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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-267-2
EAN 9781786072672
Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant, to Seneca, the philosopher of temperance who accumulated one of the greatest fortunes in Rome, to Kant, who privately wrestled with hypochondria while ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-301-3
EAN 9781786073013
In the early first century, a small group of illiterate peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God's messiah. Less than four hundred years later theirs was the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. How did this happen?Christianity didn't have to become ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-475-1
EAN 9781786074751
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy AstorThey terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world.For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the franchise was finally extended to women, here is a selection of suffragette and suffragist activists and pioneering MPs ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-255-9
EAN 9781786072559
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-252-8
EAN 9781786072528
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 appeared to usher in a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation with the West. This, we were told, was the end of history: now the entire world would embrace enlightenment values and liberal democracy. Reality has proved very different.Russia emerged from the 1990s ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-307-5
EAN 9781786073075
Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Qur'an but rather from hadith, first-hand reports of the prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad, Islamic scholars, past and present, have ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-245-0
EAN 9781786072450
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio 'fixer', covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Craine must make sure ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-964-8
EAN 9781780749648
Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his lab is targeted by animal rights activists. The attack is followed by a phone call from Joe's ex-wife in Finland.Two decades have passed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-209-2
EAN 9781786072092
What's the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have a three-second memory? Do fishes think? Can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? Myth-busting biologist and animal behaviour expert Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea, through streams and estuaries to the other side of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-195-8
EAN 9781786071958
Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dream of becoming a writer. Instead, he works in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-205-4
EAN 9781786072054
The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena. Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls, blood leaks from ceilings and rats besiege the dining room. Experts from the Great Essex Witch Museum are called in to quell these strange sights.But before Rosie Strange and Sam Stone can do their thing events turn darker. For La ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-184-2
EAN 9781786071842
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is despatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose...Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-106-4
EAN 9781786071064
Gaza: a city of contrasts. For most of its recent history Gaza has been seen as a touchstone for the problems of the Middle East. Yet historically Gaza was also a coastal civilisation open to the world.Today the Gazans are a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the West Bank, let alone Israel ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-192-7
EAN 9781786071927
For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the 'War on Terror' and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region's most powerful actors to ensure the security ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-212-2
EAN 9781786072122
Our cities drive innovation and growth, but they also propel us into housing crises and give rise to ever-greater inequality, as the super-rich displace the well-off and the workers who run our essential services are ghettoised and pushed out to the suburbs. There is a new urban crisis, and it is undermining the foundations of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-289-4
EAN 9781786072894
Prompted by events in recent years in the UK and the USA, in Latin America, Russia and the Middle East, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to sustain themselves against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters.In each of five short chapters, he considers a moment ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-100-2
EAN 9781786071002
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing powers, calmly set their menfolk aside and declare that they, as women, are better equipped to organise a peace between their warring nations. An ambitious young woman, debarred by her sex ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-142-2
EAN 9781786071422
Russian historian Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, it covers the growing political tensions between Russia and its neighbours, and the country's increasingly complex relationship with US President Donald J. Trump.This stimulating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-237-5
EAN 9781786072375
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything, until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant-a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-298-6
EAN 9781786072986
Euridice is young, bright and ambitious. A talented musician, she dreams only of fame and fortune. But this is Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, and the one thing society expects of its women: to be loving wives and mothers.So when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, breaking her parents' hearts, Euridice sacrifices her own aspirations ...
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