Editorial Allen Lane
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- Allen Lane, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198472-8
EAN 9780141984728
Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian Best Book of 2019 so far 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, ...
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- Allen Lane, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33732-5
EAN 9780241337325
'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam ChomskyThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if we accept it, our helplessness is guaranteed.To bring about real change, argues activist and political philosopher Srecko ...
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- Allen Lane, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34745-4
EAN 9780241347454
Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures. If it's not you or me, it's someone we love.'After her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions of us, yet which we still ...
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- Allen Lane, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-40072-2
EAN 9780241400722
*What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their position at the top. But why ...
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- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-36590-8
EAN 9780241365908
Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Alan Greenspan distils a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a master reckoning with the decisive ...
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- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34746-1
EAN 9780241347461
We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of venues in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted many remarkable writers. Philip Hensher, following the great success of his definitive two-volume The Penguin Book of the British Short Story, has been reading ...
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- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-241-36769-8
EAN 9780241367698
One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we areThe blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - ...
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- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34779-9
EAN 9780241347799
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly ...
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- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34342-5
EAN 9780241343425
1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights ...
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Enlightenment Now
A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress
- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33701-1
EAN 9780241337011
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, ...
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Directorate S
The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
PVP: 34,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-660-2
EAN 9781846146602
From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars, this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016'The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events' New York Review of BooksIn the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the ...
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars, this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016'The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events' New York Review of BooksIn the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the ...
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12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
- Allen Lane, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35164-2
EAN 9780241351642
What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In ...
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Why We Sleep
The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
- Allen Lane, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26906-0
EAN 9780241269060
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Vital ... a life-raft' Guardian'A top sleep scientist argues that sleep is more important for our health than diet or exercise' The Times'It had a powerful effect on me' Observer'I urge you all to read ...
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- Allen Lane, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-24011-3
EAN 9780241240113
From Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants", comes the definitive book on the distinctive history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State. Based on his extensive time reporting throughout the region, and his unprecedented access to ISIS recruiters and supporters, Wood explores how the Islamic State's apocalyptic ...
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The Way of the Strangers
Encounters with the Islamic State
- Allen Lane, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29962-3
EAN 9780241299623
A radical rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants From Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants," comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State. Based on Wood's unprecedented access to supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members of the most ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-30144-9
EAN 9780241301449
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace.You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it ...
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Henry VI
Penguin Monarchs
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197934-2
EAN 9780141979342
Succeeding to the throne at the age of only nine months, Henry VI had a turbulent reign: he inherited a war with France and, in time, found himself at war with his own nobles. James Ross surveys this eventful life, including Henry's deposition at the hands of Edward IV and his eventual return to the ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25667-1
EAN 9780241256671
A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness by exploring a single day in the life of the brain Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can never share directly with anyone else. But how do our physical brains actually give rise to this rich and varied experience of consciousness? ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 39,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-01132-4
EAN 9780241011324
THE TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book...this is a jewel among histories' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'The suberb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey to power and how it shook the world' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard Books ...
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