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Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101505-7
EAN 9780141015057
From the world's foremost intellectual activist, here is an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow. The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe, but the last unarmed spot in our neighbourhood "the skies" as a militarized sphere of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101201-8
EAN 9780141012018
Beautifully written, enthralling and unforgettable, The Light of Day is a bold, unconventional tale of love, murder and second chances. Over the course of a single day, we meet George and Sarah who are bound together and cruelly separated by a momentous act that has cut deeply into both their lives. Teasing out the magical ...
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Gulag
A History of the Soviet Camps
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028310-5
EAN 9780140283105
The Gulag was Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims: how they lived, laboured, suffered and survived to bear witness to one of history's most terrible ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029672-3
EAN 9780140296723
Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax faced a storm of protest. But what are the alternatives to the mantras of market fundamentalism?Leading economist John Kay unravels the truth about markets, from Wall ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028111-8
EAN 9780140281118
In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101345-9
EAN 9780141013459
Will and Hand are burdened by 38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044807-8
EAN 9780140448078
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Shakespeare's Words
A Glossary and Language Companion
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 676 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029117-9
EAN 9780140291179
Shakespeare's Words is for people who love Shakespeare, or who love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's leading experts on the English language, and his actor son, Ben, have created an immensely practical and enlightening guide to understanding Shakespeare's language for readers, audiences, students, directors and actors.They have collected over 14,000 words ...
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The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland
From Earliest Times to the Present Day
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 37,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-051484-1
EAN 9780140514841
The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland is a wonderfully rich and comprehensive guide to the eventful history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the arrival of the first humans half a million years ago right up to the present day.It traces the unfolding of key events through the Roman and Norman conquests, ...
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Hope and Glory
Britain 1900-2000
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101175-2
EAN 9780141011752
Hope and Glory is a brilliant examination of the political, social and economic changes that transformed Britain throughout the twentieth century considering how issues such as jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare have shaped the society we live in.For this second edition, Peter Clarke has brought his study right up to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101225-4
EAN 9780141012254
From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her young pupils, Barbara quickly ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028389-1
EAN 9780140283891
Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? How can we still be in control of our lives? br br In this myth-shattering book, Daniel Dennett shows that free will ...
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The Descent of Man
Selection in Relation to Sex
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 864 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043631-0
EAN 9780140436310
With all these exalted powers Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin'In The Origin of Species, 1859, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with much trepidation did he finally ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-131466-2
EAN 9780141314662
Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim for asylum to be approved. Sade is upset when Femi is drawn into a violent possibly drug-dealing gang, and even more upset when their father doesn't seem ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101116-5
EAN 9780141011165
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who defined their times. As the day wears on, Kathryn ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118778-5
EAN 9780141187785
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118777-8
EAN 9780141187778
After ten years of marriage, Kit and Port Moresby have drifted apart and are sexually estranged. Avoiding the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, they travel to the remote North African desert. Port hopes the journey will reunite them, but although they share similar emotions, they are divided by their ...
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118776-1
EAN 9780141187761
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic ...
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Respect
The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100756-4
EAN 9780141007564
Richard Sennett's "Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality" is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?' Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by ...
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From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution
The Penguin Atlas of World History
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101263-6
EAN 9780141012636
In two volumes, The Penguin Atlas of World History juxtaposes maps with a detailed and wide-ranging chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious, economic and political events of the period. By working from a global viewpoint, the authors achieve an invaluable perspective on world developments and skilfully clarify complex historical situations.Volume One covers the ...
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