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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 228 páginas
PVP: 89,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4773-1673-3
EAN 9781477316733
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4773-1752-5
EAN 9781477317525
Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern region of Oaxaca anchors an analysis of the way ethnically diverse societies produced knowledge in colonial ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4773-1607-8
EAN 9781477316078
During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of the sixteenth century continued to use pre-Hispanic pictorial writing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4773-1721-1
EAN 9781477317211
This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977.While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard ...
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Messier, Ronald A; Miller, James A
The Last Civilized Place
Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 85,30 €
ISBN 978-0-292-76665-5
EAN 9780292766655
Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold during its first 250 years, ...
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The Family Jewels
The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 422 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-292-76215-2
EAN 9780292762152
In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked the American public and led to investigations of the CIA by a presidential commission ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-292-75760-8
EAN 9780292757608
The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna, Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 140 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-292-74385-4
EAN 9780292743854
Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in 1967 as The Burning Plain, these starkly realistic stories create a psychologically acute portrait of poverty and ...
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In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from? In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W.Helms explores the power ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-292-72180-7
EAN 9780292721807
Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians who contested control over a vast land. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. The first edition of Spanish Texas, 1519 1821 (1992) ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-0-292-71307-9
EAN 9780292713079
Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among sexes, races, and nations. Feminist thinkers and writers are increasingly recognizing science fiction's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 52,40 €
ISBN 978-0-292-77088-1
EAN 9780292770881
Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 67,80 €
ISBN 978-0-292-73061-8
EAN 9780292730618
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