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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-456-1
EAN 9781846144561
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 38,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-084-6
EAN 9781846140846
Hugh Thomas brings alive one of the most extraordinary and influential moments in High Renaissance and world history.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-173-7
EAN 9781846141737
China's secret rulers are the elephant in the room. They are the largest political organisation in the world. They control every aspect of Chinese life. And no one discusses them. Until now. Who are they? And how do they operate? Richard McGregor has spent twenty years reporting on this region of the world and he ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9242-7
EAN 9780713992427
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-359-5
EAN 9781846143595
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past thirty years. In the West, we are wealthy and secure enough to allow ourselves to drift very far off course before anything has to be ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-169-0
EAN 9781846141690
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the greatest love ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1056 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-135-5
EAN 9781846141355
Continuing to inform and intrigue generations of readers with its unique mix of solid facts and fascinating gems, Pears' Cyclopaedia offers clear and concise information on such wide-ranging subjects as global economics, Norse mythology and modern cinema. Plus, some surprising and curious details about, among others, brittle stars, cloud computing and ziggurats.Updated regularly by a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-147-8
EAN 9781846141478
This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world. It highlights the importance of public reasoning and argues that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-058-7
EAN 9781846140587
Famous for its ingenuity and wit, The Canterbury Tales is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth century London and medieval society. Incorporating every style of Medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-097-6
EAN 9781846140976
All animals are equal - but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first rank. They can do almost everything that mammals can do - and more besides. By mastering flight, they have a way of living that encompasses the whole ...
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human ...
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