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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103582-6
EAN 9780141035826
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103579-6
EAN 9780141035796
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103578-9
EAN 9780141035789
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. ...
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Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of the great works of western literature. Now in a new translation from the French by Christine Donougher, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118249-0
EAN 9780141182490
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044814-6
EAN 9780140448146
Aristophones was a contemporary of Socrates and the last and greatest of the old Attic comedians, but unfortunately only 11 of his plays survive. Of these, this title contains three: "Lysistrata", "The Acharnians", and "The Clouds". Aristophenes was sceptical about the democratic system of government and was critical of the eagerness with which the people ...
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The Whisperers
Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101351-0
EAN 9780141013510
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the reality of their terrible choices. Soviet history has generally been seen either as a story of a political system or the story of its victims. The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103899-5
EAN 9780141038995
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043741-6
EAN 9780140437416
Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in The Old Nurse's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-305032-2
EAN 9780143050322
An uneasy and difficult country, most of Canada's space is uninhabited, and much uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge North but with most of its population in the South, hugging the American border. This book paints an expansive portrait of a dynamic and complex country.
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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the idea of a ...
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The Great Railway Bazaar
By Train Through Asia
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103884-1
EAN 9780141038841
The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel.The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103661-8
EAN 9780141036618
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means. Throughout history, some books have changed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103665-6
EAN 9780141036656
Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103671-7
EAN 9780141036717
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation's expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which for better or worse lies at the heart of American identity today. Throughout history, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103669-4
EAN 9780141036694
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103668-7
EAN 9780141036687
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's will to power'. Throughout history, some books have changed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103662-5
EAN 9780141036625
A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103619-9
EAN 9780141036199
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 5,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103680-9
EAN 9780141036809
Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke's prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern conservative tradition and still serves as a warning to those who seek to reshape societies through violence. Throughout history, some books have changed the ...
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