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- Norton, 2014
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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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The Inheritor's Powder
A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34988-7
EAN 9780393349887
"Fascinating . . . one of history's most important poisons-and most important murders."-Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's HandbookIn the first half of the nineteenth century, an epidemic swept Europe: arsenic poisoning. Available at any corner shop for a few pence, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills that it was nicknamed ...
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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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The Glass Cage
Automation and Us
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24076-4
EAN 9780393240764
At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day. In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the ...
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George Frideric Handel
A Life with Friends
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08895-3
EAN 9780393088953
An intimate portrait of Handel's life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer's favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself-known to most as the composer of Messiah-is a bit of a mystery. ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24019-1
EAN 9780393240191
A one-of-a-kind celebration of the 101 two-letter words allowed in Scrabble. Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields "the Cole Porter of his generation"; O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as "the wryest pen since Dorothy Parker's." Together they have crafted a wonderfully witty book that is sure ...
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Censors at Work
How States Shaped Literature
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24229-4
EAN 9780393242294
This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works. With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate ...
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Tennessee Williams
Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
PVP: 38,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-02124-0
EAN 9780393021240
The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34973-3
EAN 9780393349733
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
ISBN 978-0-87140-775-7
EAN 9780871407757
The publication of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy is a literary event that marks the first time all of James Purdy's short stories-fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives-have been collected in a single volume. As prolific as he was unclassifiable, James Purdy was considered one of the greatest-and most ...
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