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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: 19,50 €
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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Blastland, Michael; Spiegelhalter, David
The Norm Chronicles
Stories and Numbers About Danger
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-620-7
EAN 9781846686207
This is a far from average book: the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice. Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week.He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind ...
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Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense
Why Some Organisations Consistently Outperform Others
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-602-3
EAN 9781846686023
The winning difference daring to be different can make - insights into how organisations can stand out from the herd. This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are ...
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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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Dirty Wars
The World is a Battlefield
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-850-8
EAN 9781846688508
Dirty Wars follows journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of the US War on Terror's most dangerous battlefields as he uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the book reports from the frontlines of Scahill's high-stakes investigation.Through ...
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Nijinsky
A Life
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-618-4
EAN 9781846686184
'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth century, in any genre.Immersed in the world of dance from ...
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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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How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-242-1
EAN 9781846682421
This is a provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics. 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 ...
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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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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-161-5
EAN 9781846681615
This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli. 'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-048-8
EAN 9781781250488
Drawing on thirty years of writing about Greek and Roman history, Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage, and why it still matters. Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-403-6
EAN 9781846684036
The reality of female professional success in today's world - a challenge to long held assumptions about female achievement and sexual inequality. For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman's achievements. But now, women are successful careerists equal to men.In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in ...
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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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The Measure of Civilisation
The Story of Why the West Rules for Now
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-019-8
EAN 9781781250198
This title offers a unique insight into the index of social development that measures change in East and West - and that forms the core of the international bestseller. In Why the West Rules - For Now Ian Morris argues that to understand the development of East and West, we need to look beyond 'long-term ...
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