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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-429-5
EAN 9781781254295
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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Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 9,09 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-595-7
EAN 9781781255957
'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; in the urban fable 'Mirrorball' a man steals a girl's soul during a one-night stand; 'College Town 1980' follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; 'Folk ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-541-5
EAN 9781846685415
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-693-0
EAN 9781781256930
This time, help isn't coming. This time, Duffy has to save himself. Belfast 1988: a man has been shot in the back with an arrow.It ain't Injuns and it isn't Robin Hood. But uncovering exactly who has done it will take Detective Inspector Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-254-3
EAN 9781781252543
The Japanese Yakuza. The Chinese Triads. The Sicilian Cosa Nostra.The Calabrian N'Drangheta. The New York Mafia. The Russian Vory -v -Vakone.Today, mafias operate across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of members and billions of pounds in revenue. From Hong Kong to New York, these vast organisations spread their tentacles into politics, finance and everyday ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-388-5
EAN 9781781253885
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-800-2
EAN 9781781258002
Following a string of affairs, Karl and Eleanor are giving their marriage one last shot: they're moving with their twelve-year-old daughter Irina from Brooklyn to a newly renovated, apparently charming old house near the upstate New York town of Broken River. Before their arrival, the house stood empty for over a decade. The reason is ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-797-5
EAN 9781781257975
A stunning psychological literary thriller from 'A master of the dark arts' (Kelly Link) Following a string of affairs, Karl and Eleanor are giving their marriage one last shot: they're moving with their twelve-year-old daughter Irina from Brooklyn to a newly renovated, apparently charming old house near the upstate New York town of Broken River. ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 478 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-902-3
EAN 9781781259023
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, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-734-0
EAN 9781781257340
When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting all of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has vividly ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-779-1
EAN 9781781257791
When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting all of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has vividly ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-686-2
EAN 9781781256862
The Moor's Last Stand presents the poignant story of Boabdil, the last Muslim king of Granada. Betrayed by his family and undermined by faction and internal conflict, Boabdil was defeated in 1492 by the forces of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. The Christian victory marked the ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-663-3
EAN 9781781256633
From storytelling phenomenon The Moth: a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include the writers Marlon James and Christina Lamb, as well as a hip hop 'one hit wonder', an astronomer gazing at ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-582-7
EAN 9781781255827
Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, RateYourLodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels and, horrors, bed and breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they ...
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The Essex Serpent
Longlisted Women's Prize Fiction 2017
- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-545-2
EAN 9781781255452
THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 1 BESTSELLING FICTION HARDBACK CHRISTMAS 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 COSTA NOVEL AWARD OVER 100,000 HARDBACKS SOLD London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-207-9
EAN 9781781252079
Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterrean 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, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-788-3
EAN 9781781257883
The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and ...
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Black Moses
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017
- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 210 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-673-2
EAN 9781781256732
It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of terror of Dieudonne Ngoulmoumako, the institution's corrupt director. So Moses escapes to Pointe-Noire, ...
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Fraade-Blanar, Zoe; Glazer, Aaron M.
Superfandom : How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We are
- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-533-9
EAN 9781781255339
Fandom isn't a noun, it's a verb. Fans create; they engage; they discuss. From comics to clothing, boundaries between fans and creators are blurring, and in this new fandom-based economy, it's clear: consumers may buy a product, but it is fans who can make or break it.An essential guide to the fan-fuelled future, Superfandom explores ...
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