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Embers Of The Hands
Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-675-1
EAN 9781788166751
A new and original history of the Viking Age, told through the objects that defined the lives of its people -from powerful leaders to naughty teenagers A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-836598-1
EAN 9780008365981
I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he'd done it with his clothes on.' Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he's also dead. ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-987-0
EAN 9781800819870
Irish Independent Name is Debré's most intense novel yet, a fresh feat of sharp, spare, yet explosive prose. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one's ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-777-2
EAN 9781788167772
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel In 2010, two decades after the Cold War, ten Russian spies were arrested in the US following a ten-year FBI operation. Among them were three couples who had lived as Americans for years, and one ...
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Eat Poop Die
How Animals Make Our World
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-170-8
EAN 9781805221708
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-996-7
EAN 9781788169967
Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless - if you can pay the price. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-562-9
EAN 9781800815629
A working-class Romeo x{0026} Julietset in the beauty and squalor of the Yorkshire edgelands A coming-of-age novel set among a tough community in a town on the edge lands of the rural and the urban - now in paperback At once heart-breaking and hopeful, Wild Ground shows us an all-consuming first love as it grapples ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-605-5
EAN 9781805226055
The threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective action by so-called progressives. We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy.Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-582-9
EAN 9781805225829
Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other ...
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The Unaccountability Machine
Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-955-4
EAN 9781788169554
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-726-5
EAN 9781781257265
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East.
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-058-9
EAN 9781805220589
Borges meets Isabel Waidner and Mariana Enriquez in this boldly imaginative punk dystopia. The year is 2272. New York and Buenos Aires were submerged years ago and the Patagonian archipelagos are the only habitable lands on Earth. Here, Dengue Boy is a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance repulses everyone, including his own mother. As the ...
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The Challenges of Democracy
And The Rule of Law
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-250-7
EAN 9781805222507
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-241-5
EAN 9781805222415
From two leading writers and thinkers on Palestine: a profound meditation on memory and what we choose to memorialise
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Metamorphoses
In Search Of Franz Kafka
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-275-8
EAN 9781800812758
Franz Kafka was one of the most influential, and enigmatic, writers of the twentieth century. His books, with their mysterious courts and monstrous insects, have had an influential reach across literature, music, art and film. But who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba tells Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling ...
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The Language Puzzle
How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-160-7
EAN 9781800811607
A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today
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The Artist's Way Toolkit
How to Use the Creative Practices
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-203-3
EAN 9781805222033
Hailed as the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron is the authority on artistic wisdom and has transformed the lives of millions around the world. Guiding readers to the heart of their practice, here she presents her indispensable Artist's Way toolkit of Morning Pages, Artist Dates, Walks and Guidance, along with never-before-seen insights and affirmations designed ...
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My Head For A Tree
The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World s First Eco-Warriors
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-871-2
EAN 9781800818712
How much can one love a tree? Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a community renowned for the extreme lengths they go to in order to protect nature: Bishnoi men and women have died to defend trees from loggers and wildlife from poachers. Writer and conservationist Martin Goodman, one of few trusted ...
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Teddy Boys
Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-979-6
EAN 9781846689796
With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners. From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid fears of delinquency, drunkenness and disorder, the story of the Teds ...
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- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-166-1
EAN 9781805221661
The highly acclaimed new novel from the author of the literary sensation The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. 'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot'A superb, empathic comedy ...
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