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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 6,13 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-739-5
EAN 9781781257395
Phoeba Crupp lives with her squabbling parents and younger sister Lilith on a small farm in rural Australia. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard, a decision her mother bitterly - and loudly - resents. But Phoeba has loved it here since 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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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-544-5
EAN 9781781255445
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890s, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at its heart the story of two extraordinary people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way. They are Cora Seaborne and Will ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-648-0
EAN 9781781256480
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-418-9
EAN 9781781254189
Economics is all around us, essential to every aspect of our lives. But just how much does the average person understand about what Economics is for, how it underpins crucial decisions taken every day and how it continues to evolve? Step forward the Economist's guide to Economics, written with the clarity and wit for which ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-288-8
EAN 9781781252888
Mobius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it. In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and star baker Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch of delicious culinary insights into everything from simple numeracy to category theory ('the mathematics of mathematics'), via Fermat, Poincare ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-745-6
EAN 9781781257456
What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon Critchley in this keen-eyed, moving and textured tribute to Bowie. Each ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-511-7
EAN 9781781255117
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-624-4
EAN 9781781256244
The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in ...
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