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PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-210-9
EAN 9781783782109
What does love feel like beyond death? Jane's husband Jim has just died - or not quite. For Jim, a mild-mannered chaplain at the hospital where Jane works as a surgeon, has left his body to Polaris, a shadowy cryonics organisation that promises to do away with mortality forever. Stranded in the realm of the ...
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After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt formulated her controversial concept of the 'banality of evil' and asked the question: how can seemingly normal people carry out genocidal acts? She found her answer by focusing on the machinery of Nazi genocide and the organizational capacity of the victims: the Jewish Councils ...
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Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the short story form. Here, her brilliance shines across two decades and more than twenty-five stories. From the bereaved widow who finds unexpected comfort in 'Sleepwalking', to the matchmaking shrink in 'Psychoanalysis Changed My Life'; from the teenage girl furious at her dying mother in ...
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When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing together a new sense of himself, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-89-5
EAN 9781905881895
Psychoanalysis; rage; desire; possession; What is the sate of being, now and then? This issue of Granta looks at the fraught and evolving culture of emotions.
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In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility ...
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Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-131-7
EAN 9781783781317
Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya.But the peace they seek is hard to find: the murder has stirred deeply buried memories of colonial violence, of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-842-0
EAN 9781847088420
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-087-7
EAN 9781783780877
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-655-6
EAN 9781847086556
In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now enthusiastically democratic and riotously diverse - rich and enchanting but riddled with ineptitude and corruption. Elizabeth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-641-9
EAN 9781847086419
Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the German surrender. Side by side in these pages, we encounter the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-900-7
EAN 9781847089007
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-87-1
EAN 9781905881871
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-907-6
EAN 9781847089076
A generational touchstone from one of the leading authorities on the art world, a captivating book which seeks to answer the question 'What is an Artist?'
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-874-1
EAN 9781847088741
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes.As the years rush by, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-85-7
EAN 9781905881857
A powerful curiosity is the hallmark of new kind of Indian writing: important questions about the country's past and present have found their expression in different forms of non-fiction story-telling that twenty years ago tended to be the preserve of writers from the west. Biography, memoir, narrative history, reportage, the travel account: all these forms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-259-6
EAN 9781847082596
Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' conceals a bitter history of domination, oppression, and brutality. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15284-4
EAN 9780691152844
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu-themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents the essential tools of econometric research and demonstrates why econometrics is exciting and useful.The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-114-0
EAN 9781783781140
By the 1930s Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world - his novels, short stories, and biographies were instant bestsellers. Zweig was also an intellectual, and a patron of the arts. In 1934, following Hitler's rise to power, Zweig left Vienna ...
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