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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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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-987-1
EAN 9781846689871
Hush, hush, hush. Here comes the Bogeyman...London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs and cafes, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-466-0
EAN 9781781254660
At last the Roman self-help book the world has been waiting for. Marcus Sidonius Falx sets out the characteristics that have made the Romans the most successful people in history and shows how following their example will do the same for you. His guide will enhance the value of your life, boost its rewards and ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-681-7
EAN 9781781256817
Its the biggest question we have ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of humans: do aliens exists? If they did, what would they look like? How would they think. And, what would mean for us if we found them?. Here, Professor Jim Al-Khalili blast off in search of answers. Featuring twenty pieces by top ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 255 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-305-2
EAN 9781781253052
Spices are rare things, at once familiar and exotic, comforting us in favourite dishes while evoking far-flung countries, Arabian souks, trade winds, colonial conquests and vast fortunes. From anise to zedoary, The Book of Spice introduces us to their properties, both medical and magical, and the fascinating stories that lie behind both kitchen staples and ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 514 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-746-3
EAN 9781781257463
Joy Williams' peerless short stories are unlike anything else. Her uniquely devastating, emotionally acute, morbidly funny portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for three 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 ...
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Treasure Palaces
Great Writers visit Great Museums
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-690-9
EAN 9781781256909
From a stunning villa on sunny Capri with Ali Smith to an unlikely temple in the heart of Copenhagen with Alan Hollinghurst, Treasure Palaces brings together over twenty of the world's greatest writers to give their own personal tours of the museums that have awed, haunted and inspired them. Join Andrew Motion as he muses ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-628-2
EAN 9781781256282
Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the female hyena's clitoris exactly resemble and almost function like the male's penis? Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations, Leo Grasset answers these questions and many more in a book of post-Darwinian Just So Stories.
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 418 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-765-4
EAN 9781781257654
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-649-7
EAN 9781781256497
'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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