Editorial Phoenix
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- Phoenix, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2383-5
EAN 9780753823835
A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, ...
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Tip and Run
The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in africa
- Phoenix, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2349-1
EAN 9780753823491
In the aftermath of the Great War the East Africa campaign was destined to be dismissed by many in Britain as a remote 'sideshow' in which only a handful of names and episodes - the Konigsberg, von Lettow-Vorbeck, the 'Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika' - achieved any lasting notoriety. But to the other combatant powers ...
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- Phoenix, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,28 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2351-4
EAN 9780753823514
On the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed of intrigue since the last days of Henry VIII. Without an adult monarch, the stakes were even higher. The first challenger was ...
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- Phoenix, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2348-4
EAN 9780753823484
The daring Russian sleuth Erast Fandorin takes on two new cunning adversaries Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886, and the other a brutal serial killer, driven by an ...
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Uncentering the Earth
Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2235-7
EAN 9780753822357
In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, his just-published masterpiece On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in his hands. At that time, religious doctrine and common sense dictated that the earth ruled the universe, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars all rotating around it. By putting the sun at ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7528-8263-5
EAN 9780752882635
Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from ...
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Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prizewinner has been inspired by Churchill's example to write the story of the 20th century. Churchill wrote: 'Every nation or group of nations has its own tale to tell.Knowledge of the trials and struggles is necessary to all who would comprehend ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2175-6
EAN 9780753821756
Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her debut novel, The Country Girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughterFrom her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920s, ...
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Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2171-8
EAN 9780753821718
From the very beginning - the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of a bridge party - the reader is plunged headlong into the world of Vienna, a novel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy and joy. The disintegration of history and indentity in the twentieth century is seen through the adventures of one ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-8421-2633-2
EAN 9781842126332
The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2178-7
EAN 9780753821787
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary -notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of ...
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- Phoenix, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2158-9
EAN 9780753821589
From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle, captured and held to ransom by pirates, and almost bankrupted himself by staging games for the masses. As a politician, he quickly gained a reputation ...
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The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the greater part of the known world. This was thanks largely to the generals who led the Roman army to victory after victory, and whose strategic and tactical decisions shaped ...
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In this book, theoretical physicist Julian Barbour describes the coming revolution in physics: a quantum theory of the universe that brings together Einstein's general theory of relativity (which denies the existence of a unique time) and quantum mechanics (which demands one).
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- Phoenix, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 526 páginas
PVP: 14,29 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2105-3
EAN 9780753821053
Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces - as a young soldier at the end of WWI, as a politician during the General Strike of 1926, as King Edward VIII's friend at the time of the Abdication, and from ...
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Photographer Joe LaBrava specialises in capturing the soul of Miami's street life - and since he used to do dirty jobs for the Government, he understands his subject very well. So when his friend Maury enlists his help to sort out a problem with an ex-film star Joe fell for when he was twelve, the ...
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