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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-445-5
EAN 9781781254455
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement and support new business. But these roles comprise only a tiny sliver of the sector's activity: the vast majority of lending is within the finance sector.So ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-381-7
EAN 9781846683817
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-509-4
EAN 9781781255094
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's ...
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Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-949-9
EAN 9781846689499
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016 It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-415-8
EAN 9781781254158
Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination.Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-634-3
EAN 9781781256343
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical essay for each, this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and in-depth background guide ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-512-4
EAN 9781781255124
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation that change the world? Clearly not: real people-leaders in particular-and the decisions that they make change our lives irrevocably, whether in deciding to go to war or not, decisive tactical choices made in the heat ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-451-6
EAN 9781781254516
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several you might have thought ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-457-9
EAN 9781846684579
When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special. To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-342-7
EAN 9781781253427
We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-534-6
EAN 9781781255346
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he lived life ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-567-4
EAN 9781781255674
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-540-7
EAN 9781781255407
For fifteen years, the recalcitrant Miss Shepherd lived in her broken-down van on Alan Bennett's driveway in Camden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord, never under the illusion that his impulse was purely charitable.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-531-5
EAN 9781781255315
This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world's leading exponent of Marx's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-555-1
EAN 9781781255551
Each of these twelve stories is a complete world, where ordinary lives are transformed, myths bloom into reality and the everyday is haunted by obsession and duplicity. A painter is made insufferable by success; a writer is driven to bury the evidence of his inadequacy. Metamorphosis fragments a marriage and beasts bear the consequences of ...
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Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating ...
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Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet.In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together her published verse from 1963-1971, a period in which Carter began to explore the themes that dominated her later work: magic, the reworking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-543-8
EAN 9781781255438
For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-417-2
EAN 9781781254172
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