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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-984897-69-5
EAN 9781984897695
The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-984897-78-7
EAN 9781984897787
A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Giftis a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor. Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our societygoverned by the marketplaceis poorly equipped to determine the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-984899-39-2
EAN 9781984899392
Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-101-97156-7
EAN 9781101971567
Eden was once big and bold and physical. His fellow Marines nicknamed him BASE Jump. He loved to wrap his body around his wife's when they slept at night. But now Eden lies in a bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-984897-55-8
EAN 9781984897558
On the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth, a Vintage Classics edition of his revolutionary poetic masterpiece.In 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-984898-91-3
EAN 9781984898913
Staying true to his trademark journalistic approach, Andrés Oppenheimer takes his readers on yet another journey, this time across the globe, in a thought-provoking search to understand what the future holds for todays jobs in the foreseeable age of automation.The Robots Are Coming! centers around the issue of jobs and their future in the context ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56469-0
EAN 9780525564690
I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguan dictator known as Dr. Francia and his secretary, Policarpo Patiño. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56686-1
EAN 9780525566861
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself shadowed and luminous at once we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80592-8
EAN 9780345805928
From one of our most acclaimed writers, a sumptuous gathering of his singular work in the short form forty-five stories, including seven entirely new pieces appearing for the first time in this collection.For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,65 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56336-5
EAN 9780525563365
The final work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, actor, and musician: drawn from the author's own experience with ALS, Spy of the First Person is borne of an artist's desire to document what was happening to him.In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80621-5
EAN 9780345806215
ANew York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club PickFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-101-97452-0
EAN 9781101974520
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-101-97198-7
EAN 9781101971987
Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In Horseman, a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: And after that, who knew? In Intervention, a realtor facing an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 828 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-525-43295-1
EAN 9780525432951
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op--one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7037-6
EAN 9780804170376
New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency whose website is read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7004-8
EAN 9780804170048
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. Ours is often called an information ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-94848-9
EAN 9780307948489
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves'by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27785-5
EAN 9780307277855
A fresh and moving glimpse of Hunter S. Thompson, the countercultural icon and enfant terrible of American journalism, in a rarely seen role: as an unpredictable, messy, imperfect father.Patron saint of gonzo journalism, wild man, psychedelic, troublemaker, truth-teller, iconoclast, raconteur. The legendary Hunter S. Thompson was all of the above. But behind his mythic persona ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-307-38599-4
EAN 9780307385994
A selection of the best writing by Robert Hughes the most important art and culture critic of our time including never-before-seen pages from his unfinished second memoir.Over the course of his distinguished career as a our preeminent critic, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion and himself. This collection gathers together ...
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