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When the United States Spoke French
Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312745-1
EAN 9780143127451
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic's formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312627-0
EAN 9780143126270
Rare personal reflections from "one of our most talented writers" (The New York Times Book Review)Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction throughout a career that has spanned five decades. In this "funny, smart, and poignant" (Los Angeles Times) ...
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"How Music Got Free" is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It's about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store. Journalist Stephen ...
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Bad English
A History of Linguistic Aggravation
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-399-16558-0
EAN 9780399165580
English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes over the past millennium, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong.
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The Nixon Defense
What he Knew and When he Knew It
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312738-3
EAN 9780143127383
A new look at Watergate by one of its key figures, based on previously unavailable information.The Watergate scandal has forever changed American politics and presidential power, yet remarkably, four decades after Nixon was forced to resign, no one has undertaken the work necessary to tell the true underlying story of his Watergate-related activities. This information ...
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Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310950-1
EAN 9780143109501
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Scattered at Sea
Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312689-8
EAN 9780143126898
"A dazzling new collection from an award-winning poet Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. The title of her new collection, Scattered at Sea, evokes notions of dispersion, diaspora, sowing one's wild oats, having one's mind expanded or blown, losing one's wits, and mortality. Making ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312753-6
EAN 9780143127536
"Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." -Evelyn Lamb, Scientific AmericanThe Freakonomics of math-a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-448-48838-7
EAN 9780448488387
By popular demand, the 100th Who Was...? subject is Steve Irwin!Steve Irwin did not have a typical childhood. Born in Melbourne, Australia, on February 22, 1962, he was raised on the wildlife park his parents owned. He cared for the animals and especially loved reptiles--he got a python for his sixth birthday! At nine years ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310744-6
EAN 9780143107446
When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the "age of heroics is over."As relevant today as it was half a century ago,The Centurions ...
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Team of Teams
New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59184-748-9
EAN 9781591847489
The retired four-star general and best-selling author of My Share of the Task outlines a powerful model for leadership based on his experiences in fighting the War on Terror using present-day technologies and organic adaptability strategies.
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 417 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-451-47743-9
EAN 9780451477439
Sydney has always felt invisible. She's grown accustomed to her brother, Peyton, being the focus of the family's attention and, lately, concern. Peyton is handsome and charismatic, but seems bent on self-destruction. Now, after a drunk-driving accident that crippled a boy, Peyton's serving some serious jail time, and Sydney is on her own, questioning her ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-448-48300-9
EAN 9780448483009
Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the encroaching German Nazis. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to ...
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How to Be Drawn
Shortlisted for the 2015 National Book Award
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312688-1
EAN 9780143126881
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes's background as a visual artist, they do not strive to describe art so much as inhabit it. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of blind ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312599-0
EAN 9780143125990
King George VI and Winston Churchill were not destined to be partners, let alone allies. Yet together as foils, confidants, conspirators, and comrades the unlikely duo guided Britain through war while inspiring renewed hope in the monarchy, Parliament, and the nation itself. In Churchill and the King, Kenneth Weisbrode explores the delicate fashioning of this ...
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Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-free Productivity
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312656-0
EAN 9780143126560
A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from "the personal productivity guru" ("Fast Company") Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's "Getting Things Done "has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. "GTD" is now shorthand for ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-242681-4
EAN 9780142426814
"The Forbidden Library" kicks off a brand new classic fantasy series perfect for fans of "Coraline," "Inkheart," and "The Books of Elsewhere" "Alice always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That--along with everything else--changed the day she met her first fairy" When Alice's father goes down in a shipwreck, she is sent to live with ...
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Redeployment
National Book Award for Fiction 2014
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312682-9
EAN 9780143126829
These gritty and unsparing stories take readers to the front lines of the war in Iraq and back, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Whether in the combat zone or on the home front, they face life at the extremes, where happy stories and easy answers ...
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