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ISBN 978-1-84627-615-6
EAN 9781846276156
Riot police patrol the borders, bodies of drowned children wash up on holiday beaches, a humanitarian disaster unfolds in refugee settlements: this is the European Union today. But how did a bloc that was founded on the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving more than a ...
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ISBN 978-1-905881-95-6
EAN 9781905881956
A century ago the Irish took up arms to end British rule - the Easter Rising marked the beginning of a period of drastic social and political changes that continue to reverberate through Irish life.Aesthetically, too, it has been a century of great experimentation, exploration and evolution. Granta 135: New Irish Writing celebrates one of ...
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ISBN 978-1-78378-199-7
EAN 9781783781997
Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his mansion in the French hills; a terrible storm ...
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ISBN 978-1-84708-718-8
EAN 9781847087188
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fixed early on by a mixture ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84708-902-1
EAN 9781847089021
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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ISBN 978-1-84627-581-4
EAN 9781846275814
Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; ...
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ISBN 978-1-84708-836-9
EAN 9781847088369
One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma's faith, test her resolve and ...
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ISBN 978-1-905881-93-2
EAN 9781905881932
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84627-587-6
EAN 9781846275876
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable ...
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ISBN 978-1-78378-291-8
EAN 9781783782918
The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness. Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, ...
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ISBN 978-1-905881-91-8
EAN 9781905881918
This issue of Granta is about the natural world and what we have done to it.
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ISBN 978-1-84708-720-1
EAN 9781847087201
Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot.But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world. Peter ...
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ISBN 978-1-78378-213-0
EAN 9781783782130
On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued with her boyfriend on the phone. Then she took her mother's car keys, went into the garage, and closed the garage door.Her body was found the next morning. Those are the simple facts, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-949-6
EAN 9781847089496
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's ...
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Scorper, noun, a tool used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal. Scorper, novel, an uncanny and sinister tale of an eccentric American visitor to the small Sussex town of Ditchling, searching for stories about his grandfather. A tale of twitching curtains, severed hands and peculiar sexual practices.A book about Eric Gill's ...
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A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, international bestselling author Patrick deWitts new novel is about a young man named Lucien (Lucy) Minor, who accepts employment at the foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place ...
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ISBN 978-1-84627-576-0
EAN 9781846275760
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ISBN 978-1-78378-116-4
EAN 9781783781164
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig, born to an influent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies became instant bestsellers, and his cultural patronage, his generosity, and his literary connections, were legendary. In 1934, following Hitler's rise to power, Zweig left Vienna ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-127-0
EAN 9781783781270
The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine ...
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The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the lay of the literary ...
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