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When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the film star, the hunk and the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the ...
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Many see China's rise as a threat to US leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues instead that the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while eliciting its global cooperation. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a deep perspective on China's military and ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35116-3
EAN 9780393351163
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2149-8
EAN 9780811221498
A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to sit down to write ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24326-0
EAN 9780393243260
Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2337-9
EAN 9780811223379
An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of portable literature. The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man ...
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We've all been there: faced with a major decision, yet overwhelmed by the very data that is supposed to help us. It's an all-too-common struggle in the digital age, when Google searches produce a million results in a split second and software programs provide analysis faster than we could ever hope to read it. Adapting ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08094-0
EAN 9780393080940
Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth and change the way ...
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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 · 1000 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-93776-3
EAN 9780393937763
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, shorter edition features 73 works-many of them new to this edition-by 69 authors, offering a broad collection of short stories with the most thoughtful annotations and apparatus on the market. With a new "Authors in Depth" feature, an extensive Reviews and Commentaries section, and expanded coverage of Writers on ...
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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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On 3 January 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old "genius"-by his own reckoning-arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made a spectacle of himself in London with his fashion sense, acerbic wit, and passion for art and design, and was hired to go to America to lecture on interior decorating. But Wilde had his ...
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A biography of Louis Armstrong's prolific years in the 1920s and early 1930s, this book examines the cultural forces that shaped his life and, ultimately, jazz itself. Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the "compelling" (Literary Review), "scholarly without being scholastic" (Financial Times), Louis Armstrong's New Orleans (ISBN 978 0 393 33001 ...
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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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In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of ...
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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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