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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-33628-2
EAN 9780226336282
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-64135-5
EAN 9780226641355
"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black Paper he is writing at the peak of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-75023-1
EAN 9780226750231
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. The Roman Empire depended on its army not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers, and control the seas, ...
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The History of Cartography
Cartography in the European Enlightenment : 4
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1920 páginas
PVP: 525,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-18475-3
EAN 9780226184753
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-66256-5
EAN 9780226662565
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point.The point was who I am." Once a golden boy of conservative economics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 24,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-58660-1
EAN 9780226586601
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study ...
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Reinventing Hollywood
How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 60,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-63955-0
EAN 9780226639550
In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer.Incidents were replayed from different characters' viewpoints, and sometimes those versions proved to be false. Films now plunged viewers into characters' memories, dreams, and hallucinations. Some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-56374-9
EAN 9780226563749
A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved novels and Christmas stories as well as his lesser-known sketches and letters for "an around-the-calendar set of jolts, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 33,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-56276-6
EAN 9780226562766
Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex history of inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia from the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-56455-5
EAN 9780226564555
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary France of the intelligence.But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-53376-6
EAN 9780226533766
Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work.Haunted by his father's autopsy of a workman he witnessed as a child, Gewanter forges intensely personal poems that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 42,45 €
ISBN 978-0-226-37615-8
EAN 9780226376158
In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement.Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and penetrated popular American culture, reaching far ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 38,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-20403-1
EAN 9780226204031
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are encompassed in this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 41,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-47562-2
EAN 9780226475622
Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. Today, young Sora are rejecting the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-34469-0
EAN 9780226344690
Walden. Yesterday I came here to live. That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-226-46637-8
EAN 9780226466378
Becker has for seventy years been mulling over the problem of evidence. He argues that social scientists dont take questions about the usefulness of their data as evidence for their ideas seriously enough. For example, researchers have long used the occupation of a persons father as evidence of the familys social class, but studies have ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-9861325-0-6
EAN 9780986132506
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the worlds most distinguished anthropologists'David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins'explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 32,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6
EAN 9780226403366
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded.Even the human sciences have been ...
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Beethoven's Symphonies
Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-45388-0
EAN 9780226453880
In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence ...
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