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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-317-2
EAN 9781780743172
From Descartes to Dostoevsky, the debate concerning the relationship between religion and morality has raged for centuries. Can there be a solid foundation for ethics without God? Or would we be consigned to a relativist morality, where "the good" is just a product of societal values or natural selection? In this landmark work, acclaimed philosopher ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-319-6
EAN 9781780743196
How do you survive a charging elephant? What's the best way to serve polar bear meat? How do you find water in a desert? Learn the answers to these questions and more from the best instructors possible: a cast of famous explorers, including Livingston, Shackleton and John Hunt. In this irreverent yet inspiring look at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-297-7
EAN 9781780742977
The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history - ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond - astronomer David Darling tells the stories of the true life adventurers whose wonder has translated into bizarre contraptions, magnificent achievements and, sometimes, startling folly. Discover outrageous attempts to fly like ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-264-9
EAN 9781780742649
An illuminating look at the way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane Katrina victims than to Hurricane Rita victims? Are you really more likely to solve puzzles if ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-322-6
EAN 9781780743226
Isabel lives in Portland, Oregon and works in a library, repairing damaged books. She longs to visit the destinations revealed in their pages. Her daydreams are peopled by memories from her Alaskan childhood, the glaciers that are being lost.Meanwhile, she's just the tiniest bit lonely and lovelorn. The object of her affection, a soldier recently ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-245-8
EAN 9781780742458
It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without conniving, incredible risks, and occasional skulduggery. Sean Carroll reveals the insight, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs search, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-994-1
EAN 9781851689941
In this blistering attack on the super-rich in the UK and US, McQuaig and Brooks combine satirical bite with impeccable research to explain that ever-increasing income inequality is the product of a global legal and economic system that has been rigged by the wealthiest. With disastrous consequences for the rest of us, from wild financial ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-976-7
EAN 9781851689767
Since making his journalistic debut breaking into Piers Morgan's office, Nick reveals how he has rattled Donald Rumsfield, slept through 9/11, had tea with President Karzai, struggled into fireproof underwear, and got a free lunch out of the Tamil Tigers. He shares an entertaining and eye-opening sideways glance at a profession that is at once ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-819-7
EAN 9781851688197
In this seminal study, Robert Wicks provides a sweeping survey of European Aesthetics over the last two hundred years. Presenting the theories of sixteen important continental thinkers including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida, this the only comprehensive study of the evolution of continental thought in this key area of philosophy. With colour photographs and written ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-973-6
EAN 9781851689736
From Plato to Wittgenstein and religions from Judaism to the Hindu tradition, interspersed with divine influences from Classical Greece, Romantic poetry, and the occasional scene from 'Alien', 'God: A Guide for the Perplexed' charts the path of humanity's great spiritual odyssey: the search for God. Leading the way through this minefield is acclaimed philosopher-theologian Keith ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-935-4
EAN 9781851689354
Investigative journalist and former tax-inspector Richard Brooks makes a mockery of government promises to "crack" the problem of tax avoidance. Discover why thousands of British state schools and NHS hospitals are owned by shell companies based in offshore tax havens; how "British" companies like Vodafone are designing their own tax laws; and how the taxman ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-975-0
EAN 9781851689750
Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the globe. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen, the best way to slice a ham sandwich (mathematically), and what time of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-964-4
EAN 9781851689644
Weaving cosmology with everyday, down-to-earth examples, Frank presents dazzling, provocative insights into how time passes through our lives - and what cutting-edge physics has in store for us next. A Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day in a radically different way to a modern office worker bound into 15-minute Outlook increments - but both ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-982-8
EAN 9781851689828
In this charming anthology, Suheil Bushrui, renowned literature professor, presents an unusually varied collection of the world's favourite love poetry from around the globe and down through the ages. The first compilation to have such wide international coverage, this unique volume contains nearly 200 works from some of the foremost writers in history, including Goethe, ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-821-0
EAN 9781851688210
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-956-9
EAN 9781851689569
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth livingIn The Philosophical Life, James Miller returns to this vibrant ...
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It was the universes most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without dealing and conniving, incredible risks and occasional skullduggery.Award-winning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the history-making forces of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-961-3
EAN 9781851689613
Discover who dressed up as a Tibetan peasant to explore Asia and Why you shouldn't let a gorilla near your bedroom. Pairing amazing stories of famous female explorers with hilarious tips on being an adventurer, this book is inspiring and entertaining in equal measure.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 316 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-931-6
EAN 9781851689316
Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, offers an addictive,wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the globe. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen, the best way to slice a ham sandwich (mathematically), and what time of month ...
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