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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 178 páginas
PVP: 35,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-39048-5
EAN 9780520390485
Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Chaâ s masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.This restored edition, produced in partnership with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-34330-6
EAN 9780520343306
Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"-late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z-is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science.Those inheriting our planet's environmental ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-34671-0
EAN 9780520346710
"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."--Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why ...
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Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia
Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 37,85 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30839-8
EAN 9780520308398
It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30740-7
EAN 9780520307407
The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family-even slaughtering the sons ...
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Álvarez, Mari-Tere; Villaseñor Black, Charlene
Renaissance Futurities
Science, Art, Invention
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 206 páginas
PVP: 37,85 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29698-5
EAN 9780520296985
Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452 1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio Delminio Camillo (1480 1544), physician ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30961-6
EAN 9780520309616
One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this eight-hundred-year-old saga narrates the legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer Ruy Diaz of Bivar, known as El Cid-"the Lord"-and his part in the long struggle between Christianity and Islam. The poem recounts the adventures of a broad cast of characters: the Cid; his peerless steed, Babieca, and ...
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The Celestina
A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30959-3
EAN 9780520309593
The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene.An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30460-4
EAN 9780520304604
Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. In this groundbreaking volume, seven leading authors challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories and so problematize our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the south--from its Arab and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 276 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30360-7
EAN 9780520303607
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work--and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the "haves" and the "have-nots," challenging how we think about the social ...
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The hum of the World
A Philosophy of Hearing
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30349-2
EAN 9780520303492
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28143-1
EAN 9780520281431
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation ...
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The Walking Whales
From Land to Water in Eight Million Years
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30560-1
EAN 9780520305601
Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to ...
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No Go World
How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29460-8
EAN 9780520294608
War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants--from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote "danger zones." Instead of buying into ...
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War and Religion
Europe and the Mediterranean from the first through the Twenty-first Centuries
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 346 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28663-4
EAN 9780520286634
The resurgence of violent terrorist organizations claiming to act in the name of God has rekindled dramatic public debate about the connection between violence and religion and its history. Offering a panoramic view of the tangled history of war and religion throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, War and Religion takes a hard look at the ...
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Potosi
The Silver City that changed the World
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 263 páginas
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28084-7
EAN 9780520280847
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potos instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 536 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-30336-2
EAN 9780520303362
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green's ...
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