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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-670-2
EAN 9781843546702
The Kingdom of Infinite Space is a journey around the part of our anatomy to which we feel most attached: our heads. In this unique combination of biological science and philosophical interrogation, Raymond Tallis takes the head apart, piece by piece, in search of the place where our souls, and consciousness, reside.' This book gets ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-741-9
EAN 9781843547419
Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Dragan, gripped by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-914-7
EAN 9781843549147
"Chowringhee", the Shahjahan's new receptionist regales his audience with stories of the people who spend their days and nights within the Shahjahan's grand facade. Like Bengal itself, this is a place where greed, seduction and death live alongside love, luxury and pride. With wit, warmth, and ferocious energy, "Chowringhee" reveals to us an entire universe. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-954-3
EAN 9781843549543
Yoram kaniuk's coruscating novel tells the story of Adam Stein, a former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, is the ringleader at an asylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-042-0
EAN 9781848870420
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor to let him complete his education and he has to work in a teashop wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur and brings him to New Delhi. As ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 976 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-916-1
EAN 9781843549161
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 800 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-915-4
EAN 9781843549154
Here is another brilliantly original novel from the cult author of "Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon".Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable "saecular" world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-808-2
EAN 9781848878082
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-648-1
EAN 9781843546481
It is a blistering morning in Gaza, as Omar Yussef struggles along the uneven streets to carry out a school inspection. But when he learns that a fellow teacher has been accused of connections with the CIA, and jailed, Yussef's suspicions are immediately aroused. The more Yussef investigates the arrest, the more people seem to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-797-6
EAN 9781843547976
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-739-6
EAN 9781843547396
Snipers in the hills overlook half the intersections in Sarajevo. In the streets below, two inhabitants, Dragan and Kenan, trapped, like all their neighbours, in the city, strive to go about their daily lives, trying to second guess when and where the next bullet will strike.One man, a cellist, defies this game of 'Sarajevo Roulette'; ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-720-4
EAN 9781843547204
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-603-0
EAN 9781843546030
For decades, Omar Yussef has taught history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Yussef is convinced that he has been framed. With George facing imminent execution Yussef sets out to prove his innocence.As Yussef falls ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-599-6
EAN 9781843545996
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Gina Davies is a 26-year-old pole dancer in Sydney. She's a flawed woman, racist and obsessed with money, who knows her role in a world built on deception: the dancers pretend to be excited, the men pretend that the women aren't pretending. But on the night ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-628-3
EAN 9781843546283
Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. "Declaration of the Rights of Man", first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defence of man's inalienable rights.In "Rights of Man", ...
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The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this five-hundred-year span? And why ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-510-1
EAN 9781843545101
Provides an examination of Britain's relationship to America. Is it a 'special' relationship? And if so, what manifests that unique connection? Through an analysis of its various manifestations - from James Bond to Winston Churchill - this book asks what this relationship consists of.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84354-452-4
EAN 9781843544524
The departure point for this book is an antique saying: life is not complete unless love, poverty and war have been experienced. Love' opens with Christopher Hitchens confronting the legacy of Kipling, Trotsky and Churchill, and celebrates the work of Joyce, Proust and Borges. The focus then turns to Hitchens's journey down Route 66 and ...
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Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals.Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage and ...
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