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Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101418-0
EAN 9780141014180
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part.Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, ...
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The Pursuit of Glory
Europe 1648-1815
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-016667-5
EAN 9780140166675
In The Pursuit of Glory Tim Blanning brings to life one of the most extraordinary and dynamic periods in Europe's history: from the desolate, battered and introvert continent of the end of the Thirty Years War to the overwhelmingly dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon.How did people really live ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118922-2
EAN 9780141189222
In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht's revolutionary ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102936-8
EAN 9780141029368
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The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103459-1
EAN 9780141034591
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042443-0
EAN 9780140424430
Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044948-8
EAN 9780140449488
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044747-7
EAN 9780140447477
In the "Critique of Pure Reason", Immanuel Kant laid out a framework upon which the whole of modern philosophy is based. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the German and edited with an introduction by Marcus Weigelt, based on the translation by Max Muller. Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".It presents a profound and challenging ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045516-8
EAN 9780140455168
As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve Caesars" chronicles the lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118880-5
EAN 9780141188805
Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe - but ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102666-4
EAN 9780141026664
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was.Their three children passionately pursue their own paths, and faced with the oppressive enthusiasms ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144207-5
EAN 9780141442075
Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. ...
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Berlin
The Downfall 1945
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103239-9
EAN 9780141032399
The storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Soviet soldiers had many accounts to settle when they finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. The result was the battle for Berlin; the most terrifying example of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103241-2
EAN 9780141032412
TPost liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages.
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144206-8
EAN 9780141442068
The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8546-6
EAN 9780747585466
In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world. But by the late sixties, the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation and hedonism, and dominated by intrigue, infidelities, addiction and parties. Each designer created his own mesmerizing world, so vivid and seductive that ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1440 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044793-4
EAN 9780140447934
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118878-2
EAN 9780141188782
This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118876-8
EAN 9780141188768
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143970-9
EAN 9780141439709
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a 'conclusion in which nothing is concluded'. Johnson's tale is not ...
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