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Heroes
Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-4036-8
EAN 9781405940368
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38752-8
EAN 9780241387528
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is ...
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Revolutionary Iran
A History of the Islamic Republic
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199033-0
EAN 9780141990330
FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher EducationFor some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35099-7
EAN 9780241350997
tMiguel and Alicia fall quietly in love as teenagers, walking back from school together.When Lucas - enigmatic, charismatic - arrives, everything changes, and Miguel is certain he has lost Alicia. Yet, against the odds, she marries him. Now, eleven years later, their marriage has begun to fray, and Alicia sets out to see Lucas again.As ...
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Pickett, Kate; Wilkinson, Richard
The Inner Level
How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197539-9
EAN 9780141975399
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now published in more than twenty languages, has been one of the most influential non-fiction books published in the last decade, showing conclusively how less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across a whole range of social measures - health, education, levels of violence, life ...
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Building and Dwelling
Ethics for the City
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102211-6
EAN 9780141022116
'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-30072-5
EAN 9780241300725
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of fully developed leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33778-3
EAN 9780241337783
In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 4,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199174-0
EAN 9780141991740
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against ...
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Europe
The First 100 Million Years
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198902-0
EAN 9780141989020
A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, Europe has literally been at the crossroads of the world ever since the interaction of Asia, North America and Africa formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the continent of today.In this unprecedented evolutionary history, Tim Flannery shows how for the past 100 million ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41641-9
EAN 9780241416419
Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for human freedom, and one of the most widely-read books in the world. In this new annotated edition Orwell's biographer D. J. Taylor ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26286-3
EAN 9780241262863
As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward? Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman, who grew up as a white girl ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199152-8
EAN 9780141991528
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,64 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104308-1
EAN 9780141043081
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers ...
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The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97213-7
EAN 9780241972137
*Shortlisted for the 2018 Ballie Gifford Prize* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRE A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historiansOn a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart ...
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The Secret World
A History of Intelligence
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028532-1
EAN 9780140285321
'The most comprehensive narrative of intelligence compiled ... unrivalled' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Captivating, insightful and masterly' Edward Lucas, The TimesThe history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1296 páginas
PVP: 52,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-40697-7
EAN 9780241406977
Roget's Thesaurus is the world's most famous and trusted word-finder. First published in 1852, it has now sold over 32 million copies worldwide and has become the indispensable desk companion for generations of speakers and writers of English. It is essential for anyone who wants to improve their command, creative use and enjoyment of English, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37251-7
EAN 9780241372517
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through the fragile impressionism of 'Kew Gardens' to the abstract exploration ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37250-0
EAN 9780241372500
Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29592-2
EAN 9780241295922
Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter ...
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