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The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (NCE)
- Norton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-393-93025-2
EAN 9780393930252
This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition presents the acclaimed scholarly translation with supporting materials not available elsewhere in a single volume. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, an essay on the metrical form, the translator's note, marginal glosses and explanatory annotations to assist in the study of this canonical Arthurian romance.
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- Norton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 2758 páginas
PVP: 57,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8
EAN 9780393932928
The most comprehensive anthology of theory and criticism, now up-to-date and global.The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is the gold standard for anyone who wishes to understand the development and current state of literary theory. Offering 185 pieces (31 of them new) by 148 authors (18 of them new), The Norton Anthology of Theory ...
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Posthumous Keats
A Personal Biography
- Norton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33772-3
EAN 9780393337723
Posthumous Keats is the result of twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romantic poets. John Keats' famous epitaph Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before his time. Keats, who died of tuberculosis at ...
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Beginning with Beethoven's middle years, the author weaves a narrative in which major composers such as Schubert, Rossini, Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Musorgsky are discussed in historical context. Professor Plantinga also places into clear focus slightly lesser figures such as Mendelssohn, Smetana, Dvorak, and others. In a final section that embraces ...
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Drawing on thousands of government documents and personal letters, featuring original maps and more than 60 photographs, this book reconstructs the diverse and remarkable ways in which Americans have interacted with the Middle East over the last 230 years.
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The Relentless Revolution
A History of Capitalism
- Norton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 494 páginas
PVP: 25,46 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06894-8
EAN 9780393068948
With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic and out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism took shape centuries ago, starting with a handful of isolated changes in ...
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- Norton, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33708-2
EAN 9780393337082
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- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
PVP: 55,91 €
ISBN 978-0-393-95191-2
EAN 9780393951912
He demonstrates the enormous diversity and constant change that characterized every aspect of music during this period. By dividing his text into twenty-year spans, Downs is able to trace the development of musical style. Within each span he looks at the social conditions and daily life of the musician, and the aesthetics and audience preferences ...
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The Georgian Star
. How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos
- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33709-9
EAN 9780393337099
Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded other groundbreaking work that affects how we see the world today. The Herschels made comprehensive surveys of the night sky, carefully ...
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders : Connected Stories
NBA Finalist 2009, Pulitzer Finalist 2010
- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33720-4
EAN 9780393337204
Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan's cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin's linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family, industrialists who have lost touch with the land. In the spirit of Joyce's Dubliners and Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, ...
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The Big Switch
Rewiring the World from "Edison" to "Google"
- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33394-7
EAN 9780393333947
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- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 18,19 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1
EAN 9780393337761
This epic work tells the story of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to the third president of America had been systematically expunged from history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemingses from their origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's death ...
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Meyer, Karl E. x{0026} Brysac, Shareen Blair
Kingmakers
The Invention of the Modern Middle East
- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,89 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33770-9
EAN 9780393337709
Tracing today's troubles back to the imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States, Kingmakers is the story of how the Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St John Philby, father ...
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Barbarians to Angels
The Dark Ages Reconsidered
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- Norton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33711-2
EAN 9780393337112
Physics for Future Presidents gives the reader the science behind the headlines the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hypertechnical times. As citizens of the world today, we need to know truly understand, not just rely on television's ...
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Who are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for racial differences in test scores? What makes some nationalities excel in engineering and others in music? Will math and science remain a largely male preserve. From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson's statements, one ...
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