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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-245-0
EAN 9781786072450
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio 'fixer', covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Craine must make sure ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-964-8
EAN 9781780749648
Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his lab is targeted by animal rights activists. The attack is followed by a phone call from Joe's ex-wife in Finland.Two decades have passed ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-209-2
EAN 9781786072092
What's the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have a three-second memory? Do fishes think? Can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? Myth-busting biologist and animal behaviour expert Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea, through streams and estuaries to the other side of ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-195-8
EAN 9781786071958
Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dream of becoming a writer. Instead, he works in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-205-4
EAN 9781786072054
The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena. Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls, blood leaks from ceilings and rats besiege the dining room. Experts from the Great Essex Witch Museum are called in to quell these strange sights.But before Rosie Strange and Sam Stone can do their thing events turn darker. For La ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-184-2
EAN 9781786071842
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A Mauritanian diver is despatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose...Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-106-4
EAN 9781786071064
Gaza: a city of contrasts. For most of its recent history Gaza has been seen as a touchstone for the problems of the Middle East. Yet historically Gaza was also a coastal civilisation open to the world.Today the Gazans are a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the West Bank, let alone Israel ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-192-7
EAN 9781786071927
For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the 'War on Terror' and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region's most powerful actors to ensure the security ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-212-2
EAN 9781786072122
Our cities drive innovation and growth, but they also propel us into housing crises and give rise to ever-greater inequality, as the super-rich displace the well-off and the workers who run our essential services are ghettoised and pushed out to the suburbs. There is a new urban crisis, and it is undermining the foundations of ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-289-4
EAN 9781786072894
Prompted by events in recent years in the UK and the USA, in Latin America, Russia and the Middle East, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to sustain themselves against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters.In each of five short chapters, he considers a moment ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-100-2
EAN 9781786071002
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing powers, calmly set their menfolk aside and declare that they, as women, are better equipped to organise a peace between their warring nations. An ambitious young woman, debarred by her sex ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-142-2
EAN 9781786071422
Russian historian Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, it covers the growing political tensions between Russia and its neighbours, and the country's increasingly complex relationship with US President Donald J. Trump.This stimulating ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-237-5
EAN 9781786072375
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything, until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant-a ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-298-6
EAN 9781786072986
Euridice is young, bright and ambitious. A talented musician, she dreams only of fame and fortune. But this is Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, and the one thing society expects of its women: to be loving wives and mothers.So when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, breaking her parents' hearts, Euridice sacrifices her own aspirations ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-305-1
EAN 9781786073051
Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, 'You are the strong one now.' With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits Grace in men's clothing and casts her out. When her younger ...
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A Man for All Markets
Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street
- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-197-2
EAN 9781786071972
In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world's first wearable computer, beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette, then became a bestselling author and a hedge fund heavyweight, ushering in a revolution on Wall Street. Now he ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-030-2
EAN 9781786070302
Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe arrives in London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, in the hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery.For Poe has inherited a mahogany box containing sheathes of letters that implicate his grandparents in some of London's most heinous and scandalous crimes - those committed ...
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The Man with the Poison Gun
A Cold War Spy Story
- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-176-7
EAN 9781786071767
Late in the summer of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he'd single-handedly tracked down and killed enemies of the communist regime. His weapon, a unique, top-secret design, killed without leaving a trace.Just hours before the border closed and work began on ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-159-0
EAN 9781786071590
In 1841, Nigel Halleck set out from Britain for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He served in the colonial administration for eight years before taking leave of his post, eventually disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again. Despite most traces of his life being destroyed ...
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- Oneworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-973-0
EAN 9781780749730
Seventeen-year-old River doesn't know what to do with himself when Penny, the girl he adores, dumps him. He lives in LA, where nobody walks anywhere, and Penny was his ride; he never bothered getting a license. He's stuck.He's desperate. He's lonely. One afternoon he does the unthinkable - he starts walking, and stumbles on a ...
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