty-first-century readers.A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35396-9
EAN 9780393353969
A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika'once considered a mild disease'was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice a trend: many mothers who had recently experienced ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Love and Ruin
Stories of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak from "The Atavist Magazine"
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35271-9
EAN 9780393352719
Extraordinary stories of crime, passion, and adventure from The Atavist magazine, the trailblazing leader in longform narrative writing.Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35257-3
EAN 9780393352573
A Change of World was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of a poet whose work has been crucial to discussions of gender, race, and class, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Rat F**ked
The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-162-7
EAN 9781631491627
The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obamas historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski began ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
The Well-Tuned Brain
The Remedy for a Manic Society
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35304-4
EAN 9780393353044
In this optimistic and inspiring book, Peter Whybrow, the prize-winning author of American Mania, returns to offer a prescription for genuine human progress.The Well-Tuned Brain is a call to action. Swept along by the cascading advances of todays technology, most of us take for granted that progress brings improvement. Despite spectacular material advance, however, the ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,48 €
ISBN 978-0-393-26488-3
EAN 9780393264883
The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This edition also includes: biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the fourth edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Also ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped todays world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Bellow's People
How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24687-2
EAN 9780393246872
A leading literary critics innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art.Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century'the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and the only novelist to be awarded the National Book Award in Fiction three times. ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-192-4
EAN 9781631491924
Sent to a 'therapeutic community' for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the 'Old Fox' of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new staffer and a disruptive, brain-injured roommate. His equilibrium is further worsened ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Misbehaving
The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 33,71 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35279-5
EAN 9780393352795
Disponibilidad inmediata (en stock)
-
Hillman, James; Shamdasani, Sonu
Lament of the Dead
Psychology After Jung's Red Book
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08894-6
EAN 9780393088946
In this book of dialogues, James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani reassess psychology, history, and creativity through the lens of Carl Jung's Red Book. Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, was one of the most prominent psychologists in America and is widely acknowledged as the most original figure to emerge from Jung's school. Shamdasani, editor and ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25402-0
EAN 9780393254020
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the euro.The euro was supposed to bring Europe closer together and promote prosperity; in fact, it has done just the opposite. The 2008 crisis revealed the shortcomings of the euro, and Europes stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35288-7
EAN 9780393352887
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek'a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher'gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine and schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria. In a riveting account that weaves history with fast-moving reportage and insider accounts, Sarah Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption.Since the late 1990s, corruption has reached ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Naked Money
A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
We use money every day. Yet the practice of exchanging paper or bytes for goods and services seems absurd if you think about it. Naked Money explores why money exists and why it so often gets entire nations in trouble.Charles Wheelan explains with his trademark wit and refreshing clarity how our banks and monetary systems ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
