221 results for '"Castells, Manuel'

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Why did one of the world’s most successful business titans, an oil magnate who rivaled the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, disappear from history? The author of...

A concise yet rich biography of the great eighteenth-century German philosopher. The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lived with a single-minded dedication to the moral education of...

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant’s magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be...

One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth.An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was...

En 1827, veintitrés años después de la muerte del gran filósofo alemán, apareció en Blackwood’s Magazine el texto Los últimos días de Emmanuel Kant, de Thomas De Quincey, como parte de una serie...

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Two Colombian siblings struggle to reunite as the clock ticks down in this emotional thriller from an author praised for his "masterful suspense" (Publishers Weekly). As a boy, Manuel was a dreamer,...

A courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research...

Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory’s “spatial turn.” From the suppression of space in modern social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to...

La figura di Caravaggio, il grande ribelle della storia dell'arte, non poteva lasciare indifferente Dario Fo, il grande ribelle del teatro contemporaneo. Proseguendo nella sua lettura...

How Hadrian left an enduring mark on the architecture and urban topography of ancient Rome The Pantheon, the Temple of Venus and Roma, Hadrian's Mausoleum transformed into Castel Sant'Angelo, and...

(Applause Libretto Library). Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights is an exciting musical about life in Washington...

Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father’s own public and private writings. A brash...

Monad And Dyad As Cosmic Principles In Syrianus / A.d.r. Sheppard -- Procession And Division In Proclus / A.c. Lloyd -- La Doctrine De Simplicius Sur L'âme Raisonnable Humaine Dans Le Commentaire Sur...

"- Naturellement, vous savez ce que c'est, Rieux ? - J'attends le résultat des analyses. - Moi, je le sais. Et je n'ai pas besoin d'analyses. J'ai fait une partie de ma carrière en Chine, et j'ai vu...

In his first novel in English, Manuel Puig strikes a balance between irony and sympathy as he tells of the dealings of two men whose deceptive reminiscences recall those of the characters in his...

Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African-American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998...

Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important twentieth-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas,...