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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 251 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102756-2
EAN 9780141027562
Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in "Book of Longing" - his first book of poetry in more than twenty years - during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact ...
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The Third Reich in Power 1933-1939
Struggle, Genocide, Collapse
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100976-6
EAN 9780141009766
The Third Reich in Power examines how it was possible for a group of ideological obsessives to remould a society famous for its sophistication and complexity into a one-party state directed at war and race hate. Richard J. Evans shows how the Nazis won over the hearts and minds of German citizens, twisted science, religion ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101269-8
EAN 9780141012698
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042440-9
EAN 9780140424409
Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118834-8
EAN 9780141188348
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as ...
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Moon Tiger
Man Booker Prize Winner of All Time Shortlist
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101039-7
EAN 9780141010397
Panning in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer, this novel is about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, which is also an exploration of the nature of truth, and the role of fate.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102616-9
EAN 9780141026169
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process ...
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Dubner, Stephen J.; Levitt, Steven D.
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101901-7
EAN 9780141019017
Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make ...
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Twilight of the Idols
Or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer / The Anti-Christ
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044514-5
EAN 9780140445145
"Twilight of the Idols" was written by Nietzsche in 1888 and uses aphorism to summarize his views on a vast range of philosophical ideas. "The Anti-Christ", written immediately afterwards, is his fullest and least restrained polemic against Christianity and Christian morals.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1056 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044909-9
EAN 9780140449099
Didn't I tell you they were only windmills? And only someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!'Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam ...
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This is an account of the author's trip round the Mediterranean. In this modern version of the "Grand Tour", Theroux chooses the difficult route, taking in such adventures as avoiding the crossfire of Croatia, witnessing the near anarchy of Albania, and seeing Israel in a state of siege.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-042451-5
EAN 9780140424515
In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful 'Song of Myself' ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043571-9
EAN 9780140435719
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality, and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human ...
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Natasha's Dance
A Cultural History of Russia
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029796-6
EAN 9780140297966
From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture. Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people. ...
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Dark Continent
Europe's Twentieth Century
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-024159-4
EAN 9780140241594
Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely balanced struggle between tolerance and racial extermination, imperial ambition and national self-determination, liberty ...
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-018563-8
EAN 9780140185638
Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, opens with a party of English people aboard the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by ...
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A biography of Stephen Tennant who died intestate in 1987 aged 80 and who has become a cult figure. He appears in numerous biographies about the 1920s and 1930s and he was the model for Cedric Hampton in "Love in a Cold Climate", by Nancy Mitford.
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 8,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-002374-9
EAN 9780140023749
It's 1924 and the Boundary Commission is deciding on the new line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. With much pushing and shoving, the border finds it's way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, and pub chairs from bars. Something must be done!
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- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-044770-5
EAN 9780140447705
Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to ...
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