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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 ...
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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 ...
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Between You And Me
Confessions of a Comma Queen
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35214-6
EAN 9780393352146
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.Between You x{0026} Me ...
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Will in the World
How Shakespeare became Shakespeare
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 438 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35260-3
EAN 9780393352603
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued witha new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the ...
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Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Relationships, Creativity, and Resiliency : Skills and Practices
The relational context is the most important component of arts-based therapy work. This book demonstrates how this is so, explains the major art relational neuroscience principles relevant to art therapy and shows how they can be used to help clients with autobiographical memory, reflecting and creating, touch and space, meaning-making, emotions, and dealing with long-term ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-143-6
EAN 9781631491436
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Half-Earth
Our Planet's Fight for Life
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent.Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35217-7
EAN 9780393352177
Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and sold by companies and governments for surveillance and for control. "Foremost security expert" (Wired) Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a double-edged ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35064-7
EAN 9780393350647
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 491 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35224-5
EAN 9780393352245
Today's stock market is not for the faint-hearted. At a time when high-frequency traders and hedge funds seem to have the upper hand, one might ask what the average investor is to do. Turn to the rock-solid advice in Burton G. Malkiel's best-selling guide to investing. A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 504 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-26486-9
EAN 9780393264869
This Norton Critical Edition includes: - A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last version to which Conrad is known to have actively contributed. "Textual History and Editing Principles" provides an overview of the textual controversies and ambiguities perpetually surrounding Heart of Darkness. - Background and source materials on ...
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- Norton, 2015
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PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35188-0
EAN 9780393351880
Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate.An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of ...
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The Quantum Moment
How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
- Norton, 2015
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PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35192-7
EAN 9780393351927
The discovery of the quantum-the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities-planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of photons. Phrases such as multiverses, quantum ...
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Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from ...
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Jack's Life
A Biography of Jack Nicholson
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35096-8
EAN 9780393350968
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Cast of Characters
Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker
The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.
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- Norton, 2015
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PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35186-6
EAN 9780393351866
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club and Miss ...
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Beethoven's Symphonies
An Artistic Vision
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07644-8
EAN 9780393076448
More than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composer's mind, unveiling a creative process of astonishing scope and originality.For musicians and nonmusicians alike, Beethoven's symphonies stand at the ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,05 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-106-1
EAN 9781631491061
The legendary Jules Feiffer presents his first noir graphic novel. Spiced with the deft humour for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centres on five formidable women linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. Featuring a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08302-6
EAN 9780393083026
A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world.The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into ...
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