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  • Copyright

    La industria que mueve el mundo

    Series series DIVULGACIÓN
    Cómo una idea de hace siglos controla y monetiza casi todos los aspectos de la vida moderna.El copyright está en todas partes y es la base de nuestro sistema económico. Desde la canción que tarareamos por la mañana hasta las aplicaciones del móvil, prácticamente todo lo que configura nuestra vida cotidiana está sujeto a la propiedad intelectual. Pero para entender su irrupción hay que viajar hasta ... Leer más

    $279 MXN

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    de David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Leer más

    $197 MXN

  • Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret)

    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    Series Libro 1 - Inspector Maigret
    In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes.When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from Interpol that Pietr the Latvian, an infamous con man, is on his way to Paris, he rushes to intercept him at the ... Leer más

    $159 MXN

  • Who Owns This Sentence?

    A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    **A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely." —Louis Menand, The New YorkerA fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.**Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs ... Leer más

    $343 MXN

  • Georges Perec: A Life in Words

    de David Bellos ...
    "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation.David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which ... Leer más

    $285 MXN

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    de David Bellos ...
    "An award-winning translator describes and defends his profession. . . . Ultimately illuminating, even transformative." — Kirkus Reviews"Dazzingly inventive." — New York Times Book Review , A Notable Book of the Year"A richly original cultural history." — The Economist , A Book ... ... Leer más

    $193 MXN

  • The Novel of the Century

    The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    de David Bellos ...
    This "impeccably researched and pithily written" volume reveals the dramatic life of Victor Hugo's literary masterpiece ( The New York Times ).Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert's dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned since its first publication in 1862. Whether we encounter Victor Hugo's story on the page, onstage, ... Leer más

    $211 MXN

  • Romain Gary

    A Tall Story

    de David Bellos ...
    Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different names in two languages, English and French, neither of which was his mother tongue. Gary had a gift for ... Leer más

    $571 MXN

  • Life

    A User's Manual

    de Georges Perec ...
    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • The Novel of the Century

    The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    de David Bellos ...
    **GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist'Any reader who hasn't yet embarked on Hugo's book might be converted to the idea by this one' Daniel Hahn, ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • On Leave

    A Novel

    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable warWhen On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it ... Leer más

    $193 MXN

  • Jacques Tati

    de David Bellos ...
    The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest ... Leer más

    $323 MXN