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What is Paleolithic Art?
Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
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ISBN 978-0-226-26663-3
EAN 9780226266633
Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it something deeper a creative impulse, a spiritual ...
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But Can I Start a Sentence with "but"?
Advice from the Chicago Style Qx{0026}A
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ISBN 978-0-226-37064-4
EAN 9780226370644
Every month, tens of thousands of self-declared word nerds converge upon a single site: The Chicago Manual of Style Online's Qx{0026}A. There the Manual's editors open the mailbag and tackle readers' questions on topics ranging from abbreviation to word division to how to reform that coworker who still insists on two spaces between sentences. Champions ...
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Juvenescence
A Cultural History of Our Age
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ISBN 978-0-226-38196-1
EAN 9780226381961
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at ...
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A War for the Soul of America
A History of the Culture Wars
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ISBN 978-0-226-37923-4
EAN 9780226379234
When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country, his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout the previous decade and would continue until the century's end, pitting conservative ...
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Architecture of Story
A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer
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ISBN 978-0-226-18191-2
EAN 9780226181912
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Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
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ISBN 978-0-226-35301-2
EAN 9780226353012
When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama's presidency in spite of his administration's considerable efforts to ...
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Invisible
The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
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ISBN 978-0-226-37825-1
EAN 9780226378251
If offered the chance'by cloak, spell, or superpower'to be invisible, who wouldnt want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-32141-7
EAN 9780226321417
We're living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I'm not altogether sure you're fully attuned to it. So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents of his New England city and enjoys their unwavering loyalty in return. But in our age of ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-32463-0
EAN 9780226324630
Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and adjudication, thus raising ...
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ISBN 978-1-78320-515-8
EAN 9781783205158
Few if any books come close to being as beloved or as ubiquitous as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Best-sellers for decades, they became even more popular on the heels of Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning film adaptations. And throughout, fans have not only read the books, they've engaged with them, building ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-25514-9
EAN 9780226255149
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House of Debt
How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again With a new Afterword
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PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-27165-1
EAN 9780226271651
The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession-that the total amount of debt for American households doubled ...
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Ozone Journal
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2016
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PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-20703-2
EAN 9780226207032
"A sequel of sorts to "Ziggurat," published in the Phoenix Poets series in 2010, the title poem from "Ozone Journal" recounts the memory of the speaker's excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a TV journalist crew in 2009. The speaker "dreams back," as it were, to the 1980s, when, ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-08194-6
EAN 9780226081946
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What Soldiers Do
Sex and the American GI in World War II France
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ISBN 978-0-226-92311-6
EAN 9780226923116
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly-but if you're the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French ...
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ISBN 978-1-78320-205-8
EAN 9781783202058
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heartthrob out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from the moment of his first ...
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ISBN 978-1-78320-206-5
EAN 9781783202065
What gives this slight starlet such staying power? A talented actress, an icon of fashion, a loving mother, and an active humanitarian, Hepburn remains one of the world s most beloved women even two decades after her death. Ranked as the third greatest screen star of all time by the American Film Institute, she possessed ...
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ISBN 978-1-78320-202-7
EAN 9781783202027
From box office flop to one of the most successful cult films of all time, The Big Lebowski has spawned a multicity festival, college-level courses, and its own religion. Fans of the Coen brothers' masterful dark comedy (collectively calling themselves Achievers and proud we are of all of them) gather in movie theaters and bowling ...
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ISBN 978-1-78320-017-7
EAN 9781783200177
From his debut in a six-page story in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero. The continued relevance of the caped crusader could be attributed to his complex character, his dual identity, or his commitment to revenge and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-28393-7
EAN 9780226283937
Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless legalese is widespread. Since 2001 Bryan A. Garner's Legal Writing in Plain English has helped address this problem by providing lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars with sound advice and practical tools ...
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