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ISBN 978-1-84708-079-0
EAN 9781847080790
In The Book of Dead Philosophers, Critchley presents a lineup of nearly 200 famous (and not so famous) philosophers and explores how, through their deaths, one might be inspired to lead a richer life. From a few words to a few pages, each great thinker's death is examined in an enlightening and entertaining manner as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-905881-12-3
EAN 9781905881123
In this issueJames Schuyler:: Coming Night'Aleksander Hemon:: If God Existed, He'd be a Midfielder'Neil Steinberg: Driving with Ed McElroy'Stuart Dybek: Seiche'Alek Kotlowitz: Khalid'Don Delillo: Remembrance'Nelson Algren: The Lightless Room'Elaine Showalter: Saint Jane'Wole Soyinka: Chicago's Great Expositor'Tony D'Souza: Mr Harris'George Saunders: The View from the South Side, 1970'Bei Dao: Once Upon a Time the Zhou Brothers'Dinaw ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84708-132-2
EAN 9781847081322
In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation. Written over ten years ago, "False Dawn" is a remarkably prescient book, sharply criticising the greed and unsustainable economic practices which have proved to be the seeds of a world-wide recession. In a ...
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ISBN 978-1-84708-151-3
EAN 9781847081513
After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence ...
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ISBN 978-1-905881-11-6
EAN 9781905881116
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-905881-06-2
EAN 9781905881062
In this special issueFanny Howe: SeenJohn Banville: Subject + ObjectEleanor Catton: Two TidesHa Jin: In the CrossfireNicola Barker: For the Exclusive Attn of Ms Linda WithycombeHelen Simpson: Sorry?Jhumpa Lahiri interviews Mavis GallantWilliam Pierce: American SubsidiaryChris Ware: UntitledAdam Thirlwell: HaffnerAmy Bloom: Compassion and MercyPaul Auster: Invisible
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84708-075-2
EAN 9781847080752
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ISBN 978-1-905881-05-5
EAN 9781905881055
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We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist and writer whom E.O. Wilson has called 'the world authority on primate social behavior' comes a lively look at the most ...
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ISBN 978-1-84708-068-4
EAN 9781847080684
Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged in their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine.Recounting Edith's story, Figes boldly argues that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-84708-064-6
EAN 9781847080646
In "Satan's Circus" Mike Dash vividly opens up the world of 20th century New York, and tells the gripping story of Charley Becker's rise and fall, and the sensational murder trials that led to his gruesome death in the electric chair. With a cast of colourful characters, from Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord, ...
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ISBN 978-1-905881-04-8
EAN 9781905881048
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-86207-055-4
EAN 9781862070554
Billy Strayhorn was a black, gay man who wrote and arranged much of the music played by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. This biography gives a picture of a vanished culture.
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ISBN 978-1-84708-053-0
EAN 9781847080530
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-905881-03-1
EAN 9781905881031
At present, in Britain, there are at least 200 indigenous active terrorist cells being monitored by the Security Service MI5, with 4,000 British Muslims considered to be a threat to national security. How did we arrive at this state of affairs? A remarkable investigation by Richard Watson into the origins and the rise of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-185-4
EAN 9781846271854
From getting locked out of her flat twice on the same day and being fired for baking a giant cookie in the shape of her boss' head, to playing bridesmaid for a friend she'd long forgotten, Sloane Crosley can do no right, despite the best of intentions. With sharp, original and irresistible storytelling that confounds ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84708-040-0
EAN 9781847080400
Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short story writers, introduced the first "Granta Book of the American Short Story", which Granta published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century. In the fourteen years since, Ford has been reading new ...
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PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-904-5
EAN 9781862079045
Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century - an 'exemplary choice' in the words of the "Washington Post" - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,49 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-02-4
EAN 9781905881024
For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But economic migration, overpopulation and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it.In this special issue:Jonathan Raban on the road in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-051-6
EAN 9781847080516
In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. In this fiercely honest and beautifully written memoir, her son David Rieff chronicles the last months of Sontag's life. Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer, against all the odds, and had developed ...
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