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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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Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet.In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together her published verse from 1963-1971, a period in which Carter began to explore the themes that dominated her later work: magic, the reworking ...
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Lingo
A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-417-2
EAN 9781781254172
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-558-2
EAN 9781781255582
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-437-1
EAN 9781846684371
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after ...
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Making a Point
The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-350-2
EAN 9781781253502
Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like the Apostrophe Protection Society and sending enthusiasts, correction-pens in hand, in ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-234-5
EAN 9781781252345
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-421-9
EAN 9781781254219
Whether it's Space Invaders, Candy Crush Saga or Grand Theft Auto, video games draw us in and don't let go. In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafes is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing games beyond the limits of our physical wellbeing?Death by Video Game uncovers the ...
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Dublin
The Making of a Capital City
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-586-7
EAN 9781861975867
Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four hundred it has experienced great - and often astonishing - change. Once a fulcrum of English power in Ireland, it was also the location for the 1916 insurrection that began the ...
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Being Mortal
Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-582-8
EAN 9781846685828
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal.So here is ...
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