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- Granta Books, 2015
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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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-079-2
EAN 9781783780792
In her comic, scathing essay Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women dont, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-83-3
EAN 9781905881833
Granta 129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From Joseph Roth's reflection on Sarajevo in the wake of the First World War to Cynthia Ozick's exploration of the limits of belief, this issue stretches our understanding of fate, both in fact and in fiction. Striking the keys of the same ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-81-9
EAN 9781905881819
'I found in my absence that I had missed two visitors: one left me nothing I could know them by; the other must have been a woman, judging by the gift of wood-shavings and pale grasses she had picked and twisted into a bouquet that lingered on my table.' - Andrew Motion, 'A Meeting of ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-030-3
EAN 9781783780303
A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil - ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-512-2
EAN 9781847085122
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to.From this ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-432-3
EAN 9781847084323
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 497 páginas
PVP: 17,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-783-6
EAN 9781847087836
An American anthropologist is at a loose end in Botswana. She is ferociously intelligent and wonderfully inquisitive. She is also in love with Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who runs an experimental women-only utopian village in the Kalahari.At times wildly comic but also magnificently cerebral, Mating is a profound exploration of the human condition and ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-323-4
EAN 9781847083234
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 178 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-730-0
EAN 9781847087300
The stories in The Safety of Objects are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad. A girl's blonde Barbie doll seduces her teenage brother in an intense episode of erotic obsession; a couple go off the rails and smoke crack while their children are staying with their grandmother; and a lawyer ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-527-6
EAN 9781847085276
Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-691-4
EAN 9781847086914
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-396-8
EAN 9781847083968
A spellbinding debut novel; three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York. Received excellent reviews in hardback on both sides of the Atlantic.
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When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every ...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum - Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2013
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84708-329-6
EAN 9781847083296
Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men - witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer, who spent five years exploring the city and listening to its residents. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the man who ...
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The new novel from the Nobel Prize winner, author of The Land of Green Plums, a brutal, brilliant story of survival and testimony from a young Romanian-German deported to the Soviet Gulag at the end of the Second World War.
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-597-9
EAN 9781847085979
With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-599-3
EAN 9781847085993
A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-285-1
EAN 9781846272851
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