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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-263-3
EAN 9781785782633
Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational power. His argument is both fascinating and persuasive.' Matthew ParrisThe Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent ...
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The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass-communication possible and inventors looked forward to the day when electricity would control all ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-234-3
EAN 9781785782343
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-225-1
EAN 9781785782251
Mars is back. Suddenly everyone - from Elon Musk to Ridley Scott to Donald Trump - is talking about going to the Red Planet. When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next.However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot. The much-anticipated crewed ...
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Economyths
11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong
- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-229-9
EAN 9781785782299
When Economyths was first published in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational behaviour, stability and eternal growth - and how these myths lead paradoxically to their opposites: inequality, an irrational economy, financial instability and a collision with nature's limits. Since then, we've had Occupy, ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-205-3
EAN 9781785782053
Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the ...
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Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy. From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-178-0
EAN 9781785781780
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-173-5
EAN 9781785781735
Like a gourmet's magic carpet, this book takes the reader from table to table around the globe, savouring and relishing exceptional, ever-pleasing tastes. Award-winning journalist and food writer James Steen presents his compendium of 50 of the greatest dishes eaten throughout the world today - and the stories behind the food. From why Thai green ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-191-9
EAN 9781785781919
Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought. Eureka! shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, ...
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- Icon Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-143-8
EAN 9781785781438
Was Rochester a murderer? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'Wuthering' mean? Did the Brontes all have tiny feet? To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, eminent Victorian scholar John Sutherland takes us on an A to Z ramble through the world of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and ...
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- Icon Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-116-2
EAN 9781785781162
Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. ...
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- Icon Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-099-8
EAN 9781785780998
What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder? Love Voltaire Us Apart is a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge, made up of philosophers' love letters, advice columns and breakup letters. From Confucius learning the Golden Rules of dating ...
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- Icon Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-115-5
EAN 9781785781155
A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes. 'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carries you from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue whale, from the swim-cycle of spermatozoa, to why skipping works best on the moon. A pop-science treat.' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human ...
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- Icon Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-071-4
EAN 9781785780714
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up ...
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- Icon Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-030-1
EAN 9781785780301
Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapters. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of the Bard, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are: modern, thrilling, uplifting drama. The ...
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- Icon Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-023-3
EAN 9781785780233
A hugely enjoyable romp through the pleasures and pitfalls of setting up home in a foreign land' PD Smith, GuardianWhen she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often ...
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- Icon Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84831-928-8
EAN 9781848319288
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip - and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution.Test ...
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From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions. How would you poison someone without the police finding out? (Medicine, Cambridge) What makes a strong woman? (Theology, Oxford) Instead ...
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- Icon Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84831-926-4
EAN 9781848319264
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full.But her glamourous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was ...
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