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The Unsettling of Europe
The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198479-7
EAN 9780141984797
A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations. Whether trying to escape war and persecution or to find a better life, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, migrants have stood at the heart of the continent's experience. Peter Gatrell's powerful new book is the ...
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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: 18,00 €
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: 17,75 €
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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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
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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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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'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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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
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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