Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john guy

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  • POLITICS AND OLD AGE:
    JOHN A. VINCENT / GUY PATTERSON / KAREN WALE
    This title was first published in 2001. Older people have been characterized by two mutually contradictory stereotypes. One the one hand they have been portrayed as a powerful lobby, growing demographically and able to demand large redistributions of the nation's income in their direction. On the other hand they have been typified as a marginalized group at high risk of poverty...

    $1,060.00

  • POLITICS, LAW AND COUNSEL IN TUDOR AND EARLY STUART ENGLAND
    JOHN GUY
    This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical and legal humanism. Main themes include 'imperial' monarchy and the theory of 'counsel', Parliament and the royal supremacy, conciliar politics and organization, the relationship of ...

    $1,480.00

  • TWENTY YEARS AROUND THE WORLD
    JOHN GUY VASSAR
    Twenty Years Around the World is an autobiography written by John Guy Vassar and published in 1891. Vassar was a wealthy American businessman who spent two decades traveling the world, visiting countries such as China, Japan, India, and Egypt. The book is a detailed account of Vassar's experiences during his travels. He describes the places he visited, the people he met, and th...

    $39.70

  • WINNING WAYS FOR YOUR MATHEMATICAL PLAYS
    ELWYN R. BERLEKAMP / JOHN H. CONWAY / RICHARD K. GUY
    This classic on games and how to play them intelligently is being re-issued in a new, four volume edition. This book has laid the foundation to a mathematical approach to playing games. The wise authors wield witty words, which wangle wonderfully winning ways. In Volume 1, the authors do the Spade Work, presenting theories and techniques to "dissect" games of varied structures ...

    $2,020.00

  • WINNING WAYS FOR YOUR MATHEMATICAL PLAYS, VOLUME 3
    ELWYN R. BERLEKAMP / JOHN H. CONWAY / RICHARD K. GUY
    In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The au...

    $1,706.00

  • WINNING WAYS FOR YOUR MATHEMATICAL PLAYS, VOLUME 2
    ELWYN R. BERLEKAMP / JOHN H. CONWAY / RICHARD K. GUY
    In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The au...

    $1,840.00

  • POLITICS AND OLD AGE
    JOHN A. VINCENT / GUY PATTERSON / KAREN WALE
    This title was first published in 2001. Older people have been characterized by two mutually contradictory stereotypes. One the one hand they have been portrayed as a powerful lobby, growing demographically and able to demand large redistributions of the nation's income in their direction. On the other hand they have been typified as a marginalized group at high risk of poverty...

    $2,000.00

  • RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE DIOCESE OF ST DAVIDS 1485–2011
    JOHN MORGAN-GUY
    During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both Church and State. Addressing key ideas in the development of popular religious c...

    $1,380.00

  • WINNING WAYS FOR YOUR MATHEMATICAL PLAYS, VOLUME 4
    ELWYN R. BERLEKAMP / JOHN H. CONWAY / RICHARD K. GUY
    In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The au...

    $1,480.00

  • QUEEN OF SCOTS
    JOHN GUY
    This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film Mary Queen of Scots  starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie "reads like Shakespearean drama" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ).   "A triumph . . . A masterpiece full of fire and tragedy." —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana   In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy c...

    $229.00

  • A DAUGHTER'S LOVE
    JOHN GUY
    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times). Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been la...

    $229.00

  • VAMPIRIA. DE POLIDORI A LOVECRAFT.
    EDGAR ALLAN POE, HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT, JOHN POLIDORI, BRAM STOKER, ALEXANDRE DUMAS, GUY DE MAUPASSANT, RUBÉN DARÍO, HORACIO QUIROGA, E.T.A. HOFFMAN, PROSPER MÉRIMÉE, RICARDO IBARLUCÍA, VALERIA CASTELLÓ, MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON, LUIGI CAPUANA
    Este libro reúne veinticuatro historias que van desde el primer cuento de vampiros de la literatura europea firmado por J.W. Polidori, pasando por relatos del género -tanto clásicos como poco conocidos- escritos por de autores tales como Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Raupach, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Guy de Maupassant, Horacio Quiroga, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, ...
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    $450.00