Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images As Historical Evidence
By: Peter Burke
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke r…
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1. Pirate Latitudes
By: Michael Crichton
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vas… read more
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"There are no pirates in Port Royal"-Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes
2. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- art
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- nonfiction
4. Eugénie Grandet
By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more
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"Misery begets equality."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
5. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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6. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- history
7. El alcalde de Zalamea
By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
3.94
Format: None pages,
Esta es no solo la obra mas popular de este autor, sino la mas artisticamente perfecta de todas las… read more
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8. The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
By: Robert Darnton
3.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then h… read more
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9. Thirst for Love
By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosi… read more
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10. Lessico famigliare
By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more
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11. Tormento
By: Benito Pérez Galdós
3.37
Format: 297 pages,
Publicada en 1884, entre El Doctor Centeno y La de Bringas, obras con las cuales ofrece una suerte … read more
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12. La plaça del diamant
By: Mercè Rodoreda
3.73
Format: None pages,
La vida de Natalia, la protagonista i narradora de La placa del Diamant, es capgira quan coneix Qui… read more
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13. Inés of My Soul
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard wor… read more
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14. La vida es sueño
By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more
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15. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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16. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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- art
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- nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
17. Nada
By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more
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- school
"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"-Edith Grossman, Nada
"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."-Edith Grossman, Nada
18. Art History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Dana Arnold
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues in the field of a… read more
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19. Los renglones torcidos de Dios
By: Torcuato Luca de Tena
4.10
Format: None pages,
Torcuato Luca de Tena, periodista y escritor de gran prestigio, se ha convertido en uno de los auto… read more
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20. Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
2.83
Format: 288 pages,
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21. Jantar Secreto
By: Raphael Montes
4.17
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Um grupo de jovens deixa uma pequena cidade no Paraná para viver no Rio de Janeiro. Eles alugam um … read more
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22. Nietzsche: El superhombre y la voluntad de poder (Biblioteca Descubrir la Filosofía #2)
By: Toni Llácer
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
?Como acercarnos al pensamiento de Friedrich Nietzsche, el mas polemico de los filosofos? Toda su o… read more
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23. Leer mata
By: Luna Miguel
3.88
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Leer hiere como una daga o una flecha que entra en el corazón. Los libros son peligrosos si se leen… read more
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24. La piedra de la locura
By: Benjamín Labatut
3.48
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more
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- history
25. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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26. The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793
By: Niklas Natt och Dag
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 The year is 1793, Stockholm. King G… read more
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27. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
28. Ordesa
By: Manuel Vilas
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It seemed to me the state of my soul was a blurry memory of something that had occurred in a place … read more
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"He sido un eccehomo. No entendí la vida"-Manuel Vilas, Ordesa
"Don't wait for tomorrow; tomorrow is for the dead."-Manuel Vilas, Ordesa
"I'm afraid of old people. They are what I will one day be."-Manuel Vilas, Ordesa
"Books aren't life, only a decoration for it, and little more than that."-Manuel Vilas, Ordesa
29. Croire en l’histoire
By: François Hartog
3.00
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Le XIXe siècle fut la grande époque de l'Histoire. On y croyait avec une force et une foi sans fail… read more
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30. Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images As Historical Evidence
By: Peter Burke
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke r… read more
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- art
- history
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31. La temeraria
By: Isabel San Sebastián
3.37
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Siglo XII, Reino de León. En plena ofensiva almorávide, con la cristiandad acorralada, Urraca, hija… read more
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