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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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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
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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
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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
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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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In the Long Run
The Future as a Political Idea
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-232-1
EAN 9781800812321
Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no ...
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Exhausted
An A Z for the Weary
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-691-6
EAN 9781800816916
Burnout is said to be the defining feeling of the post-pandemic world - but why are we all so exhausted? Some of us struggle with perfectionism, while others are simply overwhelmed by the demands of modern life. From confronting our inner critics to how our desire to be productive stops us from being free, Anna ...
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Be Bad, Better
How not trying so hard will set you free
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-688-6
EAN 9781800816886
For most of my life, I've lived as though there's a Platonic ideal of me, and if I just try hard enough, I can be it. That, my friends, is nuts.'Most of us spend our lives trying to be a better version of ourselves - happier, healthier, fitter, calmer, selfless ...But what if all the ...
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Little Englanders
Britain in the Edwardian Era
- Profile Books, 2025
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PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-531-5
EAN 9781800815315
When Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Many later remembered the era that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set.Yet the Edwardians knew the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever. In ...
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You Deserve To Be Rich
Master the Inner Game of Wealth and Claim Your Future
- Profile Books, 2025
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-534-8
EAN 9781805225348
Hard work is often not enough to achieve these universal goals. Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings know the systemic barriers that keep those who are hustling from achieving their dreams and it's now their mission to level the playing field. For the first time since having built a multimillion following for their Earn Your Leisure ...
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Eurotrash
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 25
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-304-7
EAN 9781805223047
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Traversing the country in a hired cab, they attempt to give away the wealth she has amassed from investing in the arms industry, ...
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