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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 40,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2043-9
EAN 9780811220439
In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. Paz is a writer for the entire world to celebrate (Chicago Tribune), the poet-archer who goes straight to the heart and mind, where the center of being is one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 612 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-393-34377-9
EAN 9780393343779
Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, is back to spread sweetness and light wherever he goes . . . much to the dismay of his nephew Pongo. Whether disguised as an eminent nerve specialist helping the ailing upper class, an anesthesiologist ready to help clip a parrot's claws, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-393-31929-3
EAN 9780393319293
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 572 páginas
PVP: 42,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08908-0
EAN 9780393089080
The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08896-0
EAN 9780393088960
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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Adrienne Rich's Later Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012 displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After her death in March 2012, Rich left behind a manuscript of mature work that speaks for her concern with a poetics of relation along with a passionate attention to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34340-3
EAN 9780393343403
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08644-7
EAN 9780393086447
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.from "In Beauty Bright"In beauty-bright and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,85 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34293-2
EAN 9780393342932
Memoirist of mediocre fame, Charles Homar has a problem: his bride-to-be, Gillian Lee, has nixed their nuptials and fled to the high seas in search of a legendary giant squid, unleashing an unholy heart wreck upon him. In a hell-bent effort to prove his mettle as an American male and win back Gillian's affections, Charlie ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34363-2
EAN 9780393343632
As the crash of 1929 plunged the world economy into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene pointless ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-393-34292-5
EAN 9780393342925
-A model of popular intellectual history. . . . In every way, ?A Most Dangerous Book is a most brilliant achievement.--Washington Post When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as -a bible- and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08098-8
EAN 9780393080988
People have long been duped by smooth-talking politicians, confessional talk-show hosts and fake-earnest advertisers. As sincerity has become suspect, the upright and honest have taken refuge in irony. Yet we long for the holy grail of sincerity. With deep historical perspective and a brilliant contemporary spin, R. Jay Magill Jr. argues that we can't shake ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34278-9
EAN 9780393342789
-Rich poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.--Booklist -Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she racked up. . . . The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34231-4
EAN 9780393342314
-Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again.--Science In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the -Fundamental Fysiks Group,- they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum entanglement in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2004-0
EAN 9780811220040
A classic of American literature, now with a new introduction by iconic author and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. -My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,- H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933-34, as the streets of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 9,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-91153-4
EAN 9780393911534
This edition, based on the first edition text (dated 1818), emphasises new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen's achievement.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34181-2
EAN 9780393341812
-A work of pop linguistics . . . that synthesizes . . . grammar, branding, cognitive science and Web theory . . . with intelligence and friendly wit.--New York Times Welcome to the age of the incredible shrinking message. Your guide to this new landscape, Christopher Johnson reveals the once-secret knowledge of poets, copywriters, brand ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34234-5
EAN 9780393342345
-Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel.--Zadie Smith, Harper This gathering of Paula Fox short work spans her illustrious career, from 1965 to the present including perfectly turned stories; pointed, engaging essays; and raw yet eloquent memoir. Paula Fox is the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow Children, A Servant Tale, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07988-3
EAN 9780393079883
A gut-wrenching narrative of the tragic assault on K2, told from the Sherpas' perspective. When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalayas, Sherpa porters have been the anonymous experts in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08869-4
EAN 9780393088694
A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their ...
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