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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-299-4
EAN 9781846142994
This is one of the only popular books on physics to argue that we need to bring back the idea that time is real. It's sure to be iconoclastic - most of the physics world believes time is an illusion. Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life itself as a succession of ...
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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-220-8
EAN 9781846142208
In "The Universe Within", Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died and our planet congealed from the matter in space. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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