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PVP: 23,20 €
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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The Appian Way
Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-226-14299-9
EAN 9780226142999
The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by time, neglect, and the incursions of modernity; to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-13718-6
EAN 9780226137186
Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud-such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars, delving into subjects ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-226-13296-9
EAN 9780226132969
Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud-such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars, delving into subjects ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,20 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,20 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-10270-2
EAN 9780226102702
Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cross-species communication is never easy. Dog love can be a precious but melancholy ...
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If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new-new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible?In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-92461-8
EAN 9780226924618
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,20 €
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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The Cruel Way
Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-226-03304-4
EAN 9780226033044
In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan's Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-226-81638-8
EAN 9780226816388
Alittle more than seventy-five years ago, Kate L. Turabian drafted a set of guidelines to help students understand how to write, cite, and formally submit research writing. Seven editions and more than nine million copies later, the name Turabian has become synonymous with best practices in research writing and style. Her Manual for Writers continues ...
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"Thinking in Henry James" identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness--first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the ...
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In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with ...
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"For other novelists the value of Henry James's "Notebooks" is immense and to brood other them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."--V. S. Pritchett, " New Statesman" "The "Notebooks" take ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-77062-8
EAN 9780226770628
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital--the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.But cash isn't ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-05487-2
EAN 9780226054872
A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.All three women would go on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-28469-9
EAN 9780226284699
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