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  • 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
    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts
    Szymborska, Wislawa
    Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition ...

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Birds of Mexico and Central America
    Perlo, Ber Van
    Birds of Mexico and Central America is the only field guide to illustrate and describe every species of bird in Central America from Mexico to Panama, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Written and illustrated by Ber van Perlo, this handsome work covers more than 1,500 species.Information on key identification features, habitats, song...

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  • 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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  • 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,...
    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
    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
    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...
    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 ...

    $688.00 MXN

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  • 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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  • Spiders of the World
    Platnick, Norman I.
    Spiders are among the most versatile creatures on the planet, inhabiting six of the seven continents and thriving in environments ranging from deserts and rain forests to Arctic tundra and cities. Spiders of the World is a captivating look at these wondrously adaptable and endlessly intriguing arachnids, written by six of the world’s leading experts on spiders. This stunningly ...

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  • Electric salome
    Garelick, Rhonda K.

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  • Essential Kierkegaard, The
    Kierkegaard, Soren

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  • Nude, The
    Clark, Kenneth

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  • Surreal Spaces
    Moorhead, Joanna

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  • 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
    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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  • 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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  • Dreams
    Jung, C. G.

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  • A Todo Volumen (BRD)
    Guggenheim, Davis

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  • Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the...
    Grimm, Jacob / Grimm, Wilhelm
    When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the...

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  • Notebooks, The
    Basquiat, Jean-Michel / Warsh, Larry
    Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressi...

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  • Bridge on the River Kwai (BRD)
    Lean, David
    Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un grupo de prisioneros británicos son obligados por los japoneses a construir un puente. Los oficiales, capitaneados por su flemático coronel, se opondrán a toda orden que viole la Convención de Ginebra sobre los derechos y las condiciones de vida de los prisioneros de guerra. ...

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  • William Blake
    Moore, Alan
    An authoritative look at William Blake's life and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmakerWilliam Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most iconic images in the history of art. He was a countercultural prophet whose personal struggles, technical innovations, and revelatory vision have inspired generations of artists. This marvelously illustrated book expl...

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  • From Caligari to Hitler
    Kracauer, Siegfried
    An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligar...

    $519.00 MXN

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