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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: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26997-2
EAN 9780520269972
The Canto General, thought by many of Nerudas most prominent critics to be the poets 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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-520-26799-2
EAN 9780520267992
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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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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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