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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 101,05 €
ISBN 978-0-8020-9796-5
EAN 9780802097965
Given that the Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was personally acquainted with the modernist master James Joyce, and even helped research and promote Finnegans Wake, it should come as no surprise that Beckett was greatly influenced by Joyce's own work. However, much analysis of Beckett's work tends to argue that he forged his own ...
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Angelic Echoes
Hervé Guibert and Company
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 54,55 €
ISBN 978-0-8020-4794-6
EAN 9780802047946
In 1990 Herve Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauve la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 42,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8020-6853-8
EAN 9780802068538
For centuries philologists, linguists, and historians have read medieval books to study the language of a given work or to establish an accurate and readable text. Art historians also have considered illuminated manuscripts as important repositories for works of art. But in recent decades new interest has developed in the over-all physical format of the ...
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