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Antifragile
Things that Gain from Disorder
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103822-3
EAN 9780141038223
In "The Black Swan", Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world.Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.Just as human bones ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96227-5
EAN 9780241962275
Roger McGough is a poet of many voices. He can delight us with his puns, sadden us with his stories and occasionally tell us a few unwelcome truths. In this new collection he becomes in turn the Scottish hard man, the smug husband on his deathbed, the odious self-deceiver of the title-poem. He is equally ...
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Connectome
How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We are
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 484 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95187-3
EAN 9780241951873
"Connectome", by Sebastian Seung is "One of the most eagerly awaited scientific books of the year ...intellectually exhilarating, beautifully written, exquisitely precise yet still managing to be inspirational". ("Irish Times"). What really makes us who we are? In this groundbreaking book, pioneering neuroscientist Sebastian Seung shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103659-5
EAN 9780141036595
"NW" is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic "NW" follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310690-6
EAN 9780143106906
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The Watchers
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104365-4
EAN 9780141043654
The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen AlfordElizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a thrilling portrayal of the secret state that sought to protect the Queen; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,35 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95954-1
EAN 9780241959541
'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand' The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life working on her ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139319-3
EAN 9780141393193
The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, both war poet and eulogizer of peacetime England. Edward Thomas' life was one of astounding literary prolificity - between 1897 and 1917 he published nearly thirty volumes of topography, biography and literary criticism. Yet he regarded his writing largely as a necessary yet burdensome means of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14597-5
EAN 9780241145975
Following the success of the acclaimed "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" and "The Great Railway Bazaar", "The Last Train to Zona Verde" is an ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer, Paul Theroux. 'Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,' writes Paul Theroux as he sets out ...
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The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312279-1
EAN 9780143122791
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of ATx{0026}T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9214-3
EAN 9780718192143
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7139-9961-7
EAN 9780713999617
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4059-0995-2
EAN 9781405909952
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9785-8
EAN 9780718197858
It's Peppa's birthday and she is very excited. There is going to be a party - with presents and games and a cake - hooray! There will even be a special show from Magic Daddy. Abracadabra! But will Peppa's birthday wish come true when she blows out her candles? A picture book story that's perfect ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103567-3
EAN 9780141035673
A plotting Duchess, a mysterious death and a castle full of lies in Catherine Bailey's "The Secret Rooms". At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in ...
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The Signal and the Noise
Why Most Predictions Fail - But Some Succeed
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197565-8
EAN 9780141975658
Called a 'spreadsheet psychic' and 'number-crunching guru' (New York magazine), Silver was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people and one of Rolling Stone's top 100 agents of change - all before he turned 30. An expert forecaster reveals his techniques. Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103493-5
EAN 9780141034935
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9481-9
EAN 9780718194819
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96367-8
EAN 9780241963678
"Twilight" is a haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel. Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a visiting professional with a secret, highly personal quest.A Holocaust survivor who has painstakingly rebuilt his ...
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