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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119034-1
EAN 9780141190341
Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his personal life. When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train ...
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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104133-9
EAN 9780141041339
Is killing sometimes morally required? Is the free market fair? It is sometimes wrong to tell the truth? What is justice, and what does it mean? These and other questions are at the heart of Michael Sandel's Justice. Considering the role of justice in our society and our lives, he reveals how an understanding of ...
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Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. "Ex Libris" wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with ...
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It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life.At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr. Josser returns home with the clock he has received ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043912-0
EAN 9780140439120
Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of evolution, "On the Origin of Species" continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction and notes by William Bynum, and features a cover designed by Damien Hirst. Written for a general readership, "On the Origin of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119108-9
EAN 9780141191089
Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of Youth', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 944 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101548-4
EAN 9780141015484
In 1939 Hitler mobilized Germany into all-out war. Richard Evans's astonishing, acclaimed history conjures up a whole society plunged into conflict - from generals and front-line soldiers to Hitler Youth activists and middle-class housewives - tracing events from the invasion of Poland and the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler's plans for genocide and his eventual ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119109-6
EAN 9780141191096
These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. 'Suddenly Last Summer' is the starkly told story of Catherine, who seemingly goes insane after her cousin Sebastian dies in grisly circumstances on a trip to Europe. 'The Milk Train Doesn't ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118997-0
EAN 9780141189970
In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them.
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104388-3
EAN 9780141043883
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedom and courage to use our own ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104368-5
EAN 9780141043685
Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the Tao Te Ching is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging from political advice to common wisdom, it has also served as an inspiration to artists across the ages and throughout the world. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104385-2
EAN 9780141043852
Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104387-6
EAN 9780141043876
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104389-0
EAN 9780141043890
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs. Throughout history, some books ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104394-4
EAN 9780141043944
William James's strong beliefs in a pragmatic theory of truth - that truth is only as relevant as its effect on us - lead to these absorbing essays on fact and belief. Within them is a fascinating theory of reality that suggests nothing is truly 'real' without examination through human empathy and experience.Throughout history, some ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104397-5
EAN 9780141043975
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119126-3
EAN 9780141191263
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards.Throughout history, some ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104384-5
EAN 9780141043845
These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge every perception - and seek to bring all readers closer to enlightenment.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042463-8
EAN 9780140424638
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics. Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104369-2
EAN 9780141043692
In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Throughout history, some books have changed the ...
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