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This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy. One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately capture ...
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What are the lives of modern day pirates like outside of the attack skiffs? How do they spend their money? What clothes do they wear and what is their drug of choice? Deadly Waters takes us to the heart of Somalia, where Jay Bahadur, the intrepid 25-year-old author has ventured where most journalists fear to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 28,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-342-8
EAN 9781846683428
The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses. 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 around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-157-8
EAN 9781846681578
This is the most complete history of fiction in English ever published. The world's greatest authority - arguably the only person who could have written it, John Sutherland - provides the lives of some 294 novelists writing in English, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Arranged in chronological order the novelist's lives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-427-2
EAN 9781846684272
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, the foremost expert on linguistics David Crystal draws on the one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of developments and events taht have shaped our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century
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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 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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-790-7
EAN 9781846687907
This is a powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter. Lead singer for platinum-selling 2-tone band The Selecter, Pauline Black has been in the music business for over thirty years. The only woman in a movement dominated by men, she was very much the Queen of British Ska. She saw ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-231-5
EAN 9781846682315
For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes. 'This is the room from which I will direct the war', Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-526-2
EAN 9781846685262
This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. "The Shielding of Mrs Forbes" - Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. ...
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Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Eddie Dunford's got the job he wanted - crime ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-309-1
EAN 9781846683091
Taking a long view of the current economic crisis, eminent academic David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the current financial crisis. For three centuries, the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Using his unrivalled knowledge of ...
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In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-289-6
EAN 9781846682896
An original, widely-applicable concept from one of the world s foremost economist. Tim Harford says it is persuasive, rigorous, creative and wise. Brilliant -11,000 copies of the hardback sold to date.
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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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Chris Mullin's bestselling "A View From the Foothills" provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Laying bare the personalities, pyrotechnics and political intrigues of the Blair years, it was described as 'Yes Minister meets Alan Clark'. Funny and self-deprecating, the new diaries run from his sacking by Blair as a minister ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-266-7
EAN 9781846682667
Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to ...
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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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