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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-894-6
EAN 9781786498946
In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-431-3
EAN 9781786494313
Artificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our modern lives influencing the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage, and even which friends wish us happy birthday. But as algorithms make ever more decisions on our behalf, how do we ensure they do what we want? And fairly?This conundrum - dubbed 'The Alignment ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-905-9
EAN 9781786499059
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-546-4
EAN 9781786495464
The Borgias have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthlessness, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name.But the story of this remarkable family is far more than a tale of sensational depravities - it also marks the golden age of the Italian Renaissance and a decisive turning point in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-465-8
EAN 9781786494658
It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his ideological soul mate in Thatcher, and George W. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-911630-38-8
EAN 9781911630388
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo in his first stand-alone novel in a decade comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-129-0
EAN 9781838951290
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-786-4
EAN 9781786497864
Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 ** One of Barack Obama's "Favourite Books of the Year" ** A New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 *'A superb book' Max Porter, author of Lanny Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-911630-41-8
EAN 9781911630418
A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London cafe - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as the captives grapple with their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-911630-29-6
EAN 9781911630296
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a radiant new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey - America's first movie town - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-025-5
EAN 9781838950255
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face today. From Russia's incursions in the Ukraine to Brexit; from Trump's 'America-first' policy to ...
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Welcome to The Museum of Broken Promises, a place of wonder and sadness.And hope. Inside lies a treasure trove of objects - a baby's shoe, a wedding veil, a railway ticket - all revealing real moments of loss and betrayal. It is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past.The ...
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Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humour, intelligence, and compassion. In Henry, Himself, he offers an unsentimental, moving life story of a twentieth-century everyman. Henry, Himself is a wry, warm-hearted portrait of an American original - a man who believes he's reached ...
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Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-765-9
EAN 9781786497659
'An entertaining and insightful human story of obsession about books.' Daily Telegraph'A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile's hunt, greed and betrayal.' New York TimesThe never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-851-9
EAN 9781786498519
'Anne Holt is the godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction.' Jo NesboDon't miss the start of a new series from the bestselling author of Modus. Selma Falck has lost everything. Her family has left her and her career as a high-flying lawyer is in ruins. Then one day, the man who is to blame for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-751-2
EAN 9781786497512
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist - a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer - to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-157-2
EAN 9781786491572
A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes.These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 452 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-021-7
EAN 9781838950217
'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply.Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the Roman Empire, a radical sect is growing. Alone, unloved and battling his sexuality, Saul scrapes together a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-202-8
EAN 9781848872028
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy, Scruton argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. He shows ...
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