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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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12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198851-1
EAN 9780141988511
The 1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39033-7
EAN 9780241390337
Today, the human race faces a new problem. Thanks to information technology, vast asymmetries of knowledge and power have opened up. Through the screens of our smart devices, corporations and governments know what we're doing, what we're thinking, can predict our next moves and influence our behaviour.We, meanwhile, don't even have the right to know ...
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How to Change Your Mind
The New Science of Psychedelics
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198513-8
EAN 9780141985138
Join Michael Pollan on a journey to the frontiers of the human mind. Diving deep into an extraordinary world - from shamans and magic mushroom hunts to the pioneering labs mapping our brains - and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198841-2
EAN 9780141988412
A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times 'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head' Oliver Bullough, ProspectA revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador ...
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Arnhem
The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91867-6
EAN 9780670918676
The Sunday Times 1 BestsellerThe great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . .his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard'The eye for telling detail which we have come to expect from ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98301-0
EAN 9780241983010
'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198993-8
EAN 9780141989938
'Here is the English sovereign as a crusader, battling on the fringes of the known world; the warrior-king ... imbued with the heart of a lion'Even within his own lifetime Richard I, dubbed the 'Lionheart', attained a kind of semi-mythical status as a paragon of chivalry, yet his reign is both controversial and full of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28349-3
EAN 9780241283493
It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked.The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98320-1
EAN 9780241983201
When the Greek Queen Helen is kidnapped by Trojans, the Greeks sail in pursuit, besieging the city of Troy. Trapped in the Greek soldiers' camp is another captured queen, Briseis. Condemned to be bed-slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her family, she becomes a pawn in a menacing game between bored and frustrated warriors.In ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00448-7
EAN 9780241004487
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary particles to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98346-1
EAN 9780241983461
Frances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession.He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199009-5
EAN 9780141990095
This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ... the finest of guides to the man of the times' Tristram Hunt, Guardian'A ...
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The Long '68
Radical Protest and Its Enemies
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198252-6
EAN 9780141982526
'Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times 'A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that deserves to be dwelt on' Andrew Marr, The Times1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were ...
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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
A Twentieth-Century History
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197597-9
EAN 9780141975979
Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This nation was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ...
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The Value of Everything
Making and Taking in the Global Economy
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198076-8
EAN 9780141980768
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation- the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. We misidentify takers as ...
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