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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
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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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- 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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