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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-871-7
EAN 9781788168717
The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on her return, and trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After electroshock therapy and ...
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Krogerus, Mikael; Tschappeler, Roman
The Get Things Done Book
41 Tools to Start, Stick With and Finish Things
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-464-6
EAN 9781800814646
LEARN THE TECHNIQUES YOU NEED TO STOP PROCRASTINATING AND START GETTING THINGS DONEEvery day we begin new projects, or try to find pleasure in the ones we're working on - and above all, we hope one day we'll finish them! But in a disjointed, distracting world it's often hard to find the motivation and focus ...
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How to Deal With Idiots
(and stop being one yourself)
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-714-7
EAN 9781788167147
Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge?Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, ...
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New Rome
The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-008-2
EAN 9781781250082
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts ...
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Butler to the World
How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-588-4
EAN 9781788165884
How did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men? From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to the offshore tax havens, meet Butler Britain... In his Sunday Times-bestselling expose, Oliver Bullough reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-290-6
EAN 9781788162906
'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin FrancisVout tackles a huge range of ideas and subjects with irrepressible energy ... full of arresting, sometimes startling ideas and facts that topple the Greeks and Romans from their lofty, pristine, snow-white pedestals' Guardian'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' ...
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The Wordhord
Daily Life in Old English
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-611-9
EAN 9781788166119
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. 'A marvelous book' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful' - Tom Holland'A lovely, lovely read' - Lucy Mangan'Splendid' - David Crystal'Thorough, entertaining, and absolutely fascinating.' Paul Anthony Jones, Haggard HawksIn this beautiful little ...
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Pettegree, Andrew; Weduwen, Arthur der
The Library
A Fragile History
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-343-9
EAN 9781788163439
LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNA SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-633-1
EAN 9781788166331
The inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C.S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further.' Easy to say, hard to practice - and if it was tough in 300 BC, or in the 1940s, it feels all but impossible today. Yet it's the most empowering and ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-628-7
EAN 9781788166287
An inspiring anthem to the power, promise, and challenges of courage, the first in a series examining the timeless Stoic virtues from 1 New York Times bestselling author Ryan HolidayFortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today so ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-642-3
EAN 9781788166423
"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The TimesSince Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but romantic love and the human condition. However, while Dante's ...
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Russia
Myths and Realities
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-188-1
EAN 9781800811881
Wise and thorough' The Spectator'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' Financial Times'He is an engaging guide ... and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy' The Sunday Telegraph'A scholarly yet highly readable gallop through the last 1000 years of Russian history ...To understand this tormented nation, you can do no better ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-891-5
EAN 9781788168915
A New York Times Bestseller 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new ... This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder' - James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song'Unusual and captivating ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-686-7
EAN 9781788166867
'One of the most interesting and original thinkers about the rise of China' - Peter FrankopanIts vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the ...
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The Celts
A Sceptical History
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-880-9
EAN 9781788168809
The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer.There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages and cultures remain throughout Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall. The word keltoi first appears in Greek as applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians' - and ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-053-7
EAN 9781788160537
Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets.Our inner cartography ...
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Mountain Tales
Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-537-2
EAN 9781788165372
'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and story-telling, a deeply-felt exploration of ideas, and a gripping chronicle of the fates of the garbage-pickers of Mumbai ... I loved this book.' Suzy Hansen, author of ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-107-7
EAN 9781788161077
'Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant - I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up' - Caitlin Moran'Utterly wonderful ... full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry' - Marian Keyes'A glorious, outrageously funny retelling ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-063-1
EAN 9781800810631
It's the height of summer. As the heat shimmers on the streets and ice cream melts onto sticky fingers, tempers begin to rise and old grudges surface. From Cornish beaches to the French Riviera, it's not just a holiday that's on people's minds ...it's murder. In these ten classic stories from writers such as Dorothy ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-195-4
EAN 9781788161954
Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etrangerI want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Munoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, ...
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