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- Oneworld, 2016
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PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-831-3
EAN 9781780748313
As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club The Times Book of the Week Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment, and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-941-9
EAN 9781780749419
The wave of popular uprisings that swept through the Middle East promised to pave the way for democracy. It brought down dictators and captured the popular imagination, but for most of the region, peace and stability remain as elusive today as they have ever been. In this fully revised introduction, Oxford University's Philip Robins takes ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 10,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-939-6
EAN 9781780749396
There is the secret of Birdy's grandmother's cat. How the boys tortured it and Birdy had to drown it in the river. There's the secret of Mrs.Cope, the popular teacher who took advantage of Birdy. And the secret of the gypsy girl at school who Birdy likes, but can't talk about. Because Birdy's other secret ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
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PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-936-5
EAN 9781780749365
Haunted by a past that has kept her from Nairobi for over three years, Leena returns home to discover her family unchanged: her father is still a staunch patriot dreaming of a better country; her mother is still an arch traditionalist, unwilling or unable to let go of the past; and her brother, always the ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-989-1
EAN 9781780749891
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? ...
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Bluff
The Game Central Banks Play and How it Leads to Crisis
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-813-9
EAN 9781780748139
The accepted narrative of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 is that the central banks saved us from an inferno caused by Wall Street greed. While there is no doubt they did save us, did the firefighters actually cause the fire? The Bank of England and US Federal Reserve have used the bait of low ...
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Walking with Plato
A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-656-2
EAN 9781780746562
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-848-1
EAN 9781780748481
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making 'good jobs' obsolete: many paralegals, doctors, and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots. As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-012-8
EAN 9781786070128
'Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...'This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot from a mundane, provincial past, she's come to New York to look for a life she can't define, except as a burning drive to become ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-871-9
EAN 9781780748719
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BIG BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD Fifteenth-century Russia It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-924-2
EAN 9781780749242
Life isn't easy for Johnny. He is trying to help his mum, he is looking after his little brother and he is going to a new school. Then Liam Clarke starts to bully him and it all begins to get a lot worse.But when Johnny gets some very surprising help from an unexpected source his ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-015-9
EAN 9781786070159
**WINNER FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016** 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial ...
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Think Like an Engineer
Inside the Minds That are Changing Our Lives
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-864-1
EAN 9781780748641
Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats are all the result of a unique thinking process combining abstract and structured thinking, common sense and creativity. In this groundbreaking new work, Guru Madhavan ...
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Sounds and Sweet Airs
The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-856-6
EAN 9781780748566
Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable composers, taking the reader on a journey from seventeenth-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz. Revealing not just the lives and works of eight exceptional artists, historian Anna Beer also asks tough questions about the silencing of ...
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Ministers at War
Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet 1940-1945
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-832-0
EAN 9781780748320
The gripping story of Winston Churchill's wartime government, an emergency coalition of Conservatives, Labour, Liberals and men of no party, assembled to see Britain through the war. Dispelling the myth that the War Cabinet constituted an unbreakable 'band of brothers', award-winning historian Jonathan Schneer reveals that this ensemble of political titans were in fact a ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-843-6
EAN 9781780748436
Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. Indeed his success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesn't really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds.Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-859-7
EAN 9781780748597
Frances is alone on a small island in the middle of the Indian ocean. She has to find water and food. She has to survive.And when she is there she also thinks about the past. The things that she did before. The things that made her a monster.Nothing is easy. Survival is hard and so ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-834-4
EAN 9781780748344
After fearlessly ferrying Hurricanes and Spitfires in World War II, Tamara moves to the most westerly tip of Ireland to begin an intense affair with Niall, a charismatic Irishman. Niall is one of two brothers and on an emotionally charged night he shares with Tamara the story of Kieran, who mysteriously disappeared after an epic ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-599-2
EAN 9781780745992
When a stranger appears at the door of an isolated house in frontier America, a series of brutal events are set in motion. Scared and confused, the man who lives at the house accepts the stranger's advice and sets out on a lonely journey across an arid and hostile terrain, in the mistaken belief that ...
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