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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 56,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26719-0
EAN 9780520267190
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 167 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26250-8
EAN 9780520262508
What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26221-8
EAN 9780520262218
This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years, considering transgressions such as riots, prostitution, theft, and murder and ...
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Arab France
Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26065-8
EAN 9780520260658
Many think of Muslims in Europe as a twentieth century phenomenon, but this book brings to life a lost community of Arabs who lived through war, revolution, and empire in early nineteenth century France. Ian Coller uncovers the surprising story of the several hundred men, women, and children Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, and others who followed ...
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Libro · 398 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-21943-4
EAN 9780520219434
In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For the 1999 edition, Williams has written a new preface and a new epilogue, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 36,35 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26616-2
EAN 9780520266162
America's long romance with the train has been the subject of many books, but none has used contemporary maps to comprehensively illustrate the story. Until now. Here the latest of Derek Hayes's historical atlases delves into the history of the railroad in North America, from its origins in Britain in the 1820s and short lines ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 536 páginas
PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26818-0
EAN 9780520268180
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26805-0
EAN 9780520268050
The Danger of Music gathers some two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics, ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers such as the New York Times to full-scale critical essays for leading intellectual journals. Hard-hitting, provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26806-7
EAN 9780520268067
Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. Some of these pieces, like the ones on Chaikovsky's alleged suicide ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25753-5
EAN 9780520257535
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Picasso and Apollinaire
The Persistence of Memory
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26592-9
EAN 9780520265929
Pablo Picasso, the inventor of Cubism, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the inventor of Surrealism, met in 1905, forged a close friendship, and between them laid the foundations of modernism in twentieth-century art and literature. Apollinaire's death in the 1918 flu epidemic did not diminish his importance to Picasso, who continued to draw on the poet for ...
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"This highly original and challenging book defies every easy form of classification. Ostensibly about early polities, its penetrating and erudite asides extend with equal facility into contemporary politics and the symmetrical deficiencies of modernism and postmodernism. To my knowledge, imaginative reflections of spatial representations have never previously found their way into the theoretical base of ...
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Mary Lou Williams--pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz--receives the attention she has long deserved in this definitive biography.
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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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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 520 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25257-8
EAN 9780520252578
Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author ...
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A fitting homage to bebop and to those who made it possible, DeVeaux shows that this uniquely American art form was simultaneously and artistic movement, an ideological statement, and a commercial phenomenon. Photos. 111 music examples.
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Branham x{0026} Goulet-Cazé (eds)
The Cynics
The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
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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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Khubilai Khan 20th anniversary edition
His Life and Times
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 20,74 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26132-7
EAN 9780520261327
Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This 20th anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining how ...
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