Editorial Gerald Duckworth
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How to Create a Mind
The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
- Gerald Duckworth, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5453-8
EAN 9780715654538
From the world's preeminent AI futurist: a fascinating account of how mapping the human mind leads to ever more intelligent machinesRay Kurzweil, described by Bill Gates as 'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence', offers a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilisation: reverse-engineering the brain to ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5562-7
EAN 9780715655627
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2024. Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother's engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American School a potential ticket out is not what she imagined. Qingdao, 1985: newlywed Lu Fang works as a lowly shipping clerk. Though he aspires ...
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Fall of Civilizations
Stories of Greatness and Decline
- Gerald Duckworth, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5500-9
EAN 9780715655009
Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5451-4
EAN 9780715654514
'A fiendishly clever tale of ambition, deception, and power' DERREN BROWNBelfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism, attending seances in the hope they might reach their departed loved ones. William Jackson Crawford is a man of science and a sceptic, but one night with everyone ...
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Rest in Pieces
The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
- Gerald Duckworth, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5413-2
EAN 9780715654132
In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated and even filed away in a lawyer's office.Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs and nether ...
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Mind and Body
Physical Exercises for Mental Wellbeing; Mental Exercises for Physical Wellbeing
- Gerald Duckworth, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-912891-46-7
EAN 9781912891467
The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of our body upon our mind is something ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5365-4
EAN 9780715653654
The Gripping Sequel to the Bestselling Layer Cake. Smooth-talking drug dealer X has a plan to quietly bankroll enough cash to retire before his thirtieth birthday. Operating under the polished veneer of a legitimate businessman, his mantra is to keep a low profile and run a tight operation until it's time to get out.
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Matthew Qvortrup's definitive and insightful biography of Angela Merkel is essential reading for anyone interested in current affairs, the fate of Europe, or simply the story of a truly remarkable woman. Based on over 15 years of in-depth research, Angela Merkel tells the story of the political titan's astonishing rise from obscurity to become the ...
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Hitler's Piano Player
The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl Confidant of Hitler, Ally of Roosevelt
- Gerald Duckworth, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5401-9
EAN 9780715654019
Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out he fled to Britain, where he was interned and transferred to America. There he worked as the star of Roosevelt's 'S-Project,' informing on 400 leading ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5305-0
EAN 9780715653050
Winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History (American Historical Association). Award-winning historian Priya Satia presents a new history of the Industrial Revolution that positions war and the gun trade squarely at the heart of the rapid growth of technology and Britain's imperial expansion. Satia's thorough examination advances a radical new understanding of the ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5370-8
EAN 9780715653708
A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave readers breathless. We breathe in and out every few seconds. But what's really in the air all around us? From the atmosphere on distant planets to the stuff that gets into our lungs, from holes in the ozone layer to lazy and disappearing gases, air quality ...
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An Oral History of The Zombie War. The cult novel that propelled the zombie genre into mainstream pop culture, now a blockbuster film starring and directed by Brad Pitt (now available on Netflix).It began with rumours from China about another pandemic.Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-3622-0
EAN 9780715636220
This is an enthralling guide to Russia's literary landscape. Russian writers have always played a special role in the spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of their readers. This book reveals the warmth and energy with which their legacy is cherished.The authors take the reader on a tour of sites of the most important scenes of ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5220-6
EAN 9780715652206
The body of a Vestal Virgin is dragged out of the River Tiber. A senator bleeds to death in his bath. As the authorities turn a blind eye, Hortensia, daughter of the capital's most celebrated orator, feels compelled to investigate a trail of murders that lead to the dark heart of Rome.Flying in the face ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5194-0
EAN 9780715651940
In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure.The four women, each of whom could claim to have been ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5099-8
EAN 9780715650998
The body of a Vestal Virgin is dragged out of the River Tiber. A senator bleeds to death in his bath. As the authorities turn a blind eye, Hortensia, daughter of the capital's most celebrated orator, feels compelled to investigate a trail of murders that lead to the dark heart of Rome. Flying in the ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5045-5
EAN 9780715650455
Somewhere in backwoods Vermont, a young woman refuses to back down in the face of threats from a violent local villain. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her. And so she resolves not only to stand her ground, but also to fight back.A pair ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5121-6
EAN 9780715651216
What are we? And why are we here? are questions that have fascinated humans for at least 25,000 years. Cosmosapiens takes us on a quest to ascertain what science can reliably tell us about how and why we evolved from the origin of the universe and whether what we are makes us different from all ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5019-6
EAN 9780715650196
Lucas Hnath's drama centres on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylized screenplay written by the great man himself, in the ultimate act of self-mythologizing. It's being read by the people it's about - Walt himself, his brother/henchman Roy, and Walt's resentful daughter and her ex-jock husband. It recounts Walt's last ...
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