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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-224-07941-9
EAN 9780224079419
Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse has its own histories, rather more fraught than those the Mallinsons are used to dealing with on the page. Nick once wrote that 'History is more about amnesia ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-0927-2
EAN 9780712609272
Following the acclaimed Frontiers, Noel Mostert's new book chronicles the first true world war'. This was to be the longest, hardest and cruellest war ever fought at sea on a scale comparable only with the Second World War. Methods of battle under sail, little altered for centuries, would be forced to change and develop at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-0-224-07196-3
EAN 9780224071963
From the universally praised New York Times science writer George Johnson ( He provides some of the best science writing I have come across in a long time Paul Davies), an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 23,74 €
ISBN 978-0-224-06163-6
EAN 9780224061636
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-224-07790-3
EAN 9780224077903
'Nowadays I don't get out of bed for less than a murder. I don't get out of bed much Until today.' Private Researcher' Fernández Britten is the messenger who would view being shot as a blessing. The years spent uncovering people's secret dramas and helping to confirm their darkest suspicions have taken their toll. Battered ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-224-08533-5
EAN 9780224085335
The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people – and their failures to connect – the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed.From Dublin to Venice, from an American college ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-0-224-08469-7
EAN 9780224084697
The stories in "Taking Pictures" are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-224-08173-3
EAN 9780224081733
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 236 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-224-08089-7
EAN 9780224080897
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people.
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In a vivid depiction of Ancient Greece and its legendary heroes, The Mask of Apollo tells the story of Nikeratos, the gifted tragic actor at the centre of political and cultural activity in Athens, 400 B. C. Wherever he goes, Nikeratos carries a golden mask of Apollo, a relic and reminder of an age when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-224-06982-3
EAN 9780224069823
In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-224-06114-8
EAN 9780224061148
Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-224-05973-2
EAN 9780224059732
In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-224-04691-6
EAN 9780224046916
The Treasury is divided into four parts and is over 400 pages long. There are complete picture tales as well as excerpts from Dahl's longer stories, poetry (some previously unpublished) autobiographical material and letters, some written as a young boy to his mother. Outstanding artwork is a feature of the Treasury. While the core artwork ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 32 páginas
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-224-03868-3
EAN 9780224038683
When the children bring Courtney home he's just a loveable scruffy old dog. But the-mongrel-that-nobody-wants has the most amazing talents. He can cook! He can juggle! He can even play the violin! Then one day Courtney the wonder dog packs up his trunk and leaves home - but the children find out his helping paw ...
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