Editorial Allen Lane
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The Body Economic
Why Austerity Kills
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-783-8
EAN 9781846147838
The Body Economic is the first, agenda-shaping, look at the human costs of financial crisis - the culmination of ten years' work by two pioneering researchers - Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler. The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations. But we have little sense of how it affects ...
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- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-475-2
EAN 9781846144752
Thinking is hard - yet barely a waking moment passes when we're not labouring away at it. A few of us may be natural geniuses, able to work through the toughest tangles in an instant; others, blessed with reserves of willpower, stay the course in the dogged pursuit of truth. Then there's the rest of ...
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- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-450-9
EAN 9781846144509
This is the powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs John Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Freud and Conrad are mesmerised by forms of human extremity - experiences on the ...
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Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
Reflections on Memory and Imagination
- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-683-1
EAN 9781846146831
Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust and a childhood spent in Auschwitz. As a child the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt ...
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- Allen Lane, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-139-3
EAN 9781846141393
From one of our most celebrated historians of the twentieth century, a concise, accessible, and authoritative history of the Second World War.After the Great War, the United States and the nations of Europe longed for a lasting peace. As far as they were concerned, they had just experienced "the war to end all wars." Over ...
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Future Perfect
The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84614-711-1
EAN 9781846147111
What connects the "miracle on the Hudson" to the planning of the French railway system, or the mysterious outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan to the invention of the Internet? With his characteristic flair for multidisciplinary storytelling, Steven Johnson shows in Future Perfect that what lies behind these and many other fascinating human stories ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9683-8
EAN 9780713996838
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of "Dark Continent" and "Hitler's Empire", comes a visionary, far-reaching history of two centuries of international government that also goes to the heart of current world crises. In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9942-6
EAN 9780713999426
In "The Sleepwalkers" acclaimed historian and author of "Iron Kingdom", Christopher Clark, examines the causes of the First World War. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-576-6
EAN 9781846145766
Chinua Achebe, the author of "Things Fall Apart", is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. "There Was a Country" is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-099-0
EAN 9781846140990
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series "Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession". Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it.But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and ...
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Unfinished Empire
The Global Expansion of Britain
- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-088-4
EAN 9781846140884
For perhaps two centuries its existence, expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events. Now that it has gone, it seems to us baffling that such a strange entity should ever have existed. What was the dynamic that led to English-speakers standing on the shores of the Pacific, controlling the world's ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-406-6
EAN 9781846144066
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-587-2
EAN 9781846145872
With Bin Laden dead, Pakistan threatened by internal power struggles, relationships between the United States and Pakistan at an all-time low, and as the US and Britain begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, what are the possibilities-and hazards-facing the world's most unstable region? Where is the Taliban now, and how do they figure in the future ...
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage
A New History of Power
- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-485-1
EAN 9781846144851
We live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? "Merchant, Soldier, Sage" is a remarkable book that proposes a radical new approach to ...
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The Watchers
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-260-4
EAN 9781846142604
Elizabeth I was a ruler who radiated a sense of power and purpose. Her long and successful reign was a Golden Age of wealth, confidence, creativity, Shakespeare's plays and Walter Raleigh's adventures: the apotheosis of the Tudor dynasty. Across much of Europe, however, Elizabeth was viewed very differently.She was 'Jezebel', the bastard offspring of Henry ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-448-6
EAN 9781846144486
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has given way to a deeper dissatisfaction with an economic system geared overwhelmingly ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-693-0
EAN 9781846146930
The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Stiglitz draws on his ...
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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, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-598-8
EAN 9781846145988
Are we in control of our lives? Just how powerful are the influences all around us? In Subliminal, bestselling author Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a tour from advertising to romance to political propaganda, to show that we shouldn't put much faith in how we see ourselves or the world around us. We are not ...
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