Editorial Phoenix
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- Phoenix, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1403-1
EAN 9780753814031
Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the ...
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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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- 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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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 · 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, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1759-9
EAN 9780753817599
This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia.Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable ...
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When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a tiny coral island less than half a ...
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- Phoenix, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-8421-2605-9
EAN 9781842126059
A clear, intelligently-written guide to a crucial period of Spanish historyWritten in the same tradition as John Julius Norwich's engrossing accounts of Venice and Byzantium, Richard Fletcher's Moorish Spain entertains even as it enlightens. He tells the story of a vital period in Spanish history which transformed the culture and society, not only of Spain, ...
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- Phoenix, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1401-7
EAN 9780753814017
With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.
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- Phoenix, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1432-1
EAN 9780753814321
The Outsider was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those affected by it as a type: the Outsider. ...
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- Phoenix, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1255-6
EAN 9780753812556
Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzons determination to control every aspect of his daughters lives including the money ...
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Dian Fossey's classic account of four gorilla families; the basis for the major movie starring Sigourney Weaver For thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa, establishing an unprecedented relationship with these shy and affectionate beasts. ...
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- Phoenix, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-0773-6
EAN 9780753807736
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music ...
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