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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44298-2
EAN 9780241442982
Olaf Stapledon's masterpiece - 'dictated' by the final human species - follows the rise and fall of humanity and its ancestors from their primordial abysses to their cultural and technological heights. Over many long years of future history, the human form itself undergoes dramatic changes - elongating, shrinking, and, finally, escaping the bounds of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199546-5
EAN 9780141995465
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198396-7
EAN 9780141983967
Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1376 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119228-4
EAN 9780141192284
Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97919-8
EAN 9780241979198
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . .this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion of the Soviet Union should be on everyone's reading list for 2021' Dr Amanda Foreman, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98581-6
EAN 9780241985816
'Beautiful to read and packed with cutting-edge science' Observer'Poetic, mind-stretching and, through it all, deeply human' Daniel LevitinMental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, its nature and origin a long-held mystery. But thanks to new science and technology, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In Connections, Professor Karl Deisseroth intertwines ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-57960-2
EAN 9780241579602
Coming in 2022 from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate DisasterBefore Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199392-8
EAN 9780141993928
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199228-0
EAN 9780141992280
This is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50857-2
EAN 9780241508572
FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF SPIES: A dramatic and colourful new account of the most daring British commando raid of World War TwoIn the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-55264-3
EAN 9780241552643
Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics editionOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199028-6
EAN 9780141990286
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, ObserverA dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned scientist Suzanne Simard. Now she shares the secrets of a lifetime ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98701-8
EAN 9780241987018
'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey HilsumThe Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-4504-2
EAN 9781405945042
THE MOST BREATHTAKING DEBUT ABOUT MOTHERHOOD AND OBSESSION YOU'VE EVER READ . . .A BLOCKBUSTER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Utterly addictive' PAULA HAWKINS'Compulsive' VOGUE'Gripping' GUARDIAN'Inventive' SUNDAY TIMES'Suspenseful' HEAT'Not to be missed' LISA JEWELL Blythe and Violet. Mother and daughter. It's a bond like no other.But what if your little angel is a monster?And what if no one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-42167-3
EAN 9780241421673
By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. Today his name is echoed as that of a 'great man' alongside Plato, Montaigne and Shakespeare. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having conversations with the young Johann ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37051-3
EAN 9780241370513
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself' Richard HolmesThe measurement of time has always been essential to human ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-4921-7
EAN 9781405949217
Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves - a balm for the soul' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'Totally absorbing and completely engaging on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139492-3
EAN 9780141394923
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-087-7
EAN 9781846140877
From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198498-8
EAN 9780141984988
An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - and for the most part we enjoy prosperity beyond the ...
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