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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-410-2
EAN 9781786074102
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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Posh Boys
How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain
- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-383-9
EAN 9781786073839
In his fascinating, enraging polemic, Verkaik touches on one of the strangest aspects of the elite schools and their product's domination of public life for two and a half centuries: the acquiescence of everyone else.'-ObserverImagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries ...
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Superminds
The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-470-6
EAN 9781786074706
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-354-9
EAN 9781786073549
An Observer book of the yearHAUNTED! By endless tiny humiliations. STRUGGLING! To resurrect the corpse of his literary career. ENSNARED! In a loving yet bamboozling marriage.A man at odds with the universe, Anthony McGowan stumbles from one improbable fiasco to the next. On the mean streets of West Hampstead he reflects upon all that is ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-328-0
EAN 9781786073280
As one of al-Qaeda's most respected scholars and bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent working for MI6, he foiled numerous attacks on civilians, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-345-7
EAN 9781786073457
In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company. He served in the colonial administration for eight years before leaving his post, eventually disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again. A century-and-a-half later, Kief Hillsbery, Nigel's nephew many times removed, sets out to unravel ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-406-5
EAN 9781786074065
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters.First he considers moments in history - Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-721-7
EAN 9781780747217
IN PARADISE, NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM On her fiftieth birthday and now deemed economically worthless, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material: a state-of-the-art facility where she will make new friends, enjoy generous recreational activities and live out her remaining days in comfort. The price? Her body - ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-330-3
EAN 9781786073303
A New Statesman Book of the YearLondon. A city apart. Inimitable.Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and King Harold's last stand buried by developments, the ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-058-6
EAN 9781786070586
Literacy, long upheld as a standard bearer for progress, is not always a force for good. Had Stalin's mother never sent him to the seminary he never would have learned to read and so never discovered the works of Marx or Lenin. Instead he probably would have ended up like his father - a cobbler ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-417-1
EAN 9781786074171
From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation: peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by nighttime shellings, and religious conviction sharpened by rage to a radical point. Abouzeid shows Syrians finding new ways to live and resist even as the ...
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Obsidio
The Illuminae Files
- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-983-9
EAN 9781780749839
Asha Grant came to Kerenza to escape her past. Too bad he just caught up with her. Asha survived BeiTech's initial assault and has been working undercover with the hopelessly outmatched resistance ever since.The last thing she expected to worry about was her ex-boyfriend, Rhys Lindstrom who just landed planetside. Is he her way out ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-063-0
EAN 9781786070630
If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible?Decades after the colonial powers withdrew from Africa, the continent is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-414-0
EAN 9781786074140
2016. The world is on the brink of crisis. In Britain, the British Prime Minister is fighting a referendum he thought couldn't be lost.In the USA, brash showman, Ronald Craig is fighting a Presidential Election nobody thought he could win. In the USSR, Igor Popov, the Russian President, is using both events as part of ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-254-2
EAN 9781786072542
Did you know that at certain times of the month, women are inclined to dance more? Flirt more? Or that PMS may have evolved to remove boyfriends with unfit sperm? Why? Hormones. Hormones help women choose mates, produce healthy offspring, raise them successfully, and, ultimately, make better decisions. In this paradigm-shifting book, Martie Haselton explains ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-267-2
EAN 9781786072672
Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant, to Seneca, the philosopher of temperance who accumulated one of the greatest fortunes in Rome, to Kant, who privately wrestled with hypochondria while ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-475-1
EAN 9781786074751
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy AstorThey terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world.For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the franchise was finally extended to women, here is a selection of suffragette and suffragist activists and pioneering MPs ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-255-9
EAN 9781786072559
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. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-252-8
EAN 9781786072528
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 appeared to usher in a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation with the West. This, we were told, was the end of history: now the entire world would embrace enlightenment values and liberal democracy. Reality has proved very different.Russia emerged from the 1990s ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-307-5
EAN 9781786073075
Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Qur'an but rather from hadith, first-hand reports of the prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad, Islamic scholars, past and present, have ...
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