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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-749-1
EAN 9781847927491
A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMindWe are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-635-7
EAN 9781847926357
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-545-9
EAN 9781847925459
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-650-0
EAN 9781847926500
How much of the earth's surface has been concreted over? How much of our energy still comes from burning coal? How many trees would we have to plant to make our planet carbon-neutral? How much space do we need to satisfy all our energy needs through wind and solar power?The maps in this book are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-473-5
EAN 9781847924735
In The Janus Point renowned physicist Julian Barbour presents a major new solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time? - with ground-breaking implications for the origin and destiny of our universe. Time is perhaps the greatest mystery in physics. Despite the fact that the fundamental laws of physics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-675-3
EAN 9781847926753
The heart of racism is denial. It is refusing to self-reflect. In his global, game-changing bestseller How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Centre for Antiracist Research at Boston University, showed that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can ...
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In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 21,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-461-2
EAN 9781847924612
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939, when German tanks, trucks and infantry crossed the Polish border, and the Luftwaffe began bombing Poland's cities. The Polish army fought bravely but could not withstand an attacker superior in numbers and technology; and when the Red Army invaded from the east - as agreed in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-599-2
EAN 9781847925992
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-435-3
EAN 9781847924353
When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us?As a species we are shaped by our environment. Geological forces drove our evolution in East Africa; mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-393-6
EAN 9781847923936
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Christened `Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and Britain's most gifted traitor.But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-526-8
EAN 9781847925268
The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present in the West. And if Moscow's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-434-6
EAN 9781847924346
A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voices and stories of those who were there. For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world's attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters - Nazi leaders and foreign ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 550 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-281-6
EAN 9781847922816
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere.These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics. The second part of Simon Schama's epic Story of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-523-7
EAN 9781847925237
Keep calm - but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit - except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has faced since the Second World War.And as negotiations with the EU expose the promises of the Brexit ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-311-0
EAN 9781847923110
Barton Gellman's informant called himself 'Verax' - the truthteller. It was only later that Verax was unmasked as Edward Snowden, and by that point he had already shared thousands of files with Gellman. Dark Mirror is the story of what happened next.For Gellman, Snowden's revelations were only the beginning of his work as an investigative ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-495-7
EAN 9781847924957
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-302-8
EAN 9781847923028
A micro-history of London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - the story of the capital's notorious debtors'prison, immortalised by Charles Dickens. For Londoners debt was part of everyday life. The poor depended on credit from shopkeepers and landlords to survive, but the rich too were often deep in debt to finance their luxurious lifestyle.When ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-328-8
EAN 9781847923288
Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes.These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-334-9
EAN 9781847923349
The West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begun. Easternisation is the defining trend of our age - the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power.This shift ...
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