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The High Seas
Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-358-3
EAN 9781788163583
The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet.But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-592-6
EAN 9781800815926
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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ISBN 978-1-80522-681-9
EAN 9781805226819
A fast-paced account of one year in San Francisco's underground scene, filled with sex, drugs and the never-ending search for true love.
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- Profile Books, 2025
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ISBN 978-1-78816-388-0
EAN 9781788163880
Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and - occasionally - women themselves, have moulded thought on what 'makes' a woman. She has been called the weaker sex, the fairer sex, the purer sex, among many other monikers. ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-047-1
EAN 9781800810471
Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now... The mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been trouble from day one. From acclaimed artist Alyson who seems oddly overqualified, to hapless Patrick who can barely operate design software, and city boy Cameron who blusters his way through assignments. Not to mention Jem, ...
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Native Nations
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-603-1
EAN 9781805226031
For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had been adapting to changing climates, founding and abandoning urban centres and forging complex, democratic societies. In this magisterial new history of North ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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ISBN 978-1-78816-632-4
EAN 9781788166324
A message all of us need to hear' Arnold Schwarzenegger'This book is a gift to humanity' Dr. Edith Eva EgerFor the Stoics, justice was more than an idea. It was a way of life, a personal commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult the path.Our ability to live by our values and ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-337-5
EAN 9781805223375
An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalisation-and how to fight back Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalisation is still low-cost labour and rapacious corporate ...
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Embers Of The Hands
Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-675-1
EAN 9781788166751
A new and original history of the Viking Age, told through the objects that defined the lives of its people -from powerful leaders to naughty teenagers A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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ISBN 978-0-00-836598-1
EAN 9780008365981
I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he'd done it with his clothes on.' Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he's also dead. ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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ISBN 978-1-80081-987-0
EAN 9781800819870
Irish Independent Name is Debré's most intense novel yet, a fresh feat of sharp, spare, yet explosive prose. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one's ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-777-2
EAN 9781788167772
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel In 2010, two decades after the Cold War, ten Russian spies were arrested in the US following a ten-year FBI operation. Among them were three couples who had lived as Americans for years, and one ...
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Eat Poop Die
How Animals Make Our World
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-170-8
EAN 9781805221708
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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ISBN 978-1-78816-996-7
EAN 9781788169967
Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless - if you can pay the price. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-562-9
EAN 9781800815629
A working-class Romeo x{0026} Julietset in the beauty and squalor of the Yorkshire edgelands A coming-of-age novel set among a tough community in a town on the edge lands of the rural and the urban - now in paperback At once heart-breaking and hopeful, Wild Ground shows us an all-consuming first love as it grapples ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-605-5
EAN 9781805226055
The threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective action by so-called progressives. We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy.Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-582-9
EAN 9781805225829
Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-726-5
EAN 9781781257265
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East.
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-058-9
EAN 9781805220589
Borges meets Isabel Waidner and Mariana Enriquez in this boldly imaginative punk dystopia. The year is 2272. New York and Buenos Aires were submerged years ago and the Patagonian archipelagos are the only habitable lands on Earth. Here, Dengue Boy is a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance repulses everyone, including his own mother. As the ...
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The Challenges of Democracy
And The Rule of Law
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-250-7
EAN 9781805222507
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of ...
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