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The Lost Domain
Le Grand Meaulnes
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144189-4
EAN 9780141441894
The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. This Penguin Classics edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik. When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma.But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102432-5
EAN 9780141024325
Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class (with hand-drawn Visual Aids), this work presents a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of various ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free.
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The Islamist
. Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw inside and Why I Left
- Penguin UK, 2007
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 307 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103043-2
EAN 9780141030432
When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family. I tried to put my experiences behind me, but as the events of 7/7 unfolded it became clear to me that Islamist groups pose a threat to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144212-9
EAN 9780141442129
Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders ...
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The Good Soldier
A Tale of Passion
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144184-9
EAN 9780141441849
The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044136-9
EAN 9780140441369
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Moliere and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042447-8
EAN 9780140424478
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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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945928-6
EAN 9780099459286
Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. An inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer, Thubron's The Lost Heart of Asia is an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of a vast ...
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A World without Time
The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028672-4
EAN 9780140286724
A compelling, untold story of genius, discovery and an extraordinary friendship.Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel were two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. They met at Princeton University, having fled Nazi Europe, and found rare solace in each other's company, sharing ideas and the lost world of their youth. Although they were opposites ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144165-8
EAN 9780141441658
D. H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of Lawrence's achievement. The works develop from early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder and ghost stories.
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War of the World
History's Age of Hatred
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101382-4
EAN 9780141013824
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal ...
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Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101777-8
EAN 9780141017778
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future.For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their marriage, child rearing, and community. In this daring new book, distinguished philosopher Daniel C. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144181-8
EAN 9780141441818
Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118864-5
EAN 9780141188645
Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill - sometimes under dubious circumstances - Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144180-1
EAN 9780141441801
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic ...
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Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102303-8
EAN 9780141023038
The United States asserts the right to use military force against failed states' around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours. Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, ...
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Victoria's Wars
The Rise of Empire
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100555-3
EAN 9780141005553
In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia ...
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Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. And she made the wrong one...After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's Academy - and to her best friend, Lissa. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere. She failed to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101552-1
EAN 9780141015521
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to ...
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