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- 4th Estate, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749418-7
EAN 9780007494187
Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody.Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749422-4
EAN 9780007494224
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton.Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist Upton Sinclair, enjoying the success of The Jungle, has taken up residence with his family. Grover Cleveland, ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746887-4
EAN 9780007468874
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both Chinese and American, Violet moves ...
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Franzen, Jonathan; Kraus, Karl
The Kraus Project
Essays by Karl Kraus
- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751824-1
EAN 9780007518241
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, ...
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Bad Pharma
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749808-6
EAN 9780007498086
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the 600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752430-3
EAN 9780007524303
this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-00-728876-2
EAN 9780007288762
From the bestselling author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging in there, co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745953-7
EAN 9780007459537
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749416-3
EAN 9780007494163
In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for ...
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745010-7
EAN 9780007450107
"I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months.All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets.They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the ...
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The Pike
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
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- 4th Estate, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 156 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749880-2
EAN 9780007498802
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and ...
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Grand Pursuit
The Story of the People who Made Modern Economics
- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84115-456-5
EAN 9781841154565
As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet. Economics was not always associated with bankers and ...
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- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,85 €
ISBN 978-0-00-736064-2
EAN 9780007360642
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st. Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak.They ...
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- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-744130-3
EAN 9780007441303
Brown University, Rhode Island, 1980: in love, in confusion and at college.Maddy, beautiful, ambitious student of literature and incurable romantic, has long lived under the spell of Austen and Eliot. Now she is under the spell of one Leonard Bankhead.Leonard, atypical science student and charismatic loner, wants, well, to be brilliant. But he's cursed by ...
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- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746168-4
EAN 9780007461684
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- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746112-7
EAN 9780007461127
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her past erased, her future uncertain. The well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history ...
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- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-722574-3
EAN 9780007225743
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: ...
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- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-00-738817-2
EAN 9780007388172
"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a ...
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The Lover's Dictionary
A Love Story in 185 Definitions
- 4th Estate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 244 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-00-737799-2
EAN 9780007377992
How does one talk about love? We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone. But how does one describe love? How does one chart its delights and pleasures, its depths and desolations? Do we even have the right words to ...
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