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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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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-044-0
EAN 9781781250440
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of the most ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-445-5
EAN 9781781254455
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement and support new business. But these roles comprise only a tiny sliver of the sector's activity: the vast majority of lending is within the finance sector.So ...
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SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-381-7
EAN 9781846683817
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-509-4
EAN 9781781255094
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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The Vital Question
Why is Life the Way it is?
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-037-2
EAN 9781781250372
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-949-9
EAN 9781846689499
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016 It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. ...
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Gone to Ground
One Woman's Extraordinary Account of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-415-8
EAN 9781781254158
Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination.Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-457-9
EAN 9781846684579
When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special. To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-342-7
EAN 9781781253427
We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-567-4
EAN 9781781255674
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-540-7
EAN 9781781255407
For fifteen years, the recalcitrant Miss Shepherd lived in her broken-down van on Alan Bennett's driveway in Camden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord, never under the illusion that his impulse was purely charitable.
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-531-5
EAN 9781781255315
This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world's leading exponent of Marx's ...
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Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating ...
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