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The Great Railway Bazaar
By Train Through Asia
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103884-1
EAN 9780141038841
The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel.The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102062-4
EAN 9780141020624
In 1919, a generation of young women discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round, and the statistics confirmed it. After the 1921 Census, the press ran alarming stories of the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives...'. This book is about those women, and ...
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A Fraction of the Whole
Booker Shortlist 2008
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14412-1
EAN 9780241144121
Martin Dean spent his entire life analyzing absolutely everything - from the benefits of suicide to the virtues of strip clubs - and passing on his self-taught knowledge to his son, Jasper. But now that his father's dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the man who raised him in intellectual captivity, and the irony is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 5,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103677-9
EAN 9780141036779
From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch's powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103661-8
EAN 9780141036618
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means. Throughout history, some books have changed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103665-6
EAN 9780141036656
Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103671-7
EAN 9780141036717
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation's expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which for better or worse lies at the heart of American identity today. Throughout history, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103669-4
EAN 9780141036694
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103664-9
EAN 9780141036649
Foucault's writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era's most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination over individuals in society not just of our bodies, but our souls. Throughout history, some books have ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103668-7
EAN 9780141036687
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's will to power'. Throughout history, some books have changed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103662-5
EAN 9780141036625
A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103619-9
EAN 9780141036199
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 5,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103680-9
EAN 9780141036809
Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke's prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern conservative tradition and still serves as a warning to those who seek to reshape societies through violence. Throughout history, some books have changed the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103679-3
EAN 9780141036793
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 5,37 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103670-0
EAN 9780141036700
Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings no matter what their class. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103667-0
EAN 9780141036670
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103681-6
EAN 9780141036816
Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an invisible hand'. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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The Essential Groucho
Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118944-4
EAN 9780141189444
'No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well-loved figures in the long and glittering history of comedy. From early scripts to complete screenplays, from magazine funnies to fascinating personal correspondence, via books, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103673-1
EAN 9780141036731
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101947-5
EAN 9780141019475
In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter makes it clear that he, too, ...
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