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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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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-737-5
EAN 9780871407375
In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, "likely to be definitive for many years to come" (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonathan Sperber creates a meticulously researched and multilayered portrait of both the man and the revolutionary times in which he lived. Based on unprecedented access to the recently opened archives of ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34042-6
EAN 9780393340426
A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance-while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All ...
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Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 302 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34777-7
EAN 9780393347777
The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan strips away the arcane and ...
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Across the Pond
An Englishman's View of America
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34940-5
EAN 9780393349405
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British but we, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find our transatlantic neighbours just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive", use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's record collection or speak frequently of being ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 292 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34828-6
EAN 9780393348286
It's the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34709-8
EAN 9780393347098
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-91269-2
EAN 9780393912692
William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel's contemporary reception and its rich cultural ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34727-2
EAN 9780393347272
In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-92785-6
EAN 9780393927856
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-318-6
EAN 9780871403186
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Energy for Future Presidents
The Science behind the Headlines
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34510-0
EAN 9780393345100
Policymakers and casual readers alike can benefit . . . eye-opening . . . sheds lots of light with little wasted heat. Publishers Weekly The near meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-363-6
EAN 9780871403636
From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of ...
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The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34506-3
EAN 9780393345063
forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize winning economist. America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize winning economist ...
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The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. Nothing matched the violin for universal and varied expression, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared in 1768. Affordable, portable, and equally adaptable to Bach, Beethoven, jazz, klezmer, reels, ragas, gypsy fiddlers, and indie rock, as David Schoenbaum notes ...
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Beyond the Human Nature
How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind
In this era of genome projects and brain scans, it is all too easy to overestimate the role of biology in human psychology. But in this passionate corrective to the idea that DNA is destiny, Jesse Prinz focuses on the most extraordinary aspect of human nature: that nurture can supplement and supplant nature, allowing our ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 572 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08908-0
EAN 9780393089080
The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development ...
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The Swerve
How the World became Modern
- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34340-3
EAN 9780393343403
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a ...
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Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34363-2
EAN 9780393343632
As the crash of 1929 plunged the world economy into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene pointless ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-8112-1961-7
EAN 9780811219617
In this novel, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey connecting the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, and all they symbolize. One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of ...
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