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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 · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35358-7
EAN 9780393353587
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared.Fifty-seven people died and the lives of many others were changed forever. Steve Olson interweaves history, science and vivid ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60892-2
EAN 9780393608922
For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. 5.6 million Danes live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent but remain content. At a time when the Western world is focused on unemployment woes, government ...
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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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-283-9
EAN 9781631492839
In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought solutions within the realm of possibility, the obstacles to enacting real revolution were still many. Now, confronting these controversies head-on, ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60918-9
EAN 9780393609189
Published in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel. A mesmerising fictional chronicle of a universal American experience, it inspired a generation of sequential artists. Through a quartet of interwoven stories, A Contract With God expresses the joy, exuberance, tragedy and drama of life ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35363-1
EAN 9780393353631
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35362-4
EAN 9780393353624
In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental-his "crew". The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 44,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71196-7
EAN 9780393711967
Having taught Freud to both undergraduate and graduate students for twenty years, Bruce Fink provides a highly readable introduction to Freud's work that emphasises Freud's enduring clinical relevance and usefulness to practitioners of many persuasions-not just to those who are psychoanalytically trained.
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24271-3
EAN 9780393242713
For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while walking over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. From forest paths in Korea to islands in Finland to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 41,30 €
ISBN 978-0-393-29282-4
EAN 9780393292824
Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale events and intimate details. The creator and master of the biographical form, Plutarch locates character in small gestures ...
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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 · 112 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35347-1
EAN 9780393353471
In this masterful new work by "the most moving and expansive poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright" (Marilyn Hacker), David Baker constructs a layered natural history of his beloved Midwest and traces the complex story of human habitation from family and village life to the evolving nature of work and ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-324-00055-6
EAN 9781324000556
With the first published version of Malthus's Essay (1798) are selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). Accompanying the text is an introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin and a rich selection of supporting materials.A chronology and a bibliography are also included.
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-26422-7
EAN 9780393264227
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-93894-4
EAN 9780393938944
The Harper x{0026} Brothers 1852 first edition of Pierre is accompanied by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein's introduction, note on the text and annotations. Contextual and source materials, including letters and responses, provide readers with a sense of Pierre's time and place.Seven critical essays on Pierre's major themes are also included.
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25436-5
EAN 9780393254365
Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions he's encountered from his students. Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of why such carnage erupted still eludes people. Numerous myths have sprouted, many to console us that ...
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