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'Rich. . .eclectic. . .a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, ...
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An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state.Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197916-8
EAN 9780141979168
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary particles to the behaviour of materials. While quantum ...
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Girl, Woman, Other
Co-Winner of the Booker Prize 2019
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98499-4
EAN 9780241984994
This is Britain as you've never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years.They're ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39674-2
EAN 9780241396742
In this mythbusting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplacedThe ultimate dream of artificial intelligence is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progress on AI in this century is already ...
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A clever, compassionate and humorous look at teenage kicks and sectarian strife in early 80s Northern Ireland'. GuardianSchool is almost over - and for Paddy, Liz, Christy and Kevin it's time to figure out what's next. But before they start the rest of their lives, these teenagers have the 'Cave' - a place to drink, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38262-2
EAN 9780241382622
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38261-5
EAN 9780241382615
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring ...
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Sasha has a huge secret which could jeopardise the bright future of the Lost and Found band. Sasha seems to have it all. She's the lead singer of an amazing band, she's starting to get famous online and it seems like the coolest boy in school might have a crush on her.Nobody could imagine that ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199023-1
EAN 9780141990231
Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson traces the great transitions of evolution, from the origin of life to the invention of sexual reproduction to the development of language itself.The only way for ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41355-5
EAN 9780241413555
'Destroy the land and sea, we destroy ourselves'On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds land and sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and tell stories of their ancestors. But something is changing. The prophet child Toko can sense it.Men are coming, with dollars and big plans to ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31217-9
EAN 9780241312179
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197999-1
EAN 9780141979991
In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33089-0
EAN 9780241330890
Carne School, one of the old English public schools, will not tolerate behaviour that endangers the intensely studious and quietly competitive life of its masters and boys. So when Stella Rode, the unpopular wife of an instructor, is murdered the school is shocked to its core. But more trouble is on the way. George Smiley, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38268-4
EAN 9780241382684
In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven ...
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Evan Smoak lives by his own code. As a boy he was taken from a foster home to be raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin codenamed Orphan X. Then he broke free to live in the shadows as the Nowhere Man, using his unique skills to help those in desperate need.But all good ...
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Every woman has a different story to tell. Reading them all in one book might just change your life. New pink feminists are being announced every week - follow @feminists on Instagram to find out more! Keira Knightley - Gemma Arterton - Bridget Jones (by Helen Fielding) - Saoirse Ronan - Dolly Alderton - Karen ...
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When Madame Gazelle asks the class to dress up as what they want to be when they are older, they are all very excited. Edmond Elephant wants to be an astronaut AND an anthropologist, Danny Dog wants to be a skateboarder and Rebecca Rabbit wants to be a carrot... but Peppa doesn't know what she ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-8091-1
EAN 9780718180911
Their children are friends first. They hit it off immediately, as kids do. And so the parents are forced to get to know each other.Three wildly different couples. Three marriages, floundering. There are barbecues, dinner parties, a holiday in Greece.An affair begins, resentments flare, and despite it all the three women become closer. Unnoticed their ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29598-4
EAN 9780241295984
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die.And, we know, so too will the universe itself. Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking ...
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