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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 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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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 420 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-165-2
EAN 9781781251652
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.These were some of the most ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 386 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-958-2
EAN 9781861979582
In Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken that cliched but real human emotion of wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, they encompass crops, weeds, medicines, religious gathering-places and a water ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
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PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-718-0
EAN 9781781257180
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, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-370-1
EAN 9781846683701
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
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PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-450-9
EAN 9781781254509
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics, making our own judgements and interpretations. Among the ...
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The Travelling Bag
And Other Ghost Stories
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-619-0
EAN 9781781256190
A chilling collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. In the title story in the warmly lit surrounds of a club off St James, a bishop listens closely as a supernatural detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building...
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The Book of Human Emotions
An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-130-0
EAN 9781781251300
Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Is your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Are you curious (perhaps about this book)? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok? Or giddy with depaysement? The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-694-7
EAN 9781781256947
Never mind the glass ceiling. In the workplace today there's a glass wall. Men and women can see each other clearly through the divide, but they don't speak the same language or have the same cultural expectations.And as a result, women and their careers are suffering. With more women than ever in the workforce, but ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-213-1
EAN 9781846682131
Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own.From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-351-9
EAN 9781781253519
The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-607-7
EAN 9781781256077
For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising. Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that a Big Mac will cost you twice as much in Israel as one in ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-581-0
EAN 9781781255810
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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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-540-8
EAN 9781846685408
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, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-324-3
EAN 9781781253243
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