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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 · 160 páginas
PVP: 36,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25420-6
EAN 9780520254206
Whether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. Paralleling similar movements in art and music, their intensely personal poetry leans more heavily on oblique suggestions and evocation than on overt statement. It sets its perceptions, intuitive and nonrational, squarely against intellectual and scientific thinking - and this ...
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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 blanda · 372 páginas
PVP: 46,60 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28180-6
EAN 9780520281806
Chronicling the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and journeying from the Piazza San Marco to the villas of the Veneto, this vivid and authoritative survey of architecture, sculpture, and painting offers a rich perspective on the history and artistic achievements of Renaissance Venice. Distinguished scholar Loren Partridge examines the masterpieces of Venices urban design, civic buildings, ...
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Race, Monogamy, and other Lies they Told You
Busting Myths about Human Nature
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28599-6
EAN 9780520285996
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative, Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex ...
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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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The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union
A Translatlantic Story of Antiracial Protest
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27933-9
EAN 9780520279339
Less than two months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars of screen and served as the training ground for the politically ambitious offspring of Britain's better classes. Malcolm X, by ...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 326 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27716-8
EAN 9780520277168
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 play ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 74,35 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26773-2
EAN 9780520267732
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 55,51 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25929-4
EAN 9780520259294
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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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Earth Sound Earth Signal
Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25755-9
EAN 9780520257559
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of ...
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Cumin, Camels and Caravans
A Spice Odyssey
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 292 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26720-6
EAN 9780520267206
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and an ethnobotanical exploration of spices and their uses, ...
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Stat Spotting
A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 158 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27998-8
EAN 9780520279988
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28928-4
EAN 9780520289284
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27592-8
EAN 9780520275928
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 71,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25926-3
EAN 9780520259263
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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