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Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments.In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to meet the scientists who have transformed our understanding of pollution's effects ...
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- Granta Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-544-5
EAN 9781783785445
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, and the authority figures that routinely disbelieved her. That violence weighed on ...
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- Granta Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-476-9
EAN 9781783784769
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' Ocean Vuong'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as ...
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- Granta Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-468-4
EAN 9781783784684
When Kristin Kimball fell in love with a farmer and left behind her life in Manhattan to start a new farm with him in the Adirondacks, she had to learn a lot about farming - and fast. But, it turns out that starting a farm is not as challenging as sustaining it. Over the next ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-28-6
EAN 9781909889286
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-536-0
EAN 9781783785360
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one of the cool kids, he's also one of the ...
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How the World Thinks
A Global History of Philosophy
- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-230-7
EAN 9781783782307
'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' ObserverIn this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-543-8
EAN 9781783785438
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-25-5
EAN 9781909889255
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Border
A Journey to the Edge of Europe
- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-320-5
EAN 9781783783205
Winner of the the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017Winner of the 2017 Highland Book PrizeWinner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 Shortlisted for the ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-326-5
EAN 9781847083265
The winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction returns with signature humour and psychological accuracy, to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America. In tales of a family obsessed with the surfaces of their lives, or the story of a shopper who suddenly finds himself nominated to run for President, she ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-684-2
EAN 9781846276842
Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-22-4
EAN 9781909889224
Granta 147 will be our Fortieth Birthday Special. This will be a celebratory issue featuring a collection of the best essays and fiction from the magazine's lauded history.It has now been forty years since Bill Buford, Jonathan Levi and Peter de Bolla relaunched Cambridge University's student publication as the internationally renowned literary magazine we know ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-392-2
EAN 9781783783922
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-242-0
EAN 9781783782420
We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-174-4
EAN 9781783781744
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 268 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-626-2
EAN 9781846276262
At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should nuclear play in our future?Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Windscale.Chernobyl. Fukushima. These names no longer ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-524-7
EAN 9781783785247
This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores American efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, Miami's civic ...
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The Recovering
Intoxication and its Aftermath
- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-153-9
EAN 9781783781539
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore.Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-19-4
EAN 9781909889194
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