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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119292-5
EAN 9780141192925
Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this brilliantly entertaining and ever-more relevant study of human folly shows that we are always susceptible to hysteria and bamboozlement.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 322 páginas
PVP: 27,24 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13562-5
EAN 9780691135625
Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311767-4
EAN 9780143117674
The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early.When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-359-6
EAN 9781846683596
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport. Zusatztext Seitenanfang Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, de Botton will produce an extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place, time, and our daily lives. He will explore the magical and the mundane, personal and collective experiences and ...
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In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15365-1
EAN 9780300153651
Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose discovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface uncovers the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-8147-9723-5
EAN 9780814797235
Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were getting religion praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world from sin. But most residents of Denmark and Sweden, he found, don't worship any god at all, don't pray, and don't give much credence ...
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Technological Choices deals with the adoption or rejection by a society of certain technological innovations and the cultural processes which results in this selection. It demonstrates that in any society, such choices result from cultural values and social relations, rather than inherent benefits in the technology itself. This revolutionary viewpoint has crucial implications for current ...
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PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7382-0861-9
EAN 9780738208619
From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s.
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The author of the international sensation "The Vagina Monologues," is back, this time to rock views of what it means to have a "good body." She is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare.
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Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death.This essay, illustrated with artwork from ...
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In these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with ...
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In his last years, looking back over questions of life, history, exile, identity and Palestine, Edward Said brings his considerable intellect and deep personal engagement to bear on some of the most troubling and volatile issues of our time. In these conversations with Tariq Ali, Said ranges back over his own dislocated existence, his initiation ...
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Libro · 632 páginas
PVP: 46,70 €
ISBN 978-0-8262-1394-5
EAN 9780826213945
Among the most prolific of American writers, Langston Hughes gained international attention and acclaim in nearly every genre of writing. While scholars and general readers have enjoyed relatively easy access to most of his writings, Hughes's work in one genre "the essay" has gone largely unnoticed. From his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in ...
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Careful work with concepts is a cornerstone of good social science methodology. "Concepts and Method in Social Science" demonstrates the crucial role of concepts, providing a timely contribution that draws both on the classic work of Giovanni Sartori and the writing of a younger generation of scholars. In this volume, major writings of Sartori are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-452-29586-5
EAN 9780452295865
In this age of global warming and warfare, aren't manners frivolous? Do manners really matter? Yes! Lucinda Holdforth passionately exclaims. Holdforth wonderfully manages to show that manners are not about saying please and thank you, or about teaching your children to address people by Mr. or Mrs. Citing everyone from Erasmus, Tocqueville, T.S. Elliot to ...
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Libro · 228 páginas
PVP: 30,55 €
ISBN 978-0-8047-2812-6
EAN 9780804728126
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming ...
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Pickett, Kate; Wilkinson, Richard
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95429-4
EAN 9780241954294
Large inequalities of income in a society have often been regarded as divisive and corrosive, and it is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem.This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within ...
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