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Reckless
The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4590-5
EAN 9781408845905
Luis Ocaña seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling's greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx - 'The Cannibal'. Their rivalry defined Ocaña's entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. After an impoverished upbringing he flourished at the sport he loved and in 1970 secured ...
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Packing Up
Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4692-6
EAN 9781408846926
Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a 'trailing spouse', Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts of thousands in countries all over the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4420-5
EAN 9781408844205
In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4117-4
EAN 9781408841174
Of all the family gatherings in her childhood, one stands out in Amina's memory. It is 1979, in Salem India, when a visit to her grandmother's house escalates into an explosive encounter, pitching brother against brother, mother against son. In its aftermath, Amina's father Thomas rushes his family back to their new home in America.And ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5289-7
EAN 9781408852897
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen.She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, ...
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PVP: 39,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-3641-6
EAN 9781474236416
In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th ...
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Women of the World
The Rise of the Female Diplomat
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3780-1
EAN 9781408837801
Throughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Some became travellers and explorers; others business-owners or buyers; others still devoted their lives to worthy international causes, from anti-slavery and women's suffrage to the ...
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The Improbability of Love
Baileys Women's Shortlist 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6244-5
EAN 9781408862445
Annie McDee, alone after the disintegration of her long-term relationship and trapped in a dead-end job, is searching for a present for her unsuitable lover in a neglected second-hand shop. Within the jumble of junk and tack, a grimy painting catches her eye. Leaving the store with the picture after spending her meagre savings, she ...
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Killers of the King
The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5177-7
EAN 9781408851777
January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-6173-9
EAN 9781474261739
Is this the strangest thing that two people have ever done in the history of the world?Amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, Clare spots Alex, a much older man, and plants a kiss on his neck. This electric encounter thrusts these two strangers into a fascinating and life-changing game.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6523-1
EAN 9781408865231
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5544-7
EAN 9781408855447
Anna and Holly Burnbright, together with their friend Prince Pepino, are trying to earn enough money to go on the intergalactic holiday of a lifetime. What they need is a holiday job. So when a tall, elegantly dressed lady called Mademoiselle Malypense tells them she needs help to organise the Francian Royal Wedding, they jump ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4438-0
EAN 9781408844380
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 1957-62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston gets up close to a turbulent era ...
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The Disinherited
A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4340-6
EAN 9781408843406
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4589-9
EAN 9781408845899
Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago - and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab.They lived ...
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History of the Rain
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5203-3
EAN 9781408852033
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5962-9
EAN 9781408859629
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4572-1
EAN 9781408845721
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6053-3
EAN 9781408860533
In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making ...
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PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3779-5
EAN 9781408837795
Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin's evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for ...
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