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Mostrando 352 libros encontrados (18 páginas)
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The Recovering
Intoxication and its Aftermath
- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-153-9
EAN 9781783781539
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore.Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-19-4
EAN 9781909889194
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-362-5
EAN 9781783783625
Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-483-7
EAN 9781783784837
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Call them by their True Names
American crises (and Essays)
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-497-4
EAN 9781783784974
Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The ultimate focus of the book is climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit's trademark deep analysis to bear on ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-17-0
EAN 9781909889170
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The Future is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-402-8
EAN 9781783784028
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their ...
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The Written World
How Literature Shaped History
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-314-4
EAN 9781783783144
From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history. The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-482-0
EAN 9781783784820
A.M Homes returns with signature humour and psychological accuracy, to tell thirteen stories exposing the heart of an uneasy 21st-century America. In tales of a family obsessed with the surfaces of their lives, or the story of a shopper who suddenly finds himself nominated to run for President, she explores our attachments to each other ...
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Sabrina
Man Booker Longlist 2018
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-490-5
EAN 9781783784905
WHERE IS SABRINA? The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral. A landmark graphic novel, already hailed as one of the most exciting and moving stories of recent years, Sabrina is a tale of modern mystery, anxiety, fringe paranoia and mainstream ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-172-0
EAN 9781783781720
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-218-5
EAN 9781783782185
WELCOME TO THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIMENTMary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional ...
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The White Book
Man Booker International Prize Shortlist 2018
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-695-8
EAN 9781846276958
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The VegetarianFrom the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit.It ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-16-3
EAN 9781909889163
This issue of Granta is concerned with aftermaths. When the news cameras turn away, what remains? It includes reportage from Syria, Russia, Essex, London and beyond, as well as new fiction, poetry and photography.
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Natural Causes
Life, Death and the Illusion of Control
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-241-3
EAN 9781783782413
We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-390-8
EAN 9781783783908
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-360-1
EAN 9781783783601
Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration.Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-12-5
EAN 9781909889125
Animals. We love and care for them as pets, we weave them into our myths and fables and then we breed them under conditions of terrible cruelty just so we can eat them cheaply. As new developments in research into animal cognition force us to concede fewer characteristics separating us from our neighbouring species, this ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-182-9
EAN 9781783781829
Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about abandoning America - only to discover, years later, that ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-561-0
EAN 9781847085610
Set mostly in the American South, at the crossroads of a world both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In 'The Negative Effects of Homeschooling', Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend ...
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