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Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z form, "The New Penguin Concise Thesaurus" offers a vast selection of synonyms for a whole host of words, ranging from the everyday to the comparatively esoteric and from standard vocabulary to contemporary slang and jargon ('e-tailer', 'chill out'). Each entry is simplicity itself to follow, and where a particular word ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016664-4
EAN 9780140166644
'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanWith a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044733-0
EAN 9780140447330
As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and villains, and focused instead on the individual grappling with a moral dilemma. In place of the happy ending came ambiguity, in place of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118706-8
EAN 9780141187068
Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H. P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe.This selection of stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as The Outsider' and Rats in the Walls', ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100703-8
EAN 9780141007038
Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott's work has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced and accessible account of the dramatic rise and fall of Imperial Spain. This is a new edition of his brilliant study of how a barren, impoverished and isolated country became the greatest power on earth in a few decades, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043390-6
EAN 9780140433906
I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back on my own life...'Self-taught and ambitious, Darwin genuinely believed he was below the common standard in intellect' and had gained little from formal education. Yet he also knew he had seized his one ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118403-6
EAN 9780141184036
The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, money worries and sexual fantasies.The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most entertaining and accessible works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter - and how a young acquaintance mangled ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044786-6
EAN 9780140447866
There's no morality or logic in the fact that I'm a doctor and you're mentally ill it's pure chance'These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions. Influenced by his own experiences as a doctor, Ward No. 6', set in a mental hospital, is a savage ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-081774-4
EAN 9780140817744
Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form of:- accessible yet authoritative introductions- glossary of cultural references and unfamiliar words- stimulating activities and discussion points, including activities needed to prepare for essays and examinations- chapter-by-chapter summaries- ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028355-6
EAN 9780140283556
This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel's learning and the points where ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100733-5
EAN 9780141007335
Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, he reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women - at single parents' groups, full of available (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr ...
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The Shadow of the Sun
My African Life
- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029262-6
EAN 9780140292626
'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'.Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118701-3
EAN 9780141187013
First published in the 1920s, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century.Gibran's Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life: love, marriage, death, beauty, passion, eating, work and play. The spiritual message he imparts, ...
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English Language
A Guided Tour of the Language
- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100396-2
EAN 9780141003962
This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect ...
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The Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you're composing an essay, sending a business letter or an email to a colleague, or firing off an angry letter to a newspaper, this guide will help you to brush up you communication skills ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118437-1
EAN 9780141184371
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men and women who survived ...
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- Penguin UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118582-8
EAN 9780141185828
'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre . . .' So wrote Conrad Aiken of Lorca's violent response to the New York he encountered as a student at Columbia University in 1929 and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118583-5
EAN 9780141185835
Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood.From the playful Suites and stylized Gypsy Ballads, to his own dark vision of urban life, Poet in New York, and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118654-2
EAN 9780141186542
Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118523-1
EAN 9780141185231
The unfinished manuscript of "The First Man" was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable ...
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