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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-830-0
EAN 9781846688300
One night, Anna blacks out in a stranger's apartment. This is only the beginning of her nightmare. Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment.Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds herself late at night, in ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-394-7
EAN 9781846683947
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today. There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-509-5
EAN 9781846685095
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 Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history.His compelling narratives range from the quest to create ...
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This title offers a new way to look at life in the twenty-first century. Today's brightest minds present ten bold new ideas to change the world, brought to life through Andrew Park's dynamic, thought-provoking illustrations. Slavoj Zizek exposes the surprising ethical implications of charity; David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order; Barbara ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-574-3
EAN 9781846685743
Susan Hill, author of Woman in Black , is the greatest living writer of ghost stories, and here is a perfect chiller: a story of two damaged children filled with unease, the supernatural and horror. The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-463-0
EAN 9781846684630
This is the definitive concise account of our remarkable past. Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge? In "A Short History of England", bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-343-5
EAN 9781846683435
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through. 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 ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-567-5
EAN 9781846685675
This is an enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles 'stationery' from 'stationary' - and explains why the 'i before e except after c' rule is so misleading. 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 ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-590-3
EAN 9781846685903
Global recession, rebellion in the Middle East, and heartrending natural disasters in places as far apart as Japan and Haiti highlight how devastatingly surprising the world we live in can be. So how does a business construct and implement a strategy and embed a management approach that will enable it to get through uncertain times ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
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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You Talkin' to Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
- Profile Books, 2012
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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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-431-9
EAN 9781846684319
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- Profile Books, 2012
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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Breakfast with Socrates
The Philosophy of Everyday Life
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- Profile Books, 2012
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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- Profile Books, 2012
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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- Profile Books, 2012
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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Weeds
The Story of Outlaw Plants
- Profile Books, 2012
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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- Profile Books, 2012
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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