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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419036728
Early Jazz
Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, B..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788495359452
Chess Story
With no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the Nazis. One of the steam passengers app..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419089908
Breath
Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the wild coast of Western Australia. Loner by nature, he hates the quiet customs of his family, but everything changes when he becomes friends with Loonie, an impulsive and rebellious boy with whom he will begin to become interested in ..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788495359476
Letter from an Unknown Woman
"I just want to talk to you, tell you everything for the first time. You should know my whole life, which was always yours even though you never knew it. But only you will know my secret, when I'm dead and you no longer have to give me an answer; when this that now shakes me with chills is really th..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788415277712
Hare with Amber Eyes
More than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which summarizes, in the story of a family, the histo..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419036124
Men are not Islands
Based on John Donne's famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his "ideal library" by inviting us to read—and reread—more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can arouse the reader's curiosity and encourage them to read the work from which it came, Ordine continue..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419958037
From One World to Another
This book mixes impressions of Viennese and European life before the World War I with Zweig's personal recollections and detailed anecdotes. It chronicles the final days of Austria-Hungary under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, including the educational system and sexual morals of the time, the sa..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419036742
How to Be A Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Fear and violence are not enough for any dictator to govern: these strategies may be essential to achieve power and even to maintain it for a time, but they are not usually effective in the long term. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support, since on..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419036377
The Art of Being Right
Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, as to hold one’s own, whether one is in the right or the wrong. A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and sometimes in his own, he may come off worst. For example, I may advance a proof of some assertion, a..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419036414
Thinking Better
We have been taught that the shortcut is not recommended, that it is a tricky resource, the lazy trick. However, for Marcus du Sautoy it is a legitimate tactic: in mathematics, the realm of strategic thinking that emulates the logic of nature, the shortcut provides us with the solution of a problem ..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788419036940
Seventh: "Thou Shalt Not Steal"
This essay offers an insightful reflection on the market's origins in the West, highlighting its role from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age as a collective identity and autonomous value judge. Paolo Prodi argues that the mercantile system, often misunderstood, historically shaped the rule of law, d..
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Brand: Acantilado EAN: 9788495359926
Stellar Moments of Humanity
This is probably Stefan Zweig's most famous book. In it he brings to its peak the art of historical and literary miniature. Very varied are the events that he brings together under the title of "Stellar Moments": the decline of the Eastern empire, in which the fall of Constantinople at the hands of ..
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