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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22523-1
EAN 9780571225231
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed ...
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The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is until a chance ...
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From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant.Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be ...
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Chase Insteadman is a handsome, inoffensive former child-star, living a vague routine of dinner parties and glamorous engagements on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Meanwhile, his astronaut fiancee, trapped on the International Space Station, sends him rapturous love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift.Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop-critic, whose soaring conspiratorial ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-26957-0
EAN 9780571269570
Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage. One moment you're colleagues and then Friday night drinks, a quick grope, and you're an item. When Tom and Amy get together, they find themselves living in each other's pockets. But all too soon the ghosts of ...
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Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime ...
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With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24507-9
EAN 9780571245079
There have been many books about Miles Davis, one of the twentieth century's most protean musical figures, but The Blue Moment is unlike any other work on the subject. Richard Williams takes as his starting point the making of Kind of Blue, Davis's most celebrated album, and shows how movements in art, philosophy and music ...
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Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, sees a chance of a lifetime: to perform a great public service, and to make his professional reputation. To obtain the treasure he thinks he has identified involves him setting up a classic sting and risking everything that is valuable to him.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23882-8
EAN 9780571238828
Gustav Slavorigin, Booker Prize-winning novelist and notorious controversialist, is murdered in the picturesque Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival. Since the price of a hundred million dollars has been placed on his head by an ultra-reactionary Texan billionaire, none of the festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion - save ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25339-5
EAN 9780571253395
When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-571-25338-8
EAN 9780571253388
At eighteen, Philippa Palfrey, the confident adopted daughter of a celebrated academic, exercises her right to find the names of her real parents. What she uncovers is a terrible secret that will for ever change her life.
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In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism, Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-571-21599-7
EAN 9780571215997
In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century.For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature.For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life.Not only a picaresque hero himself, he was also ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24813-1
EAN 9780571248131
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is the core of his collection, Untold Stories. It is a poignant memoir of his parents' marriage and his own childhood, recalling Christmases with Grandma Peel and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25874-1
EAN 9780571258741
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer - a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match a piece of ...
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