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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144147-4
EAN 9780141441474
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118860-7
EAN 9780141188607
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here, he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118813-3
EAN 9780141188133
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all frontiers, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118859-1
EAN 9780141188591
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102841-5
EAN 9780141028415
The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentic English family who moved there. For Gerald, ...
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Pagans and Christians
In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102295-6
EAN 9780141022956
From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era. The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How ...
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The Classical World
An Epic History of Greece and Rome
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102141-6
EAN 9780141021416
The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy ...
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The Secret Life of Trees
How They Live and Why They Matter
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101293-3
EAN 9780141012933
What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118794-5
EAN 9780141187945
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118837-9
EAN 9780141188379
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144114-6
EAN 9780141441146
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall.However, when she finds love with her ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-143986-0
EAN 9780141439860
Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303972-3
EAN 9780143039723
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of ...
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Not Quite the Diplomat
Home Truths about World Affairs
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102144-7
EAN 9780141021447
Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, Chris Patten writes candidly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors. In arguing ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042431-7
EAN 9780140424317
Kipling's reputation as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire has obscured the true nature and scope of his poetic achievement. His poems range from exhilarating celebrations of British expansion overseas, through vivid character sketches of soldiers and seamen, to enchanting poems for children, political invective, and artistic manifestos. Here, Kipling's poems are presented in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118844-7
EAN 9780141188447
It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118783-9
EAN 9780141187839
It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118804-1
EAN 9780141188041
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a ...
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The Emperor
Downfall of an Autocrat
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118803-4
EAN 9780141188034
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144149-8
EAN 9780141441498
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to ...
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