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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 22,96 €
ISBN 978-0-393-61731-3
EAN 9780393617313
Included here are: a preface, a critical essay and explanatory annotations by Margo Culley; essays by acclaimed Kate Chopin biographers; selections from the conduct books of the period; contemporary perspectives on womanhood, motherhood and marriage; and reviews and interpretative essays.
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 47,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08905-9
EAN 9780393089059
The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world. This vivid new translation-the first by a woman-matches the number ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 37,85 €
ISBN 978-0-393-29263-3
EAN 9780393292633
Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies ground up the valley, consuming crops, livestock, fences and human life. Pitched battles at Gettysburg, Lynchburg and Cedar Creek punctuated a cycle of vicious attacks and reprisals in which armies burned whole towns for retribution.North of the Mason-Dixon line, free ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-1-324-00125-6
EAN 9781324001256
Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests touted for evaluating critical-thinking skills in maths, science and reading. That was in 2001; but even today, this tiny Nordic nation continues to amaze. How does Finnish education-with short school days, light homework ...
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A romp through the worlds of film, fashion, and titillating journalism that made 1950s Rome the sexiest city on the planet.From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made Italian a global synonym for taste, style, and flair. A ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 41,30 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-435-0
EAN 9780871404350
Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous 1828 presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely Massachusetts congressman in ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-366-9
EAN 9781631493669
So convinced is Francis Ford Coppola that "live cinema" will become a powerful medium within the larger film industry that he has crafted this instructional book, filled with lively anecdotes and invaluable lessons-a boon for cinema addicts, film students and teachers alike. As digital film-making can now be performed by one director or by a ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24131-0
EAN 9780393241310
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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American Revolutions
A Continental History, 1750-1804
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35476-8
EAN 9780393354768
Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fuelled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the rivalries of European empires and their allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as resistance to new British taxes. ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-340-9
EAN 9781631493409
Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life this period of history in a saga of heroism, injustice and love. El Paso pits the legendary outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa, against a thrill-seeking railway tycoon known as the Colonel whose fading fortune ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-23989-8
EAN 9780393239898
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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In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and materialistic Rome; ...
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Unique collection, which gathers together Proust's surviving correspondence with another tenant in the apartment building he lived in. The selections here weren't written for literary posterity, but to accomplish a very specific aim: lessening the noise from the dentistry practice, belonging to his correspondent's husband, right above the notoriously noise-allergic Proust's head. The notes I've ...
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature
1865 to the Present
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1808 páginas
PVP: 41,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-26453-1
EAN 9780393264531
The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The ninth edition introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three new-generation editors who have reenergised the volume across the centuries. Fresh scholarship, new authors-with an emphasis on contemporary writers-new topical clusters, and ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24887-6
EAN 9780393248876
In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Bronte wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it. What few people knew then-and even fewer know today-was that as she tended her invalid father and held the family together, Bronte was re-imagining her experiences as a governess, ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24080-1
EAN 9780393240801
The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 880 páginas
PVP: 34,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-64701-3
EAN 9780393647013
The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Khrushchev.When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 274 páginas
PVP: 29,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60868-7
EAN 9780393608687
In President Obama's effort to reshape America's image abroad, he made overtures to the Islamic world, pivoted towards China and vowed to "reset" relations with Russia. What he overlooked, argues William Drozdiak, was the imminent crisis in Europe. The UK stunned the world by leaving the EU; in Germany, there is growing alarm that refugees ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 37,85 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-949-2
EAN 9780871409492
Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley's classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro)."Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-05845-1
EAN 9780393058451
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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