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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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Afgantsy
The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-062-5
EAN 9781846680625
Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, told by a former British AmbassadorTwenty-five years ago, when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan after a gruelling nine-year occupation, they left a legacy obscured by distortion and distrust. Fuelled by Cold War propaganda and the myths of the nineteenth-century Great Game, in many ways it remains so. The USSR entered ...
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- Profile Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-774-7
EAN 9781846687747
A visceral crime novel based on the true story of mass murder in a Mexican border town
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Why the West Rules... For Now
The History and Future of Development and Disruption
- Profile Books, 2011
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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- 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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