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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-273-5
EAN 9781846682735
The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-257-4
EAN 9781781252574
In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and poor to the impact of social media, via Machiavelli, ...
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How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-243-8
EAN 9781846682438
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 developmental success story ever seen, the other half a paper tiger. Joe Studwell explores how policies ridiculed by ...
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Booker Shortlist 2014
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-295-6
EAN 9781781252956
Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to ...
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Confronting the Classics
Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-049-5
EAN 9781781250495
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her books and TV presenting. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-337-4
EAN 9781846683374
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great Mathematical Problems explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
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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Spell it Out
The Singular Story of English Spelling
- Profile Books, 2013
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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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-079-3
EAN 9781846680793
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
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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- Profile Books, 2013
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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- Profile Books, 2013
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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- Profile Books, 2013
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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Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-430-2
EAN 9781846684302
This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, ...
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Invisible Romans
. Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women... the Romans That History Forgot
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-402-9
EAN 9781846684029
Rome's invisible inhabitants - prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, soldiers and gladiators - brought back to life. Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-577-4
EAN 9781846685774
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-830-0
EAN 9781846688300
One night, Anna blacks out in a stranger's apartment. This is only the beginning of her nightmare. Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment.Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds herself late at night, in ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-394-7
EAN 9781846683947
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today. There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when ...
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This title offers a new way to look at life in the twenty-first century. Today's brightest minds present ten bold new ideas to change the world, brought to life through Andrew Park's dynamic, thought-provoking illustrations. Slavoj Zizek exposes the surprising ethical implications of charity; David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order; Barbara ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-463-0
EAN 9781846684630
This is the definitive concise account of our remarkable past. Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge? In "A Short History of England", bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and ...
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