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- Profile Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-240-7
EAN 9781846682407
Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, 'as if a ...
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Pompeii
The Life of a Roman Town
- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-471-5
EAN 9781846684715
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman ...
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Catching Fire
How Cooking Made us Human
- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-286-5
EAN 9781846682865
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-349-7
EAN 9781846683497
The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-210-0
EAN 9781846682100
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-818-9
EAN 9781861978189
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-251-3
EAN 9781846682513
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching -- and much else besides.What are academics ...
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-132-5
EAN 9781846681325
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; ...
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-040-3
EAN 9781846680403
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-596-6
EAN 9781861975966
'Much of what you think you know about Pompeii may turn out, on reading this eye-opening book, to be wrong. Beard, a professor of classics at Cambridge, always wears her learning lightly, and in this outstanding book she has excelled herself, puncturing preconceptions and exposing a whole layer of myth about the world's best-preserved ancient ...
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Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-120-2
EAN 9781846681202
In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought from Delft to Beijing were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another, a woman ...
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-027-4
EAN 9781846680274
The premise of Zizek's theory is that the subjective violence we see violence with a clear identifiable agent is only the tip of an iceberg made up of systemic' violence, which is essentially the catastrophic consequence of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems. With the help of Marx, Engels, Sartre, Hegel, Kierkegaard, ...
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- Profile Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-030-8
EAN 9781788160308
David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound ...
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- Profile Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-657-4
EAN 9781861976574
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- Profile Books, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-016-8
EAN 9781846680168
Most of us are only too aware that, whatever roles we have in today's fast-moving world, much of our success lies in getting others to say 'yes' to our requests. What many people might not be aware of, though, is the vast amount of research that has been conducted on the influence process. What factors ...
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- Profile Books, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-978-0
EAN 9781861979780
Spanning world civilisations, synthesising dozens of political, philosophical and religious texts and thousands of years of bloody conflict, The 33 Strategies of War is a comprehensive guide to the subtle social game of everyday life informed by the most ingenious and effective military principles in war. Readers can learn the offensive strategies that are required ...
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Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time. "Father! Father! Burning Bright" is the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. Over 60,000 sold in small format. "The Clothes They ...
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- Profile Books, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-769-4
EAN 9781861977694
Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint? This book will show you which. 'Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. ...
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