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  • Mina Loy
    Mina Loy
    Gross, Jennifer R.
    Mina Loy (1882–1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion. Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable is the first book to examine the full scope of her extraordinary career, demonstrating Loy’s transformative impact on the visual arts as well as the literar...

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  • Economics in America
    Economics in America
    Deaton, Angus
    From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in...

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  • Keith Haring
    Keith Haring
    Deitch, Jeffrey
    A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists in the 1980s, Haring found an empty canvas in the advertising panels scattered throughout New York City's subway system, wher...

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  • Gothic
    Gothic
    Luckhurst, Roger
    The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an unprecedented look at the ways this uncanny style has manifested itself through architecture, literature, film, art, video games, and more. From the works of Victor Hugo and E. T. A. Hoffmann to Southern Gothic, an...

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  • Mushroom at the End of the World,The
    Mushroom at the End of the World,The
    Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
    What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical ...

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  • Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat, Jean-Michel / Warsh, Larry (ed.)
    One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection o...

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  • Mimesis
    Mimesis
    Auerbach, Erich
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial es...

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  • Twelve Caesars
    Twelve Caesars
    Beard, Mary
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of to...

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  • Silence of Heaven, The
    Silence of Heaven, The
    Oz, Amos
    In The Silence of Heaven, the world renowned Israeli novelist Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S. Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday. For Oz, Agnon is a treasure trove of a world no longer available to today’s writers, yet deeply meaningful for his wonderment about God, the submerged eroticism of his writin...

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  • Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
    Book of Greek and Roman Folktales,...
    Hansen, William
    The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories?from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh?these...

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  • Shamanism
    Shamanism
    Eliade, Mircea
    Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia-where shamanism was first observed-to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibe...

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  • Brutal Aesthetics
    Brutal Aesthetics
    Foster, Hal
    How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that mo...

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  • Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised Edition
    Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised...
    Sinclair, Ian / Hockey, Phil / Tarboton, Warwick / Perrins, Niall / Rollinson, Dominic / Ryan, Peter
    A substantially revised and expanded new edition of the bestselling standard field guide for southern Africa, now with a dedicated app providing access to vocalizationsNow in its fifth edition, Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date by its expert authors and greatly enhanced with a wide range of new information and features. Providing comprehensive coverage ...

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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Carroll, Lewis / Dalí, Salvador (Ilus.)
    Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before.In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseud...

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  • Expanding Circle, The
    Expanding Circle, The
    Singer, Peter
    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism? In his classic study "The Expanding Circle"...

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  • Cat Wars
    Cat Wars
    Marra, Peter
    In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for some time--that in the United States alone, free-ranging cats are killing bi...

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  • How to Cure a Fanatic
    How to Cure a Fanatic
    Oz, Amos
    Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise, powerful essays, the award-winning author offers unique insight into the true nature of fanaticism and proposes a reasoned and respectful approach to resolving the Israeli Palestinian conflict. As an added feat...

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  • Nude, The
    Nude, The
    Clark, Kenneth

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  • Narrative Economics
    Narrative Economics
    Shiller, Robert J

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  • Surreal Spaces
    Surreal Spaces
    Moorhead, Joanna

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  • Eros the Bittersweet
    Eros the Bittersweet
    Carson, Anne
    Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho’s invention of the word “bittersweet” to describe Eros, Carson’s original and ...

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  • Be Not Afraid of Life
    Be Not Afraid of Life
    James, William / Kaag, John (ed.) Belle, Jonathan van (ed.)
    William James, psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker, is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life’s meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, "is life worth living?" B...

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  • Paleontology
    Paleontology
    Bainbridge, David

    $644.00 MXN

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  • Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Buchhart, Dieter / Hofbauer, Anna Karina / Montez, Ricardo / Ricard, Rene / Russell-Cook, Myles / Warsh, Larry / Wiedmann, Anke / Yablonksy, Linda

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  • Great Divergence, The
    Great Divergence, The
    Pomeranz, Kenneth

    $365.00 MXN

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  • Bosch and Bruegel
    Bosch and Bruegel
    Koerner, Joseph Leo
    In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us.Supreme virtuoso of the bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, B...

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  • Capitalism Without Capital
    Capitalism Without Capital
    Haskel, Jonathan / Westlake, Stian
    Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main s...

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  • Roots of Romanticism, The
    Roots of Romanticism, The
    Berlin, Isaiah
    In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a bravura intellectual performance. Isaiah Berlin surveys the many attempts to define romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developme...

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  • Undiscovered Self, The
    Undiscovered Self, The
    Jung, C. G.
    These two essays, written late in Jung’s life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, "The Undiscovered Self" is a plea for his generation «and those to come» to continue the individual work of self-discovery and not abandon needed psychological reflection for the easy ephemera of mass c...

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  • Dreams
    Dreams
    Jung, C. G.

    $372.00 MXN

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