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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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Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond tells the epic story of humanity leaving home-and how humans will soon thrive in the vast universe beyond the earth. A dazzling and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Following his highly acclaimed dramatization of the Odyssey, Simon Armitage here takes on the fate of Troy, bringing Homer's Iliad to life with refreshing imaginative vision. In the final days of the Trojan War, the Trojans and the Greeks are caught in a bitter stalemate. Exhausted and desperate after ten years of warfare, gods and ...
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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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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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Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers classrooms and concert halls, Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox now revels in exotic noises-creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming ...
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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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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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