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Fear Itself
The New Deal and the Origins of our Time
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-450-3
EAN 9780871404503
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, a towering figure in the study of American and European history (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and ...
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How it All Began
A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34386-1
EAN 9780393343861
In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang.What if we could look into space and see not only our place in the universe ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34652-7
EAN 9780393346527
A dramatic find at Stonehenge and another, quieter discovery in the Bodleian Library set in motion a riveting scholarly detective story and a romance, unfolding across a rich historical landscape evoked by the secret places and half-forgotten legends of the British countryside. Archaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that King Arthur ever ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34508-7
EAN 9780393345087
The Great Recession is more than four years old and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did ...
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Michael White, one of the founders of narrative therapy, is back with his first major publication since the seminal Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, which Norton published in 1990.
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Incomplete Nature
How Mind Emerged from Matter
- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34390-8
EAN 9780393343908
As scientists study the minutiae of subatomic particles, neural connections, and molecular compounds, their attempts at a "theory of everything" harbor a glaring omission: they still cannot explain us, the thoughts and perceptions that truly make us what we are. A masterwork that brings together science and philosophy, Incomplete Nature offers a revolutionary, captivating account ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33427-2
EAN 9780393334272
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-00328-4
EAN 9780393003284
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-1939-6
EAN 9780811219396
Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34411-0
EAN 9780393344110
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, surprisingly sanguine take on a world without god. The science that makes us nonbelievers, he demonstrates, tells us the nature of reality, the ...
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The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. Nothing matched the violin for universal and varied expression, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared in 1768. Affordable, portable, and equally adaptable to Bach, Beethoven, jazz, klezmer, reels, ragas, gypsy fiddlers, and indie rock, as David Schoenbaum notes ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-32779-3
EAN 9780393327793
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34341-0
EAN 9780393343410
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33942-0
EAN 9780393339420
Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these and many other philosophical questions. This unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to test your preconceptions. Jeremy Stangroom creates contemporary versions of famous dilemmas that explore the morality of suicide and the ethics of retribution. He then delves into the ...
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When a hidden Tehran scientist sends encrypted messages to the CIA that reveal Iran's bomb-development program, agent Harry Pappas enlists the aid of a secret British spy team to safeguard the scientist, an agenda that forces Pappas to betray the American government in order to protect its interests. Reprint. A best-selling thriller.When a hidden Tehran ...
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Beyond the Human Nature
How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind
In this era of genome projects and brain scans, it is all too easy to overestimate the role of biology in human psychology. But in this passionate corrective to the idea that DNA is destiny, Jesse Prinz focuses on the most extraordinary aspect of human nature: that nurture can supplement and supplant nature, allowing our ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34345-8
EAN 9780393343458
Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal a man baffled by his wife's obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T. the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream ...
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Shields, David; Vollmer, Matthew
Fakes
. An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts (and Other Fraudulent Artifacts)
- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34195-9
EAN 9780393341959
In our bureaucratised culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, reports, accidentally forwarded e-mail, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer have gathered forty short fictions that they find to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the suppressed frustration and ...
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This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Folio edition of "King Lear". The editor has interpolated the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I as is fully explained in "A Note on the Text" and the annotations. "Sources" helps readers navigate "King Lear's" rich history and includes the nine essential primary sources from ...
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