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- Allen Lane, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-403-5
EAN 9781846144035
Why are we more likely to forgo the opportunity to sell a GBP100 bottle of wine rather than actually taking money out our wallet to pay for it, when ultimately the 'opportunity cost' of doing so is the same? Why would the 'endowment effect' mean that we value a free ticket worth hundreds of pounds ...
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- Allen Lane, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-20290-6
EAN 9780241202906
In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter Americas growing problem. With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice'the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities.Gathering his writings for ...
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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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The Brain's Way of Healing
Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries
- Allen Lane, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 35,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-424-0
EAN 9781846144240
In The Brain's Way of Healing, Norman Doidge, the bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself, presents astounding discoveries in the brain's healing power. This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity ...
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The Longest Afternoon
The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00460-9
EAN 9780241004609
The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy. Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and ...
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- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-820-0
EAN 9781846148200
Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism ...
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- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-697-8
EAN 9781846146978
We have been inundated with books about 'the financial crisis'. Martin Wolf believes that too much has been said about the purely financial aspects of the economic crisis, important though they are. The actual underlying problem, as this radical new book argues, is that the world economy is unable to cope with the huge shifts ...
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The Establishment
and how they get away with it
- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-719-7
EAN 9781846147197
In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for democracy. Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that ...
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World without End
The Global Empire of Philip II
- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 39,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-083-9
EAN 9781846140839
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority. World Without End tells the story of life in a conquered territory that stretched from Cuba to Peru, and of the final conquests of the ...
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- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-325-0
EAN 9781846143250
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it. The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which ...
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The Deluge
The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931
- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-034-1
EAN 9781846140341
On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction. In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to ...
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The Contest of the Century
The New Era of Competition with China
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new navy, China ...
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Inventing the Individual
The Origins of Western Liberalism
- Allen Lane, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9644-9
EAN 9780713996449
The new book from Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today. This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom ...
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Exodus
Exodus : Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-224-6
EAN 9781846142246
Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - and those of our politicians - remain caught between two extremes: popular hostility to migrants, tinged by xenophobia and racism; and the view of business and liberal elites that 'open ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate?John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two ...
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The Bombing War
Europe 1939-1945
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 928 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9561-9
EAN 9780713995619
This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a 'moral' ...
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- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9977-8
EAN 9780713999778
'The two sides rained arrows down upon one another from a distance; then, when all their missiles were spent, they clashed and grappled together in close combat, stabbing with spears, fighting hand to hand with daggers.' The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of non-fiction and the first work of history. ...
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Music at Midnight
The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-248-2
EAN 9781846142482
'Love bade me welcome...' 'Teach me my God and King...' George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in an astonishing variety of forms his inner experiences of grief, recovery, hope, despair, anger, fulfilment and - above all else - love. He was born in 1593 and died at ...
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- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-332-8
EAN 9781846143328
Thurston Clarke's gripping account of the last months of the life of President John F. Kennedy weaves together his public and private life and addresses the most tantalizing mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led his country and the world. ...
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An Uncertain Glory
India and its Contradictions
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-761-6
EAN 9781846147616
Two of India's leading economists argue that, despite economic development, there must be a greater understanding of inequalities in India. When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial subjugation, it immediately - and quite successfully - adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. ...
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