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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-956-0
EAN 9781848879560
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, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-939-3
EAN 9781848879393
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe. Drawing on hundreds of eye-witness accounts and personal stories, ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-105-0
EAN 9781782391050
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-399-3
EAN 9781782393993
From the author of "The Cellist of Sarajevo," an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion. What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your ...
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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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"Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarhofn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, both brothers had to endure brutal violence at the hands of their grandfather. Now, two decades later, the past has returned to haunt them both.When Constable Pall Gylfason ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-162-3
EAN 9781782391623
Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his ...
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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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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-719-0
EAN 9780857897190
In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner ...
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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, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-276-7
EAN 9781782392767
When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Alex takes a job at a Pupil Referral Unit, which accepts the students excluded from other schools in the city. These are troubled, difficult ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-242-2
EAN 9781782392422
Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as his revenge on the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-891-1
EAN 9781843548911
The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighter plane technology with a helicopter's ability to land vertically the Harrier has played an indispensable role for the RAF and Royal Navy in a number of conflicts, most famously the Falklands War. Jonathan Glancey's biography is a ...
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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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-874-6
EAN 9780857898746
Stephen Trombley's A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today. No major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes Trombley's attention: the Christian Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages, the great philosophers of the Enlightenment, the German idealists ...
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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 · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-227-0
EAN 9780857892270
In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk late at night, stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife - with Olav nowhere to be found - the case goes ...
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