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Spectrum of Belief
Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
- MIT Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52723-1
EAN 9780262527231
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and ...
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- Picador, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-0-330-39110-8
EAN 9780330391108
Conjure is Michael Donaghy's third collection, and his most accomplished to date, displaying the same trademark elegance, sleight of hand and philosophical wit that have established his reputation as a 'poet's poet'. But while these poems time their feints and punches as well as ever, often the poet's guard is deliberately kept down: Conjure's elegies ...
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Boisserie, Pierre; Stalner, Eric
La Croix de Cazenac Tome 2
L'Ange endormi - Cycle de l'ours
- Dargaud, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 48 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-2-205-04942-8
EAN 9782205049428
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Dans les années 1980, une nouvelle drogue fit son apparition dans les milieux noctambules : le MDMA, dit " ecstasy ". Cette " pilule de l'amour " provoquait d'étranges effets : bouffées de chaleur, envie de danser toute la nuit sur de la techno, besoin de caresser les gens, grincements de dents, déshydratation accélérée, angoisse ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118510-1
EAN 9780141185101
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118384-8
EAN 9780141183848
Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book ...
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Plays Unpleasant
Widowers' Houses / The Philanderer / Mrs Warren's Profession
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043793-5
EAN 9780140437935
With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118508-8
EAN 9780141185088
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the fantastically well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118506-4
EAN 9780141185064
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118512-5
EAN 9780141185125
The Pearl is John Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118514-9
EAN 9780141185149
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - ...
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- Arrow, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928134-4
EAN 9780099281344
Two young girls disappear, but return home unharmed some days later. Around the same time, a convicted paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of an estate in Kingsmarkham are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands... Chief Inspector Wexford is not only concerned very personally ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118383-1
EAN 9780141183831
Although full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, the stories which make up The Aleph also contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's 'killer' and a ...
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Like most ten-year-old boys, Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion as well as the need to be loved. In these stories, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pains, its responsibilities and its problems - through his acceptance of his father's gifts. First he is given a red pony and later he is ...
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Entre mythe et politique jeune antifasciste dans le Quartier latin des années 1930, grand résistant, militant luttant au coude à coude avec ses camarades, Jean-Pierre Vernant est également le professeur honoraire au Collège de France qui a renouvelé notre compréhension des mythes et des croyances de la Grèce ancienne. Dans ce volume, l'auteur nous invite ...
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- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118390-9
EAN 9780141183909
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay ...
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Elles n'ont pas vraiment d'histoire, veulent rompre avec un présent ennuyeux, et se lancent à la conquête d'un avenir plus qu'incertain. Les trois héroïnes de ces trois récits de Patrick Modiano sont des inconnues d'abord pour elles-mêmes. La première d'entre elles a quitté Lyon parce qu'elle n'a pas obtenu l'emploi de mannequin dont elle rêvait. ...
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- Serpent's Tail, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-85242-719-1
EAN 9781852427191
This is Mary Woronov's account of her near-lethal experiences in Andy Warhol's Factory in the late 1960s. She takes the reader on a surreal trip to experience the sights, the sounds, moods, and decadence of a group of now infamous people (including Ondine Lou Reed, Nico, Gerald Malanga, International Velvet, Rotten Rita and Billy Name). ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6544-5
EAN 9780712665445
The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional ...
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