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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9925-8
EAN 9780747599258
Athos and I stood together on deck and looked across the water at the bright city. From this distance no one would guess the turmoil that had torn apart Greece . The sea began to darken, and Athens, glowing in the distance, seemed to float on the horizon like a bright ship. Jakob Beer is ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104372-2
EAN 9780141043722
In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119026-6
EAN 9780141190266
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102209-3
EAN 9780141022093
This book argues that there is a craftsman in every human being, and is a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present. History has drawn fault-lines between practice and theory, technique and expression, craftsman and artist, maker and user; and modern society suffers from this historical inheritance. But the past ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119023-5
EAN 9780141190235
A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people.The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044123-9
EAN 9780140441239
Whenever we fired our guns, the Indians gave great shouts and whistles, and threw up straw and earth so that we could not see what harm we had done them'Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045512-0
EAN 9780140455120
'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal ...
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Iran
Empire of the Mind
- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103629-8
EAN 9780141036298
Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. From the time of the prophet Zoroaster, to the powerful ancient Persian Empires, to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis and president Mahmud Ahmadinejad - a controversial figure within as well as outside the country - this guide traces an account of ...
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Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-027128-7
EAN 9780140271287
W.C. Minor was one of the keenest volunteers involved in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. What the OED's editor, James Murray, didn't realise was that he was also a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.
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Republican, pagan, a sensualist alive to pleasure and to pain, Swinburne flouted the rules of Victorian decorum and morality in his life and work He created a unique means of expression through what Tennyson called his 'wonderful rhythmic invention', and yet his verse was influenced by poets from numerous periods and countries. Many of his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119019-8
EAN 9780141190198
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118982-6
EAN 9780141189826
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118983-3
EAN 9780141189833
In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1408 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043662-4
EAN 9780140436624
In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe our entire knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,49 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945926-2
EAN 9780099459262
An account of the author's 15,000-mile journey through Siberia that is one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. It presents the story of a people moving through the ruins of Communism into more private, diverse and often stranger worlds.
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 150 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103882-7
EAN 9780141038827
However you try to escape it, horror is always thereOutside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the Prince and his guests are not as safe as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042470-6
EAN 9780140424706
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the seven ages of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103581-9
EAN 9780141035819
Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. ...
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