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This book looks at one of the most fundamental of our species' distinguishing characteristics: the use of language. The author argues that our language abilities are part of our genetic inheritance, not a cultural artefact, bringing together Darwinian natural selection and Chomsky's linguistics. The author debunks many of the standard facts - the dozens of ...
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Labels
A Mediterranean Journal
- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018837-0
EAN 9780140188370
Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043389-0
EAN 9780140433890
'You must paint her just like that ... as the Tragic Muse' Suggests one of James's characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel, will courageously resist the glittering Parliamentary career desired for him by his family, in order to paint. His progress is counterpointed by the 'Tragic Muse' ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043411-8
EAN 9780140434118
An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of his romances'. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland.When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018780-9
EAN 9780140187809
His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a ...
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043397-5
EAN 9780140433975
'Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance'Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The ...
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Florence
The Biography of a City
- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016644-6
EAN 9780140166446
A celebration of an extraordinary metropolis, Florence: The Biography of a City explores the art, literature, archaeology and social history that have shaped Italy's famous city across the ages, and is also an indispensable guide through the streets of Florence today.
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 9,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-036743-0
EAN 9780140367430
E. Nesbit's classic story of how Gerald, Cathy and Jimmy find an enchanted garden and awake a princess from a hundred-year sleep, only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. Her rescue is difficult, funny and sometimes frightening.
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043374-6
EAN 9780140433746
John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. His "Apologia", written nearly twenty years later in response to a scurrilous public attack by Charles Kingsley, is a superbly crafted response to ...
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044617-3
EAN 9780140446173
Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher, rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and ...
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-015409-2
EAN 9780140154092
A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid and provocative book Robert Bartlett vividly shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, ...
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95046-3
EAN 9780241950463
Two stories, in the original American text, by the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" and "For Esme with Love and Squalor".
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,55 €
ISBN 978-0-09-930371-8
EAN 9780099303718
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144220-4
EAN 9780141442204
Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child. In becoming one of the key liberal intellects of the last century he made some of his most important contributions on Russian thought and the idea of freedom. In the ten essays gathered here, Berlin addresses the great Russian minds of the nineteenth ...
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-933331-9
EAN 9780099333319
Rebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of suspense and mystery. du Maurier was immediately established as the queen of the psychological thriller. But the more fame this and her other books encouraged, the more reclusive Daphne du Maurier became.Margaret Forster's award-winning biography could ...
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016854-9
EAN 9780140168549
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- Penguin UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 3,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-062316-1
EAN 9780140623161
Guilt and desire, money and the nature of capitalism are pervasive themes in Dickens's magnificent novel, Great Expectations.The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his great expectations'. How Pip ...
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- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018688-8
EAN 9780140186888
Eighty stories that display O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities. These stories about con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry's mastery of speech ...
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- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-023199-1
EAN 9780140231991
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- Penguin UK, 1993
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018585-0
EAN 9780140185850
A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ...
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