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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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 Bible
a Biography
- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
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 · 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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- Atlantic Books, 2015
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDComposer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His amateur science lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in the most surprising places - has aroused the suspicions ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-950-8
EAN 9781848879508
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Florence' for exiling him. The Divine Comedy resonates across ...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask
- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-390-0
EAN 9781782393900
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws - but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of Veni, Vidi, Vici, which tells the remarkable, and often surprising, ...
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A Higher Call
The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry During the Second World War
- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-256-9
EAN 9781782392569
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead.Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber ...
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The Joy of X
A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-845-7
EAN 9781848878457
A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the New York Times."Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-121-0
EAN 9781782391210
Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. And it doesn't take long for Clay to realize that the quiet, dusty book emporium is even more curious than the ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-074-0
EAN 9780857890740
Pufftail the tabby cat was a prince among strays. He was charming, adventurous, a gentleman of the road - not for him a life purring around the shins of a Two Footer. Now that he's old and grey-whiskered, he can laze in the sun, telling the story of his life to his admiring young grandkitten.Not ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-923-2
EAN 9781848879232
During the American book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-797-9
EAN 9781848877979
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new buildings at every ...
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