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A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-249-1
EAN 9781782392491
Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense period that would take him deep into the shadowy city of Kinshasa, to the dense rainforests that still evoke ...
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Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-588-1
EAN 9781782395881
The wicked, bawdy Restoration court is no place for a child princess. Ten-year-old Anne cuts an odd figure: a sickly child, she is drawn towards improper pursuits. But as King Charles's niece, Anne is also a political pawn, who will be forced to play her part in the troubled Stuart dynasty.As Anne grows to maturity, ...
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When disgraced American doctor Burkett's twin is murdered while working for a Christian medical charity, Burkett travels to war-torn Khandaros to claim his brother's body. Staring down at the lifeless form in the mortuary, it is as though Burkett is gazing at his own failings. His twin was first and best: the better athlete, better ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-516-4
EAN 9781782395164
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-925266-78-8
EAN 9781925266788
In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood.The last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-568-3
EAN 9781782395683
1952 A woman waits. She does not speak. Her past haunts and she cannot contemplate her future.She is watched over by nuns at a convent in south west France. Mute ever since she turned up at their door in the weeks following the defeat of Germany, her name is Adeline and she has a secret. ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-958-4
EAN 9781848879584
"When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-85789-344-4
EAN 9780857893444
"As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout - drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, haunted by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life from the Predator drone he 'piloted'. Reluctantly, Cole teams up with three ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-76029-045-0
EAN 9781760290450
**Soon to be a major motion picture**It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-699-5
EAN 9780857896995
In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism - genuine concern for the well-being of others ...
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The whole world knows me as the man who killed Harry Houdini, the most famous person on the planet. But there is a secret that no one knows, save for myself and one other person who likely died long ago...The Confabulist is the spellbinding story of Harry Houdini - his life, his loves, his feats ...
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The Bible
a Biography
- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-640-6
EAN 9781782396406
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years alone. In this seminal account, Karen Armstrong traces the gestation of the Bible to reveal a complex and contradictory document ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-363-6
EAN 9781848873636
"The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-339-9
EAN 9781782393399
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of values, along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines ...
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The Internet is not the Answer
Why the Internet Has Been an Economic, Political and Cultural Disaster - and How it Can be Transformed
- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-341-2
EAN 9781782393412
"The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to Andrew Keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure. In The Internet is not the Answer, Keen has written ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-340-5
EAN 9781782393405
The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to Andrew Keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure.In The Internet is not the Answer, Keen has written a ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-487-7
EAN 9781782394877
A Journey From Lost to Found. At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled.With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
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PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-202-6
EAN 9781782392026
War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. The Arab revolt against the Turks in WWI was, in the words of TE Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in Europe, the West paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre; the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree ...
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