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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-60297-5
EAN 9780393602975
This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar are twenty-four critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales, and new interpretations. A revised and updated selected bibliography is included.
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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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- 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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Biklé, Anne; Montgomery, David
The Hidden Half of Nature
The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35337-2
EAN 9780393353372
A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves and could revolutionize agriculture and medicine.Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health for people and for plants depends on Earth's smallest creatures. The Hidden Half of Nature tells the story of our ...
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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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Something for Nothing
Arbritage and Ethics on Wall Street
From a leading financial economist, a searching examination of the ethics of modern finance.In 2001, Goldman Sachs structured a complex financial contract so that its client, the government of Greece, would appear to have far less debt than it actually did. When news of this transaction came out years later, the inevitable question arose: Even ...
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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 Wretched and Precarious Situation
In Search of the Lost Arctic Frontier
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25441-9
EAN 9780393254419
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a heretofore unknown land looming in the distance. He called it Crocker Land. Scientists and explorers agreed that ...
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The Only Street in Paris
Life on the Rue des Martyrs
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35340-2
EAN 9780393353402
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs, Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood's rich history and vibrant ...
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The Art of Grace
On Moving Well through Life
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35318-1
EAN 9780393353181
How physical and emotional grace lead to connection and fulfillment.Grace has long been taught as essential to civilized living. The Three Graces goddesses of charm, beauty, and creativity exemplify ease and harmony with one another and the world around them. But what has happened to this simple, marvelous concept of being at ease in the ...
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Herreshoff
American Masterpieces
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 110,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08909-7
EAN 9780393089097
Elegant by design and spectacular in performance, thirty-six iconic Herreshoff boats are showcased in magnificent photographs and original drawings. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company led by its founding spirit, the brilliant designer Captain Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848 1938) constructed the most thrilling, innovative, and graceful boats ever built in the United States, not only lavish yachts ...
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A Revolution in Color
The World of John Singleton Copley
This bold new history recovers an unknown American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's prodigious talent earned him the patronage ...
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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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Mind
A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71053-3
EAN 9780393710533
A scientist's exploration into the mysteries of the human mind. What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents its emotions, thoughts, and memories are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined.In this book, ...
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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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Approaching Ali
A Reclamation in Three Acts
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-223-5
EAN 9781631492235
The single most intimate look at Muhammad Ali's retirement, told through the story of an unexpected, powerful and life-changing friendshipIn 1988, then struggling writer and video store worker Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door, and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Now, all these years later, the ...
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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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