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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104396-8
EAN 9780141043968
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119159-1
EAN 9780141191591
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104284-8
EAN 9780141042848
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.Maclean's extraordinary adventures ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104283-1
EAN 9780141042831
Based on the author's own vivid experiences, "The Cruel Sea" is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat and mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-132829-4
EAN 9780141328294
The only way to learn the secret . . .is to press play. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clay Jensen comes home from school to find outside his front door a mysterious box with his name on it. Inside he discovers a series of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate and crush.Only, she committed suicide two weeks ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,26 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9743-8
EAN 9780747597438
Our Story Begins combines twenty-one of Tobias Wolff's classic stories with ten potent new works, spanning three decades and confirming Wolff's status as a master of the genre. These stories of war, morality, frustration, loneliness and love trace a path through the everyday and the extraordinary, shedding a poignant yet hopeful light on American life ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311632-5
EAN 9780143116325
This unique history of Cuba is captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty. In chronicling the saga of the Bacardi family, Gjelten describes the intersection of business and power, family and politics, community and exile. bx{0026}w photo inserts.
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It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029006-6
EAN 9780140290066
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119011-2
EAN 9780141190112
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119008-2
EAN 9780141190082
Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119006-8
EAN 9780141190068
Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104648-8
EAN 9780141046488
When Philip Delves Broughton abandoned his career as a successful journalist and joined Harvard Business School's prestigious MBA course, he joined 900 other would-be tycoons in a cauldron of capitalism. Two years of taxing case studies and excel shortcuts lay ahead of him, but he couldn't have told you what OCRA was, other than a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102077-8
EAN 9780141020778
What were the twelve labors of Herakles? Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold? What was the name of the guard-dog of the Underworld? Which two-faced Roman god gave his name to the month January? What is the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx? The myths of ancient Greece and Rome ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104419-4
EAN 9780141044194
'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa'On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103625-0
EAN 9780141036250
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101586-6
EAN 9780141015866
Who was Shakespeare? How did plague turn him from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did his plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a king? And yet why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned?Weaving a dazzling tapestry of Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103993-0
EAN 9780141039930
King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. But how much power did he really have?The acclaimed historian Christopher Clark follows Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104302-9
EAN 9780141043029
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectualjourney through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119030-3
EAN 9780141190303
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. ...
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