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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103679-3
EAN 9780141036793
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 5,37 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103670-0
EAN 9780141036700
Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings no matter what their class. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103667-0
EAN 9780141036670
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103681-6
EAN 9780141036816
Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an invisible hand'. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103673-1
EAN 9780141036731
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103887-2
EAN 9780141038872
Meet the ninety year old doctor, who, with the aid of a few simple exercises, is still practising medicine. His is just one of the incredible stories brain expert Norman Doidge tells as he reveals our brain's remarkable ability to repair itself through the power of positive thought. In The Brain That Changes Itself Doidge ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103300-6
EAN 9780141033006
When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. The London he walks is crammed with groups of men and women needing help, some ready to prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103676-2
EAN 9780141036762
This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 5,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103675-5
EAN 9780141036755
Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky's speeches give an extraordinary insight into a man whose words and actions determined the fates of millions. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118328-2
EAN 9780141183282
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103614-4
EAN 9780141036144
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045513-7
EAN 9780140455137
Islam and the Crusades comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103613-7
EAN 9780141036137
Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organized to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103123-1
EAN 9780141031231
Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311424-6
EAN 9780143114246
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. He ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118945-1
EAN 9780141189451
The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet's daughter Lucia Graves.
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On the Road
The Original Scroll
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118921-5
EAN 9780141189215
This is the ORIGINAL SCROLL: the first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself.On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103653-3
EAN 9780141036533
Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118932-1
EAN 9780141189321
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 494 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118111-0
EAN 9780141181110
"Selected Poems" brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators, among them W.S. Merwin, John Updike, Robert Fitzgerald, Mark Strand and Alastair ...
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