Acantilado
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The Seducer
Hertz Minsker, a Jewish immigrant, self-proclaimed intellectual and outright charlatan, lives at the expense of real estate magnate Morris Kálisher, a childhood friend. Inveterate seducer, he is married for the fourth time to the charming Bronie and has an affair with Minne, Morris's wife, in the sa..
$23.36 $25.95
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: 9788419958020
Terra incognita
For thousands of years, human beings ignored a large part of the planet's territories, landscapes and inhabitants, and on maps the unknown regions were called Terra incognita. Even in 1840, the seabed was a complete mystery. Thirty years later, scientists continued to defend that the sea covered the..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788419036872
The Natural Order of Things
María Negroni traces representations of nature, blending the visible with the expressible, in her quest for a meaningful whole. With deep lyricism, she recreates the dreams of the classics, the naturalist fervor of the Renaissance, and the fascination with nature in the Enlightenment. This literary ..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788495359667
The Little Virtues
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of..
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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: 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: 9788419036360
Three Poets, of Their Lives
Stefan Zweig, recognized as one of the greatest biographers of all time, examines with his usual insight and subtlety the lives and works of three great writers, fascinated by Tolstoy's lucidity, Casanova's impartiality, and Stendhal's ambiguity. He considers all three "poets of their lives" since a..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788419036834
Valentino
Although his parents are convinced that Valentino will become a great man, his sisters believe that he is nothing more than a vain, selfish and frivolous young man, more concerned with his conquests than with his medical studies. Valentino's sudden engagement to a rich but unattractive woman ten yea..
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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: 9788419036926
Compulsion
In these two pacifist stories, Stefan Zweig condemns the horrors of the Great War that destroyed the freedom and dignity of Europe. In the first, Ferdinand, a young exile in Switzerland, resists being sent to war. In "Wondrak," Ruzena struggles to save her son from the monstrous conflict. As Patrici..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788416748402
The Land Where Lemons Grow
The Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy's cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to Italy's shores to the persistent role of unique crops such as bergamot (and its place in the perfume an..
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