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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022794-4
EAN 9780190227944
Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine x{0026} the Lost Muse sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale about ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939685-6
EAN 9780199396856
In this clear-eyed and incisive book, one of the world's leading authorities on China's relationship with Africa exposes the myths and realities of the so-called "Chinese land grabIs China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023096-8
EAN 9780190230968
When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at ...
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Looman, Mary D./ Carl, John D.
A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-19-021103-5
EAN 9780190211035
The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated in the US prison system were a country, it would be the 102nd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could look at prison from a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939128-8
EAN 9780199391288
On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his congregation while delivering a sermon about AIDS, dramatizing the need for the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-984532-3
EAN 9780199845323
The riveting story of the July 1755 defeat of British troops by French and Indian forces at the Battle of the Monongahela, testing ground for the American RevolutionOn July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-936725-2
EAN 9780199367252
A scientific, cultural, and political examination of the world's ice, showing all the ways in which glaciers are critical to our global ecosystem and making suggestions for protecting them better in the future.Though not traditionally thought of as key natural resource, glaciers are a crucial part of both our global ecosystem and the sustaining of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021962-8
EAN 9780190219628
In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of Christianity. The outline of William's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021434-0
EAN 9780190214340
For thirty years, the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society has met weekly in the medieval colleges of Oxford University. During that time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who were associated with the Inklings--the Oxford literary circle led by C.S. Lewis--as well as authors and thinkers of a prominence that nears Lewis's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-938095-4
EAN 9780199380954
The riveting story of a Jewish historian who stole thousands of Jewish documents from France--and why he got away with it.In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French Jewish history from public archives and collections in France and moved them, illicitly, to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939169-1
EAN 9780199391691
After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of concern over the impact of industrial agriculture on food animals and the broader environment, all while a global epidemic of obesity-related diseases threatens to overwhelm modern health systems. An ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-19-933662-3
EAN 9780199336623
Built on a foundation of sound research on foreign direct and portfolio capital flows, Andrew Karolyi's proposed system of evaluation incorporates multiple dimensions of the potential risks faced by prospective investors in an empirically coherent framework.Forward-thinking investors are constantly looking for the next foreign market on the brink of expansive growth. Will these investments payoff, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-967564-7
EAN 9780199675647
Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He takes her from her home to a remote provincial town on the Baltic coast of Prussia where she is isolated, bored, and prey to superstitious fears. She drifts into a half-hearted affair with a manipulative, womanizing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-020556-0
EAN 9780190205560
A counterintuitive and optimistic reconsideration of the crisis in the American legal professionThe hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022793-7
EAN 9780190227937
Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he "brings boundless energy and enthusiasm buttressed by an arsenal of smart anecdotes" (Wall Street Journal). Now Mordden ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022922-1
EAN 9780190229221
In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue to demand, massive quantities of resources. Like every other ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021947-5
EAN 9780190219475
Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter and energetic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-973976-9
EAN 9780199739769
On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian--emerged as leaders of the revolutionary regime, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022154-6
EAN 9780190221546
A collection of short, honest essays on what single issue matters most for the future of global health. Authored by the world's leading voices from science, politics, and social advocacy, this collection is both a primer on the major issues of our time and a potential blueprint for post-2015 health and development.The turn of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-968775-6
EAN 9780199687756
The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the ...
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