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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98887-9
EAN 9780241988879
On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found.When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, tributes poured in from a whole host of artists and critics in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47249-1
EAN 9780241472491
'Hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although written ten years earlier. It's wonderful' Neil GaimanThis madcap cosmic farce relates the adventures of the hapless human Carmody, as he attempts to make his way home to Earth after winning the grand prize in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-45768-9
EAN 9780241457689
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew.All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and a dictionary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-43508-3
EAN 9780241435083
'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37455-9
EAN 9780241374559
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently . . .'When Helen Clapp gets a missed call from best friend Charlie, she knows it's a mistake.Because Charlie's dead. Ghosts break so many fundamental laws of the universe that Helen, a physicist, shouldn't believe in them. Should she?As ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44132-9
EAN 9780241441329
Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together.But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47238-5
EAN 9780241472385
'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal ...
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Once a government assassin codenamed Orphan X, Evan Smoak works as a vigilante for the desperate. Now he's ready to retire.Then he gets a call.Max Merriweather's cousin has been murdered, and the woman he needs to find is missing. On the run and stalked by an assassin, Max calls the one person who could save ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957274-9
EAN 9780099572749
Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious heroes opens a window on the Islamic and Christian worlds' complex relationship. WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZEWhen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98629-5
EAN 9780241986295
Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees hungering for the north, pushing their way through the barriers of waves, human failings and unrealistic dreams.The novel has all the weight of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98535-9
EAN 9780241985359
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history.And ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41328-9
EAN 9780241413289
'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' Guardian The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his buccaneering sea voyages around the world, from the Caribbean to the Pacific ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47247-7
EAN 9780241472477
This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep.Is the Universe trying to tell him something?'On putting down one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44157-2
EAN 9780241441572
The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44393-4
EAN 9780241443934
The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-0-241-45874-7
EAN 9780241458747
'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin. The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia for decades, it is a chilling vision of a world enslaved by technology.'Zamyatin's parable looked forward to climate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199079-8
EAN 9780141990798
James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun.New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and will regard us ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-137824-4
EAN 9780141378244
Read the internationally bestselling book before you watch the major movie from Lionsgate, starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. This special edition is complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes content. The unforgettable and life-affirming story of August Pullman - a boy who's desperate to blend in, but is destined to stand out.'My name is August. I won't ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31262-9
EAN 9780241312629
Descripción: 'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble. It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37335-4
EAN 9780241373354
From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials trilogy comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . .Lyra Silvertongue is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. They are not getting on. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear.Pan misses the impulsiveness of their youth. ...
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