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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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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35026-5
EAN 9780393350265
The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines - seven women and three men - escape the plague-infested city and retreat to the countryside around Fiesole.At their leisure in this isolated and bucolic setting, they spend ten days telling each other stories tales of romance, tragedy, comedy, and ...
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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 dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24464-9
EAN 9780393244649
Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker s generous selections in A Stranger s Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp.In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems ...
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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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The Sphinx
Franklin Roosevelt, The Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08888-5
EAN 9780393088885
As World War II darkens Europe, FDR outfoxes homegrown opponents as he battles for the future of American foreign policy. Nicholas Wapshott follows Keynes Hayek with a lively narrative of one of the great political duels of the twentieth century: the high-stakes maneuvering among Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy, and the isolationist movement before America's entry ...
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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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Too Good to be True
The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34715-9
EAN 9780393347159
The colossal classic becomes even more colossal with a full new chapter of recent urban legends. Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find at least ...
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Midnight at the Pera Palace
The Birth of Modern Istambul
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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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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Shady Characters
The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34972-6
EAN 9780393349726
"An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics-highly recommended."-Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ( )-which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical ...
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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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The UnAmericans
Stories
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34996-2
EAN 9780393349962
A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by a 2013 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree. An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an ...
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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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