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PVP: 52,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-21628-0
EAN 9780520216280
"A Dubious Past" examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Junger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life. From the time he burst onto the literary scene with "The Storms of Steel" in the early 1920s until he reached Olympian age in a reunited Germany, Junger's writings on ...
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India and Pakistan
Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27140-1
EAN 9780520271401
Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27151-7
EAN 9780520271517
"Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated but now little-known sequels to his own adventures. Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic air balloon, where they survive encounters ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26867-8
EAN 9780520268678
These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 36,35 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27029-9
EAN 9780520270299
From his first newsletter, issued in 1986, through today's beautiful full-color magazine, Edward Behr has offered companionship and creativity to avid culinary enthusiasts, including some of America's most famous chefs. This book collects the best recipes of the magazine's past twenty-five years from classic appetizer and vegetable side dishes to meat entrees and desserts. Each ...
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The Copyeditor's Handbook
A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 574 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27156-2
EAN 9780520271562
The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. This book may be used for self-instruction or as a textbook in copyediting classes. The exercises are accompanied by answer keys and detailed line-by-line explanations.The third ...
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PVP: 34,85 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26782-4
EAN 9780520267824
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27150-0
EAN 9780520271500
Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. ...
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The Exultant Ark
A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
Libro · 225 páginas
PVP: 32,43 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26024-5
EAN 9780520260245
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of ...
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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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The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the exotic 'other' ...
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PVP: 24,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25882-2
EAN 9780520258822
Google dominates the World Wide Web. There was never an election to determine the Web's rulers. No state appointed Google its proxy, its proconsul, or viceroy. Google just stepped into the void when no other authority was willing or able to make the Web stable, usable, and trustworthy. This was a quite necessary step at ...
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Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's ...
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Biography of an Empire
Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,04 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26635-3
EAN 9780520266353
This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine ...
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This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the entire text with new information and added a vivid array of new vignettes and illustrations. Recognized for its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26775-6
EAN 9780520267756
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Writing for a wide audience, Mehran Kamrava takes us from fall of the Ottoman Empire to today, ...
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Uncorking the Past
The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26798-5
EAN 9780520267985
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what ...
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PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26799-2
EAN 9780520267992
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