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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311799-5
EAN 9780143117995
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Whoops!
Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104571-9
EAN 9780141045719
There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops. A lot of writing about the credit crunch has that effect: you can grasp it while it's going on, and then as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104360-9
EAN 9780141043609
In the current financial crisis Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fifty years ...
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The Case of the Pope
Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95384-6
EAN 9780241953846
THE CASE OF THE POPE delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of ...
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An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear.Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all he ...
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Russia's War
A History of the Soviet War
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104917-5
EAN 9780141049175
In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian ...
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A History of Christianity
The First Three Thousand Years
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1216 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102189-8
EAN 9780141021898
Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most comprehensive and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 5,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119220-8
EAN 9780141192208
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his real problem - that of infantile neurosis brought about by a sexual complex and an Oedipal fixation.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119127-0
EAN 9780141191270
In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104750-8
EAN 9780141047508
Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95101-9
EAN 9780241951019
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119296-3
EAN 9780141192963
Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119256-7
EAN 9780141192567
Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119275-8
EAN 9780141192758
Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
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An Image of Africa/The Trouble with Nigeria
Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119258-1
EAN 9780141192581
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people, while The Trouble with Nigeria is a searing outpouring of Achebe's frustrations with his country. Throughout history, some ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119253-6
EAN 9780141192536
'Wars are not won by evacuations''We will all go down fighting to the end''We can take it!''Westward look, the land is bright'This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119294-9
EAN 9780141192949
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104810-9
EAN 9780141048109
Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the globe, evolve over millions of years, become extinct and are supplanted.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 4,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119290-1
EAN 9780141192901
'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution for the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119297-0
EAN 9780141192970
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.
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