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NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
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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In the Shadow of the Gods
The Emperor in World History
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198445-2
EAN 9780141984452
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman ...
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The Radical Potter
Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198462-9
EAN 9780141984629
*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From ...
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Desperate Remedies
Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199645-5
EAN 9780141996455
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change' Dirk WittenbornIn this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers ...
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George III
The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199146-7
EAN 9780141991467
Andrew Roberts, one of Britain's premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George IIIGeorge III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth ...
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Values, Voice and Virtue
The New British Politics
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199909-8
EAN 9780141999098
A bold new theory for the origins of our ongoing political instability, from the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller National Populism What has caused the recent seismic changes in British politics, including Brexit and a series of populist revolts against the elite? Why did so many people want to overturn the status quo? Where ...
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Ways of Being
Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199426-0
EAN 9780141994260
'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being' Dr Jane Goodall, DBERecent ...
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The Power Law
Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198894-8
EAN 9780141988948
From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can ...
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Statesman of Europe
A Life of Sir Edward Grey
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199147-4
EAN 9780141991474
The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century ...
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The World According to Colour
A Cultural History
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197665-5
EAN 9780141976655
'This book is a triumph ... an intellectual feast as well as a visual one - a true biography of colour which will delight readers' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe subject of this book is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across ...
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Anaximander
And the Nature of Science
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-63504-9
EAN 9780241635049
Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
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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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-56874-3
EAN 9780241568743
Phizz-whizzing new edition for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!I bet you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much more gory.From Cinderella and Goldilocks to Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs, wicked beasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star in these hilarious nursery rhymes with BITE!
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Worn
A People's History of Clothing
'This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere' Harper's Bazaar'Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history, quite often through the voices of people who don't have a say in history' Cerys MatthewsLinen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these ...
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The Greatest Raid
St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99225-8
EAN 9780241992258
'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . .a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times'Absorbing . . .The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF ...
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The Aristocracy of Talent
How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199037-8
EAN 9780141990378
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes. Wooldridge upends many common assumptions ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 32 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51411-5
EAN 9780241514115
A lyrical, heart-warming message of love from someone far awayWhen Big Bear and Little Bear have to say goodbye, Big Bear tells Little Bear about all the ways she'll send a hug from afar:I can change my hug into bird song early in the morning,or into the sea so I can wave at you when ...
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Manifesto
A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99362-0
EAN 9780241993620
'This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . .the perfect read for anyone who dreams big' The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the Year The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine EvaristoIn 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize ...
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'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.'Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value made him one of the most inspirational figures in the environmental movement. Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high ...
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- Penguin UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139669-9
EAN 9780141396699
'This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy ... the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote' Simon SchamaThe old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that threatens to bring the country to the brink of civil war. But as the conflict ...
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