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Vanished Kingdoms
The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 536 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104886-4
EAN 9780141048864
Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean 'Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1056 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103464-5
EAN 9780141034645
This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of "The Language Instinct" and "The Blank Slate", argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see daily on our screens from around the world suggest this is an almost ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-138951-6
EAN 9780141389516
'People screamed. People sprang off the pavement..."The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!"' With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-138942-4
EAN 9780141389424
'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95430-0
EAN 9780241954300
How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos' funny, wise and life-affirming language book, which shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119977-1
EAN 9780141199771
'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'.In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119978-8
EAN 9780141199788
'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 944 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119979-5
EAN 9780141199795
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119982-5
EAN 9780141199825
"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119985-6
EAN 9780141199856
'"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"'. The marriage of Gertrude and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-5784-5
EAN 9780718157845
France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front.When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. And from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait - painted by ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144243-3
EAN 9780141442433
An authoritative new translation of Plato's The Republic by Christopher Rowe, with notes and an introduction. 'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good we would find justice in it' The Republic, Plato's masterwork, was first enjoyed 2,400 years ago and remains one of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-134437-9
EAN 9780141344379
What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of party-loving ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91953-6
EAN 9780670919536
The Personal MBA teaches simple mental models that help students understand every subject that's key to commercial success. From the basics of products, sales x{0026} marketing and finance to the nuances of human psychology, teamwork and creating systems, this bestselling title distils everytyhing you need to know to take on the MBA graduates and win.
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95502-4
EAN 9780241955024
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in "The Big Short", Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? "Boomerang" is a tragi-comic romp ...
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What are you Looking At?
150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 26,75 €
ISBN 978-0-670-92049-5
EAN 9780670920495
For the sceptics, the art lovers, and the 5 million of us who visit the Tate every year - the funniest, liveliest and most accessible history of Modern Art ever written, by the BBC Arts Editor. What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119971-9
EAN 9780141199719
'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them'Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 9,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119973-3
EAN 9780141199733
'"Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look you in the Face..." Jones offered her his Coat; but, I know not for what Reason, she absolutely refused the most earnest Solicitations to accept it'. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-670-92003-7
EAN 9780670920037
Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Young, poor Sara Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro.Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco, her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned, left penniless and in debt to the authorities, she has to rely on the one skill she ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119967-2
EAN 9780141199672
"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John ...
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