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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-705-7
EAN 9781780747057
A thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka's absurdism, Camus' nihilism and Dostoyevsky's depravity.On a normal day in provincial China, a bored high-school student goes about his regular business. But he's planning the brutal murder of his only friend, a talented violinist. He invites her round, strangles her, stuffs her body ...
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The Empire of Necessity
The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-645-6
EAN 9781780746456
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver. He spent all day on the ship, sharing food and water, yet failed to see that the slaves, having slaughtered ...
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The Last Empire
The Final Days of the Soviet Union
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-646-3
EAN 9781780746463
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled with failed coups d'état and political ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-719-4
EAN 9781780747194
A brilliant and hilarious satirical novel about the state of twenty-first century Israel On a rock-strewn hilltop in the heart of the West Bank stands a lone second-hand shipping container, a generator and some goats. On this contested land, Othniel Assis - under the wary gaze of the neighbouring Palestinian village - installs his ever-expanding ...
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
Booker Prize 2015
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-635-7
EAN 9781780746357
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, seven gunmen stormed his house with machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife and his manager. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-642-5
EAN 9781780746425
On August 10, 1632, five Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. This would become the foundation of calculus. But with the stroke of a pen, the judges banned the idea, setting off a war for ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-688-3
EAN 9781780746883
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The Power of Others - Peer Pressure, Groupthink, and How the People Around Us Shape Everything We Do
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-653-1
EAN 9781780746531
Discover how in almost every area of our lives, our behaviour is being influenced far more than we'd like to imagine. In this captivating work, science writer Michael Bond investigates the latest breakthroughs in social psychology to reveal how to guard against groupthink, build better teams, identify shared objectives, become more ethical and survive moments ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-660-9
EAN 9781780746609
Mindfulness, kindness and positivity can take us far. But they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions like anger, anxiety or doubt might be uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. Kashdan and Biswas-Diener explain the importance of developing our emotional agility' the ability ...
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The Third Chimpanzee
On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - for Young People
- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-748-4
EAN 9781780747484
The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions including: * If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 10,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-412-4
EAN 9781780744124
Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we seek to avert the arrival of old age using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. But in the process, are we missing out on a distinct and extraordinarily valuable stage of life? Daniel Klein ponders whether ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-380-6
EAN 9781780743806
With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. The book is divided into two parts: the first by an American rabbi and professor of Judaism, and the second ...
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- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-963-7
EAN 9781851689637
Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian narrates how esteemed theologian, Paul F. Knitter, overcame a crisis of faith by looking to Buddhism for inspiration. From prayer to how Christianity views life after death, Knitter argues that a Buddhist standpoint can encourage a more person-centred conception of Christianity where individual religious experience comes first, ...
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- Oneworld, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
EAN 9781851685554
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of ...
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