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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96776-8
EAN 9780241967768
Jonathan Coe's novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin on to events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103095-1
EAN 9780141030951
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118934-5
EAN 9780141189345
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102114-0
EAN 9780141021140
'In the world of Herodotus, the only real repository of memory is the individual. In order to find out that which has been remembered, one must reach this person. If he lives far away, one has to go to him, to set out on a journey. And when finally encountering him, one must sit down ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103094-4
EAN 9780141030944
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men pacifists, objectors, homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Forced to consult the man who helped him before army ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103093-7
EAN 9780141030937
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough ...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102453-0
EAN 9780141024530
Free markets, we're told, mean free people. Yet around the world this freedom' is being paid for in blood. When a catastrophe occurs whether war, terrorist attack or natural disaster there are people cleaning up and cashing in, using chaos to force through brutal economic punishment. They are the shock doctors.
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102626-8
EAN 9780141026268
For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from the 1950s all the way up ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044978-5
EAN 9780140449785
Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other Plays is translated by David Raeburn with an introduction and notes by Pat Easterling. The plays collected in this volume show Sophocles' ability to create complex human characters struggling with profound moral issues. In Women ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042469-0
EAN 9780140424690
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043664-8
EAN 9780140436648
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Byzantium
The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103102-6
EAN 9780141031026
For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries held in check the armies of Islam. Judith ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,16 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144140-5
EAN 9780141441405
Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince who is repudiated by her husband in favour of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix she goes to Boston to live with relatives whom she has never seen before, with hopes of making a wealthy marriage. This is part of a series of new ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144141-2
EAN 9780141441412
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems the group is about ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118914-7
EAN 9780141189147
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144128-3
EAN 9780141441283
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of immense wealth. Learning of Milly's mortal illness ...
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Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building created the world we know today. From the death of Tamerlane in 1405, last of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103436-2
EAN 9780141034362
Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But with the appearance of a dangerous individual with an air gun, the capital has never been in greater need ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144132-0
EAN 9780141441320
I've come, you know, to make you break with everything, neither more nor less, and take you straight home'Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs Newsome sends her ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044961-7
EAN 9780140449617
This new edition includes: The Raid, Woodfelling, Three Deaths, Polikushka, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, After the Ball, and The Forged Coupon. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.
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