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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-2210-4
EAN 9781408822104
In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Francos' dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for ...
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The Gift of Fear
Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US' leading expert on violent behaviour, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger - before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers ...
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"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders" illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories ...
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Life Times
Stories 1952-2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9618-9
EAN 9780747596189
The collected stories of one of the world's great living writers are published in one volume for the first time
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-2742-0
EAN 9781408827420
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1002-6
EAN 9781408810026
The story of Ancient Egypt and the extraordinary civilisation that flourished along the banks of the River Nile can seem like a gorgeous pageant studded with exceptional events. Among them are the building of the pyramids, the conquest of Nubia, Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the life and death of Tutankhamun, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0851-1
EAN 9781408808511
When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1009-5
EAN 9781408810095
The Lazaro family are carpenters who would rather be piano-makers. In the dusty back room of their carpentry shop in Lisbon is the 'piano cemetery', filled with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing and rebuilding instruments all over the city. It is a mysterious and magical place, a place of solace, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8300-4
EAN 9780747583004
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-2125-1
EAN 9781408821251
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0975-4
EAN 9781408809754
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, "More Money Than God" provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. This is the inside story of their origins in the 1960s and 1970s, their explosive battles with central banks in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1003-3
EAN 9781408810033
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1050-7
EAN 9781408810507
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-1446-8
EAN 9781408814468
Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself.This book offers an account of Tate's life and work. --- When William Boyd published his biography of New York ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0948-8
EAN 9781408809488
Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century ...
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1492
The Year Our World Began
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0950-1
EAN 9781408809501
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end.But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84966-350-2
EAN 9781849663502
In an effort to chronicle the history of India, Meghnad Desai begins at the end of the 15th Century, and takes us through to the present day. This ambitious volume is a testament to the contradictory, diverse, difficult and undeniably fascinating saga of India as a nation.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 388 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0955-6
EAN 9781408809556
Major Ernest Pettigrew is perfectly content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies, the Major finds himself seeking companionship with the village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali. Drawn together by a love of books and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-6876-6
EAN 9780747568766
Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Terrifically evocative and splendidly titled the most spellbinding and diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late '60s and '70s that any alumnus has committed to print'
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 9781408812181
EAN 9781408812181
The truth behind why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first centuryWe are indeed what we eat - and what we eat remakes the world. But we are only just beginning to recognise the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Ominvore's Dilemma is ...
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