Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28447-4
EAN 9780571284474
Atticus Grammatticus Cattypuss Claw, the world's greatest police cat, is back. When the kittens at the local cats' home are wrongly suspected of a knitting crime spree, Inspector Cheddar is baffled. Atticus must step in to find the real culprits.In an adventure that takes him from Littleton-on-Sea to the sands of the Egyptian desert, Atticus ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29850-1
EAN 9780571298501
This title comes with an introduction by Philippa Gregory. Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones.Through the long hours with only ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29852-5
EAN 9780571298525
This title comes with an introduction by Penelope Lively. Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed ...
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Empires of the Sea
The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29819-8
EAN 9780571298198
Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Coupled with dramatic set piece ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29770-2
EAN 9780571297702
Bee is an orphan who lives with a travelling carnival. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her cheek - though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is sent to work for another carnival, Bee is lost.Then a ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27921-0
EAN 9780571279210
According to Paul Ormerod, author of the bestselling "Butterfly Economics" and "Why Most Things Fail", the mechanistic viewpoint of conventional economics is drastically limited - because it cannot comprehend the vital nature of networks. As our societies become ever more dynamic and intertwined, network effects on every level are increasingly profound. 'Nudge theory' is popular, ...
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Why Can't a Woman be more like a Man
The Evolution of Sex and Gender
- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27924-1
EAN 9780571279241
Why are there two sexes? How different are they and why? Why can't a woman be more like a man? Or should the question be: why can't a man be more like a woman? Controversy rages around sex and gender, but just what are the differences and how are they determined? Lewis Wolpert, distinguished scientist, ...
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Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock. This book is about those journeys and that landscape.
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27979-1
EAN 9780571279791
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27383-6
EAN 9780571273836
Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, "Terminal Moraine", to the dramatic and political monologues of "The Memory of War" and "Children in Exile", through ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29068-0
EAN 9780571290680
A Grief Observed comprises the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage. Painfully honest in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings, this is a book that details his paralysing grief, bewilderment and sense of loss in simple and moving prose. ...
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In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in a bitter contest fought on land, ...
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On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? "Flight Behaviour" is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, ...
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'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad...' So begins what is arguably F.R. Leavis' most controversial book, "The Great Tradition", an uncompromising critical and polemical survey of English fiction that was first published in 1948. He puts a powerful case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for ...
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In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her ...
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The Challenge
Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27320-1
EAN 9780571273201
In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of ...
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- Faber, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28145-9
EAN 9780571281459
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon ...
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This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.The collection includes The Real Thing, Night x{0026} Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, about which the reviewer for the Daily Telegraph said 'I have never left a new play more convinced ...
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