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The Cossacks and other Stories
Stories of Sevastopol / The Cossacks / Hadji Murat
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044959-4
EAN 9780140449594
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here.Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a ...
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Mussolini's Italy
Life under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101291-9
EAN 9780141012919
For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire generation of men militarized by fighting, Italy gave birth to a new form of political life: ...
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God Created the Integers
The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History
- Penguin UK, 2006
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 1184 páginas
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101878-2
EAN 9780141018782
Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history allows readers to peer into the mind of genius. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our present day technologies. The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of the greatest mathematicians. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042465-2
EAN 9780140424652
'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled with bizarre creatures - from the Dong with a luminous nose to the Pobble who has no toes - who misbehave with ...
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The Command of the Ocean
A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1008 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102690-9
EAN 9780141026909
The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government.It describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-012499-6
EAN 9780140124996
An introduction to heuristics, the study of the methods and rules of discovery, invention and human problem-solving. First published in 1945, it provides a modern contribution to a subject that has had a considerable revival and is emphasized in GCSE mathematics and science.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101669-6
EAN 9780141016696
It is the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Greek army is camped outside Troy and Achilles - their military hero - refuses to fight. Inside the city Troilus, the Trojan King's son, falls in love with Cressida, whose father has defected to the Greek camp. In an exchange of prisoners the couple are ...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Wordsworth, William
Lyrical Ballads
With a Few Other Poems
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042462-1
EAN 9780140424621
Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144147-4
EAN 9780141441474
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118860-7
EAN 9780141188607
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here, he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118813-3
EAN 9780141188133
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all frontiers, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118859-1
EAN 9780141188591
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102841-5
EAN 9780141028415
The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentic English family who moved there. For Gerald, ...
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Warped Passages
Unravelling the Universe's Secret Dimensions
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101297-1
EAN 9780141012971
In Warped Passages one of the world's most exciting scientists gives us a glimpse into our future. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall allows the reader to understand the kind of problems ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118841-6
EAN 9780141188416
Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Susheila Nasta. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118851-5
EAN 9780141188515
'The fun of Glory is... to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel ...
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Pagans and Christians
In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102295-6
EAN 9780141022956
From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era. The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How ...
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The Classical World
An Epic History of Greece and Rome
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102141-6
EAN 9780141021416
The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy ...
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