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- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-900-6
EAN 9781780749006
What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more probable than you think. ...
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Patriot or Traitor
The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-670-0
EAN 9781786076700
A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth's favourite, only to be charged with treason by her successor. Less than ...
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- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-643-4
EAN 9781786076434
Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India. From there to nineteenth-century Persia and the African savannah, to twentieth-century Russia, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq, before arriving in present-day Europe and America. From the ...
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A History of the World in 21 Women
A Personal Selection
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-628-1
EAN 9781786076281
Jenni Murray gives the lie to Thomas Carlyle's infamous declaration that the history of the world is but the biography of great men.' Women have played just as great a role in the story of humankind, only for their own tales to be marginalised, censored and forgotten. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops. ...
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- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-640-3
EAN 9781786076403
A Sunday Times Book of the YearFrom the author of the international bestseller How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your DogYour humble alarm clock, digital cameras, the smell of coffee, the glow of a grill, fibre broadband, smoke detectors... all hold secrets about quantum physics. Beginning at sunrise, Chad Orzel reveals the extraordinary science that ...
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Weird Maths
At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-485-0
EAN 9781786074850
Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions?In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw connections between the cutting edge of modern maths and life as we understand it, delving into the strange - would we like alien music? - and ...
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- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-663-2
EAN 9781786076632
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl. Fearless feminist heroine Clementine Ford's incendiary first book, Fight Like A Girl, is taking the world by storm, galvanising women to demand and fight for real equality and not merely the illusion of ...
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- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-603-8
EAN 9781786076038
An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be. Online sensation and fearless feminist heroine, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of women and girls. In the wake of Harvey Weinstein and the MeToo campaign, Ford uses ...
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An American Marriage
Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-519-2
EAN 9781786075192
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined.Roy is ...
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Weirder Maths
At the Edge of the Possible
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-508-6
EAN 9781786075086
Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in real life'. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we're all doing maths almost every minute of every day. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in ...
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The Triumph of Christianity
How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-483-6
EAN 9781786074836
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West?In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God's messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-604-5
EAN 9781786076045
Without free speech there is no true thought.' -Jordan Peterson If you're white, this country is one giant safe space.'-Michael Eric DysonThe Munk debate on political correctnessIs political correctness an enemy of free speech, sparking needless conflict? Or is it a weapon in the fight for equality, restoring dignity to the downtrodden? How should we ...
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Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidden elites pull all the strings. As trust in elected representatives around the world plunges, it is no wonder that democratic revolts have erupted - from Cairo to Kiev and ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-434-8
EAN 9781786074348
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the man who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.'Sir Walter Ralegh Sir Walter Ralegh was a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. We do not even know when this fifth ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-441-6
EAN 9781786074416
Judge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds of years, fostering a certain tolerance of eccentricity among its members. Good thing, too.The Mermaid of Morwenstow' excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday. When he was late for a service, Bishop Lancelot Fleming commandeered a Navy helicopter. ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-459-1
EAN 9781786074591
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Chasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story of modern slavery in Europe and how the plight of those most in need is ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-295-5
EAN 9781786072955
Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New Statesman A Mail on Sunday Book of the YearThe heart lies at the centre of life. For ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-398-3
EAN 9781786073983
Over the past decade has come a revolution in our understanding of global apocalypses. Armed with new technology, scientists have dived into deep time to examine our planet's near-death experiences. The bad news is that they look eerily like our future.Take a wild ride through the crime scenes, from South Africa to the New York ...
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The New Urban Crisis
Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It
- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-401-0
EAN 9781786074010
Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into housing crises and deepening inequality.How can we keep the good and break free of the bad?In this bracingly original work of ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-396-9
EAN 9781786073969
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the ...
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