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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 90,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3
EAN 9781487503673
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 99,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4875-0332-1
EAN 9781487503321
Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to ...
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Libro · 200 páginas
PVP: 33,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-5055-8
EAN 9781442650558
In business, some problems are so complex, intractable and threatening to organizations-or entire industries-that they are best described as "wicked." These problems appear to be unsolvable and they render traditional analytical tools of strategy virtually impotent. Wicked Strategies offers a comprehensive framework for identifying, responding to and profiting from wicked problems. John C. Camillus, drawing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-4556-1
EAN 9781442645561
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Wall Flower
A Life on the German Border
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1622-6
EAN 9781442616226
Kuczynski's fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent writer, and, above all, as a woman.In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 67,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8020-9370-7
EAN 9780802093707
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 44,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-0623-4
EAN 9781442606234
Over ten years have passed since the first publication of The Crusades: A Reader. In that time, interest in the crusades has increased, fuelled in part by the global interactions of the Muslim world and Western nations. It could be argued that the crusades, more than any other medieval event, have become inextricably linked to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1416-1
EAN 9781442614161
The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1595-3
EAN 9781442615953
For those interested in the poetry of medieval Spain, the epic tradition, or for anyone looking for a good adventure story, Las Mocedades de Rodrigo will be essential reading.Perhaps the most famous Castilian in history, Rodrigo Diaz - also known as 'the Cid' - lived in the second half of the eleventh century, distinguishing himself ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1601-1
EAN 9781442616011
Don Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes' work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain.The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest the creation of a modern novel that ...
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The Great Reversal
How we Let Technology Take Control of the Planet
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-8020-9469-8
EAN 9780802094698
Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David Edward Tabachnick contends that this question may not be unique to ...
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Testimony on Trial
Conrad, James and the Contest for Modernism
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 52,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-4368-0
EAN 9781442643680
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 351 páginas
PVP: 34,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1223-5
EAN 9781442612235
Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers.
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Passion and Virtue
Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson
Richardson's novels reveal the conflict of human passion in all its aspects ? love, lust, and suffering. This conflict is considered and critically analysed in fourteen essays, all originally published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
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Northrop Frye on Twentieth-Century Literature
Collected Works vol 29
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Northrop Frye on Canada
Collected Works vol 12
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More than fifty years after the publication of "Anatomy of Criticism," Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors ...
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