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Mostrando 431 libros encontrados (22 páginas)
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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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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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NOVEDAD!!- 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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NOVEDAD!!- 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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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 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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NOVEDAD!!- 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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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-782-1
EAN 9781781257821
A Times Book of the Year'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' Dominic SandbrookIn the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-590-7
EAN 9781788165907
The Great Depression led people to take desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money, dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was a competition and violence unknown to most ...
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- 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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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-161-9
EAN 9781788161619
We are an island nation, surrounded on all sides by waters which provide us with everything from food to fun. But when it comes to really understanding the ins and outs, we sometimes find ourselves ... less than shipshape.Luckily, Sea Fever is here to help: stacked to the gunnels with interesting facts, practical advice and ...
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Schadenfreude
The Joy of Another's Misfortune
- 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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- 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
- 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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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
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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- 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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