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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 dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33026-3
EAN 9780571330263
A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager - and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the best of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is forced to host for eternity.Until eternity itself is threatened. ...
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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 dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-512-4
EAN 9781781255124
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation that change the world? Clearly not: real people-leaders in particular-and the decisions that they make change our lives irrevocably, whether in deciding to go to war or not, decisive tactical choices made in the heat ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-451-6
EAN 9781781254516
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several you might have thought ...
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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 dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-534-6
EAN 9781781255346
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he lived life ...
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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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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-555-1
EAN 9781781255551
Each of these twelve stories is a complete world, where ordinary lives are transformed, myths bloom into reality and the everyday is haunted by obsession and duplicity. A painter is made insufferable by success; a writer is driven to bury the evidence of his inadequacy. Metamorphosis fragments a marriage and beasts bear the consequences of ...
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