Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11647-1
EAN 9780349116471
David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of ...
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Kipling Sahib
India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11685-3
EAN 9780349116853
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling will do', and thus set young Rudyard on ...
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The Careful Use of Compliments
Sunday Philosophy Club 4
- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13943-2
EAN 9780349139432
The fourth novel in the charming and hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series. For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12116-1
EAN 9780349121161
Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12066-9
EAN 9780349120669
In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have inspired the greatest debate - not only among politicians, academics and commentators but among all of us - in recent years: that is, the effects of globalisation, the plight of democracy and the threat of terrorism. ...
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- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11805-5
EAN 9780349118055
Mysteries of love, romance and truth-telling lie at the heat of Isabel Dalhousie's concerns in Alexander McCall Smith's new Sunday Philosophy Club novel. Isabel's niece Cat is still worshipped by the young musician, Jamie, but Cat has a new and unsuitable love-interest. Meanwhile Isabel's Texan cousins have arrived in Edinburgh and are provoking a quite ...
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- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11952-6
EAN 9780349119526
For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the ...
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Love over Scotland
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11971-7
EAN 9780349119717
The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, most importantly in ...
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Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has ...
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- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11717-1
EAN 9780349117171
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire.In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming ...
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Espresso tales
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11970-0
EAN 9780349119700
In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as ...
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Never had it so Good
A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11530-6
EAN 9780349115306
In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians have ...
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- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11662-4
EAN 9780349116624
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11897-0
EAN 9780349118970
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club.We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13941-8
EAN 9780349139418
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11742-3
EAN 9780349117423
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune.Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,36 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11704-1
EAN 9780349117041
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at ...
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Civil War
The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11564-1
EAN 9780349115641
One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor and Naseby. The fighting was also to rage through Scotland ...
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