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The Celts
A Sceptical History
NOVEDAD!!- 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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NOVEDAD!!- 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
NOVEDAD!!- 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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NOVEDAD!!- 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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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-835-4
EAN 9781781258354
'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and SteelGeography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers ...
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
A New Biography of the Old City
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-918-9
EAN 9781788169189
'Original and illuminating ... What a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby, author and documentary makerIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of mixed and diverse neighbourhoods.Beyond the crush and frenzy of its ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-008-2
EAN 9781800810082
A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament' The New York Times'A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves' Guardian'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' Times'Hard to think of ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-578-5
EAN 9781788165785
We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but can we see ourselves? In these wide-ranging, ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-967-7
EAN 9781788169677
'Booth is a triumph!' Ruth Ozeki'Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Her finest, most beautiful novel to date' Neel Mukherjee'Effortlessly resonant... breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters' Daily Telegraph'Karen Joy Fowler's novels are wildly inventive and deservedly popular' Daily Mail'In its stretch and imaginative depth, Booth has an utterly seductive authority'Guardian'Captures with enthralling vividness ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-584-6
EAN 9781788165846
Metro Best New Books to Read in Spring PickGlossary Magazine Highly Anticipated Fiction PickA road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?Meanwhile ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-712-3
EAN 9781788167123
'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it.' Daily Telegraph'Time spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company of a brilliant mind considering interesting thing' The TimesBrexit, the independence referendum, the pandemic: the ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-511-2
EAN 9781788165112
Mind-inflating' Wired'A grand vision of the marvels we've discovered, and the immensity of what we still don't understand' Sunday TimesWhat if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like?To answer these ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-839-2
EAN 9781781258392
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-568-6
EAN 9781788165686
'Addictive... will remain with you long after you emerge from the rabbit hole' - THE TIMES'A marvellously twisty whodunnit with the clockwork ingenuity of an Agatha Christie' - FINANCIAL TIMESSHARING A BODY CAN BE MURDERAlex, Kate, Mike, Sierra and Ben have spent twenty-five years trapped together. And there's no escape.They share one body, part of ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-348-4
EAN 9781788163484
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARChristie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-707-9
EAN 9781788167079
'A fascinating read for anyone interested in the future of the planet' Adam Hart, author and BBC science presenterOur planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. As a society, we face choices which will determine ...
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-498-2
EAN 9781846684982
'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-575-9
EAN 9781781255759
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The TimesTour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments ...
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