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The Fifth Beginning
What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
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PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29312-0
EAN 9780520293120
I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow. This inscription in Tutankhamen's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archeologist Robert Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, ...
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How would you Rule?
Legal Puzzles, Brainteasers, and Dilemmas from the Law's Strangest Cases
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29058-7
EAN 9780520290587
How Would You Rule is a lighthearted introduction to fundamental concepts of law through strange but true legal cases. Each chapter tells the story of a different case and presents the main arguments of the opposing parties. The twist? Before the ruling of the court is revealed, readers are challenged to put themselves in the ...
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Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
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ISBN 978-0-520-29264-2
EAN 9780520292642
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs ...
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Aparicio, Rosa; Haller, William; Portes, Alejandro
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28630-6
EAN 9780520286306
Much like the United States, Western Europe has experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country's population is foreign-born. Spanish Legacies, written by internationally known experts on immigration, explores ...
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The Principia
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 616 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29074-7
EAN 9780520290747
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues ...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling and Cracking Up
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 35,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28758-7
EAN 9780520287587
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28759-4
EAN 9780520287594
The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 872 páginas
PVP: 42,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28578-1
EAN 9780520285781
Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspection we cannot see ourselves ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28749-5
EAN 9780520287495
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 52,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28059-5
EAN 9780520280595
In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 319 páginas
PVP: 55,90 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28370-1
EAN 9780520283701
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs ...
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Augustine of Hippo : A Biography
Forty Fifth Anniversary Edition
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 51,90 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28041-0
EAN 9780520280410
This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
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PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27290-3
EAN 9780520272903
Dirt, soil, call it what you want - it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, and our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter.An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 430 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26997-2
EAN 9780520269972
The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.
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Toward a Psychology of Art
45th Anniversary Edition
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 377 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26601-8
EAN 9780520266018
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26173-0
EAN 9780520261730
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25195-3
EAN 9780520251953
This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 174 páginas
PVP: 16,84 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25011-6
EAN 9780520250116
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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 52 páginas
PVP: 16,92 €
ISBN 978-0-87328-216-1
EAN 9780873282161
Kate Greenaway captures the innocence and whimsy of childhood in her watercolors inspired by traditional nursery rhymes, reproduced from the rare 1881 edition.
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