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In the Shadow of the Gods
The Emperor in World History
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198445-2
EAN 9780141984452
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman ...
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The Radical Potter
Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198462-9
EAN 9780141984629
*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From ...
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The Power of Language
Multilingualism, Self and Society
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-62601-6
EAN 9780241626016
Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin.Some speak poetry, some are fluent in maths. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99822-9
EAN 9780241998229
In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly couple confronts the note-taking fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film ...
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George III
The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199146-7
EAN 9780141991467
Andrew Roberts, one of Britain's premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George IIIGeorge III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth ...
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Desperate Remedies
Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199645-5
EAN 9780141996455
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, clear-eyed call for change' Dirk WittenbornIn this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers ...
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Ways of Being
Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199426-0
EAN 9780141994260
'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being' Dr Jane Goodall, DBERecent ...
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Values, Voice and Virtue
The New British Politics
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199909-8
EAN 9780141999098
A bold new theory for the origins of our ongoing political instability, from the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller National Populism What has caused the recent seismic changes in British politics, including Brexit and a series of populist revolts against the elite? Why did so many people want to overturn the status quo? Where ...
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The Power Law
Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198894-8
EAN 9780141988948
From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, a legendary venture capitalist told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted, it can ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44717-8
EAN 9780241447178
An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and lifeWhen she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, ...
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The World According to Colour
A Cultural History
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197665-5
EAN 9780141976655
'This book is a triumph ... an intellectual feast as well as a visual one - a true biography of colour which will delight readers' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe subject of this book is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across ...
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Statesman of Europe
A Life of Sir Edward Grey
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199147-4
EAN 9780141991474
The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54393-1
EAN 9780241543931
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa. In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199546-5
EAN 9780141995465
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide ...
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Anaximander
And the Nature of Science
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-63504-9
EAN 9780241635049
Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens ...
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- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-56874-3
EAN 9780241568743
Phizz-whizzing new edition for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!I bet you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much more gory.From Cinderella and Goldilocks to Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs, wicked beasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star in these hilarious nursery rhymes with BITE!
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The Aristocracy of Talent
How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199037-8
EAN 9780141990378
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes. Wooldridge upends many common assumptions ...
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The Greatest Raid
St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99225-8
EAN 9780241992258
'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . .a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times'Absorbing . . .The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF ...
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Worn
A People's History of Clothing
'This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere' Harper's Bazaar'Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history, quite often through the voices of people who don't have a say in history' Cerys MatthewsLinen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these ...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 16
Big Shot
- Penguin UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39698-8
EAN 9780241396988
GREG HEFFLEY AND SPORTS JUST DON'T MIX. After a disastrous competition at school, Greg decides that he's officially retired from ANY kind of sport! That is, until his mom persuades him to give it one more go and makes Greg reluctantly agree to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a MESS, and Greg is sure ...
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