Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10838-4
EAN 9780349108384
Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay- identity. Through the lends of ...
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- Abacus UK, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11314-2
EAN 9780349113142
What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact. In this revealing and highly original study David Cordingly sets out to discover the truth behind the piracy myth, ...
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- Abacus UK, 1994
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10600-7
EAN 9780349106007
'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state of religious flux.
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- Abacus UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10452-2
EAN 9780349104522
The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers.Realising the letter was the work of ...
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- Abacus UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 21,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10449-2
EAN 9780349104492
The scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was still ruled by Africans and barely explored. By 1902, five European powers had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and protectorates. This is the history of this episode.
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- Abacus UK, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10327-3
EAN 9780349103273
A journey into the dark recesses of the American psyche in which a hapless writer with a passion for drink and rich women finds he has a bad case of alcoholic amnesia and must try to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening that resulted in his car being drenched in blood. A crime ...
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- Abacus UK, 1988
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,40 €
ISBN 978-0-349-10013-5
EAN 9780349100135
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing ...
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Jim Williard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progress through the secret gay world of 1940s America unveils surreptitious Hollywood affairs, the hidden ...
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