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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
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 · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-707-5
EAN 9781846687075
Winter, 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper has just claimed his thirteenth victim. Ripper thirteen, police nil.As public anger against the police mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is sent to take over the investigation. The Strafford Shootings remain unsolved, and the murders of the Jubilee summer of 1977 are still attributed to the Ripper. But Hunter ...
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-136-3
EAN 9781846681363
New edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts and figures about the world we live in.
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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: 15,50 €
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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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-258-2
EAN 9781846682582
The four books will play a central role in the first ever Oxfam Book Fortnight, a new annual event launching in July 2009. The fortnight will be co-ordinated by Hay and bring together dozens of UK literary festivals, who are each being asked to put on one Oxfam event during the fortnight.
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-261-2
EAN 9781846682612
The four books will play a central role in the first ever Oxfam Book Fortnight, a new annual event launching in July 2009. The fortnight will be co-ordinated by Hay and bring together dozens of UK literary festivals, who are each being asked to put on one Oxfam event during the fortnight.
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Vermeer's Hat
The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-120-2
EAN 9781846681202
In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought from Delft to Beijing were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another, a woman ...
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-259-9
EAN 9781846682599
The four books will play a central role in the first ever Oxfam Book Fortnight, a new annual event launching in July 2009. The fortnight will be co-ordinated by Hay and bring together dozens of UK literary festivals, who are each being asked to put on one Oxfam event during the fortnight.
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-206-3
EAN 9781846682063
The four books will play a central role in the first ever Oxfam Book Fortnight, a new annual event launching in July 2009. The fortnight will be co-ordinated by Hay and bring together dozens of UK literary festivals, who are each being asked to put on one Oxfam event during the fortnight.
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- Profile Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86197-837-0
EAN 9781861978370
Society is no longer based on mass consumption but on mass participation. New forms of collaboration - such as Wikipedia and YouTube - are paving the way for an age in which people want to be players, rather than mere spectators, in the production process. In the 1980s, Charles Leadbeater's prescient book, In Search of ...
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