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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-228-9
EAN 9781788162289
Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to ...
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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-975-7
EAN 9781781259757
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world.We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the people can be trusted to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-793-7
EAN 9781781257937
SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARan ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the yearand a DAILY MAIL and TIMES book of the year'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland.'Simon Kuper, New Statesman2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why?Because in 1962, some bankers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 41,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-387-9
EAN 9781846683879
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-875-0
EAN 9781781258750
Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world - and continue to resonate today. In this book, David Harvey lays out their key arguments.In clear and concise language, Harvey describes the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-298-2
EAN 9781788162982
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'A masterpiece' Attica Locke'Strong, beautiful and beguiling' Observer'Destined to become a future classic ... that rare book that should appeal to every kind of reader' GuardianWhen two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-147-3
EAN 9781788161473
We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-969-6
EAN 9781781259696
Most of the time, politics is boring. In most countries, the Average Joe rules. Extremists of the left and right can gnash their teeth but serious politicians know they desert the centre ground at their peril.It's the iron law of electoral politics. That is, in normal times. What about times when the centre can't hold, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-297-1
EAN 9781846682971
The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-684-8
EAN 9781781256848
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism that defined the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-105-3
EAN 9781788161053
The Gunners used to be inseparable. A gang of latchkey kids, they took their name from the doorbell of the abandoned house they played in as children - and drank in as teenagers. Together they navigated the difficult journey from childhood to adolescence and learnt their first vital lessons about becoming adults; Mikey, Sam, Lynn, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-042-1
EAN 9781788160421
When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-953-5
EAN 9781781259535
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay'A wild thing ... covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi' New York TimesIn her provocative debut, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-894-1
EAN 9781781258941
On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-483-7
EAN 9781781254837
By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out - would the Germans hold on, prolonging the fighting deep into 1919, with the loss of hundreds of thousands more young lives, or could the war be ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-061-2
EAN 9781788160612
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton.Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-919-1
EAN 9781781259191
Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals.Our very lives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-015-5
EAN 9781788160155
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-980-1
EAN 9781781259801
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire ...
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