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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-544-5
EAN 9781846145445
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind - and often belie - ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-789-0
EAN 9781846147890
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for something: challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions; and learning to think differently about how the world works. Now Levitt and Dubner have gathered up what they've learned and turned it into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder, and different ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-767-8
EAN 9781846147678
Recording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis - no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. As Michio Kaku reveals, not only are they possible, but with the latest advances in brain science and recent astonishing breakthroughs in technology, they already exist. In ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-582-7
EAN 9781846145827
Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Vietnam, ...
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