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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-475-0
EAN 9781785784750
Zoom fatigue? Calendar full of meetings that could just be an email? Online and offline, too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. Often little advance planning takes place, resulting in productivity drains rather than productivity gains. Providing realistic and practical advice, productivity professionals Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts show how to reduce the amount ...
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The Bad Trip
Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-594-8
EAN 9781785785948
Beneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture into violence and despair by 1969. Literary and cultural historian James Riley descends into this underworld and traces the historical and conspiratorial threads connecting art, film, poetry, politics, murder and revolt. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, ...
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-653-2
EAN 9781785786532
Sex can seem like a house of horrors - full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'. Sex advice manuals, debates over sex work and stories of sexual 'dysfunction' add to our anxiety.With compassion, ...
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Five Rules for Rebellion
Let's Change the World Ourselves
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-686-0
EAN 9781785786860
Sophie Walker presents an inspiring, five-step journey to incorporating activism into our lives. Featuring stories of new and seasoned activists - including Amika George and Jack Monroe - campaigning on a range of issues from reproductive rights and poverty to the environment and access to education - the book shows us how to see activism ...
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Behavioural Economics
Psychology, neuroscience, and the human side of economics
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-644-0
EAN 9781785786440
The controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics. For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational individuals who optimise our own 'utility'. Then, in the 1970s, psychologists demonstrated that the reality is a lot messier.We don't really know what our utility is, and we care about people other than ourselves. ...
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What do you Think you are?
The Science of What Makes You You
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-660-0
EAN 9781785786600
Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be.It starts ...
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Red Sea Spies
The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
- Icon Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-634-1
EAN 9781785786341
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business.Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time ...
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Part memoir, part hugely entertaining self-help manual for these tough times' Roger Alton, Daily MailFormer Secret Service Special Agent Evy Poumpouras shares the insights and skills from one of the oldest elite security forces in the world - to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you're perceived, and live a ...
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- Icon Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-656-3
EAN 9781785786563
John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence. These 'pillars of science' also defy common sense. For example, solid things are mostly empty space, so how do they hold together? There appears to ...
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Hacking the Code of Life
How gene editing will rewrite our futures
An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over twin girls born in China with genetic changes deliberately introduced by scientists - changes they will pass on to ...
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Empress of the East
How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Icon Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-560-3
EAN 9781785785603
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-499-6
EAN 9781785784996
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019. 'An accessible primer on all things quantum' - Sunday TimesQuantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once.Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the quantum world can be described entirely in terms ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-342-5
EAN 9781785783425
Are we alonein the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there arestars in the sky?It's one ofthe most important and fascinating questions human beings can ponder, andastrobiology is the emerging field of science that tries to answer it. AstronomerRhodri Evans gives an expert overview of our current state of knowledge,looking at ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-549-8
EAN 9781785785498
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, then again ...
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The Hidden 95% of the Universe
- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-550-4
EAN 9781785785504
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart like clay off ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-490-3
EAN 9781785784903
What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? In this unique, illustrated introduction, we'll explore the early history of conscious struggle against sexist oppression, through the modern "waves" of feminism, up to present-day conversations about MeToo, intersectional feminism, and women's rights ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-546-7
EAN 9781785785467
Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and ...
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Hitler's British Traitors
The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists
- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-561-0
EAN 9781785785610
Hitler's British Traitors is the first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files - many of them previously unpublished - Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-412-5
EAN 9781785784125
In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our solar system formed within the same gas cloud. Without our grandparent the Sun, we would not exist, and the Sun in turn relies on ...
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- Icon Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-512-2
EAN 9781785785122
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, David Whitehouse brings you the inside story of the astronauts, NASA engineers and political rivals that brought an end to the Space Race. Fifty years ago in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil ...
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