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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1264 páginas
PVP: 40,72 €
ISBN 978-0-393-61458-9
EAN 9780393614589
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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St. Marks is Dead
The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35330-3
EAN 9780393353303
A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks the epicenter of American cool.St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35335-8
EAN 9780393353358
How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents?How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports?How can we talk sensibly about God?In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting takes a philosopher's scalpel to modern life's biggest questions and the most powerful forces in our society politics, science, religion, education, and capitalism to show ...
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A Most Improbable Journey
A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-29269-5
EAN 9780393292695
Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us. Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. In The Little Book of Big ...
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Dietrich and Riefenstahl
Hollywood and Berlin and a Century in Two Lives
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-228-0
EAN 9781631492280
Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century's greatest conflict.Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Glamour and decadence thrived beside abject poverty, ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-224-2
EAN 9781631492242
Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. An episodic novel set in six parts, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa, a much-feared outlaw and revolutionary, against ...
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Killing a King
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35324-2
EAN 9780393353242
One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year.The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60864-9
EAN 9780393608649
A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic. Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library x{0026} Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens's own ...
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This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely. - Contemporary perspectives by Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Monroe Gregory, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. - Essays by William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely, Henry ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35338-9
EAN 9780393353389
Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes. Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books. One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this smart, clear and timely book (Washington Post). Still essential and still timely ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35327-3
EAN 9780393353273
After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta's first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they're assigned is chilling: a serial murderer who seems to be violently targeting Atlanta's wealthiest black ...
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This Norton Critical Edition includes: -The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Bronte, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes. -"Contexts," highlighting Jane Eyre as a bildungsroman through diary entries and letters by the author about her experiences as a student, teacher, and governess as well as her feelings about friendship, love, and ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35341-9
EAN 9780393353419
Rethinking economics, from the inside out.In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly ...
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The Ethics of Invention
Technology and the Human Future
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-07899-2
EAN 9780393078992
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, ...
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Domesticated
Evolution in a Man-Made World
Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization the Middle East is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate association with ...
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- Norton, 2016
Estuche encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1312 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-243-3
EAN 9781631492433
Ten years in the making, comes a literary work Like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's ...
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The Dream of Reason
A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35298-6
EAN 9780393352986
"His book...supplant s all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell." A. C. Grayling Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings ...
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With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E. E. Cummings in his lifetime.It spans his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, and through his last valedictory sonnets. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence ...
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The Book
A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24479-3
EAN 9780393244793
Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Erik Spiekermann, typographerWe may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35257-3
EAN 9780393352573
A Change of World was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Out of print for decades, this initial collection launched the career of a poet whose work has been crucial to discussions of gender, race, and class, pushing formal boundaries and consistently examining both self and society.
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