Editorial Allen Lane
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 800 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9904-4
EAN 9780713999044
'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century...a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political, economic, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances shrank, new ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 41,10 €
ISBN 978-0-241-20103-9
EAN 9780241201039
To work is human: it has always been one of the defining characteristics of life. Yet today 47% of American employment is at risk of automation within the next two to three decades, while professional work in law, medicine and accounting is or soon will be at risk. Drawing on research from around the world ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25400-4
EAN 9780241254004
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history. Ever since, it has remained one of the most ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-310-6
EAN 9781846143106
The Vietnamese are in the unusual situation of being both colonizers themselves and the victims of colonization by others. Their country expanded, shrunk, split and sometimes disappeared, often under circumstances way beyond their control. Despite these often overwhelming pressures Vietnam has survived and is universally recognized as forming one of Asia's most striking and complex ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25796-8
EAN 9780241257968
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25668-8
EAN 9780241256688
This is a concise, paradigm-shifting account of the power dynamics that shape everyday life - from the board room to the dinner table, the playground to the bedroom. The Machiavellian view of power as a coercive force is one of the deepest currents in our culture, yet new psychological research reveals this vision to be ...
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The Egyptians
A Radical Story
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-632-9
EAN 9781846146329
From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politics. In early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world. Half a decade later, the international media has largely moved on from Egypt's explosive cycles of revolution and counter-revolution - but the Arab World's most populous ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1008 páginas
PVP: 48,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-318-2
EAN 9781846143182
A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations ...
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- Allen Lane, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-400-4
EAN 9781846144004
Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give ...
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- Allen Lane, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
PVP: 41,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-210-9
EAN 9781846142109
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already ...
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- Allen Lane, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197857-4
EAN 9780141978574
Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education. His talk, 'How Schools Kill Creativity', is the most viewed in the history of TED and has been seen by millions of people all over the world. In Creative Schools he sets out his practical vision for how education can be transformed to ...
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Just Send Me Word
A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84614-488-2
EAN 9781846144882
Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor memoirs, in many cases written decades later. For obvious reasons there is very little authentic, contemporary material. "Just Send Me Word" is a uniquely powerful and moving experience.It is the story of the relationship between Lev and Sveta, two ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-216-1
EAN 9781846142161
In this provocative and persuasive new book, Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca. Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge of world languages and their history, Ostler reveals that just as past great languages like Latin and Sanskrit have died out, so English will follow. The influence ...
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Pears' Cyclopedia
- Allen Lane, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1056 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-135-5
EAN 9781846141355
Continuing to inform and intrigue generations of readers with its unique mix of solid facts and fascinating gems, Pears' Cyclopaedia offers clear and concise information on such wide-ranging subjects as global economics, Norse mythology and modern cinema. Plus, some surprising and curious details about, among others, brittle stars, cloud computing and ziggurats.Updated regularly by a ...
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