Editorial Penguin UK
Mostrando 3729 libros encontrados (187 páginas)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95155-2
EAN 9780241951552
'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. ...
más informaciónPendiente de recibir (pedido en curso)
-
The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain
Discover The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95307-5
EAN 9780241953075
For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time and its dying cells led to memory slips, fuzzy logic, negative thinking, and even depression. But new research from neuroscien tists and psychologists suggests that, in fact, the brain reorganizes, improves in important functions, and even helps us adopt a more optimistic ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95321-1
EAN 9780241953211
The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories. A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings, the Norse myths are as exciting to read as they are ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101490-6
EAN 9780141014906
Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age - identity in all its forms - with ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95084-5
EAN 9780241950845
Epicure and gourmand Brillat-Savarin was one of the most influential food writers of all time. His 1825 book The Physiology of Taste defined our notions of French gastronomy, and his insistence that food be a civilizing pleasure for all has inspired the slow food movement and guided chefs worldwide. From discourses on the erotic properties ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95161-3
EAN 9780241951613
'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds'. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
ISBN 978-0-241-95150-7
EAN 9780241951507
No disponible (descatalogado)
-
Sin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119454-7
EAN 9780141194547
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9141-2
EAN 9780718191412
A startling diagnosis of how modern Western societies have failed and how they can be reformed.Something has gone amiss in public affairs over the past thirty years In the West we have forgotten how to think ethically about communal life When we consider a policy we only consider its efficiency or profitability...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95089-0
EAN 9780241950890
In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95103-3
EAN 9780241951033
In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salon, which entertained the great avant-garde and literary figures of their day. With dry wit and characteristic understatement Toklas ponders the ethics of killing a carp in her kitchen before stuffing it with chestnuts; decorating a fish to ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95113-2
EAN 9780241951132
Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, accessible way, eighteenth-century housewife Hannah Glasse disapproved of French terminology and fussiness, instead favouring simple dishes that are still cooked today - a preference that has earned her the reputation of 'the first Domestic Goddess'. With recipes for rice pudding, beef rump, barbecued pork, trifle and even the ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95114-9
EAN 9780241951149
A champion of organic, locally produced and seasonal food and founder of acclaimed Californian restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters has previously been awarded the Légion d'honneur in France for her contributions to food culture. In this book, she explores the simplest of dishes in the most delicious of ways, with fresh, sustainable ingredients a must, ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95104-0
EAN 9780241951040
Colonel Wyvern, stationed with the army in Madras during the height of British imperial rule, opened a cookery school upon his return to England and was a passionate enthusiast for both European and Indian cuisine. In these vivid, common-sense and entertaining writings, he gives advice on re-creating French classics in the steaming heat; describes tiffin ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95108-8
EAN 9780241951088
Legendary cook and writer Elizabeth David changed the way Britain ate, introducing a postwar nation to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean, and bringing new flavours and aromas such as garlic, wine and olive oil into its kitchens. This mouthwatering selection of her writings and recipes embraces the richness of French and Italian cuisine, from ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95193-4
EAN 9780241951934
Acclaimed New Yorker journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America's funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of his wittiest articles sees him stalking a peripatetic Chinese chef, campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed to Spaghetti Carbonara and sampling the legendary Louisiana boudin sausage - to be consumed ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95110-1
EAN 9780241951101
Pellegrino Artusi is the original icon of Italian cookery, whose legendary 1891 book Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well defined its national cuisine and is still a bestseller today. He was also a passionate gastronome, renowned host and brilliant raconteur, who filled his books with tasty recipes and rumbustious anecdotes. From ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95183-5
EAN 9780241951835
As well as being the author of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was also an enthusiastic gourmand and expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, published in 1873, is an encyclopaedic collection of ingredients, recipes and anecdotes, from Absinthe to Zest via cake, frogs' legs, oysters, Roquefort and vanilla. Included here are recipes for bamboo ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119578-0
EAN 9780141195780
Before Mrs Beeton there was Eliza Acton, whose crisp, clear, simple style and foolproof instructions established the format for modern cookery writing, leading to her being called 'the best writer of recipes in the English language' by Delia Smith. Including such English classics as suet pudding, raspberry jam, lemonade and 'superlative mincemeat' as well as ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
