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Black Flags, Blue Waters
The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-622-6
EAN 9781631496226
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. "Deftly blending scholarship and drama" (Richard Zacks), best-selling author Eric Jay ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 43,45 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-263-1
EAN 9781631492631
In 2014, The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft was published and devoured by the Lovecraft community and general readers alike. The landmark volume included twenty-two stories but there are many others worthy of attention, including Lovecraft's favourites.In this follow-up, twenty-five more Lovecraft stories are re-presented as well as a number of never-before-seen revisions and collaborations with ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35750-9
EAN 9780393357509
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbours a black hole at its centre. In Einstein's Monsters, Chris Impey builds on this profound discovery to explore questions at the cutting edge of cosmology, such as what happens if you travel into a black hole and whether the galaxy or ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35746-2
EAN 9780393357462
In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, "the world's best science communicator" (Times Literary Supplement), astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and it's a two- way street", ...
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These Truths
A History of the United States
- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35742-4
EAN 9780393357424
The American experiment rests on three ideas these truths, Jefferson called them political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-1-324-00089-1
EAN 9781324000891
Patricia Churchland, the distinguished founder of neurophilosophy, reaches beyond the familiar argument of nature versus nurture to bring together insights from philosophy and revolutionary research in neuroscience. Scientific research may not be able to say with certainty what is ethical, and the definition of morality varies from person to person. But, from birth, our brains ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-33126-4
EAN 9780393331264
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The Overstory
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019
- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35668-7
EAN 9780393356687
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35650-2
EAN 9780393356502
Tyson has-for the first time-served up the universe in a handy, portable package designed specifically for young readers. From the difference between a star and a supernova to what matter and dark matter really are, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry will turn young people into budding experts on the fundamental rules and unknowns ...
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- Norton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35656-4
EAN 9780393356564
What would it really mean to live forever?Rachel's current troubles a middle-aged son mining digital currency in her basement, a scientist granddaughter trying to peek into her genes are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, hundreds of children, and 2,000 years, going back to Roman-occupied Jerusalem. Only one ...
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This is a new edition of the best-selling economics book that won't put you to sleep. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favourite of students and general readers includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade and income inequality. Ten years after the financial crisis, Naked Economics examines how policymakers managed the worst ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-491-8
EAN 9781631494918
In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the Second World War, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35626-7
EAN 9780393356267
In this wonderfully rich, detailed, humorous, imaginative (Wall Street Journal) exploration, Greenblatt reveals the passionate theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries in the story of Adam and Eve. He examines the decisive contributions of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton to this mammoth project of collective creation as he reckons with the story's volatile progeny, both ...
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End of the Megafauna
The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24929-3
EAN 9780393249293
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures-"megafauna"-that could have been from a sci-fi thriller roamed the earth. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. Ross MacPhee explores the question of what caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths, examining the extinction theories, weighing the evidence and presenting his conclusions.He comments on how past ...
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The Collector of Lives
Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35636-6
EAN 9780393356366
An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art and founded the cults of Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo that persist to this day. ...
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So Much Things to Say
The Oral History of Bob Marley
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35592-5
EAN 9780393355925
Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the story of Marley's childhood abandonment, his formative years in ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35625-0
EAN 9780393356250
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 30,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24694-0
EAN 9780393246940
By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfil his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard in Manila, a city he loved dearly. But the Japanese had other ideas.While their command had agreed to abandon Manila ...
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The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35617-5
EAN 9780393356175
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was ground-breaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and ...
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Moby Dick
A Norton Critical Edition
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-28500-0
EAN 9780393285000
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