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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103090-6
EAN 9780141030906
Physics of the Impossible takes us on a journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, giving us an exhilarating insight into what we can really hope to achieve in the future.Everyday we see that what was once declared impossible' by scientists has become part of our everyday lives: fax machines, glass sky-scrapers, gas-powered automobiles, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101489-0
EAN 9780141014890
Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of Glasgow, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101192-9
EAN 9780141011929
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new account shows, it was an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103995-4
EAN 9780141039954
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent.
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044902-0
EAN 9780140449020
In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103062-3
EAN 9780141030623
Clay Shirky's international bestseller Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society. Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers build Wikipedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 3,13 €
ISBN 978-0-14-062174-7
EAN 9780140621747
When the new managers of the Paris Opera House ignore their predecessors' warnings about the hideous 'Opera ghost' stalking the theatre, it is a fatal mistake. Tortured by unrequited love for the beautiful young singer Christine Daae, the mysterious figure living in the depths beneath them has been awaiting his chance to strike. And when ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14443-5
EAN 9780241144435
We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102687-9
EAN 9780141026879
Explores the relationship between the books of the Bible and the land from which they came. This book includes maps on topics ranging from the wanderings of Abraham to Modern Jerusalem, a comprehensive timeline comparing developments in Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome and a gazetteer of Biblical place-names.
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310554-1
EAN 9780143105541
A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104063-9
EAN 9780141040639
Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was...?It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119092-1
EAN 9780141190921
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119103-4
EAN 9780141191034
A beautiful evocation of the peaceful life on the English waterways.Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119083-9
EAN 9780141190839
The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119086-0
EAN 9780141190860
The American Henry James's descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day and savours the calm shadows of Glastonbury abbey, in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 5,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119101-0
EAN 9780141191010
Francis Kilvert's diary shows a compassionate and thoughtful delight in the people and beautiful surroundings of the English countryside. With good cheer he records his loves (among them poetry and the attentions of pretty girls) and his dislikes (including a distaste for bathing in knickers that leaves more than one beach scandalized), as well as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119093-8
EAN 9780141190938
The letters of the eminent naturalist Gilbert White are full of precise, unaffected and delightful observations of the wildlife of his beloved village of Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. Here too are exquisite writings on trees, fossils, bats and rainfall, filled with intellectual curiosity ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119107-2
EAN 9780141191072
Journeying through England on horseback, the intrepid seventeenth-century traveller Celia Fiennes recorded every sight and experience of her adventure in her journal, from her delight at countryside cakes and the beauty of remote landscapes, to the challenges of disagreeable landladies, choppy sea crossings and a troublesome horse. Describing potteries in Staffordshire, cheesemaking in Cheshire, dyers ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119087-7
EAN 9780141190877
This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writing with enthusiasm on the colours ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119100-3
EAN 9780141191003
The beautiful and peaceful heart of the Lake District, Grasmere was an inspiration to both Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Hills, lakes and orchards, letter writing, walks and welcome visitors (including fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) provoked in Dorothy's journal great, lyrical prose, which in turn influenced her brother's unsurpassed poetry. The two - journal entries ...
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