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"Realist Vision" explores the claim to represent the world 'as it is'. Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project.Centering each ...
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In the pages of this slim, powerful book Riemen argues with passion that "nobility of spirit" is the quintessence of a civilized world. In this imaginative and compelling volume, Riemen speaks to every reader who believes in the power of classical ideas to restore Western civilization's highest values.
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- Yale University Press, 2009
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PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12347-0
EAN 9780300123470
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The Serbs
History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15826-7
EAN 9780300158267
"The Serbs" was published in hardcover in 1997, and paperbacked in 1998. It was reissued as a NB paperback in 2000, and reprinted regularly since then. There is a lot to catch-up on in this second edition.It covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow of Milosevic, with close-up accounts of his trial at the Hague, ...
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Britons
Forging the Nation 1707-1837
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15280-7
EAN 9780300152807
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Wolfson History PrizeHow was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social, and cultural history to analyze the evolution of Britishness, evoking its enduring tensions as well as its powerful characteristics. Hailed at ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15410-8
EAN 9780300154108
The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way. Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing. Whether it is Nicholas Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, ...
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The Discovery of Mankind
Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15821-2
EAN 9780300158212
The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers' experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15127-5
EAN 9780300151275
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections Hitler and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
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ISBN 978-0-300-11529-1
EAN 9780300115291
This lavishly illustrated book presents a comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece. It vividly describes ancient sporting events and games, considers the role of women and amateurs in ancient athletics, and explores the impact of these games on art, literature, and politics.
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Forgotten Continent
The Battle for Latin America's Soul
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15120-6
EAN 9780300151206
Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world's largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 776 páginas
PVP: 68,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13949-5
EAN 9780300139495
The Song of Songs has been compared to a lock for which the key was lost. Traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, the book has a sensuous imagery that has been the subject of various allegorical interpretations, chiefly as relating to Yahweh's love for Israel or Christ's love for the Church. Marvin H. Pope suggests that ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15117-6
EAN 9780300151176
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-14537-3
EAN 9780300145373
When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500 1700 some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15131-2
EAN 9780300151312
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title from 2008.In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy, Walter Hixson engages with the entire sweep of that history, from its Puritan beginnings to the twenty-first century's war on terror. He contends that a mythical national identity, which includes the notion of American ...
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- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-05583-2
EAN 9780300055832
Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a "pure" Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the ...
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The Philosophers' Quarrel
Rousseau, Hume and the Limits of Human Understanding
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 23,74 €
ISBN 978-0-300-12193-3
EAN 9780300121933
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired off, then quickly published and devoured by ...
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