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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34706-7
EAN 9780393347067
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34727-2
EAN 9780393347272
In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 381 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-92326-1
EAN 9780393923261
The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature The Actors Gallery, which presents famous actors and actresses among them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian ...
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A Reader's Book of Days
True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-0-393-23962-1
EAN 9780393239621
At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34659-6
EAN 9780393346596
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-92785-6
EAN 9780393927856
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Shady Characters
The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, x{0026} Other Typographical Marks
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06442-1
EAN 9780393064421
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 verses of the early Bible--or the at sign ( ), which languished in obscurity ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34733-3
EAN 9780393347333
Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Releasing this fall, the movie starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34679-4
EAN 9780393346794
What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the beating of our hearts.The history of ...
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Singing School
Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-05068-4
EAN 9780393050684
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-689-7
EAN 9780871406897
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval ...
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A Labyrinth of Kingdoms
10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34623-7
EAN 9780393346237
A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements. In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, ...
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Portrait of a Novel
Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-670-5
EAN 9780871406705
Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra shows how this scandalous story came to be written. Travelling ...
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Dreamland
Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34586-5
EAN 9780393345865
Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep.In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of ...
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07946-3
EAN 9780393079463
Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for ...
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Sincerity
. How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34622-0
EAN 9780393346220
What do John Calvin, Sarah Palin, Jean-Jacques Rosseau, and Bon Iver have in common? A preoccupation with sincerity. With deep historical perspective and a brilliant contemporary spin, R. Jay Magill Jr. tells the beguiling tale of sincerity's theological past, its current emotional resonance, and the deep impact it has had on the Western soul. At ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34630-5
EAN 9780393346305
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34629-9
EAN 9780393346299
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34628-2
EAN 9780393346282
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35416-4
EAN 9780393354164
A nameless fifteen-year-old runs away to Los Angeles, seeking life beyond the harsh constraints of her evangelical upbringing. She is the narrative of her passage, from her escape on a bus through her quiet, determined progress across the city's unforgiving terrain. The journey takes her into and around the lives of Angelinos from all walks: ...
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