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Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prizeshortlisted author of The Years.In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man's, and then he moves on, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-742-9
EAN 9781609807429
For centuries, the ancient world was electrified by the story of the ten-year war that brought down the ancient city of Troy and destroyed the lives of countless Greek and Trojan warriors. In the modern world, according to Robert Graves, English literature, to be properly understood, calls for as close a knowledge of the Trojan ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-666-8
EAN 9781609806668
In essays like How to Fake Faking, and the title essay, The Other Left Side: the Phenomenon of Left and Right in Evolution, Tijs Goldschmidt shatters our expectations of what a scientific essay is and then rebuilds it in intensely personal, artful and wry ways. Goldschmidt has won the top awards in Holland and is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-725-2
EAN 9781609807252
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-720-7
EAN 9781609807207
Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-768-9
EAN 9781609807689
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-744-3
EAN 9781609807443
Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from the war by living with a peasant family. She makes secret journeys and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-736-8
EAN 9781609807368
Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same gives ...
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PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-719-1
EAN 9781609807191
Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates ...
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PVP: 13,55 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-605-7
EAN 9781609806057
: Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-504-3
EAN 9781609805043
Ava, Mila, and Rosalyn all work at Murray's Diner in Long Island. They are friends and coworkers struggling to hold together their disordered lives. While Ava privately grieves the loss of her husband in the first Iraq War, Mila struggles to dissuade her seventeen-year-old daughter from enlisting in the second. Rosalyn works as an escort ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-511-1
EAN 9781609805111
From the winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a character-driven tale about our threatened environment and the practicality of putting contemporary revolutionary strategy into action.In The Minimum Security Chronicles, the latest long-form narrative from Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award-winning cartoonist Stephanie McMillan, lifelong friends Kranti and Bananabelle are rounded up during a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-497-8
EAN 9781609804978
"Gifford, a master of the short story and nasty vignette, can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life."-New York Times Book ReviewNew stories and collected short novels about recurring character Roy, with episodes from his life ages 5 to 17. The first section (The Vast ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-454-1
EAN 9781609804541
"There are two problems for our species' survival-nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, " says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 309 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-426-8
EAN 9781609804268
"Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason's oversized imagination is invigorating."--Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-341-4
EAN 9781609803414
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-073-4
EAN 9781609800734
So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say 'He's up in Heaven now.' Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.""God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian" includes all of Kurt Vonnegut's intrepid investigative reporting from the afterlife, from when he was sent there ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 307 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-1-58322-882-1
EAN 9781583228821
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China's fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 21,60 €
ISBN 978-1-58322-870-8
EAN 9781583228708
"The Zinn Reader" represents Howard Zinn through the depth, and breadth, of his concerns in one volume. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that embracing one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. ...
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