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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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- 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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Managing Business Communications
Your Guide to Getting it Right
- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-424-0
EAN 9781781254240
Clear and effective communication within and beyond organisations has always been a crucial business driver, and as communication channels proliferate and the speed of communication increases, getting your message across has never been more important. Using the series' trademark mix of checklists and thinker profiles, the guide looks at different types of business communications - ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-463-9
EAN 9781781254639
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's ...
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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
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-418-0
EAN 9781846684180
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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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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-993-2
EAN 9781846689932
On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki.But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches his sixtieth ...
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