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In this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. This seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how ...
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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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In this "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback, Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy, the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family, and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
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- Abacus UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11850-5
EAN 9780349118505
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the ...
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- Abacus UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11563-4
EAN 9780349115634
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. ...
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- Abacus UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11725-6
EAN 9780349117256
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance.For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11609-9
EAN 9780349116099
Douglas has never been a womaniser, so when he begins an extra-marital affair with a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain. Ostensibly in the Highlands, but really in Moscow with his lover, things begin to get very complicated
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THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finds her expanding her business ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11353-1
EAN 9780349113531
Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11673-0
EAN 9780349116730
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was an opportunist ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11306-7
EAN 9780349113067
THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the occasional gossip columnist. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, ...
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TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11738-6
EAN 9780349117386
Ben had always known he would be a photographer, until life got in the way. Now a junior partner in a Wall Street firm, he feels trapped until he discovers his wife has been having an affair and a flash of anger leads him into a nightmare. Is this his chance to assume a new ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11613-6
EAN 9780349116136
Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family with his constant sponging. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything.
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11675-4
EAN 9780349116754
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side.
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11611-2
EAN 9780349116112
Edward is throwing a dinner party with his mistress, aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies his wife takes for granted - sorting his socks, for example. Things seem to be going well, but then some uninvited guests arrive: Edward might not make it home on time.
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11615-0
EAN 9780349116150
It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, ...
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