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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-194-7
EAN 9781788161947
De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman... Antonio Munoz Molina emulates these classical inspirations, following their peregrinations as well as telling their stories, in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A master collagist himself, Molina assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public ...
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Imperial Tragedy
From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363 - 568
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-633-6
EAN 9781781256336
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-355-2
EAN 9781788163552
It's the summer solstice weekend, and 150,000 people descend on a farm in the northeast of England for an open-air music festival. At first, a spot of rain seems to be the only thing dampening the fun - until a mystery bug appears. Before long, the illness is spreading at an electrifying speed and seems ...
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Schadenfreude
The Joy of Another's Misfortune
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-910-8
EAN 9781781259108
In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-575-4
EAN 9781788165754
For most of us, a summer holiday is an opportunity to escape from it all: to lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the characters in this murderously good collection of classic crime stories discover to their cost ... trouble has a nasty habit ...
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Barth, Rüdiger; Friederichs, Hauke
The Gravediggers
1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-073-5
EAN 9781788160735
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag.In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-388-6
EAN 9781846683886
In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-771-5
EAN 9781781257715
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-454-2
EAN 9781788164542
WHAT IS ONE MORE CORPSE, WHEN ALL AROUND YOU ARE DYING... London, 1665. Hidden within a growing pile of corpses, one victim of the pestilence stands out: a young woman with a shorn head and pieces of twine delicately tied around each ankle.Symon Patrick, rector of St. Paul's Covent Garden, cannot say exactly why this ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda de bolsillo · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-806-9
EAN 9781788168069
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-780-2
EAN 9781788167802
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-510-5
EAN 9781788165105
What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like?To answer these questions, scientists are delving into all the hidden crevices of creation. Armed with giant telescopes and powerful particle accelerators, ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-497-5
EAN 9781846684975
Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Africanus Horton, to Tunisia's Khayr-al-Din, a creator ...
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The Velvet Economy
How Inequality Became Big Business
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-600-3
EAN 9781788166003
In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On one side, appointments are secured, queues are skipped and doors are opened. On the other, people fight for an empty seat on the plane, a place in line at a theme park or even a medical ...
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Minor Feelings
A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-559-4
EAN 9781788165594
What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings".The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-698-0
EAN 9781788166980
On a dark night two years ago, teenagers Rob and Paige broke into a house.They beat and traumatised the occupants, then left, taking only a bracelet. No one knows why, not even Luke, Rob's younger brother and Paige's confidant. Paige disappeared after that night.And having spent her life in children's homes and the foster system, ...
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x + y
A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-041-4
EAN 9781788160414
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-283-8
EAN 9781788162838
'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian'Truly pioneering. This unification is clearly the direction for the future' - Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian EnoHow does the mind connect to the body? Why ...
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What we need to do Now
For a Zero Carbon Future
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-477-1
EAN 9781788164771
The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include: -Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the ...
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