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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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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 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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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
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-312-0
EAN 9781781253120
Clear writing is the key to clear thinking. So think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible. That's the thinking that underpins this much-loved guide, and the mantra for anyone wanting to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which The Economist is renowned.The Economist Style Guide guides the ...
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Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leadership or an over-reliance on brand and image.And yet a dose of stupidity can ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-161-4
EAN 9781781251614
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption, and its compulsion to exploit nature ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-039-6
EAN 9781781250396
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader.When Timothy Brook ...
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The Dark Box
A Secret History of Confession
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-109-6
EAN 9781781251096
This is the sacred and profane history of confession, with a shocking new expose of its role in the child abuse scandals of the 20th century. Would you tell your deepest secrets to a relative stranger? And if you did, would you feel vulnerable? Cleansed? Or perhaps even worse than you did before? Confession has ...
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A Lucky Child
A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-400-4
EAN 9781781254004
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day ...
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The War on Heresy
Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-200-1
EAN 9781846682001
The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I.Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat? ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-156-1
EAN 9781846681561
A concise guide to living by your own rules (and a radical new guide to achieving greatness) from Robert Greene, author of international bestseller The 48 Laws of Power.
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