Editorial Penguin UK
Mostrando 3729 libros encontrados (187 páginas)
-
In this incisive and readable book, David Reynolds takes us from the Babylonians right up to Blair and Bush, but the core of his account is six case studies of modern summitry. Using the records of the meetings, he explores how world leaders saw their opponents and how they played their own cards. He also ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
'You're beautiful,' Johnny told her and so, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Hugleikur Dagsson is the most famous cartoonist in Iceland. Iceland is very cold, very bleak and very expensive. The only things to do there are drink and kill whales.Dagsson's last book - "Should You Be Laughing At This? - was a cut international bestseller. He hopes you likes this one. Otherwise he'll have to kill ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103475-1
EAN 9780141034751
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and ...
más informaciónDisponibilidad inmediata (en stock)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118817-1
EAN 9780141188171
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103933-6
EAN 9780141039336
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104454-5
EAN 9780141044545
Looking for a good joke? Searching for an icebreaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just in need of a few laughs? Then stop! Your search is over. What you have here is probably the finest, funniest, most up-to-date collection of gags, rib-ticklers and plain silly one liners ever to find themselves squeezed inside ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Sin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119115-7
EAN 9780141191157
This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans - and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, did not oblige, although neither did he allow the work to be published - until now.The Original of Laura is about a ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1136 páginas
PVP: 25,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104028-8
EAN 9780141040288
Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things" combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws ...
más informaciónDisponibilidad inmediata (en stock)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103309-9
EAN 9780141033099
Sin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Eggers presents his first collection of short stories. The characters are roaming, searching, and often struggling, and revelations do not always arrive on schedule. Precisely crafted and boldly experimental, "How We Are Hungry" simultaneously embraces and expands the boundaries of the short story
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 204 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104435-4
EAN 9780141044354
In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. Stephen Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the development of the United States itself. ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118947-5
EAN 9780141189475
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Travelling Heroes
Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-024499-1
EAN 9780140244991
This remarkable and original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how ...
más informaciónDisponibilidad inmediata (en stock)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104378-4
EAN 9780141043784
Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104417-0
EAN 9780141044170
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart's lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration in Paris and London, as a spy betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104418-7
EAN 9780141044187
Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised.
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104474-3
EAN 9780141044743
The script for major new film An Education, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day. Based on Observer journalist Lynn Barber's real-life experience as recounted in her book ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
