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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2337-9
EAN 9780811223379
An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of portable literature. The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08094-0
EAN 9780393080940
Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth and change the way ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 3860 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35059-3
EAN 9780393350593
Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty t-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads.Weber ...
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The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. "See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35089-0
EAN 9780393350890
Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, further and more efficiently than they had before. As secretary of France's Lighthouse Commission, he planned and oversaw the lighting of the nation's coast.Although ...
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Family Life
2015 Folio Prize for Fiction
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35060-9
EAN 9780393350609
Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35137-8
EAN 9780393351378
A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne.
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34982-5
EAN 9780393349825
Overlooking the significance of America's Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfolding east to west, beginning with the first settlers in Jamestown. In an absorbing narrative, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto begins with the explorers and conquistadors who planted Spain's first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida and the ...
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Digital Cosmopolitans
Why We Think the Internet Connects Us, Why It Doesn't, and How to Rewire It
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35032-6
EAN 9780393350326
"One of our most important books on globalization." -Steve O'Keefe, New York Journal of Books As the Internet expands, we assume that our ability to communicate with others, our social connections, increase likewise. In Digital Cosmopolitans, Ethan Zuckerman draws on current trends and the latest research to show us how this hasn't always been the ...
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Grambs, David; Levine, Ellen S.
The Describer's Dictionary
A Treasury of Terms and Literary Quotations
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34616-9
EAN 9780393346169
The unmatched guide-and perfect gift-for stymied scribes and working wordsmiths everywhere, now expanded and updated. A book obsessed with capturing the world in words, The Describer's Dictionary is an indispensable reference tool that writers have turned to over the past twenty years in pursuit of clarity and honesty in their craft.The dictionary is organized in ...
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Capturing Music
The Story of Notation
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 46,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06496-4
EAN 9780393064964
An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings. In today's digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats-before CDs, the eight-track tape, the radio, and the turntable-there was only one recording technology: ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 864 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-453-4
EAN 9780871404534
From across strange aeons comes the long-awaited annotated edition of "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" (Stephen King). "With an increasing distance from the twentieth century the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically ...
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Napoleon Symphony
A Novel in Four Movements
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35015-9
EAN 9780393350159
Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called "elephantine fun" to write. A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed-in liberty, equality, and fraternity-from Beethoven's Third "Eroica" Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-92478-7
EAN 9780393924787
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George Frideric Handel
A Life with Friends
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08895-3
EAN 9780393088953
An intimate portrait of Handel's life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer's favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself-known to most as the composer of Messiah-is a bit of a mystery. ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34973-3
EAN 9780393349733
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 31,67 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34927-6
EAN 9780393349276
To John J. Mearsheimer the anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to a relentless power struggle. The best survival strategy is to become a regional hegemon and to make sure that no other hegemon emerges elsewhere. He predicts that China will attempt to ...
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The Bonobo and the Atheist
In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34779-1
EAN 9780393347791
In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature. Bringing together his pioneering research on primate behaviour, the latest findings in evolutionary biology and insights from moral philosophy, de Waal explains that we don't need the spectres of God or the law in order to ...
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Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34792-0
EAN 9780393347920
Theories about how our ancestors lived and why we should emulate them are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, Marlene Zuk explains that evolution can work faster than was previously realised, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. ...
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