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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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Lys, Thomas Z.; Neale, Margaret
Getting (More of) What You Want : How the Secrets of Economics x{0026} Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything in B
- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78125-346-5
EAN 9781781253465
Forget about 'getting to yes' - in most negotiations, we can get what we want. Drawing on the latest research in psychology and behavioural economics, Getting (More of) What You Want shows us how new behavioural models allow negotiators to move past the outdated "win-win" approach and find the most advantageous outcome for each and ...
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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 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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