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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 468 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-510-1
EAN 9781846685101
From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestselling Just My Type author turns his gaze to maps. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-104-1
EAN 9781781251041
The 2014 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, population and demographics, business, finance and the economy, transport, tourism and the environment, society, culture and crime - it is a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-568-2
EAN 9781846685682
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-604-7
EAN 9781846686047
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-804-1
EAN 9781846688041
Bury your bodies deep, and your secrets deeper. Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible. At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-079-3
EAN 9781846680793
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,26 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-964-2
EAN 9781846689642
This is a moving true account of European society on the brink of war. A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-245-2
EAN 9781846682452
'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, lively and deeply informed narrative that traces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-001-3
EAN 9781781250013
This is a fascinating and unique exploration of nature's music, from plants and animals to wind and rain. Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound. Beginning by recording the sound of wheat growing in a Kansas field, he has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes and the sounds of over ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-445-6
EAN 9781846684456
It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the true significance of this iconic episode remains ...
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Blastland, Michael; Spiegelhalter, David
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-620-7
EAN 9781846686207
This is a far from average book: the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice. Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week.He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-602-3
EAN 9781846686023
The winning difference daring to be different can make - insights into how organisations can stand out from the herd. This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-877-6
EAN 9781861978776
This book contains a true adventure story about ultra-runners (including the author) - those who pride themselves on racing up to 100 miles, often in bare feet, with almost no food or water... 'Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.' At the heart of "Born to Run" lies a mysterious tribe of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-850-8
EAN 9781846688508
Dirty Wars follows journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of the US War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the book reports from the frontlines of Scahill's high-stakes investigation.Through ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-618-4
EAN 9781846686184
'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre.Immersed in the world of dance from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-958-1
EAN 9781846689581
Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M.Coetzee. Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-242-1
EAN 9781846682421
This is a provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics. Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one half the most extraordinary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-919-2
EAN 9781846689192
Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 is a terrifying vision of the future by the 'great postmodern storehouse of British writing', Anthony Burgess. In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-766-2
EAN 9781846687662
'The night before the wave, I remember that Helene and I talked about separating. It wouldn't be complicated; we didn't live together, hadn't had a child, and were even able to see ourselves remaining friends, and yet, it was sad. It was Christmas 2004.'In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-920-8
EAN 9781846689208
Denis Hillier is an aging British agent on his last assignment. His old school friend Roper defected to the USSR long ago, to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must persuade, or force, Roper to come back to England or risk losing his retirement fund. However, he hadn't foreseen the obstacles ...
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