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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-463-9
EAN 9781781254639
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-161-4
EAN 9781781251614
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption, and its compulsion to exploit nature ...
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ISBN 978-1-84668-418-0
EAN 9781846684180
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-039-6
EAN 9781781250396
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader.When Timothy Brook ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-109-6
EAN 9781781251096
This is the sacred and profane history of confession, with a shocking new expose of its role in the child abuse scandals of the 20th century. Would you tell your deepest secrets to a relative stranger? And if you did, would you feel vulnerable? Cleansed? Or perhaps even worse than you did before? Confession has ...
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PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-400-4
EAN 9781781254004
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day ...
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PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-993-2
EAN 9781846689932
On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki.But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches his sixtieth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84668-452-4
EAN 9781846684524
Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an object of veneration. And, to this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-336-6
EAN 9781781253366
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-926-0
EAN 9781846689260
The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-335-9
EAN 9781781253359
Bizarre, darkly funny and disconcerting, this collection of stories explores the surreal that lurks in everyday life. Deftly blending the everyday at its most uncanny with smatterings of sci-fi, these fourteen stories probe moments when family members move apart, or drift back together, when dreams crumble and convictions falter, moments when suddenly things fall in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-164-5
EAN 9781781251645
The latest in the bestselling New Scientist Last Word series All science begins with questions...- Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why doesn't your own snoring wake you up? - And why is the Large Hadron Collider so ...er ...large? And ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-581-1
EAN 9781846685811
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the globe and history, exploring ...
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PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-436-4
EAN 9781846684364
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-273-4
EAN 9781781252734
The 2015 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, population and demographics, business, finance and the economy, transport, tourism and the environment, society, culture and crime - it is a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-339-7
EAN 9781781253397
Mark McCormack, dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport', founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake. It was the first and is the most successful sports management company in the world, becoming a multi-million dollar, worldwide corporation whose activities in the business and marketing spheres are so diverse as to defy classification. Here, Mark ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-996-3
EAN 9781846689963
Man has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Man a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-989-5
EAN 9781846689895
efore television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-133-1
EAN 9781781251331
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination. But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-200-1
EAN 9781846682001
The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I.Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat? ...
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