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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-232-2
EAN 9781846682322
This dazzling biography of Voltaire celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived. We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. Davidson tells the whole, rich story of his life (1694-1778) - his ...
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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, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-005-1
EAN 9781781250051
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-538-5
EAN 9781846685385
The number one bestselling "Decision Book" authors return with compulsive questions about every aspect of our lives. What would be your ideal job if you didn't have to worry about money? Would you like to have more responsibility or less? How far would you go for a promotion? When did you last stand up for ...
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- Profile Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-393-0
EAN 9781846683930
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today? A Renaissance Wunderkammer, to which the title refers, was a curiosity cabinet full of fascinating objects, each with a story behind it: perhaps a miniature Turkish abacus or a Japanese netsuke. The Wonderbox is the same: full of stories and ideas ...
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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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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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- Profile Books, 2011
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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- Profile Books, 2011
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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- Profile Books, 2011
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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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 · 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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- 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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- Profile Books, 2011
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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- Profile Books, 2011
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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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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- Profile Books, 2011
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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