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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47522-5
EAN 9780241475225
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47240-8
EAN 9780241472408
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47521-8
EAN 9780241475218
A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47326-9
EAN 9780241473269
It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly'The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life. His hugely influential lessons on happiness are a call to appreciate the joy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47287-3
EAN 9780241472873
We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us. One ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47241-5
EAN 9780241472415
They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47245-3
EAN 9780241472453
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling of a beautiful untruth, is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47285-9
EAN 9780241472859
Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great ideas and the physical remains they have left behind them: astonishing objects and human-made places which have encapsulated different senses of wonder and desire. The essays range from fire-temples to world-changing maps, from automata to ancient ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47523-2
EAN 9780241475232
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47315-3
EAN 9780241473153
'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'. One of twenty new books ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47291-0
EAN 9780241472910
'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky'These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead taste life in the moment.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 9,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47002-2
EAN 9780241470022
The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of those oppressed by the ongoing and violent conflict in Kashmir. Ironically it has also become the chant of millions on the streets of India under the banner of Hindu Nationalism. What lies between these two calls for freedom? A chasm or a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-796-8
EAN 9781846147968
'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Coren Apicella, Washington PostDo you identify yourself by your profession, rather than your family? Do you consider yourself unique? Do you have personal goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198517-6
EAN 9780141985176
Take an incredible journey through the quantum universe with explorer Bob and his dog Rick, as they travel through a world of wonders, talk to Einstein about atoms, hang out with Heisenberg on Heligoland and eat crepes with Max Planck. Along the way, we find out that a dog - much like a cat - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198695-1
EAN 9780141986951
Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation might have seemed stupid, harmful or simply wicked now seems rational, natural, woven into the very logic of things. And, asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revelatory new book, it's economics that's to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-8661-6
EAN 9780718186616
An instant 1 New York Times bestsellerThe funny, touching and unpredictable new novel from the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove. 'A brilliant and comforting read' Matt Haig 'Funny, compassionate and wise . .. an absolute joy' A.J. Pearce, bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird'I laughed, I sobbed, I recommended ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-46796-1
EAN 9780241467961
Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee and black cigarettes. In the bars and cafes of Rosario, Argentina, he recounts tall tales of his space escapades - involving, among other things, time travel and dancing troglodytes.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-46798-5
EAN 9780241467985
'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. BallardThis bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic.The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-46799-2
EAN 9780241467992
One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this playful cosmic fantasia, two 'constructors' compete to dream up ever-more ingenious inventions in a universe beyond reality. 'A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-46923-1
EAN 9780241469231
Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe. 'What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, ...
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