Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32293-0
EAN 9780571322930
Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is 'the hard problem' which ...
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A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31604-5
EAN 9780571316045
Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in the New York Review of Books, ...
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Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh's The Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own.Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while on the ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31389-1
EAN 9780571313891
The perfect gift for children aged 8+, this stunning classic collection of poetry will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list. Peacock Pie contains the finest of Walter de la Mare's poems for children, accompanied by exquisite original illustrations from Edward Ardizzone. This beautiful new edition of a classic anthology ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30226-0
EAN 9780571302260
There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, Which vexed all the folks on the Border. Enjoy Edward Lear's hilarious, bizarre and delightfully bonkers limericks - published on their own for the first time. As found in the ...
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In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. This manuscript - printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous - is full of shocking revelations and disturbing truths, things which could compromise national security. Is this ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31464-5
EAN 9780571314645
A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! ...
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Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were belle and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty. Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines in Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stunning collection of ...
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Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story.He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 32 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30557-5
EAN 9780571305575
No breath of wind, No gleam of sun Still the white snow Whirls softly down As the day draws to a close, a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the tree, hanging stockings by the fire, putting out a plate of mince pies...Outside, the world turns to white.
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31393-8
EAN 9780571313938
Matchbox Theatre presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world - the theatre of your own imagination. Sir Geoffrye and Lady Hilarye, sleeping peacefully on their marble tomb these last six hundred years, are woken by the thump of rock music ...
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- Faber, 2014
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31572-7
EAN 9780571315727
This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Private Function. At the heart of the book is ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23362-5
EAN 9780571233625
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31502-4
EAN 9780571315024
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about.Marcus Chown, himself baffled by other attempts to explain these ideas to ...
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What a Wonderful World
Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell
- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27841-1
EAN 9780571278411
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31158-3
EAN 9780571311583
The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years.Since the sixties, each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who were arguably the finest of their generation. In recent years the creation ...
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Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes' poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30905-4
EAN 9780571309054
Archie Green receives a mysterious present on his birthday. Deep within an ancient wooden box he finds an old book, written in a language he doesn't recognise. With the book comes a Special Instruction - Archie must travel to Oxford to return the book to the Museum of Magical Miscellany.Soon Archie will meet family that ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24007-4
EAN 9780571240074
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in "Collected Poems (1988)', and in the "Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005)", some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript ...
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