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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-57309-9
EAN 9780241573099
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain x{0026} Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 49,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-30437-2
EAN 9780241304372
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44537-2
EAN 9780241445372
What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, using them to build a picture of how the universe works. These include Graham's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 960 páginas
PVP: 90,55 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51933-2
EAN 9780241519332
'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38028-4
EAN 9780241380284
Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50177-1
EAN 9780241501771
When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37423-8
EAN 9780241374238
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51904-2
EAN 9780241519042
Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the past and the present. For the many readers who found the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50176-4
EAN 9780241501764
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all.Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?While ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,18 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51247-0
EAN 9780241512470
'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold.'In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,34 €
ISBN 978-0-241-45469-5
EAN 9780241454695
One of the our most celebrated thinkers and the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a treeless, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44830-4
EAN 9780241448304
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-241-43531-1
EAN 9780241435311
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 12,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41956-4
EAN 9780241419564
Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word 'Epicurean' with the enjoyment of fine food and wine and decadent self-indulgence. But, as philosopher John Sellars shows, these things are a world away from the vision of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-45468-8
EAN 9780241454688
In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, history, philosophy and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces range widely across time and space: from Newton's alchemy to Einstein's mistakes, from Nabokov's butterflies ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1008 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00482-1
EAN 9780241004821
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198909-9
EAN 9780141989099
In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto.Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-110-2
EAN 9781846141102
Harold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts ...
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