Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14327-9
EAN 9780349143279
Mma Ramotswe's friend will persuade her to stand for election to the City Council. 'We need women like her in politics,' Mma Potokwani says, 'instead of having the same old men every time .. .' To be elected, Mma Ramotswe must have a platform and some policies. She will have to canvas opinion.She will have ...
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- Abacus UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0997-9
EAN 9781408709979
The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason.After the horrific accident at Bennington, the two friends - once inseparable roommates - haven't spoken in over a year. But Lucy is standing there, trying to make things right. Perhaps Alice should be happy.She has not ...
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Viva La Revolucion
Hobsbawm on Latin America
- Abacus UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14129-9
EAN 9780349141299
Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But ...
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The Old Man and the Knee
How to be a Golden Oldie
- Abacus UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14340-8
EAN 9780349143408
Although in his seventies, Christopher Matthew is convinced he is not yet old. No one one has ever stood up for him on a crowded bus or tube. He plays golf and walks the dog.He has all his own teeth, hair, and does not require a hearing aid. He is, in short, enjoying late middle ...
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A Time of Love and Tartan
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-1099-9
EAN 9781408710999
If only Pat Macgregor had an inkling of the embarrassment romantic, professional, even aesthetic that flowed from accepting narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce Anderson's invitation for coffee, she would never have said yes. And if only Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, hadn't wandered into his local bookshop and picked up a particular book at a ...
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- Abacus UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14204-3
EAN 9780349142043
Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the much-loved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. At Botswana's No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi are intrigued by the troubling dismissal of an employee at a thriving local business.The ladies proceed with investigations as ...
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- Abacus UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14292-0
EAN 9780349142920
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the ...
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The Bertie Project
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14266-1
EAN 9780349142661
Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned from the middle-east, only to discover that her son has been exposed to the worst evils of cartoons, movies and Irn Bru, and her wrath falls upon her unfortunate husband, Stuart. Meanwhile, Bruce has fallen in love with someone other than himself; Big ...
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- Abacus UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14067-4
EAN 9780349140674
The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity.Most accounts of the ...
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- Abacus UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10703-5
EAN 9780349107035
* Spacecraft missions to nearby planets * The Library of ancient Alexandria * The human brain * Egyptian hieroglyphics * The origin of life * The death of the sun * The evolution of galaxies * The origins of matter, suns and worlds The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and ...
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- Abacus UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14207-4
EAN 9780349142074
Darktown is a relentlessly gripping, highly intelligent crime novel set in Atlanta in 1948, following the city's first black police force investigating a brutal murder against all the odds. 'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment' Stephen King 'Magnificent and shocking' Sunday Times Atlanta, 1948.In this city, all crime is black ...
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- Abacus UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13935-7
EAN 9780349139357
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 20161000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David.Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his empire.But his journey is a tumultuous one and the consequences of his choices will ...
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The Revolving Door of Life
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14104-6
EAN 9780349141046
For seven-year-old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better. The enforced absence of his endlessly pushy mother Irene - currently consciousness-raising in a Bedouin harem (don't ask) - has manifold and immediate blessings: no psychotherapy, no Italian lessons and no yoga classes. Bliss.For Scotland Street's grown-ups, life throws ...
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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies
The Life of Gore Vidal
- Abacus UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 5 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13940-1
EAN 9780349139401
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying ...
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- Abacus UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14103-9
EAN 9780349141039
Mma Ramotswe is not one to sit about. Her busy life as the proprietress of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency gives her little time for relaxation. Nonetheless, she is persuaded by her co-director Mma Makutsi to take a holiday.But Mma Ramotswe finds it impossible to resist the temptation to interfere with the agency's cases - ...
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- Abacus UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14102-2
EAN 9780349141022
Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor of the Review of Applied ...
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- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14180-0
EAN 9780349141800
Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there.The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not ...Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into ...
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- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00460-0
EAN 9780349004600
'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, ...
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The Perfect Theory
A Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity
- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12367-7
EAN 9780349123677
Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement in modern physics. Anything that involves gravity, the force that powers everything on the largest, hottest or densest of scales, can be explained by it. From the moment Einstein first proposed the theory in 1915, it was received with enthusiasm yet also ...
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- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14052-0
EAN 9780349140520
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, in a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or ...
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