Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11972-4
EAN 9780349119724
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12055-3
EAN 9780349120553
Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not ...
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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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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12114-7
EAN 9780349121147
To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12041-6
EAN 9780349120416
Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your idiot boss is so ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12091-1
EAN 9780349120911
Art imitates life. Or does it? One sleepy Sunday morning in Buenos Aires, the protagonist of Martinez's brilliant new mystery finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, a former authors' assistant whom he has not seen for at least ten years, and Kloster, a rival writer - only far more successful; bestselling, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11995-3
EAN 9780349119953
It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana. But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours. While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe has a ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12137-6
EAN 9780349121376
What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs Ali and able assistant Aruna look on with careful eyes. But although many clients go away ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11914-4
EAN 9780349119144
One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of Greene's letters - including many to his ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11894-9
EAN 9780349118949
Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the King's abdication. Crisis followed crisis until Britain was engulfed in the ...
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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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Millennium
The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,74 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0086-0
EAN 9781408700860
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents ...
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12130-7
EAN 9780349121307
Ferdinand Mlambo, the youngest boy ever to become senior kitchen toto at State House, is in big trouble. Not only has disloyalty to Kuwisha’s corrupt Life President cost him his prestigious job, but he has also been stripped of his name. Word goes out across the slums: henceforth he will be known as Fatboy. With ...
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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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The World according to Bertie
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12053-9
EAN 9780349120539
The fourth book in the series that revolves around the many colourful characters who 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, and, most importantly in this novel, the beleaguered Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie
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- Abacus UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
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, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11773-7
EAN 9780349117737
The eighth instalment of the "No.1 Ladies Detective Agency". As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective ...
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This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his fifty-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often courageous - and outrageous! - forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subjects: primarily the worlds of literature and US politics; but also showbiz, sexuality and modern manners. His gaze ranges from the ...
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