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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35331-0
EAN 9780393353310
Longlisted for the National Book AwardA selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets.Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker's generous selections in A Stranger's Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary ...
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The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ashes to Ashes.The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech ...
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An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians ...
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Wise Bauer, Susan; Wise, Jessie
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
PVP: 41,45 €
ISBN 978-0-393-25362-7
EAN 9780393253627
Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child's education by doing it yourself.The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35492-8
EAN 9780393354928
The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke is commissioned to write a book about Rodin, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 44,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08281-4
EAN 9780393082814
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding.Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and ...
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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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