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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 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
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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- 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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Booker Longlist 2014
- 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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