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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-287-1
EAN 9781800812871
With an Introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford. An outstanding edition and a game-changing translation London Magazine'There is no novel more mesmerizing and paradigm-shifting' Valeria Luiselli, the New York TimesIn this stunning masterpiece of the surreal, Juan Preciado sets out on a strange quest, bound by a promise to his ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-378-7
EAN 9781846683787
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER' Mary Beard has always had the sharpest eyes for telling detail and colourful anecdote' Sunday Times'Britain's most famous classicist ... at the peak of her powers' The Times'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' Telegraph'The reigning Queen of Classics' SpectatorWhat was it ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-044-0
EAN 9781800810440
Amanda Bailey knows all about the notorious Alperton Angels cult. There have been dozens of books and films about the Angels, ever since the night nearly two decades ago, when they attempted to sacrifice a baby they believed to be the Antichrist.With all the cultists now dead - apart from their charismatic leader - it ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-785-2
EAN 9781800817852
Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying. As she navigates the final weeks of her life, and takes charge of the manner of her death, she is flooded with childhood memories, and returns to the present with a renewed appreciation for the brilliance of life around her: the autumn ...
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How to be a Renaissance Woman
The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-666-9
EAN 9781788166669
Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history ...
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Am I Normal?
The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-246-3
EAN 9781788162463
Sarah Chaney takes us on an eye-opening and surprising journey into the history of science, revisiting the studies, landmark experiments and tests that proliferated from the early 19th century to find answers to the question: what's normal? These include a census of hallucinations - and even a UK beauty map (which claimed the women in ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-024-2
EAN 9781800810242
Elliott has never thought of himself as a hero. Until one dark night he meets Rebecca, a scared and vulnerable young woman who needs his help. There's a man harassing her, following her; would he mind pretending to be her boyfriend, just while she walks home, to put him off?And that is that - just ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-083-9
EAN 9781800810839
One afternoon, in a little farmhouse in rural Virginia, the ailing Marie Shaw dies in ambiguous circumstances and nothing is ever the same again for the seven young children she left behind.Spanning from the Great Depression to the burgeoning of US counterculture in 1959, Chorus sensitively traces the divergent paths taken by the grieving Shaw ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-006-8
EAN 9781800810068
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD. Why are the best words short and old?Why are full stops a writer's best friend?How can we simplify, then exaggerate?And what exactly are dangling modifiers?We'd all like to write with style. But what does that mean, and what can we learn from The Economist, a publication well known for its ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-032-7
EAN 9781800810327
The reclusive Sylvia Wren, one of the most important American artists of the past century, has been running from her past for sixty years. Born Iris Chapel, of the Chapel munitions dynasty, second youngest of six sisters, she grew up in a palatial Victorian 'Wedding Cake House' in New England, neglected by her distant father ...
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Psycho-Cybernetics
(Updated and Expanded)
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-292-5
EAN 9781800812925
The landmark self-help bestseller that has inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million readers. In this updated edition, with a new introduction and editorial commentary by Matt Furey, president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, the original 1960 text has been annotated and amplified to make Maxwell Maltz's message even more relevant for the ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-055-1
EAN 9781788160551
'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gates'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili'A profound meditation on metabolism, the Krebs cycle x{0026} the origin of life' Anil SethFor decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-296-8
EAN 9781788162968
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinizing them for decades, yet he is still moved when he looks at ...
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Chums
How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-739-0
EAN 9781788167390
oris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians.They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when ...
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Floor Sample
A Creative Memoir
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-195-9
EAN 9781800811959
In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life. From her early career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and her marriage to Martin Scorsese, to her tortured experiences with alcohol and Hollywood, Julia Cameron reflects in this engaging memoir on the ...
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem
A New Biography of the Old City
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-919-6
EAN 9781788169196
'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem PostIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of mixed and diverse ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-836-1
EAN 9781781258361
For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but forthousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian Morris shows how much the meaning of ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-871-7
EAN 9781788168717
The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on her return, and trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After electroshock therapy and ...
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Krogerus, Mikael; Tschappeler, Roman
The Get Things Done Book
41 Tools to Start, Stick With and Finish Things
- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-464-6
EAN 9781800814646
LEARN THE TECHNIQUES YOU NEED TO STOP PROCRASTINATING AND START GETTING THINGS DONEEvery day we begin new projects, or try to find pleasure in the ones we're working on - and above all, we hope one day we'll finish them! But in a disjointed, distracting world it's often hard to find the motivation and focus ...
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- Profile Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-520-9
EAN 9781800815209
Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? How can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently?This updated edition of the international bestseller distils into a single volume the fifty best decision-making models used on MBA courses, and elsewhere, that will help you tackle ...
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