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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143944-0
EAN 9780141439440
Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series. This book engaged some of the hardest questions in the evolution debate, and it showed the ever-cautious Darwin at his boldest. If Darwin had ...
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
On the Tracks of "The Great Railway Bazaar"
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101572-9
EAN 9780141015729
Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119033-4
EAN 9780141190334
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated by the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103801-8
EAN 9780141038018
"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 8,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104018-9
EAN 9780141040189
Like most families they had their secrets. And hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred so they had to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 6,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104047-9
EAN 9780141040479
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms.In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies ...
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Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103472-0
EAN 9780141034720
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9924-1
EAN 9780747599241
'What was Pig City?' thought Laura. Soon it would be something that everyone wanted to be part of Laura Sibbie is trying to find the perfect 'pigs' for her new club, Pig City: classmates who can keep the biggest secret ever! But to make sure that none of them tells anyone else about the club, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103090-6
EAN 9780141030906
Physics of the Impossible takes us on a journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, giving us an exhilarating insight into what we can really hope to achieve in the future.Everyday we see that what was once declared impossible' by scientists has become part of our everyday lives: fax machines, glass sky-scrapers, gas-powered automobiles, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101192-9
EAN 9780141011929
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new account shows, it was an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044902-0
EAN 9780140449020
In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust falls in love with and marries Helen, embodying for Goethe his 'imaginative longing to join poetically the Romantic Medievalism of the germanic West to ...
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The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules our Lives
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102647-3
EAN 9780141026473
Leonard Mlodinow reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting, winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test.The Drunkard's Walk is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random ...
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Fire in the East
Warrior of Rome 1
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103229-0
EAN 9780141032290
The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102081-5
EAN 9780141020815
Sergio Vieira de Mello - a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder - was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines ...
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God's War
A New History of the Crusades
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1040 páginas
PVP: 31,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-026980-2
EAN 9780140269802
The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story, that fundamentally shaped the Christian and Muslim ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118998-7
EAN 9780141189987
Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter, who he hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118999-4
EAN 9780141189994
Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a switchboard to become a self-destructive star - a singer everyone ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119028-0
EAN 9780141190280
'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119027-3
EAN 9780141190273
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes ...
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