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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-715-9
EAN 9781781257159
London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed, though miraculously the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers.He hurries the baby home, terrified that she'll ...
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Sounds Appealing
The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-609-1
EAN 9781781256091
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do.Pronunciation is ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-001-8
EAN 9781788160018
No disponible (descatalogado)
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The Accusation
Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea
- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-755-5
EAN 9781781257555
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window on this most secretive ...
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In Search of Mary Shelley
The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-528-5
EAN 9781781255285
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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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-702-9
EAN 9781781257029
Disponibilidad inmediata (en stock)
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-023-0
EAN 9781788160230
Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and - in partnership with Stephen Hanselman - The Daily Stoic. This latter offered powerful quotations, fresh anecdotes, and insightful commentary on the wisdom of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Now ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-411-1
EAN 9781846684111
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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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-467-7
EAN 9781781254677
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-060-5
EAN 9781788160605
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on Twitter. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-747-0
EAN 9781781257470
Williams' uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for decades. Here, for the first time, Williams' thirty-three best stories are available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something strange and new. Bleak but funny, real but surreal, ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-629-9
EAN 9781781256299
Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's sex life? And why have honey-badgers evolved to be one of nature's most efficient agents of mass destruction?Deploying the ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-650-3
EAN 9781781256503
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless.I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi ...
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The Art of Rivalry
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-166-9
EAN 9781781251669
This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The kind of rivalry that existed between Degas and Manet, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, and Freud and Bacon.
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-014-8
EAN 9781788160148
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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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-392-2
EAN 9781781253922
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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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-602-2
EAN 9781781256022
The world's greatest authority on language explains the secrets and subtleties of the grammar of English. David Crystal explores its history and varieties, explains its rules and irregularities and shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls. He gives practical guidance on how grammar is used in different ways for different purposes and in different ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 768 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-712-8
EAN 9781781257128
From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator. Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential figures of western society. His ideas transformed the way that we think about our minds, our selves and even our thoughts.But while he was undeniably a ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 32,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-194-2
EAN 9781781251942
China's War of Resistance against Japan, as WWII is known in China, was never about the defeat of Japan alone. China was also at war with itself. Between 1937 and 1949, a vicious revolutionary war between Nationalists and Communists, divided by radically different views about China's future, ravaged the country, killing millions and laying waste ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-569-8
EAN 9781781255698
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a ...
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