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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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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-543-8
EAN 9781781255438
For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In ...
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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
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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Belles and Whistles
Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-213-0
EAN 9781781252130
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard ...
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Gun Street Girl
Sean Duffy 4
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-982-6
EAN 9781846689826
Belfast, 1985. Gunrunners on the borders, riots in the cities, The Power of Love on the radio. And somehow, in the middle, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy is hanging on, a Catholic policeman in the hostile Royal Ulster Constabulary.Duffy is initially left cold by the murder of a wealthy couple, shot dead while watching TV. And ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-140-9
EAN 9781781251409
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-786-0
EAN 9781846687860
This is the award-winning classic novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-128-7
EAN 9781781251287
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected insights that are shaping the future of ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-364-9
EAN 9781781253649
One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-572-9
EAN 9781846685729
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The Obstacle is the Way
The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-149-2
EAN 9781781251492
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-984-0
EAN 9781846689840
It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation. He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War, but a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-510-0
EAN 9781781255100
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