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- Oneworld, 2015
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PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-698-2
EAN 9781780746982
In the early 1980s, a young Indian boy comes to London to study English Literature. Ananda is shy and sensitive and among his white-faced fellow British students, he feels out of place. Also in London is Ananda's uncle, a debonair, anorexic bachelor in his sixties. Having been made redundant from his job, Rangamama lives in ...
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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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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 28,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-769-9
EAN 9781780747699
A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David summit when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day. With his hallmark insight into the forces at play in the Middle East, ...
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Zoom!
How Everything Moves, from Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-549-7
EAN 9781780745497
Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins.The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound. In Zoom, ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-583-1
EAN 9781780745831
'Drunk Tank Pink' is a particular shade of pink. In 1979 psychologists discovered that it has an extraordinary effect: if you stare at it for two minutes, you dramatically weaken in strength. In this brilliant study of the strange recesses of our minds, Adam Alter reveals the world is full of such hidden forces that ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
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PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-538-1
EAN 9781780745381
A troubled boy. A psychotherapist specializing in past life regression. An unsolved murder from 100 years ago that threatens to take another life. Twelve-year-old Ben believes he is a girl. When therapist Mary suggests hypnosis, he recalls a past life as herring girl Annie. The session ends abruptly and Mary begins to suspect that Annie ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-407-0
EAN 9781780744070
We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase 'winning streaks' that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when we try hardest not to be. In the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky coined the phrase 'representativeness' to describe the psychology of this ...
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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 · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-405-6
EAN 9781780744056
A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of us realize - and it's growing.With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-510-7
EAN 9781780745107
With over sixty million casualties, World War II was the bloodiest conflict in history. In this incisive introduction, esteemed academic Christopher Catherwood covers all the key battles and campaigns, while also giving the larger story behind them, putting familiar events into the perspective of the war at large. He explores the huge impact of the ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 41,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-529-9
EAN 9781780745299
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 212 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-394-3
EAN 9781780743943
In The Illusion of Separateness, award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells the haunting and luminous story of how one man's act of mercy on a World War II battlefield ripples down the years and across the seas to transform the lives of six strangers. From wartime Britain and Nazi-occupied France to modern-day California, the characters ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
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PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-382-0
EAN 9781780743820
Arjun brought his family to North West London after Indian independence, but hopes of a better life rapidly dissipate. His wife Sunila spends all day longing for an Aga and a nice English tea service, his son hates anything Indian, and his daughter, well, that's a whole other problem. Reeling from the death of his ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-359-2
EAN 9781780743592
Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She's just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She's been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband.And now her son's gone and joined the only group that will have ...
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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: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-301-1
EAN 9781780743011
This concise history tells the story of Turkey, a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. Feroz Ahmad provides a full survey of Turkey's checkered past, from its beginnings as a disparate group of tribes to its status as the first secular republic in the Islamic world. In addition to providing a detailed ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
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PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-413-1
EAN 9781780744131
Shaped by invasion, occupation and immigration, and upheavals as diverse as the Great Fire, the Blitz and the Big Bang, London's history is unmatched for variety and drama. Sharing his passion and expert knowledge, David Long selects 100 places that best tell this incredible story. Discover Roman temples, Saxon burial mounds, frost fairs on the ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 369 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-378-3
EAN 9781780743783
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens as she tries to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy League ...
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- Oneworld, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-415-5
EAN 9781780744155
What makes us cross the line from waking to slumber? According to Harvard scientists it's our 'sleep switch' - a cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus. For the ancient Greeks it was the god Hypnos, caressing you with his wings. For the Blackfeet Indians, a butterfly.And in European children's tales, the Sandman, sprinkling you with ...
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