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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044960-0
EAN 9780140449600
This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118940-6
EAN 9780141189406
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry.Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth, who's been sleeping with Richard. As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044961-7
EAN 9780140449617
This new edition includes: The Raid, Woodfelling, Three Deaths, Polikushka, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, After the Ball, and The Forged Coupon. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.
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Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101418-0
EAN 9780141014180
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part.Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, ...
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The Pursuit of Glory
Europe 1648-1815
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016667-5
EAN 9780140166675
In The Pursuit of Glory Tim Blanning brings to life one of the most extraordinary and dynamic periods in Europe's history: from the desolate, battered and introvert continent of the end of the Thirty Years War to the overwhelmingly dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon.How did people really live ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118922-2
EAN 9780141189222
In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht's revolutionary ...
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Forgotten Wars
The End of Britain's Asian Empire
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101738-9
EAN 9780141017389
This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and ...
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The Universe
A Biography
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102147-8
EAN 9780141021478
The Universe: A Biography makes cosmology accessible to everyone. John Gribbin navigates the latest frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe. Along the way, he describes how the universe began; what the early universe looked like; how its structure developed; and what emerged to hold ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102936-8
EAN 9780141029368
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102763-0
EAN 9780141027630
Then We Came to the End is your life and my life. It is how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a stretch of stained tiled carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. It is about sitting all ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118884-3
EAN 9780141188843
The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere: not in the Chicago orphanage where he was sent by his mother, not in high school (too brainy), not even on the streets, where his vaguely Asian features set him apart from the rest of the pack. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118885-0
EAN 9780141188850
Abe Ravelstein ferocious intellectual, bestselling author, confidant of presidents and prime ministers and possessor of tastes that would bankrupt a king is celebrating his success in Paris. He and his friend Chick trawl the Parisian streets in search of haute couture, fine foods and fresh arguments. But Ravelstein is dying and, in challenging Chick to ...
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The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103459-1
EAN 9780141034591
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118886-7
EAN 9780141188867
Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of problems left behind in Chicago.A student had ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042443-0
EAN 9780140424430
Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044948-8
EAN 9780140449488
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 394 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102516-2
EAN 9780141025162
This is a fascinating, thematic exploration of cliches from as the actress said to the bishop to zero hour, explaining what they are and where they've come from. Julia Cresswell has taken her best-selling dictionary of cliches ('Sumptuous...A mine of information.' - "Guardian") back to the drawing board and has created a book, packed with ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044747-7
EAN 9780140447477
In the "Critique of Pure Reason", Immanuel Kant laid out a framework upon which the whole of modern philosophy is based. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the German and edited with an introduction by Marcus Weigelt, based on the translation by Max Muller. Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".It presents a profound and challenging ...
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Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-0-14-102781-4
EAN 9780141027814
This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century. He traces its history through the legacies of the Enlightenment and French Revolution. In doing so, Appiah shows how Western intellectuals ...
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Shoot the Puppy
a survival Guide to the curious Jargon of Modern Life
Are you a bobo or a wombat? Are you tempted by infobia or to kick dead whales up the beach? If your answer to any of these questions is 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of "Shoot the Puppy". Amusing, informative and newly updated for 2007, it guides the reader ...
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