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How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-243-8
EAN 9781846682438
Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one half the most extraordinary developmental success story ever seen, the other half a paper tiger. Joe Studwell explores how policies ridiculed by ...
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Booker Shortlist 2014
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-295-6
EAN 9781781252956
Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to ...
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Confronting the Classics
Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-049-5
EAN 9781781250495
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her books and TV presenting. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-337-4
EAN 9781846683374
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great Mathematical Problems explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-038-9
EAN 9781781250389
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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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-098-3
EAN 9781781250983
From back-office accountant to front-line executive, the rapid rise of the chief financial officer is unrivalled by any other corporate role. With access to every facet of the business, CFOs now wield a level of influence matched only by chief executives. This book explains how CFOs earned their privileged position, and what the future may ...
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No Man's Land
Writings from a World at War
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-925-3
EAN 9781846689253
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, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-969-7
EAN 9781846689697
One of America's most prestigious writers, Russell Banks is a literary icon whose works probe the deepest recesses of American life. His profound and resonant stories of the lives of ordinary Americans have appeared regularly in anthologies and collections, including The Best American Short Stories. Reminiscent of Don DeLillo and Raymond Carver, this collection of ...
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Numbers Guide
The Essentials of Business Numeracy
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-903-1
EAN 9781846689031
Designed as a companion to The Economist Style Guide, the best-selling guide to writing style, The Economist Numbers Guide is invaluable for everyone who has to work with numbers, which in today's commercially focussed world means most managers. In addition to general advice on basic numeracy, the guide points out common errors and explains the ...
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The War that ended Peace
How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-272-8
EAN 9781846682728
This is the definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. 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 ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-170-7
EAN 9781846681707
This is a remarkable new biography of a cultural icon. Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never accepted into ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 468 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-510-1
EAN 9781846685101
From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestselling Just My Type author turns his gaze to maps. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-104-1
EAN 9781781251041
The 2014 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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Spell it Out
The Singular Story of English Spelling
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-568-2
EAN 9781846685682
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-604-7
EAN 9781846686047
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-804-1
EAN 9781846688041
Bury your bodies deep, and your secrets deeper. Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible. At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-079-3
EAN 9781846680793
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-245-2
EAN 9781846682452
'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, lively and deeply informed narrative that traces ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-001-3
EAN 9781781250013
This is a fascinating and unique exploration of nature's music, from plants and animals to wind and rain. Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound. Beginning by recording the sound of wheat growing in a Kansas field, he has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes and the sounds of over ...
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Destiny in the Desert
The Road to El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-445-6
EAN 9781846684456
It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the true significance of this iconic episode remains ...
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