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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34894-1
EAN 9780393348941
The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern's previous work, move into an area of knowledge even wisdom that reflects a long life of writing, teaching and activism. They are poems of grief and anger, but the music is delicate and moving.
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34888-0
EAN 9780393348880
Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented a programme that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos, Josie is kidnappe leaving Judith free to usurp her sister's life, including her husband and daughter, while ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 31,67 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34927-6
EAN 9780393349276
To John J. Mearsheimer the anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to a relentless power struggle. The best survival strategy is to become a regional hegemon and to make sure that no other hegemon emerges elsewhere. He predicts that China will attempt to ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34886-6
EAN 9780393348866
In 1703, Peter the Great founded his eponymous capital on a Baltic marsh. Modelled on Amsterdam, he believed it would usher in a modernised, Westernised future. In the nineteenth-century Age of Imperialism, the British rebuilt Bombay as a tropical London, while three Western powers made Shanghai look just like home. In our time, the sheikh ...
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The Bonobo and the Atheist
In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34779-1
EAN 9780393347791
In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature. Bringing together his pioneering research on primate behaviour, the latest findings in evolutionary biology and insights from moral philosophy, de Waal explains that we don't need the spectres of God or the law in order to ...
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Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34792-0
EAN 9780393347920
Theories about how our ancestors lived and why we should emulate them are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, Marlene Zuk explains that evolution can work faster than was previously realised, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. ...
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Alone on the Ice
The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34778-4
EAN 9780393347784
On 17 January 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Then Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-737-5
EAN 9780871407375
In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, "likely to be definitive for many years to come" (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonathan Sperber creates a meticulously researched and multilayered portrait of both the man and the revolutionary times in which he lived. Based on unprecedented access to the recently opened archives of ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34042-6
EAN 9780393340426
A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance-while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All ...
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Reading Dante
From Here to Eternity
The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34604-6
EAN 9780393346046
Sims Wyeth advises "To capture attention, define a problem that keeps listeners up at night." He may as well be talking about this book for nothing worries us like the prospect of giving a speech. In this lucid guide to presenting, Wyeth counsels how to calm a thumping heart and reveals techniques on preparation, delivery ...
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Saving Italy
The Race to Rescue A Nation s Treasures From The Nazis
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34880-4
EAN 9780393348804
On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind's greatest cultural treasures. In May 1944, two unlikely American heroes an artist and a scholar embarked from Naples on the ...
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Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 302 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34777-7
EAN 9780393347777
The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan strips away the arcane and ...
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Across the Pond
An Englishman's View of America
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34940-5
EAN 9780393349405
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British but we, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find our transatlantic neighbours just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive", use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's record collection or speak frequently of being ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 292 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34828-6
EAN 9780393348286
It's the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34709-8
EAN 9780393347098
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-91269-2
EAN 9780393912692
William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new attention on both the novel's contemporary reception and its rich cultural ...
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Getting Away with Murder
Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06291-5
EAN 9780393062915
On 27 December 2007, after an election rally in Rawalpindi, a suicide bomber fired shots at former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and detonated explosives strapped to his chest. In a country ruled more often by military dictators than by elected governments, Bhutto offered a secular, democratic hope. Her assassination tore the country apart, destabilising ...
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