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- Norton, 2015
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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- Norton, 2015
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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The Courage to Act
A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
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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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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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On Marx
Revolutionary and Utopian
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-060-6
EAN 9781631490606
A lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx. When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret ...
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On Machiavelli
The Search for Glory
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-058-3
EAN 9781631490583
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli. In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic ...
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On Aristotle
Saving Politics from Philosophy
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-057-6
EAN 9781631490576
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 ...
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Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the Japanese aristocracy, wrote The Tale of Genji during the early years of the eleventh century. Expansive, compelling and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale is recognised as a masterpiece of world literature. The Tale of Genji is presented here in ...
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The Thinker's Thesaurus
Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35125-5
EAN 9780393351255
With over twenty percent more material, a must for any lover of distinctive words. This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word whether it's protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous in context by ...
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35168-2
EAN 9780393351682
Bob Stanley musician, music critic, and unabashed fan recounts the progression from the Beach Boys to the Pet Shop Boys to the Beastie Boys; explores what connects doo wop to the sock hop; and reveals how technological changes have affected pop production. Working with a broad definition of pop one that includes country and metal, ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35163-7
EAN 9780393351637
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape positions Ferlinghetti as a major voice whose personal writings are now added to the fabric of twentieth-century literary history. The volume gives glimpses of figures like William Burroughs in London, ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-114-6
EAN 9781631491146
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour.Whether attempting to explicate "the ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 3400 páginas
PVP: 54,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-26312-1
EAN 9780393263121
The Norton Shakespeare brings to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching features. The print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience in two ways-a printed volume for their lifetime library and a digital edition ideal for in-class use. Every play introduction, note, gloss and ...
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Palimpsest
A History of the Written Word
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-05885-7
EAN 9780393058857
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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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2322-5
EAN 9780811223225
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-93633-9
EAN 9780393936339
The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. In his "Author's Note" to 'Twixt Land and Sea, Conrad writes of his two "Calm-pieces" ("The Secret Sharer" and The Shadow-Line) and his two "Storm-pieces" (The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and "Typhoon"). This edition is based on ...
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