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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-431-9
EAN 9781846684319
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-406-7
EAN 9781846684067
This is a bold expose of science's mavericks. For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very different: many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This thrilling exploration of some of the greatest ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-593-4
EAN 9781846685934
This title contains handy wit and wisdom from across the world of business. The "Economist Book of Business Quotations" brings together history's smartest insights from people ranging from CEOs and politicians to novelists and business gurus. Insightful and entertaining, on subjects from e-commerce, strategy and investment, to management speak, business travel and business schools, it ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-536-1
EAN 9781846685361
Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of It's a Don's Life, Beard ponders whether Gaddafi's home is Roman or not, we share her 'terror of humiliation' as she enters 'hairdresser country' and follow her dilemma as she wanders ...
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-020-4
EAN 9781781250204
Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement.That something may just be one of your own annoying habits.Perhaps one small flaw - a behaviour you barely even recognise - is the only thing that's keeping you from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-232-2
EAN 9781846682322
This dazzling biography of Voltaire celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived. We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. Davidson tells the whole, rich story of his life (1694-1778) - his ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-005-1
EAN 9781781250051
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-538-5
EAN 9781846685385
The number one bestselling "Decision Book" authors return with compulsive questions about every aspect of our lives. What would be your ideal job if you didn't have to worry about money? Would you like to have more responsibility or less? How far would you go for a promotion? When did you last stand up for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-393-0
EAN 9781846683930
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today? A Renaissance Wunderkammer, to which the title refers, was a curiosity cabinet full of fascinating objects, each with a story behind it: perhaps a miniature Turkish abacus or a Japanese netsuke. The Wonderbox is the same: full of stories and ideas ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-774-7
EAN 9781846687747
A visceral crime novel based on the true story of mass murder in a Mexican border town
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