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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-296-9
EAN 9781631492969
The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35410-2
EAN 9780393354102
In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the eurocrisis. It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency the eurozone have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have been in depression for years while the governing powers of the eurozone have careened from emergency ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1216 páginas
PVP: 44,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-28511-6
EAN 9780393285116
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.This collected volume traces the evolution of her poetry, from her earliest work, which was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35149-1
EAN 9780393351491
With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, "The Blind Watchmaker," framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35420-1
EAN 9780393354201
General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35442-3
EAN 9780393354423
Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass-orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America-was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanised the antislavery movement and is one of the truly seminal works of African-American literature. In this Lincoln Prize- winning ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-393-35433-1
EAN 9780393354331
Digital pirates, particularly in China, steal and resell hundreds of billions of dollars worth of intellectual property each year. CRACK99 is an edge-of-the-seat account of the United States Justice Department's prosecution of the biggest cybercriminal operation to date. On a cheesy website called CRACK99, Xiang Li sold everything from satellite tracking and aviation simulation to ...
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