Editorial Canongate
Mostrando 416 libros encontrados (21 páginas)
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-717-9
EAN 9781782117179
On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth.But on ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-928-9
EAN 9781782119289
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones ...
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Creating Freedom
Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-187-0
EAN 9781782111870
The ideal of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are?In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent ...
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Timekeepers
How the World became Obsessed with Time
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-319-5
EAN 9781782113195
Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-108-5
EAN 9781782111085
Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession...Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls ...
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Spark's Satire
Aiding and Abetting, The Abbess of Crewe, Robinson
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-767-4
EAN 9781782117674
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-474-1
EAN 9781782114741
Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee.A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo.From these stories ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-714-8
EAN 9781782117148
Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer'Remarkable' William BoydLanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, ...
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Spark's Europe
Not to Disturb, The Takeover, The Only Problem
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-765-0
EAN 9781782117650
From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of the odder specimens ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-724-7
EAN 9781782117247
A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski's reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-907-4
EAN 9781782119074
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-854-1
EAN 9781782118541
How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic, candid and true, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is ...
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White Sands
Experiences from the Outside World
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-742-1
EAN 9781782117421
'It seems certain that the apple in Eden grew on the tree of knowledge of elsewhere. Up until that point Adam and Eve were happy where they were. Then they ate the apple and it was slightly disappointing to them and they started to wonder if maybe there were other kinds of apples elsewhere, if ...
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One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him, and ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-972-7
EAN 9781847679727
Free Fall tells the brutal engrossing story of the Second Chechen War, through the eyes of a young Russian Soldier. Nicolai Lilin was trained as a sniper in an unorthodox Russian Special Forces regiment called the Saboteurs. This hardened and close-knit band of brothers, operating beyond the control of military code, faced mercenary fighters, anti-personnel ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-757-5
EAN 9781782117575
'One of her funniest novels ...Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-771-1
EAN 9781782117711
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. She conjures currents of magic and wisdom, illuminating the seemingly ordinary moments of a life lived fearlessly - as a breathless teenager, as a roving young adult and as a writer - with ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 283 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-246-4
EAN 9781782112464
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *Why does your foot hit the brake pedal before you are conscious of danger ahead?* *Why is it so difficult to keep a secret?* *How is it possible to get angry at yourself: who, exactly, is mad at whom?* In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates ...
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- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-385-0
EAN 9781782113850
Fantastic, fantastical and utterly incomparable, Get in Trouble rummages in the cupboards of our psyches and pulls out fierce truths about everything from the essence of ghosts to the nature of love. And hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the pyramids . .. Strange, dark and wry, the ...
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The Brain
The Story of You
- Canongate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-661-5
EAN 9781782116615
'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. ...
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