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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-4551-2
EAN 9780715645512
A unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the past several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic rise and social transformation. Framed by ten words or phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world's most populous yet ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-4568-0
EAN 9780715645680
Multilingualism is on the rise - in the coming decades, as many as two billion people will learn English as a second language. The next stage up from multilingualism is the domain of the 'hyperpolyglot' or 'superlearner': someone who claims to know at least six languages. But what does it mean to 'know' a language? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-7156-4628-1
EAN 9780715646281
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-4543-7
EAN 9780715645437
Beautiful Fools imagines the relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald; a lyrical portrayal of an intense romance that ultimately destroyed them. Their standing as one of America's most debonair couples is tarnished by alcoholism, debt and Zelda's increasing instability.But they endure, both unaware that Scott's sudden death will soon end their love story once ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-7156-4593-2
EAN 9780715645932
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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ISBN 978-0-7156-4501-7
EAN 9780715645017
On VE night, 1945, the then teenage princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, were allowed to leave the palace incognito and join the parties and festivities with their subjects - pretending to be ordinary people for the first and only time in their lives. Peter Bradshaw takes this nugget of history as the basis for this brilliantly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-4328-0
EAN 9780715643280
One midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board: an Englishman named Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim. He had fled the Lebanese capital with little more than the clothes on his back.The Englishman had used ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-3703-6
EAN 9780715637036
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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ISBN 978-0-7156-4378-5
EAN 9780715643785
In the beginning there was blame. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent, and we've been hard at it ever since. We may have come a long way from the days when a goat as a symbol was saddled with all the iniquities of the children of Israel and driven into the wilderness, but is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-7156-4370-9
EAN 9780715643709
In Why Leaders Lie, John Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying at the highest levels. He identifies the different forms of lying, the reasons why lies are used as a tool of statecraft, the potential costs - and benefits. Drawing both on historical and present-day examples, he argues that leaders often lie for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7156-4293-1
EAN 9780715642931
Set in the same terrifying universe as his million-selling World War Z, Closure, Ltd is among the short stories found within this collection. In it, Max interviews the head of a company dedicated to finding emotional closure for survivors of the zombie war by assassinating their former zombie attackers. Written in his trademark style, these ...
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In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-3594-0
EAN 9780715635940
During the Spanish Inquisition on the island of Majorca, a small enclave of local Jews - all of whom have been baptized as Christians - determine to escape detention in the Inquisition by escaping to lands of freedom across the Atlantic. But weather frustrates their flight, and eventually 37 of them were captured and condemned ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-3786-9
EAN 9780715637869
In this well-informed and hard-hitting response to the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy, argues that it is time for us to take a cool look at global warming. Lawson carefully and succinctly examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 9,09 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-3459-2
EAN 9780715634592
INSIDE BLEAK HOUSE is the perfect companion to the BBC's autumn blockbuster Bleak House was, for the Victorians, one of the great serial novels. It will also be a great serial novel for their descendants in 2005, when Andrew Davies's adaptation of Dickens's story of legal delay, murder, and the slum-world of London comes to ...
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