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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33394-7
EAN 9780393333947
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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
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33684-9
EAN 9780393336849
The high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyperactive night and day with the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and Zoe, the world's first robot scientist. Robot Segways learn to play soccer, while others go on treasure hunts. Dozens of cavorting mechanical creatures, along with tangles of ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-393-93065-8
EAN 9780393930658
This Norton Critical Edition is the only one-volume edition that presents the full range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works but also substantial poetic and political writings. The texts are accompanied by annotations and an introduction. A selection of contemporary materials are included, along with criticism, a chronology and bibliography.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-1852-8
EAN 9780811218528
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,49 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33490-6
EAN 9780393334906
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically and religiously mixed societies on earth. The European groups were threatened by the tensions and fears between them and only through "Indian-hating" could they find common ground. Unearthing the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver offers us a picture ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,74 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06650-0
EAN 9780393066500
Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. Both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein credit him as the first modern scientist. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in the history of the conflict between science and religion. In Galileo's day, Rome ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,99 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07010-1
EAN 9780393070101
Edmund S. Morgan's heroes are not celebrated for typical reasons. He re-examines the lives of those such as George Washington or Benjamin Franklin, re-evaluates the legacies of figures like Anne Hutchinson but also plucks from obscurity Mary Easty and Giles Cory. Challenging those who revere the status quo, Morgan believes that the past is not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,69 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06532-9
EAN 9780393065329
This is the extraordinary story of the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung and the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli's struggle to quantify the unconscious. Pauli was fascinated by the inner reaches of his psyche and not afraid to dabble in the occult, while Jung looked to science for answers to the psychological questions that tormented him. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-05774-4
EAN 9780393057744
An instant bestseller on its initial publication in 1908, The Wind in the Willows is one of the greatest books in children's literature. Hundreds of illustrations illuminate the adventures of Mole, Mr Toad, Badger, Otter, Ratty and all the other favourite characters. In addition to notes on automobiles, picnics, gypsies, caravans, English mansions and peculiar ...
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