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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-393-35064-7
EAN 9780393350647
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 491 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-393-35096-8
EAN 9780393350968
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The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24227-0
EAN 9780393242270
A leading American philosopher brings the tools of his trade to contentious contemporary debates.How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents?How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports?How can we talk sensibly about God?In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting takes a philosopher's scalpel to modern life's biggest questions and the most ...
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Orthodox Jew Yigal Amir, twenty years ago this November, remains the most consequential event in the country's recent history. Killing a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the assassination, as Rabin plotted political deals he hoped would lead to peace and Amir plotted murder. ...
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Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognised as a pioneer ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-23969-0
EAN 9780393239690
A Norton Anthology that illuminates how literature can help build ethically responsible leaders.What is the connection between literature and leadership? Are leaders born or are they made? Elizabeth D. Samet, the author of the award-winning Soldier's Heart and a professor of English at West Point, brings to this anthology her profound experiences as a teacher ...
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Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich's Berlin flat. Coming of age in the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's silent film industry. While Dietrich's depiction of Lola Lola in The Blue Angel catapulted her to Hollywood stardom, ...
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PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35165-1
EAN 9780393351651
n 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway premiere, which had been heading for ...
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