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Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39205-9
EAN 9780226392059
This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James's fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing character, plot, point of view, inspiration and explains how he ...
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"The Mahabharata," an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic brothers, the Pandavas, and their one hundred contentious cousins for rule of the land. This is the third volume of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 298 páginas
PVP: 46,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-49671-9
EAN 9780226496719
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42941-0
EAN 9780226429410
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PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-226-46865-5
EAN 9780226468655
While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship, the nation's troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States is more intensely experienced through its art music, which combines French and German elements of classical music with Haiti's ...
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PVP: 44,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-84664-4
EAN 9780226846644
The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic brothers, the Pandavas, and their one hundred contentious cousins for rule of the land. This is the second volume of ...
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The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic brothers, the Pandavas, and their one hundred contentious cousins for rule of the land. This is the first volume in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 536 páginas
PVP: 46,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-66789-8
EAN 9780226667898
Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The Cybernetic Brain" explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, ...
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Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists--from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."--Frank M. Turner, "Nineteenth-Century Literature." "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."--Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-30666-7
EAN 9780226306667
Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling ...
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PVP: 25,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-55027-5
EAN 9780226550275
"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934--before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery.Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social ...
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'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view. Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with ...
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PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-28348-7
EAN 9780226283487
If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in "Three Steps to the Universe, "a tour through some ...
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