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Zero-Sum World
Power and Politics after the Crash
- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-704-7
EAN 9781848877047
The economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has drastically altered the logic of international relations. Globalisation no longer benefits all the world's superpowers and they face an array of global problems that are causing division between nations. A win-win world is giving way to a zero-sum world.Zero-sum logic, in which one country's gain ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-611-8
EAN 9781848876118
A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only her husband and herself but also her autistic ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-201-1
EAN 9781848872011
Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil society and freedom. He shows that the true legacy of European civilisation is ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-151-8
EAN 9780857891518
Young marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company have been dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam, combatants in an increasingly desperate war. Standing in their way are the North Vietnamese, the monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, and disease and malnutrition. As racial tension and competing ambition build, the group ...
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The so-called 'industrial revolution' is most commonly presented as a history of machines or a relentless process of innovation springing out of the eighteenth century. But, as this vivid social history reminds us, machines are mere gadgets unless there are people to make good use of them.In "The Industrial Revolutionaries", Gavin Weightman charts of the ...
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Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilded existence. A Gulf war veteran turned banker at the vast investment bank Union Atlantic, he is wealthy, handsome and powerful - the epitome of Wall Street success. Charlotte Graves lives in self-imposed exile deep in the forests of rural Massachusetts, stubbornly refusing to engage with a country she feels ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-766-2
EAN 9781843547662
In A History of the World Since 9/11 Dominic Streatfeild expertly combines history, biography and investigative journalism to show how a massacre on a clear September day in 2001 has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. In a series of brilliantly interlinked chapters he shows how an Afghani wedding party; and ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-399-5
EAN 9781848873995
Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumours can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost ...
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He has become the most powerful man in the world...Now he has to save it...Joe Benton has been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after the election results, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. With ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 374 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-022-2
EAN 9781848870222
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-502-9
EAN 9781848875029
Leopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal and a respected Joyce scholar. He has had an unremarkable, happy family life.But after Leo's ten-year-old brother commits suicide, the family struggles with the shattering effects ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-609-5
EAN 9781848876095
1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens of iced rails. Marooned in the high mountains, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 32 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-708-5
EAN 9781848877085
The classic Christmas carol, told with a very special twist... With inimitable illustrations by Quentin Blake, this is the most elegant and enchanting Christmas gift book of the year.My dearest darling' That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you and thank you. Your deeply loving Emily Everyone ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-682-8
EAN 9781848876828
With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-814-0
EAN 9781843548140
Tzvetan Todorov argues that although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living in contemporary democracies are often baffled by phenomena which resist easy judgement: globalisation and media omnipotence; disinformation and state-sponsored torture; moralism and the right of ...
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Old Aliide Truu lives alone in a cottage in the woods, pestered by flies she wishes would leave her in peace. Her isolation is interrupted when she spies a young woman under a tree in her garden. The girl is strange; arriving in the dead of night, bruised, dirty and shoeless - why is she ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-356-8
EAN 9781848873568
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own...The reverberations call into question the relationships between all those who witness it. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy.The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-445-9
EAN 9781848874459
30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their haggling, ferrymen grow quiet, beggars stop and stare.Even the stink of the Thames seems to fade in the presence of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell - history's most famous friends. Boswell, as charismatic and meticulously coiffed as Johnson ...
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