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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119296-3
EAN 9780141192963
Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119276-5
EAN 9780141192765
Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,51 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104811-6
EAN 9780141048116
Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work he argues that the Renaissance's creativity, competitiveness, dynasties, great city-states and even its vicious rulers sowed the seeds of a new era.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103917-6
EAN 9780141039176
Sisters Van and Linny - like their father - are short. But they couldn't be more different. Van's the overachiever - a high-flying lawyer with a pristine home and husband, until the husband walks out. Linny is fashionable, flighty, works for a catering firm called You Did It Dinners and has just been told by ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119256-7
EAN 9780141192567
Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119275-8
EAN 9780141192758
Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103611-3
EAN 9780141036113
We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe itself might just be one universe among many. In Search of the Multiverse takes us on an extraordinary journey, examining the most fundamental questions in science. What ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119255-0
EAN 9780141192550
Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an Icelander, and the Earth and the Moon, as well as producing a simple essay praising the humble bird.
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An Image of Africa/The Trouble with Nigeria
Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119258-1
EAN 9780141192581
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people, while The Trouble with Nigeria is a searing outpouring of Achebe's frustrations with his country. Throughout history, some ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119253-6
EAN 9780141192536
'Wars are not won by evacuations''We will all go down fighting to the end''We can take it!''Westward look, the land is bright'This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119294-9
EAN 9780141192949
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104810-9
EAN 9780141048109
Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the globe, evolve over millions of years, become extinct and are supplanted.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119277-2
EAN 9780141192772
Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and explains why promises made under force ought not to be ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119292-5
EAN 9780141192925
Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this brilliantly entertaining and ever-more relevant study of human folly shows that we are always susceptible to hysteria and bamboozlement.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 4,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119290-1
EAN 9780141192901
'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution for the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119297-0
EAN 9780141192970
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 5,37 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119235-2
EAN 9780141192352
In this personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life, the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing document of daily life in the classical world.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104694-5
EAN 9780141046945
In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writer, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, Mill proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms, as long ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119274-1
EAN 9780141192741
Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and charming philosophy ever written, THE TAO OF NATURE is also about perfection, perception, the value of skills and the truth ...
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How Markets Fail
The Logic of Economic Calamities
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103651-9
EAN 9780141036519
How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial headlines, tracing the rise and fall of free market ideology ...
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