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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119084-6
EAN 9780141190846
This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in A Shropshire Lad the fields and hills are also places of loss and sorrow, where men die young or are sent far ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119079-2
EAN 9780141190792
Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the reminiscences of survivors of the First World War to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119080-8
EAN 9780141190808
An academic and writer, during the Second World War John Stewart Collis was put to agricultural work. Clearing and thinning an Ash wood, he found a meditative peace and an earnest pleasure in the use of axe and bill-hook. The Wood contains his beautiful, thoughtful writing on the joys of nature and of a life ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119090-7
EAN 9780141190907
The delightful, gossipy diaries of James Lees-Milne describe his encounters with the owners of country houses - from eccentric lords and oil millionaires to raffish socialists - as he travelled over England saving properties for the National Trust. Here are sharply observed accounts of dinner with Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst; Winston Churchill's bedroom at Chartwell; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043746-1
EAN 9780140437461
This is one of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In "Uncle Silas" (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old ...
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The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules our Lives
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102647-3
EAN 9780141026473
Leonard Mlodinow reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting, winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test.The Drunkard's Walk is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-143-0
EAN 9781846141430
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the English poets ...
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Fire in the East
Warrior of Rome 1
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103229-0
EAN 9780141032290
The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 386 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102615-2
EAN 9780141026152
This is a book about how we should address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. Our task, Sachs argues, is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the ...
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Terror and Consent
The Wars for the 21st Century
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101766-2
EAN 9780141017662
Terror and Consent argues that, like so many states and civilizations in the past that suffered defeat, we are fighting the last war, with weapons and concepts that were useful to us then but have now been superseded. Philip Bobbitt argues that we need to reforge links that previous societies have made between law and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,24 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102985-6
EAN 9780141029856
Presents the Second World War as it was experienced by three of its most flamboyant, controversial and influential commanders - Bernard Montgomery, George Patton and Erwin Rommel.
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102081-5
EAN 9780141020815
Sergio Vieira de Mello - a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder - was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-013571-8
EAN 9780140135718
In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. He shows us exactly how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job situations; how they combine in teams resembling secret ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-200110-3
EAN 9780142001103
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms ...
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God's War
A New History of the Crusades
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1040 páginas
PVP: 31,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026980-2
EAN 9780140269802
The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that fundamentally shaped the Christian and Muslim ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119004-4
EAN 9780141190044
A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119029-7
EAN 9780141190297
Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva Vaccaro, Archie's rival both in the cotton business and for the affections of the flirtatious Baby Doll, and things ...
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