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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028039-5
EAN 9780140280395
Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044397-4
EAN 9780140443974
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044460-5
EAN 9780140444605
In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044577-0
EAN 9780140445770
Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard's major works. The author plays devil's advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question the different alternatives. This book is written to provoke philosophical debate.
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044067-6
EAN 9780140440676
Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044990-7
EAN 9780140449907
Presents seventyfive seminal myths which feature the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys.
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044326-4
EAN 9780140443264
Tells the story of the changing fortunes of the Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai, after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldly elements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence and corruption, his karmic journey unfolds.
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,76 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043392-0
EAN 9780140433920
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016772-6
EAN 9780140167726
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-004945-9
EAN 9780140049459
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 5,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-030163-2
EAN 9780140301632
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-007557-1
EAN 9780140075571
"The Little Disturbances of Man" brings together ten of her short stories. While they may not, to be sure, fully satisfy confirmed plot-watchers, they are marked throughout by a well-defined and artfully guileless form of narrative progression. But the heart of the matter in these tales is their serio- comic stance: character revealed through the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044906-8
EAN 9780140449068
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just 80 days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passpartout. Overcoming setbacks they race against the clock.
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044704-0
EAN 9780140447040
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers.A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044307-3
EAN 9780140443073
A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics. In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski.She, however, was quick to ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044928-0
EAN 9780140449280
Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy of a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044668-5
EAN 9780140446685
A collection of five plays by Euripides, written in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta. They investigate the horrors of war and, in particular, its impact on women.
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044608-1
EAN 9780140446081
Erasmus ranges from light-hearted jibes to vehement denunciation of the theologians and churchmen, monastic life and the condition of the Church, and then seriously expounds the virtues of the Christian way of life. This work is one of the best satirical classics of the Renaissance.
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044619-7
EAN 9780140446197
In this text, Aristotle laid the foundation for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. After a sharp reaction against Platonism, he achieved in this work an extraordinary synthesis, integrating the natural and rational aspects of the world.
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The Essays
A Selection
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044602-9
EAN 9780140446029
These essays from the 16th-century writer Michel de Montaigne, reveal the distinctive voice of Montaigne, a tolerant man, sceptical, humane, often humorous, yet utterly honest in his pursuit of truth.
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