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The Russian Revolution
A New History
- Profile Books, 2018
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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- Profile Books, 2018
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 However, there is a danger that this picture is out of date.Until very recently, most ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
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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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-683-1
EAN 9781781256831
From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life.Born in May 1819, ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-831-6
EAN 9781781258316
Clear writing is the key to clear thinking. So think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible. That's the thinking that underpins this much-loved guide, and the mantra for anyone wanting to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which The Economist is renowned.The Economist Style Guide guides the ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-068-1
EAN 9781788160681
A story of love and loss in wartime from master storyteller Susan Hill. Returning to his World War One battalion in France after a period of medical leave in England, John Hilliard, a young officer, finds his division almost unrecognisable. His commanding officer is an alcoholic, there is a new adjutant and several of his ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-915-3
EAN 9781781259153
The classic guide for the individual investor, The Economist Guide to Investment Strategy sets out the basic - and the not-so-basic - principles for putting your wealth to work. It looks at risk, pointing out the hazards for those who wish to explore a variety of investment approaches. It also teaches the importance of sophisticated ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-255-0
EAN 9781781252550
We see mafias as vast, powerful organisations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe and wrapping its tentacles around everything from governance to finance. But is this the truth? Travelling from mafia initiation ceremonies in far-flung Russian cities to elite gambling clubs in downtown Macau, Federico Varese sets off in search of answers. Using wiretapped ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-005-6
EAN 9781788160056
Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and also recover its nobility?Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai takes up the cause of restoring humanity to finance. With deft wit, he draws upon a rich knowledge of literature, film, ...
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The Moor's Last Stand
How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-687-9
EAN 9781781256879
In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end.It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-679-4
EAN 9781781256794
Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world. In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-371-8
EAN 9781846683718
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-997-9
EAN 9781781259979
Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious 10-part BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-768-5
EAN 9781781257685
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply conflicted about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas ...
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The Dawn of Christianity
People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles
- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-208-6
EAN 9781781252086
Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the end of the first ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-286-4
EAN 9781781252864
Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely many decimal numbers between zero and one. Are these two types of infinity the same? Are they larger or smaller than each other? Can we even talk about 'larger' and 'smaller' ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-999-3
EAN 9781781259993
Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 38,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-296-4
EAN 9781846682964
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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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-482-0
EAN 9781781254820
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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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-560-5
EAN 9781781255605
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: ...
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