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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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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-751-7
EAN 9781781257517
Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science and enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present. He looks at what has been meant by theories of everything, explores the scientific breakthroughs they have allowed, and shows the far-reaching effects they have had on ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-642-8
EAN 9781781256428
Ideas in Profile Series Is music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language. Andrew Gant introduces ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-522-4
EAN 9781846685224
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltaire's big bet, Russell's slip of the pen and lobster ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-513-1
EAN 9781781255131
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make? For better or for worse, the personalities of the powerful can ...
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- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-570-4
EAN 9781781255704
Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, ...
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Kanipe, Jeff; Witze, Alexandra
Island on Fire : The Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Volcano That Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark
- Profile Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-266-6
EAN 9781781252666
Laki is Iceland's largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created ...
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Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer's evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents. Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests Corinne didn't act alone. ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-853-8
EAN 9781781258538
'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones Bernie Sanders stormed to international headlines after running an extraordinary campaign for the Democratic primaries that saw over 13 million people turn out to vote for him, and changed the global discussion surrounding US politics. But how did a complete unknown and a democratic socialist make ...
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