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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: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-28500-0
EAN 9780393285000
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These Truths
A History of the United States
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 960 páginas
PVP: 43,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-63524-9
EAN 9780393635249
The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation's history. Telling the ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-210-5
EAN 9781631492105
Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of American piracy's "Golden Age"-spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s-when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown and ...
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Essential Essays
Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-65236-9
EAN 9780393652369
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35511-6
EAN 9780393355116
Author of more than thirty books, Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. Selected Poems offers a full and representative selection of poems from the whole of Rich's long and distinguished career. The volume encompasses her best-known work-the clear-sighted and ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35630-4
EAN 9780393356304
James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Charles Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years. To test his insights into evolution, Darwin devised experiments using his garden and greenhouse, the surrounding land and his home-turned-field-station.His experiments yielded universal truths about nature and evidence ...
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The Oresteia
Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,95 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-466-6
EAN 9781631494666
One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband's return from war to commit a terrible act of retribution. The next plays, radically retitled here as The Women at the Graveside and Orestes ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1280 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-472-7
EAN 9781631494727
An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages ofJerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, ...
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Degrasse Tyson, Neil; Lang, Avis
Accessory to War
The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-06444-5
EAN 9780393064445
In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and "the world's best science communicator" (Times Literary Supplement) Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35631-1
EAN 9780393356311
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-63470-9
EAN 9780393634709
The untold story of the Black Boys, a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution.In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution. In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 18,91 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35620-5
EAN 9780393356205
In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, found common ground with America's arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve ...
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- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-2605-9
EAN 9780811226059
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Farthest Field
An Indian Story of the Second World War
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35289-4
EAN 9780393352894
I have not lately read a finer book than this on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece. Simon Winchester, New StatesmanThe photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World ...
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