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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-43628-8
EAN 9780241436288
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing writing on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
An Untold Story of World War II
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199110-8
EAN 9780141991108
November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about the presence of foreign troops in ...
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Holmes, Stephen; Krastev, Ivan
The Light that Failed
A Reckoning
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198810-8
EAN 9780141988108
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only in the East but also back in the heartland of ...
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Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.
The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31433-3
EAN 9780241314333
As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats. ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1296 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199374-4
EAN 9780141993744
Jane Austen's masterworks in a single beautiful Penguin English Library volume Few novelists have observed their society with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. This volume brings together her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Lady Susan. Ironic, comic and wise, these stories of ...
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Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances, and identifies everyday objects - hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook - as precious icons.Her visual art ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-43809-1
EAN 9780241438091
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position in popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and their friendship, offering an intimate account of this giant of science.The ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-45905-8
EAN 9780241459058
At Amazon, 'Day One' is code for inventing like a startup with little regard for legacy. Day Two is, in Jeff Bezos's own words, is 'stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death.'Most companies today are set up for Day Two. They build advantages and defend them fiercely rather than invent ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198850-4
EAN 9780141988504
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox.Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?Through a series of ...
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Human Compatible
AI and the Problem of Control
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198750-7
EAN 9780141987507
Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. In this groundbreaking book, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species, and lays out how we can change ...
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Beth, Portia and Eddie are siblings. Like all siblings, sometimes they don't get along. They just have better reasons than most.But when their grandfather dies, he leaves a troublingly specific condition in his will.For them to inherit his wealth, they're required to retake a road trip they took with him when they were children, and ...
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There was a time when, upon encountering other beings, it was not certain whether they were animals or gods or lords of a certain species, demons or ancestors. Or simply humans. One day, which lasted many thousands of years, humans did something that no other species had yet tried, we began to imitate those same ...
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The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces and villas, creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him - but though his contemporaries admired him, they failed to understand him. Few have attempted to tackle Tiepolo's series of bizarre ...
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Absolutely stunning . . .Assured, bold, and electrifying, If I Had Your Face marks the entrance of a bright new voice in fiction' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of DAISY JONES x{0026} THE SIX 'Engrossing... Each voice in this quartet cuts through the pages so cleanly and clearly that the overall effect is ...
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What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, ...
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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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