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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-326-7
EAN 9781846143267
The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A., Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner has ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9874-0
EAN 9780713998740
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing us today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves. Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of ...
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- Allen Lane, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-510-0
EAN 9781846145100
Societies from ancient Greece to revolutionary France have experimented with all kinds of money, from seashells to tobacco, before finally settling on the paper version we have come to know so well. What exactly is money? This title shows how the financial crisis has very deep roots indeed - in the very nature of money ...
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Traces Remain
Essays and Explorations
- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9494-0
EAN 9780713994940
In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time. His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-427-1
EAN 9781846144271
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The key feature of "Cities of the Classical World" is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the ...
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Masters of the Post
The Authorized History of the Royal Mail
- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 42,24 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-324-3
EAN 9781846143243
The origins of the Royal Mail go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-216-1
EAN 9781846142161
In this provocative and persuasive new book, Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca. Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge of world languages and their history, Ostler reveals that just as past great languages like Latin and Sanskrit have died out, so English will follow. The influence ...
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The Quantum Universe
Everything that Can Happen does Happen
- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-432-5
EAN 9781846144325
"The Quantum Universe" brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the universe? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And how - for all its apparently counter-intuitive ideas - can ...
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The Better Angels of our Nature
The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes
- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-094-5
EAN 9781846140945
This riveting, myth-destroying book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest that this is an almost obscene claim to be making. And wasn't the twentieth century ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-484-4
EAN 9781846144844
Iceland, Greece and Ireland we know about. On Spain, Portugal and Italy we've heard the warnings. Britain is a fear rumbling in the distant background of precarious triple-A ratings. But surely Germany is safe. Isn't it? Michael Lewis's brilliant tragi-comic romp across Europe shows how the financial crisis hit everyone in the face. The cheap ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-346-5
EAN 9781846143465
For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-268-0
EAN 9781846142680
Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku in a lucid and engaging fashion presents the revolutionary developments in medi cine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of civilization ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-327-4
EAN 9781846143274
A ground-breaking and provocative new book that explains the importance of planet Earth and its place in our Cosmos. Does one planet really matter among the immensity of the Cosmos? John Gribbin is here to persuade us that it does. In this ground-breaking and provocative new book Gribbin argues that we owe our existence to ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-337-3
EAN 9781846143373
When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime Crown Prince, to be the next King of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Forces who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval. In this exceptionally candid memoir, King ...
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The Hidden Reality
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9979-2
EAN 9780713999792
In this exhilarating new book, Brian Greene explores our most current understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our continuing quest to know more.The Hidden Reality reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics-relativistic, quantum, cosmological, unified, computational - have all led us to consider one or another variety ...
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- Allen Lane, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-219-2
EAN 9781846142192
An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. This book raises a host of fascinating questions about what it means to be human.
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- Allen Lane, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9704-0
EAN 9780713997040
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe ...
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- Allen Lane, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-303-8
EAN 9781846143038
Bigger, better and more controversial, the international bestselling Freakquel is here in a super-deluxe, super-illustrated edition. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner look deeper, question harder and uncover even more hidden truths about our world, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. They ask, among other things:What's a sure-fire way ...
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