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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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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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- Profile Books, 2010
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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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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 · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-359-6
EAN 9781846683596
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport. Zusatztext Seitenanfang Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, de Botton will produce an extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place, time, and our daily lives. He will explore the magical and the mundane, personal and collective experiences and ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-711-2
EAN 9781846687112
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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 dura
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-226-1
EAN 9781846682261
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-753-2
EAN 9781846687532
On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box. Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to ...
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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 dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-288-9
EAN 9781846682889
This is an original, widely-applicable concept from one of the world's foremost economists. Obliquity will be The Tipping Point for the new decade. If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another.This is the concept of 'obliquity': paradoxical as it sounds, many goals are more likely to be ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-857-8
EAN 9781861978578
Strength in What Remains recounts the remarkable experiences of Deo, a medical student from Burundi who narrowly survived two genocides, first in his own country, then Rwanda. Through sheer fortitude, and the astonishing kindness of strangers, Deo fled to New York. But his ordeal was far from over.He endured daily discrimination in his menial job, ...
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- Profile Books, 2010
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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
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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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