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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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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-343-5
EAN 9781846683435
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-428-9
EAN 9781846684289
This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via ...
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You Talkin' to Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-316-9
EAN 9781846683169
This is a witty, elegant enquiry into the art of persuasion. Rhetoric is what gives words power. It's nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your plea to the waitress for a table near the window. It convicts criminals (and ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-431-9
EAN 9781846684319
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-548-4
EAN 9781846685484
A book of rare beauty: "Ru" is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. Kim Thuy's "Ru" is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-585-9
EAN 9781846685859
In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still be rising. The population aged over sixty-five will have more than doubled, to more than 16 per cent; China's GDP will be 80 per cent more than America's; and the number of cars on ...
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Weeds
The Story of Outlaw Plants
- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-081-6
EAN 9781846680816
Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol of Flanders Field. They are civilisations' familiars, invading farmland and building-sites, war-zones and flower-beds across the globe.Yet living so intimately with ...
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Afgantsy
The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-062-5
EAN 9781846680625
Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, told by a former British AmbassadorTwenty-five years ago, when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan after a gruelling nine-year occupation, they left a legacy obscured by distortion and distrust. Fuelled by Cold War propaganda and the myths of the nineteenth-century Great Game, in many ways it remains so. The USSR entered ...
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Why the West Rules... For Now
The History and Future of Development and Disruption
- Profile Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-208-7
EAN 9781846682087
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats ...
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