Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: marilyn yalom

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  • BIRTH OF THE CHESS QUEEN
    MARILYN YALOM
    "Marilyn Yalom has written the rare book that illuminates something that always has been dimly perceived but never articulated, in this case that that the power of the chess queen reflects the evolution of female power in the western world."  —Cleveland Plain Dealer Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for ...

    $249.00

  • A HISTORY OF THE WIFE
    MARILYN YALOM
    "A valentine to wives . . . after reading Yalom's history, one thing is clear: marriage is not for the faint-hearted." — USA Today How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if t...

    $249.00

  • HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE
    MARILYN YALOM
    "Absolutely marvelous…lively and learned….Marilyn Yalom's book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir." —Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce "[An] enchanting tour of French literature—from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st...

    $164.00

  • THE AMERICAN RESTING PLACE
    MARILYN YALOM
    An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern o...

    $119.00

  • INSEPARABLES
    YALOM MARILYN
    El reconocido psiquiatra Irvin Yalom ha dedicado su carrera profesional a asesorar y preparar a quienes sufren el doloroso proceso del duelo. Pero nunca se había enfrentado a la necesidad de ayudarse a sí mismo hasta que a su esposa, la célebre autora feminista Marilyn Yalom, le diagnostican un cáncer terminal. En Inseparables. Sobre el amor, la vida y la muerte, ambos narran e...
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    $198.00