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The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, ...
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945
Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-226-00645-1
EAN 9780226006451
"Even now, wrote Christopher Isherwood in his Berlin Diary of 1933, I can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened. Three years later, W. E. B. DuBois described Germany as silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers. In contrast, a young John F. Kennedy, in the journal he kept on a German tour ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-226-73362-3
EAN 9780226733623
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish-American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 218 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-45812-0
EAN 9780226458120
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were and still are. The Structure of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-18209-4
EAN 9780226182094
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42941-0
EAN 9780226429410
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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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Giordano Bruno
Philosopher Heretic
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-73024-0
EAN 9780226730240
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77106-9
EAN 9780226771069
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style - and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency - Stark is a master of crime writing, his ...
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PVP: 44,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-46804-4
EAN 9780226468044
"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. .. . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 213 páginas
PVP: 25,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77104-5
EAN 9780226771045
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Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own, excerpts from his life and thought that resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 445 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-34172-9
EAN 9780226341729
2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city's most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 46,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-02595-7
EAN 9780226025957
Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death.As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,87 €
ISBN 978-0-226-48205-7
EAN 9780226482057
When it was first published in 1992, "The Beginnings of Western Science" was lauded as the first successful attempt to present a unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic Greek philosophy to late-medieval scholasticism, David C. Lindberg surveyed the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-51697-4
EAN 9780226516974
Wolves are some of the world's most charismatic and controversial animals, capturing the imaginations of their friends and foes alike. Highly intelligent and adaptable, they hunt and play together in close-knit packs, sometimes roaming over hundreds of square miles in search of food. Once teetering on the brink of extinction across much of the United ...
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The Burden of Responsibility
Blum, Camus, Aron and the French Twentieth Century
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 196 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41419-5
EAN 9780226414195
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the 20th century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time.Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 170 páginas
PVP: 115,20 €
ISBN 978-1-885923-43-1
EAN 9781885923431
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia.
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