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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102362-5
EAN 9780141023625
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all ...
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Restoration
Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026465-4
EAN 9780140264654
The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of a which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102357-1
EAN 9780141023571
Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102358-8
EAN 9780141023588
Everyone has a dark side.Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego.It seems he is master of his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102338-0
EAN 9780141023380
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118743-3
EAN 9780141187433
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101463-0
EAN 9780141014630
From the bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge to explain the extraordinary nature - and future - of our universe. Imagine a future where we are not alone - where our universe is just one of countless parallel worlds, some strangely familiar, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118869-0
EAN 9780141188690
In Poland, in 1939, the comfortable, secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Maciek's father disappears into the war's vortex, leaving the orphaned child with his acerbic and beautiful Aunt Tania. It is her cool inventiveness, in their dramatic flight through a landscape of oppression, that will ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-023924-9
EAN 9780140239249
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Following up his cult bestseller How To Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson takes us on an inspirational journey towards true freedom and happiness. Read How To Be Free and learn how to throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, moaning, pain, poverty, ugliness, war, waste and much else besides.
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043921-2
EAN 9780140439212
In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 864 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042450-8
EAN 9780140424508
Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some ...
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Lucrezia Borgia
Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101413-5
EAN 9780141014135
Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewomen, her tarnished ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9414-8
EAN 9780713994148
One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West. There have been a number of distinguished translations, but strangely all of these have been partial abridgements. Now, in one of the year's most important publishing events, the entire text has not only ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 32 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-138060-5
EAN 9780141380605
Each night Mungo reads his favourite story, a swashbuckling tale of danger, kidnap and rescue. But one night the hero, Captain Fleet, isn't there to save the day so Mungo decides to step in. He takes a deep breath and bravely jumps into the story and his very own pirate adventure.With a lot of bravery ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101649-8
EAN 9780141016498
A peerless general is offered the consulship of Rome after his triumph over the city of Corioles. Too proud to respect the will of the people, however, he soon finds himself despised by the mob, and speaks out passionately against popular rule. Driven from the city as a traitor, he allies himself with his old ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118799-0
EAN 9780141187990
The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101588-0
EAN 9780141015880
Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144169-6
EAN 9780141441696
Collection of literary lectures by E.M. Forster, published in 1927. For the purposes of his study, Forster defines the novel as "any fictitious prose work over 50,000 words." Forester's wit and lively, informed originality have made this study of the novel a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls "pseudoscholarship," Forster freely examines ...
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- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101223-0
EAN 9780141012230
Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. ...
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