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Air-Borne
The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
- Picador, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 979-8-217-04632-4
EAN 9798217046324
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside downEvery day we draw in two thousand gallons of airand thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains ...
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- Picador, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-0350-3927-2
EAN 9781035039272
In this semiautobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian. Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a ...
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Judgement at Tokyo
World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
- Picador, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-1275-2
EAN 9781509812752
'Every so often, a new work emerges of such immense scholarship and weight that it really does add a significant difference to our understanding of the Second World War and its consequences. Judgement in Tokyo is one such, a monumental work in both scale and detail, beautifully constructed and written, leaving the reader not only ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-4526-0
EAN 9781529045260
Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears with tales of Philoctetes' past glories. But with hope comes suspicion - and, as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-5209-1
EAN 9781529052091
This is the story of an unusual family. Though they are nothing like yours, you will recognize them. They are the last Cannibal-Americans. And they have a problem.When their mother dies, twelve children gather to dispose of the body in the traditional manner . . . by eating it. But can they follow the ancient ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-5337-1
EAN 9781529053371
The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri.Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so slowly before him, as if wanting to show itself off in all its beauty. The name on ...
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Shakespearean
On Life and Language in Times of Disruption
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9698-1
EAN 9781509896981
When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his 'book of life', an endless source of inspiration through ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-1023-7
EAN 9781529010237
Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy works from home but devotes her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-1428-0
EAN 9781529014280
'Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial bonds and community . . .Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family's vacation. Several days later Alison's body is ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-4619-9
EAN 9781529046199
Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8283-0
EAN 9781509882830
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don't you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,34 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-5711-1
EAN 9781509857111
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course ...
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Funny Weather
Art in an Emergency
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-2765-5
EAN 9781529027655
In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-1736-6
EAN 9781529017366
2005. Glasgow is named Europe's Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture.In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotland's former industrial heartland, wee boys become postcode warriors. 2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team YTP .A brutal gang conflict with their deadly rivals, the Young Toi YTB begins. 2012. Azzy dreams ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-0513-4
EAN 9781529005134
Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm.A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardo is now a place of women. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives.Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place ...
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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9492-5
EAN 9781509894925
What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of our painless death?To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten a priceless lab-grown chicken nugget, watched foetuses growing in plastic bags and attended members-only ...
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Machiavelli
His Life and Times
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-7500-8
EAN 9781447275008
'A notorious fiend', 'generally odious', 'he seems hideous, and so he is.' Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination.But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-0806-7
EAN 9781529008067
If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living?From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt's cemetery, the town's late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realize shaped their ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-3850-7
EAN 9781529038507
On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to ...
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