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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-957-3
EAN 9781781259573
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble.It can force us ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-066-7
EAN 9781788160667
Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But the sheltered life she has crafted for herself is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession, and its contents have the power to unravel every strand ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78816-087-2
EAN 9781788160872
From a beautiful antique that gives its owner a show he'd rather forget, to 'ghost detective' whose exorcism goes horribly wrong and a sinister masked ball which seems to have one too many guests, these ghost stories of supernatural terror are guaranteed to make you shiver, thrill and look under the bed tonight. From rural ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-529-2
EAN 9781781255292
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-721-0
EAN 9781781257210
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation and considers what this has done to the world. There are few villains in this story: on both sides ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-393-9
EAN 9781781253939
In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for?Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that we have a 'language instinct'. Drawing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-897-2
EAN 9781781258972
'High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists mark this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars ... broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel' Kirkus starred review When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-785-2
EAN 9781781257852
The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-430-1
EAN 9781781254301
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-038-4
EAN 9781788160384
Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric.In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly - and know when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-922-1
EAN 9781781259221
What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even socialist, yet it exists in a sump of greed, corruption, capitalism and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-412-8
EAN 9781846684128
In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire.But how did it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-478-3
EAN 9781781254783
Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep.A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved may aim to convey feelings of tenderness ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-356-4
EAN 9781781253564
Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was rumoured to have a disreputable character. Slater had an alibi, but was nonetheless convicted and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-062-9
EAN 9781788160629
The story of FIFA's fall from grace has it all: power, betrayal, revenge, sports stars, hustlers, corruption, sex and phenomenal quantities of money, all set against exotic locales stretching from Caribbean beaches to the formal staterooms of the Kremlin and the sun-blasted streets of Doha, Qatar. In Red Card, investigative journalist Ken Bensinger takes a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-574-2
EAN 9781781255742
Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat.Now, through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests and quizzes, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? lets you test ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-903-0
EAN 9781781259030
At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died. And by 1950, a third of the globe had embraced communism.The triumph of Communism sets a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-974-0
EAN 9781781259740
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 look after their own affairs again. However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date.Until very recently, most ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-773-9
EAN 9781781257739
To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about.We can't avoid puberty, the menopause, or our hair turning grey. ...
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