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Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening in societies ...
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What is democracy? Have our democratic societies turned into a form of totalitarianism? If so, how do they get away with it?The past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. Capitalism and historical revisionism are part of the fabric of this new world of normalized apocalyptic politics.Our passivity is ...
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The Second Mountain
The Quest for a Moral Life
Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about yourself or others? Are you self-improving or committed? Mainstream culture teaches us that human beings pursue our self-interest - money, power, fame. But at some point in our life we might discover that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. ...
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199195-5
EAN 9780141991955
'A hymn of love to the world ... A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools ...
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'That's not a bird,' Mari said, disbelievingly. 'That's another dragon . ..'A year after she discovered a tiny dragon on the beach, life is getting back to normal for Mari Jones and Gweeb, when two unexpected events turn it upside down again. First comes the news that Mari's mum Rhian is expecting a baby, meaning ...
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A collection of four special Puffin Classics designed to raise awareness of world environmental issues. This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, the legendary outlaw hero, steals from the rich to save the poor with his band of Merry Men in the vast Sherwood forest.He regularly outwits his evil ...
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A collection of 4 Puffin Classics, designed to raise awareness of world environmental issues. Life is good for house-dog Buck where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine of Santa Clara Valley. But when he is stolen and forced to work as a sledge dog in the harsh conditions of the ...
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A collection of four Puffin Classics, designed to raise awareness of world environmental issues. The classic story of friendship between man and beast. Young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws of the growling tiger Shere Khan, and is adopted by Father Wolf.As he grows up, Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther teach Mowgli the Law ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-8416-2
EAN 9780718184162
THE SECOND BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING EVE OF MAN TRILOGY AND NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - EVE AND BRAM HAVE ESCAPED, BUT CAN THEY SURVIVE?Eve is the last girl on earth.For the last sixteen years, Eve has been a prisoner. Guarded by the Mothers.Trapped by her fate. Watched by the world.Until she took her ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44042-1
EAN 9780241440421
On the outskirts of the Milky Way, floating slowly through space, there hangs a planet unlike any other. It has oceans, deserts, jungles and mountains. It has life that swims, life that soars and life that swings through the trees.It is a place of dazzling variety and infinite wonder - and it's the only world ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44073-5
EAN 9780241440735
Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new world. There's boating with Ratty, a feast with kindly Badger and rumbustious fun with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. But deep in the Wild Wood the villainous weasels lurk, intent on causing trouble...
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All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention.From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow, and from Kent to Glasgow to India to America, they are disappearing. Irreplaceable is not only a love letter to the haunting beauty of these ...
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People, Power, and Profits
Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199078-1
EAN 9780141990781
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own regulations, tech companies have accumulated reams ...
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The Europeans
Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197943-4
EAN 9780141979434
'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, ...
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This Is Shakespeare
How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-36163-4
EAN 9780241361634
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An outstanding book ... lively, curious and passionate' Literary ReviewWhy should you read a book about Shakespeare and his plays?Because he is a timeless genius whose work encapsulates the human condition?Or is it something more unexpected?A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the ...
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When Laura's marriage falls apart she needs to find a home for her and her daughter. And quickly. Welcome to The Close, a beautiful street of mansions, where Laura rents a tiny studio above a garage, and gorgeous Stella is the indisputable Queen Bee - who soon suspects Laura of having designs on her fiance.But ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97760-6
EAN 9780241977606
In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself ...
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Last year, Ollie Morcombe was a star pupil, popular and a gifted musician. Then, after the accident, everything changed. Now he's an outcast, a prime target of the school bullies who have made his life a living hell.Today - the last day of the school year - he's brought those bullies a gift. A homemade ...
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Carolyn Forche is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he might be - a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer - but nobody seems to know for certain. Captivated for ...
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Do you know what your clothes say about you? What we wear is a visual expression of our inner selves. Our clothes affect how we feel about ourselves and how people see us. How you dress matters.In Dress Your Best Life, fashion psychologist Dawnn Karen reveals why we choose the clothes we do and explains ...
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