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How bad are the bananas?
The carbon footprint of everything
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda de bolsillo
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-381-1
EAN 9781788163811
How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition ...
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The Pink Line
The World's Queer Frontiers
- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-514-3
EAN 9781788165143
Six years in the making, The Pink Line follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how "LGBT Rights" become one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the twenty-first century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia ...
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The Moon
A History for the Future
- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-255-5
EAN 9781788162555
A Sunday Times must read book of 2019 'An out-of-this-world read ... brilliant and compelling. Morton is a high-octane British science journalist, and every chapter is littered with material that strikes, amazes or haunts ...this is a book filled not just with a lifetime's knowledge of its subject but with a lifetime's suppressed excitement.'James McConnachie, ...
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Rummage
A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go
- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-851-4
EAN 9781781258514
Rummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems from the rubbish pile of centuries past and introduces us to the visionaries, crooks and everyday do-gooders who have shaped the material world we live in today - like the fancy ladies of the First World War who turned dog hair ...
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The concise edition of the 2019 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most ...
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This is an extraordinary, quite brilliant book' - C. J. Sansom What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years? And who would agree to be part of such an experiment? Herbert Powyss lives on a small estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable cultivation ...
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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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Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the ...
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We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-786-9
EAN 9781781257869
The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-933-7
EAN 9781781259337
The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-331-6
EAN 9781788163316
We all have unfair advantages in life, whether we happen to be quick, have a talent for maths, a great feel for people. An unfair advantage is simply the element that gives you an edge over your competition. This innovative book shows how to identify your own unfair advantages and apply them to any project.Drawing ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-224-1
EAN 9781788162241
'A dark jewel reflecting something startling - familiar and strange' Suzanne Moore, Guardian'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times'Provocative and rich' Economist 'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire'An absolute must-read for 2020' StylistIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship ...
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- Profile Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-043-8
EAN 9781788160438
When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web ...
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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-451-7
EAN 9781846684517
In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre ...
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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-332-3
EAN 9781788163323
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of the ...
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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-072-8
EAN 9781788160728
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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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-503-7
EAN 9781788165037
This is Pleasure is an extraordinary work by one of the world's finest writers, and achieves more in 15,000 words than most full-length novels. Following the unravelling of the life of a male publisher undone by allegations of sexual impropriety and harassment, and the female friend who tries to understand, and explain, his actions, it ...
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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-205-0
EAN 9781788162050
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller x{0026} Wall Street Journal Bestseller'Whether you are an athlete, an investor, a writer or an entrepreneur, this little but soulful book will open the door to a healthier, less anxious and more productive life and career.' - Arianna Huffington'Ryan's trilogy of The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the ...
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- Profile Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 34,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-632-9
EAN 9781781256329
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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