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The English
A Portrait of a People
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,64 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103295-5
EAN 9780141032955
Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? What is behind the English ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045546-5
EAN 9780140455465
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc.Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she ...
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The Looming Tower
Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102935-1
EAN 9780141029351
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction:Winner 2007'Wright's brilliantly constructed narrative is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, he understands the motors of Islamist militancy Moreover, he is a fine writer with an eye for the telling detail. Even those who think they ...
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Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029334-0
EAN 9780140293340
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118920-8
EAN 9780141189208
A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his love tragically rejected. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118861-4
EAN 9780141188614
Set in the 1930s, this is a novel on American politics. It traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144163-4
EAN 9780141441634
Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144161-0
EAN 9780141441610
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 32,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100348-1
EAN 9780141003481
This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire REALLY functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 9,76 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042471-3
EAN 9780140424713
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-132291-9
EAN 9780141322919
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144136-8
EAN 9780141441368
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ever declared ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144134-4
EAN 9780141441344
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119412-7
EAN 9780141194127
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Fooled by Randomness
The hidden role of chance in life and the markets
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103148-4
EAN 9780141031484
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144205-1
EAN 9780141442051
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats. He vividly describes the ...
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The Lost Domain
Le Grand Meaulnes
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144189-4
EAN 9780141441894
The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. This Penguin Classics edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik. When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma.But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102432-5
EAN 9780141024325
Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class (with hand-drawn Visual Aids), this work presents a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of various ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free.
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The Islamist
. Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw inside and Why I Left
- Penguin UK, 2007
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 307 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103043-2
EAN 9780141030432
When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family. I tried to put my experiences behind me, but as the events of 7/7 unfolded it became clear to me that Islamist groups pose a threat to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144212-9
EAN 9780141442129
Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders ...
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