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- Norton, 2017
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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Paper
A World History
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35370-9
EAN 9780393353709
For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilising of regimes. Now, on the cusp of "going paperless", Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60939-4
EAN 9780393609394
There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 466 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35415-7
EAN 9780393354157
The crisis of 2008 ended the illusion of a golden era in which many people imagined that prosperity and political calm would continue to spread indefinitely. In a world now racked by slowing growth and mounting unrest, how can we discern which nations will thrive and which will fail? Shaped by prize-winning author Ruchir Sharma's ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25429-7
EAN 9780393254297
We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: ...
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Siegel, Daniel J.; Solomon, Marion
How People Change : Relationships and Neuroplasticity in Psychotherapy
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 44,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71176-9
EAN 9780393711769
How People Change explores the complexities of attachment, the brain, mind and body as they aid change during psychotherapy. Research is presented about the properties of healing relationships and communication strategies that facilitate change in the social brain. Contributors include Irving Yalom, Peter Levine, Bruce Perry, Jessica Benjamin and others.
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Gordon-Reed, Annette; Onuf, Peter S.
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,95 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-251-8
EAN 9781631492518
Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now, a Pulitzer ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-252-5
EAN 9781631492525
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent.Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing ...
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Anatomy of Terror
From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24117-4
EAN 9780393241174
A compelling, definitive account of how and why bin Laden's ideology keeps rising from the dead.In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab Spring. The governments of Tunisia and Egypt had already fallen; those of Libya and Yemen would soon follow. Watching the chaos ...
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New England Bound : Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Pulitzer Prize Finalist History 2017
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-324-9
EAN 9781631493249
Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only "mastered that scholarship" but has now rendered it in "an original way, and deepened ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 680 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-92705-4
EAN 9780393927054
This Norton Critical Edition is based on a revised and annotated version of the Pickthall translation of the Qur'an. Topics include the scholarly traditions of the study of qur'anic origins; the centuries of commentary, analysis and intellectual dissemination that have created a library of qur'anic literature; the history of translations; and the ways the Qur'an ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71144-8
EAN 9780393711448
From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and centre. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears. In Brain Bytes, neuroscience educators Eric Chudler and Lise Johnson get right to it, asking and answering more than ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35432-4
EAN 9780393354324
In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Photos.
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35385-3
EAN 9780393353853
An exploration of the unswerving artistic vision underlying Beethoven's symphonies, from a leading scholar of the composer's works.Lewis Lockwood's compelling story introduces each symphony as an individual artwork and traces the creative background of each, set against the contemporary political upheavals, the growth of concert life and the relationship to his major works in other ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-235-8
EAN 9781631492358
The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect Pontius Pilate. Presiding over the trial and execution of Jesus, Pilate is a figure who has straddled history and legend for over two thousand years. Now, Aldo Schiavone presents a comprehensive, revisionist ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 476 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24207-2
EAN 9780393242072
What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture. Part ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35346-4
EAN 9780393353464
Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept-the mind-emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1808 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-26447-0
EAN 9780393264470
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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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