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NOVEDAD!!- Pen & Sword Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-057-9
EAN 9781804710579
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In his early twenties, he shared a Manhattan apartment with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Pen & Sword Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-053-1
EAN 9781804710531
An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it. No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-008-1
EAN 9781804710081
My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-093-7
EAN 9781804710937
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness, so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive, continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-019-7
EAN 9781804710197
Winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionAugust is a God-fearing track star who has left home and the expectations of his overbearing sisters. It's his first semester of university in Enugu State and he can't stop thinking about openly gay student Segun, who is clear that he only wants to be with a ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-012-8
EAN 9781804710128
Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in Washington, D.C. with her second husband, but enviable dinner parties aren't the only thing she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing around the corner and into the Soviet Union.Charlie is surprised to ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-071-5
EAN 9781804710715
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: ...
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How to Think Like a Woman
Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-002-9
EAN 9781804710029
As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality, its abstractions, its beauty. What Penaluna didn't realize was that philosophy - ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-045-6
EAN 9781804710456
The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning - and in Kerala, water is everywhere.At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-062-3
EAN 9781804710623
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-024-1
EAN 9781804710241
Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more - but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa's husband Milton enjoys ...
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning - and in Kerala, water is everywhere.At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84884-404-9
EAN 9781848844049
On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific - and controversial - contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5267-4360-2
EAN 9781526743602
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 127 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5267-1627-9
EAN 9781526716279
While in exile on St Helena, Napoleon dictated a commentary on the wars of Julius Caesar, later published in 1836. In each chapter he summarized the events of one campaign, then added comments from the standpoint of his own military knowledge. Over the nearly two millennia between Caesar and Napoleon some aspects of warfare had ...
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The Siege Of Tsingtau
The German-Japanese War 1914
- Pen & Sword Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 35,15 €
ISBN 978-1-5267-0292-0
EAN 9781526702920
The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germanys Micronesian islands. Japans naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States naval strategy of projecting force westward.The campaign to relieve ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-9564-5
EAN 9781473895645
The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of thrusts, parries, and counter-thrusts, as first one side then the other ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-5928-9
EAN 9781473859289
It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. In addition to this iconic flying ace, the author presents the thrilling biographies of ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-5908-1
EAN 9781473859081
Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered as great leaders of men in battle? What combination of personal and circumstantial influences conspire to produce great commanders? What makes a great leader great? Richard A Gabriel analyses the biographies of ten great generals who ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-3374-6
EAN 9781473833746
The Han Empire equalled Rome in the scale of its territories and subject populations. With superior steel manufacturing techniques and crossbow weaponry, the Han created a system of Central Asian transport connections known as the Silk Routes. These conveyed unique Chinese goods as far as Persia and the Roman frontier.Ancient evidence suggests that one-tenth of ...
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