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- Norton, 2013
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PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34522-3
EAN 9780393345223
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Across the Pond
An Englishman's View of America
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08898-4
EAN 9780393088984
Terry Eagleton has a gift for the kind of generalizations that at first appear outrageous but seem, on reflection, annoyingly perceptive. Were I one of the expressive Americans he describes, I'd call this book awesome; as a constipated Brit, I'm inclined to say that it is not at all bad. Henry Hitchings, author of The ...
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- Norton, 2013
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PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-318-6
EAN 9780871403186
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City of Ambition
FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York
Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt ...
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Atrocities
The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-34523-0
EAN 9780393345230
An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes. New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, the numbers that people want to argue about. Reaching back ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35372-3
EAN 9780393353723
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free" and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-265-5
EAN 9781631492655
When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the best of intentions; it's a chance for Ellie, twenty and spiraling, to rebuild her life. But in the sprawling hours of one humid afternoon, Ellie ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35382-2
EAN 9780393353822
The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of ancient women they celebrate has never been told for ...
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Energy for Future Presidents
The Science behind the Headlines
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34510-0
EAN 9780393345100
Policymakers and casual readers alike can benefit . . . eye-opening . . . sheds lots of light with little wasted heat. Publishers Weekly The near meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-363-6
EAN 9780871403636
From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of ...
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Breakout Nations
In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracle
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34540-7
EAN 9780393345407
To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. After years of rapid growth, the most celebrated emerging markets Brazil, Russia, India, and China are about to ...
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The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34506-3
EAN 9780393345063
forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize winning economist. America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize winning economist ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07812-1
EAN 9780393078121
A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.On May 27, 1703, Tsar Peter the Great founded a new capital on a barren Baltic marsh. Modeled on Amsterdam, he believed it would erase Russian backwardness and usher in a modernized, Westernized future. In the ...
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The Birth of an Opera
Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06043-0
EAN 9780393060430
The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition.Through a deft compilation of primary sources letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34338-0
EAN 9780393343380
Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture; detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical over-reach. Jonathan Wolff cuts through the ideological stalemate to explore both views. In ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34355-7
EAN 9780393343557
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