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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-065-1
EAN 9781631490651
Meet Big Sam Hannigan. Tough, righteous, a man on a mission. Only problem is, it's the wrong mission.With the New York Times bestseller Kill My Mother, legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer began an epic saga of American noir fiction. With Cousin Joseph, a prequel that introduces us to bare-knuckled Detective Sam Hannigan, head of the Bay ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35292-4
EAN 9780393352924
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Maupassant's 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 ...
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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 ...
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