-Titulo Original : The Age Of Extremes: A History Of The World, 1914-1991-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : In Other Words-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori...

-Titulo Original : The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller —intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction...

-Titulo Original : The Technological Society-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.   Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book.   "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's   “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation   “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Pres...

-Titulo Original : A Raisin In The Sun-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Thinking In Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life With Autism-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Lolita-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in , Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation...

-Titulo Original : Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, And The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Open: An Autobiography-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : The Shape Of A Pocket-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others.  The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of a certain hotel bedroom, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening in the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I’ve never written a book with a greater sense of urgency. –John Berge...

-Titulo Original : Citizens: A Chronicle Of The French Revolution-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced...

-Titulo Original : My Dog Skip-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intellingent way of listening.  The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures.  A classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America, belongs on the same shelf as and Russell Baker's .  It will enchant readers of all ages for years to come...

-Titulo Original : Undiscovered Gyrl (Vintage Contemporaries Orig)-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Eastward To Tartary: Travels In The Balkans, The Middle East, And The Caucasus-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : My Life As A Man (Vintage International)-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : THE GOOD MAN OF NANKING: The Diaries Of John Rabe-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Power To Save The World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : You Were Never Really Here (Movie Tie-In)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance. Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade. When he's hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe's small web of associates are picked off one by one, he realizes that he has no choice but to take the fight to the men who want him dead. Brutal and redemptive in equal measure, You Were Never Really Here is a toxic shot of a thriller, laced with corruption, revenge and the darkest of inner demons...

-Titulo Original : Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, And Change-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : Kenneth Clark: Life, Art And Civilisation-Fabricante : Vintag...

-Titulo Original : A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. —San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come...