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  • The Discoverers

    Series Libro 2 - Knowledge Series
    An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to ... Leer más

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  • The Creators

    A History of Heroes of the Imagination

    Series Libro 1 - Knowledge Series
    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso ... Leer más

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  • The Seekers

    The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

    Series Libro 3 - Knowledge Series
    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators , Daniel J. Boorstin first told brilliantly how e discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to ... Leer más

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  • The Neverending Empire

    The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome

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  • The Fate of the Day

    The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

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  • How the World Made the West

    A 4,000 Year History

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  • Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

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    Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

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  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

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    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Leer más

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  • The Women of Troy

    A Novel

    de Pat Barker ...
    Series Libro 2 - The Women of Troy Series
    A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post).Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with ... Leer más

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