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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119177-5
EAN 9780141191775
Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favourites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor of Penguin's Poems for ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119030-3
EAN 9780141190303
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143944-0
EAN 9780141439440
Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series. This book engaged some of the hardest questions in the evolution debate, and it showed the ever-cautious Darwin at his boldest. If Darwin had ...
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
On the Tracks of "The Great Railway Bazaar"
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101572-9
EAN 9780141015729
Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119033-4
EAN 9780141190334
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated by the ...
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Descent Into Chaos
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the threat to global security
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102086-0
EAN 9780141020860
The war on terror is being lost - but not just in Iraq. As this devastating book shows, the real crisis zone now lies in central Asia. Veteran reporter Ahmed Rashid has unparalleled access to the region and knows its leading players, from presidents to warlords. Here he documents how closely Pakistan's US-backed regime is ...
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Masters and Commanders
. The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102926-9
EAN 9780141029269
Masters and Commanders describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others over ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103801-8
EAN 9780141038018
"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 8,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104018-9
EAN 9780141040189
Like most families they had their secrets. And hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred so they had to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104187-2
EAN 9780141041872
With 'long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips . . . and Harleys flashing chrome', the Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truths behind the terrifying reputation of those marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 6,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104047-9
EAN 9780141040479
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms.In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104183-4
EAN 9780141041834
The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. 'A Man on the Moon' is the definitive account of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119110-2
EAN 9780141191102
Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers--depicting overcrowded housing, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91812-6
EAN 9780670918126
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life ...
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Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103472-0
EAN 9780141034720
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9924-1
EAN 9780747599241
'What was Pig City?' thought Laura. Soon it would be something that everyone wanted to be part of Laura Sibbie is trying to find the perfect 'pigs' for her new club, Pig City: classmates who can keep the biggest secret ever! But to make sure that none of them tells anyone else about the club, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102467-7
EAN 9780141024677
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, beautiful, disillusioned revolutionary, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 324 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311548-9
EAN 9780143115489
In this wickedly honest and unsparing account of a journey through the music world, "Black Postcards" captures what has happened, for good and ill, to the entire ecosystem of popular music from someone who's been there.
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