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The Pursuit of Power
Europe 1815-1914
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 848 páginas
PVP: 45,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9088-1
EAN 9780713990881
The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was ...
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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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Pears Cyclopaedia 2016-2017
125th Anniversary
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-24471-5
EAN 9780241244715
The quintessentially British almanac, Pears' Cyclopaedia continues to informand intrigue generations of readers with its unique mix of solid facts and fascinating gems. Now reaching its 125th edition, this ultimate volume offers clear and concise information on such wide-ranging subjects as globalevents, Norse mythology and modern cinema.Updated regularly by editor Chris Cook and his panel ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 254 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00474-6
EAN 9780241004746
The idea of a trained cat seems a contradiction in terms. As domestic pets, cats have evolved very differently from dogs: naturally solitary, wary, easily threatened by newcomers, they are attached first and foremost to place rather than people, and much of their 'antisocial' behaviour arises in situations where that attachment is threatened. But, as ...
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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
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-01486-8
EAN 9780241014868
Part memoir, part reflection, this book will bring to life central Europe during the last ten years of the Cold War. It begins in Trieste in 1979 where the embers of the Habsburg Empire still burnt brightly. The second part moves to the darker, claustrophobic world of Vienna in 1985, where the atmosphere of the ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 40,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-537-7
EAN 9781846145377
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer's new book, The House of the Dead, brings to life both the brutal realities ...
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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 · 368 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-18855-2
EAN 9780241188552
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to ...
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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 · 848 páginas
PVP: 47,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9927-3
EAN 9780713999273
The most terrible emergency in Britain's history, the Second World War required an unprecedented national effort. An exhausted country had to fight an unexpectedly long war and found itself much diminished amongst the victors. Yet the outcome of the war was nonetheless a triumph, not least for a political system that proved well adapted to ...
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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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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-593-3
EAN 9781846145933
There are two myths about crime. In one, the criminal act is a selfish choice, and tough punishment the only solution. In the other, the system is at fault, and perpetrators will change only when society reforms.Both these narratives are wrong. Interweaving conversations and stories of crime with findings from the latest research, Tom Gash ...
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Empire of Things
How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 43,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9962-4
EAN 9780713999624
What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our ...
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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 · 672 páginas
PVP: 47,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-182-9
EAN 9781846141829
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From early in ...
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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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