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Mostrando 441 libros encontrados (23 páginas)
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-610-2
EAN 9781788166102
Old English is the language we think we know until we actually see it. Used in England over a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (word), others that are unrecognisable (neorxnawang - paradise) and some that are curiously mystifying (gafol-fisc - tax-fish). In this beautiful little book, Hana Videen has ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 38,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-912-2
EAN 9781781259122
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-513-6
EAN 9781788165136
In this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner has rewritten classic stories for more enlightened times; from Snow White's relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, to the Emperor who was not naked but was ...
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The Digital Silk Road
China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-685-0
EAN 9781788166850
Its 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 world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-342-2
EAN 9781788163422
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under AttackFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-257-9
EAN 9781788162579
The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history.Is ...
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Strongmen
How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-124-4
EAN 9781788161244
'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyOurs is the age of the strongman. Countries from Russia to India, Turkey to America are ruled ...
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The Daily Laws
366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-854-0
EAN 9781788168540
Over the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into daily entries. Each entry delivers refined and concise wisdom from one of his books, ...
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QBQ!
The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-903-5
EAN 9781788169035
No one can successfully achieve goals and new objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, make change in their community or lead other people without personal accountability.After decades of working with organisations and individuals, John G. Miller knows that the troubles that plague them cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others. Rather, ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-851-9
EAN 9781788168519
The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition of the Biblical myth that woman was ...
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Solo
How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind)
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-486-3
EAN 9781788164863
Whether by choice or circumstance, as a freelancer or a company employee working from home, more of us are becoming solo workers than ever before. But once you've made the leap, how to do you actually work well in isolation? And how can you thrive while working alone?Picking up where the freelancer bibles stop, Solo ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-717-8
EAN 9781788167178
A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history. ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-807-6
EAN 9781788168076
Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed GBP208 billion to the economy in a single year -- that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf ...
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- 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
- 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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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-829-3
EAN 9781781258293
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-698-5
EAN 9781781256985
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs and Germany. ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-971-9
EAN 9781781259719
ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket. It's ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-261-6
EAN 9781788162616
As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones _ some 8.8 million people in the UK. An invisible army of carers holding families together.Here, Kate Mosse tells her personal story of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her mother look after her ...
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