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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84668-452-4
EAN 9781846684524
Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an object of veneration. And, to this ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-336-6
EAN 9781781253366
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-926-0
EAN 9781846689260
The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-335-9
EAN 9781781253359
Bizarre, darkly funny and disconcerting, this collection of stories explores the surreal that lurks in everyday life. Deftly blending the everyday at its most uncanny with smatterings of sci-fi, these fourteen stories probe moments when family members move apart, or drift back together, when dreams crumble and convictions falter, moments when suddenly things fall in ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-581-1
EAN 9781846685811
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the globe and history, exploring ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-436-4
EAN 9781846684364
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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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-273-4
EAN 9781781252734
The 2015 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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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-339-7
EAN 9781781253397
Mark McCormack, dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport', founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake. It was the first and is the most successful sports management company in the world, becoming a multi-million dollar, worldwide corporation whose activities in the business and marketing spheres are so diverse as to defy classification. Here, Mark ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-996-3
EAN 9781846689963
Man has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Man a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-989-5
EAN 9781846689895
efore television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to ...
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Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-133-1
EAN 9781781251331
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination. But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two ...
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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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Peas and Queues
The Minefield of Modern Manners
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-033-4
EAN 9781781250334
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff ...
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1913
The Year before the Storm
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-961-1
EAN 9781846689611
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play ...
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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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Managing Finance
Your Guide to Getting It Right
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-218-5
EAN 9781781252185
The experts' guide to how to manage the all-important financial side of running a business. Aimed at the non-specialist, here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to being on top of your financial management responsibilities. Covering such topics as: financial forecasting, costing, drawing up a budget, ...
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Managing Strategy
Your Guide to Getting It Right
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-219-2
EAN 9781781252192
The experts' guide to the all-important subject of business strategy. Here are the checklists compiled by CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to being on top of the strategic issues of a manager's job, covering such topics as: *Mission and vision *Organisation culture *Management and leadership styles *Values *Devising a code of ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-160-7
EAN 9781781251607
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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