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'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.' Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and after Soviet rule. In 'The New Generation', a professor promotes a student purely out of good will. ...
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The 12th volume of Peanuts features a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences involving Peppermint Patty's friend Marcie (including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcie's costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), so it seems only right that this volume's introduction should be served up by Schulz's ...
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Peanuts surges into the 1970s with Schulz at the peak of his powers and influence: a few jokes about Bob Dylan, Women's Liberation and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex aside, these two years are as timeless as Peanuts ever was. Sally Brown elbows her way to center stage, at least among the ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-557-1
EAN 9780857865571
If you need cheering up...If you need guidance...If you want to laugh...If you need courage...Sometimes only a poem will do. In this magical new collection of our best-loved poems, edited by the creators of the bestselling iF Poems app, discover the joy, solace and beauty of poetry with your family. Whether you're after a poem ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-721-6
EAN 9780857867216
At the centre of the inside of the human brain's mind is the place where one can find the reasons why human beings behave in such peculiar, delightful and unpleasant ways. I, the author of this book (D.Shrigley BA (Hons)) shall take the reader on a journey around the human brain and along the way ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-829-9
EAN 9781782118299
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from war. Back in Texas, he has become a national celebrity. A Fox News crew filmed Billy and the rest of Bravo squad defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight.Now Billy is a decorated soldier and Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery under fire are a YouTube sensation. Seizing on ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-402-4
EAN 9780857864024
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Imagine
How Creativity Works
- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-787-7
EAN 9781847677877
The profound mysteries of creative thought have long intimidated the world's finest brains. How do you measure the imagination? How do you quantify an epiphany? These daunting questions led researchers to neglect the subject for hundreds of years. In Jonah Lehrer's ambitious and enthralling new book, we go in search of the epiphany.Shattering the myth ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-863-8
EAN 9781847678638
A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, this book gathers together the best of Shrigley's work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest contemporary artists. -Recently awarded a major retrospective at the Hayward -Gallery on London's South Bank -With a specially commissioned introduction from ...
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EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY, SOMETIMES ...Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation for a week, keeping the adult world at bay.Then a visit from his estranged half-sister, ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-324-9
EAN 9780857863249
On a day like any other Prue McKeel is wheeling her baby brother's buggy around Portland and keeping out of trouble. Or trying to. Then her brother is abducted by a murder of crows, and Prue's troubles, it seems, are only just beginning. So begins an adventure that will take Prue and her friend Curtis ...
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- Canongate, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-980-2
EAN 9781847679802
'Deep, deep, and still deep and deeper must we go, if we would find out the heart of a man ...' Herman Melville Descend into the dark waters of one of the greatest writers America has ever produced. In this stirring novel Jay Parini recreates the adventure-filled life and ignominious death of Herman Melville. Partly ...
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We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money or fame, or by the fear of punishment - the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his transformative new book. The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: ...
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- Canongate, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-318-8
EAN 9780857863188
This is a brilliant new collection of stories from the Nobel Prize-winning author, available for the first time in English. Written in the years between Solzhenitsyn's return from exile to Russia in 1994, and his death in 2008, they confirm the author's position as not only a visionary political commentator but also as a true ...
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- Canongate, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 358 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-937-6
EAN 9781847679376
Alive with insight, delight and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this effervescent book offers a guide through the maze of modern culture Across ten years worth of essays, Working the Room spans the photography of Martin Parr to the paintings of Turner, the writing of Scott-Fitzgerald to the criticism of Susan Sontag, and includes extensive personal pieces ...
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- Canongate, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-187-0
EAN 9780857861870
Jasper has his hands full. Finishing sixth-form college would be hard enough without a mother pushing him to overachieve, and his friends pushing drugs down his throat. And then there's his stepdad: moustache-wearing, patronising, and, as all the evidence suggests, a murderer. Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, GROW UP is packed full of funny, smart, ...
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- Canongate, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-767-9
EAN 9781847677679
The long-awaited new novel from the author of the multimillion copy-selling 'Life Of Pi'. When a letter from a taxidermist drops onto Henry's doormat it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled closer into the world of this strange and calculating man, the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey ...
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