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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-633-6
EAN 9781781256336
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-829-3
EAN 9781781258293
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-698-5
EAN 9781781256985
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs and Germany. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-679-9
EAN 9781788166799
'This book helped me understand modern politics better' - Bill Gates, Summer Reading Pick 2022'Powerful and intelligent' - Fareed Zakaria, CNN'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington PostAmerica's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In Why We're Polarized, Ezra Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-971-9
EAN 9781781259719
ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket. It's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-261-6
EAN 9781788162616
As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones some 8.8 million people in the UK. An invisible army of carers holding families together.Here, Kate Mosse tells her personal story of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her mother look after her beloved ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-782-1
EAN 9781781257821
A Times Book of the Year'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' Dominic SandbrookIn the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-590-7
EAN 9781788165907
The Great Depression led people to take desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money, dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was a competition and violence unknown to most ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,57 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-355-2
EAN 9781788163552
It's the summer solstice weekend, and 150,000 people descend on a farm in the northeast of England for an open-air music festival. At first, a spot of rain seems to be the only thing dampening the fun - until a mystery bug appears. Before long, the illness is spreading at an electrifying speed and seems ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-161-9
EAN 9781788161619
We are an island nation, surrounded on all sides by waters which provide us with everything from food to fun. But when it comes to really understanding the ins and outs, we sometimes find ourselves ... less than shipshape.Luckily, Sea Fever is here to help: stacked to the gunnels with interesting facts, practical advice and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-263-0
EAN 9781788162630
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? Who, or what, is Kuzma's mother, and why was Nikita Khrushchev so threateningly obsessed with her (or it)? The course ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-910-8
EAN 9781781259108
In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-575-4
EAN 9781788165754
For most of us, a summer holiday is an opportunity to escape from it all: to lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the characters in this murderously good collection of classic crime stories discover to their cost ... trouble has a nasty habit ...
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Barth, Rüdiger; Friederichs, Hauke
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-073-5
EAN 9781788160735
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag.In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-388-6
EAN 9781846683886
In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-771-5
EAN 9781781257715
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-454-2
EAN 9781788164542
WHAT IS ONE MORE CORPSE, WHEN ALL AROUND YOU ARE DYING... London, 1665. Hidden within a growing pile of corpses, one victim of the pestilence stands out: a young woman with a shorn head and pieces of twine delicately tied around each ankle.Symon Patrick, rector of St. Paul's Covent Garden, cannot say exactly why this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-806-9
EAN 9781788168069
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-780-2
EAN 9781788167802
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating ...
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