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This Orient Isle
Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197867-3
EAN 9780141978673
In 1570, after numerous plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning not only of the well-known identification of England with heroic Protestantism, but - which is almost entirely neglected by historians - of an English alignment with Islamic powers, and of cultural, economic ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97282-3
EAN 9780241972823
Award-winning author Javier Marias weaves a darkly thrilling tale of love, betrayal and lives played out in the unhappy shadow of history As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director, sophisticated and discreet. Muriel's ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-20057-5
EAN 9780241200575
The sensational international bestseller: an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26411-9
EAN 9780241264119
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - A new translation based on the updated and expanded text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 32 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-137084-2
EAN 9780141370842
When Sarah x{0026} Duck get to the Duck Hotel, they soon discover it's very different to a human hotel. The residents can nest anywhere they like, there's a helter-skelter, there's water everywhere and there's a feather-preening salon. Duck is right at home but Sarah can't quite settle in - how will Duck make her feel ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96355-5
EAN 9780241963555
110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar systemLight takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds of thousands of years. What ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96043-1
EAN 9780241960431
'As enlightening about crime in modern society as any book I have read' The Times 'A richly researched, supremely sane discussion of the causes of and ways of preventing crime. From bobbies on the beat (they don't reduce crime), to the idea that "prison works" (it doesn't), Gash's important book may well change your attitude ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-3209-7
EAN 9781405932097
Despite their differences, Erika and Clementine have been best friends since they were children. So when Erika needs help, Clementine should be the obvious person to turn to. Or so you'd think.For Clementine, as a mother of a two desperately trying to practise for the audition of a lifetime, the last thing she needs is ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-8367-7
EAN 9780718183677
The roots of murder run deep...When a body is found in a tree in The Meadows, Edinburgh's scenic parkland, the forensics suggest the corpse has fallen from a great height. Detective Inspector Tony McLean wonders whether it was an accident, or a murder designed to send a chilling message? The dead man had led quite ...
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The Holy Roman Empire
A Thousand Years of Europe's History
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104747-8
EAN 9780141047478
'Hugely impressive...Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197938-0
EAN 9780141979380
Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him. Yet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait ...
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Against the Double Blackmail
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198412-4
EAN 9780141984124
'One of our best-known living philosophers' Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine ...
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Imagine Me Gone
National Book Award Shortlist 2016 // Pulitzer Prize Fiction Finalist 2017
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97288-5
EAN 9780241972885
Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-7950-2
EAN 9780718179502
The heart warming new novel from Graeme Simsion, the international bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie EffectCan you define your life by a single song? Adam Sharp - former pianist in a hip Melbourne bar, now a respectable IT consultant in Norwich - can. And it's 'You're Going to Lose that Girl' ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98025-5
EAN 9780241980255
The New York Times bestselling new novel about modern family lives -- from the author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseJacob and Julia Bloch have a problem. While they've been coaxing Jacob's grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion, and struggling to keep their eldest son from ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198320-2
EAN 9780141983202
A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-30131-9
EAN 9780241301319
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the perspective of one ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-2341-5
EAN 9781405923415
Would you risk your life to save a stranger? Discover what happens next in the Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller, Dear Amy . . .A local schoolgirl has been missing for weeks when Margot Lewis, agony aunt of the 'Dear Amy' advice column, receives a letter:Dear Amy,I've been kidnapped by a strange man.I don't know ...
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Africa's Long Road Since Independence
The Many Histories of a Continent
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198409-4
EAN 9780141984094
'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197661-7
EAN 9780141976617
'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times 'Superb' Literary Review The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running ...
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