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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-868-7
EAN 9781788168687
'A writer of prodigious gifts' GuardianFull of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don't Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskill's incomparable excavation of character. 'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; 'Folk Song' dissects the lives of people behind newspaper headlines, including a murderer who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-815-1
EAN 9781788168151
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBrideNuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior, consistently fascinate and provoke. Mary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-610-2
EAN 9781788166102
Old English is the language we think we know until we actually see it. Used in England over a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (word), others that are unrecognisable (neorxnawang - paradise) and some that are curiously mystifying (gafol-fisc - tax-fish). In this beautiful little book, Hana Videen has ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-912-2
EAN 9781781259122
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78816-859-5
EAN 9781788168595
*** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD ****** THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ****** A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK ****** SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER ***'The ultimate page turner' - REESE WITHERSPOON'A master storyteller. Gripping, big-hearted and twisty' - GREER HENDRICKS'Powerful, intense and beautifully observed' - T.M. LOGAN IT ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-513-6
EAN 9781788165136
In this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner has rewritten classic stories for more enlightened times; from Snow White's relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, to the Emperor who was not naked but was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78816-801-4
EAN 9781788168014
In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits. The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you're more likely to come across a corpse under the Christmas tree than a present.From a Santa Claus with a secret to a violent theft that snowballs into something quite unexpected, pull ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-867-0
EAN 9781788168670
Bold, dramatic and deeply unsettling' GuardianWhen Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a couple in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her hosts - Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic ...
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'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' Sunday Times'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, danger and social recalibration of the MeToo movement into an extremely potent, intelligent and nuanced account.' Sarah Hall, Guardian'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-455-9
EAN 9781788164559
'A riotous delve into the dark medical world of Restoration London' - S.G. MACLEAN'An infectious read, packed with atmosphere and colourful characters' - OSCAR DE MURIEL'A gripping whodunnit with a sinister twist' - JENNIFER RYANWHO WOULD MURDER THE DYING... London, 1665.Hidden within the growing pile of corpses in his churchyard, Rector Symon Patrick discovers a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-342-2
EAN 9781788163422
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under AttackFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-257-9
EAN 9781788162579
The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history.Is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-124-4
EAN 9781788161244
'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyOurs is the age of the strongman. Countries from Russia to India, Turkey to America are ruled ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-854-0
EAN 9781788168540
Over the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into daily entries. Each entry delivers refined and concise wisdom from one of his books, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-618-8
EAN 9781788166188
This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-903-5
EAN 9781788169035
No one can successfully achieve goals and new objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, make change in their community or lead other people without personal accountability.After decades of working with organisations and individuals, John G. Miller knows that the troubles that plague them cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others. Rather, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-851-9
EAN 9781788168519
The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition of the Biblical myth that woman was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-486-3
EAN 9781788164863
Whether by choice or circumstance, as a freelancer or a company employee working from home, more of us are becoming solo workers than ever before. But once you've made the leap, how to do you actually work well in isolation? And how can you thrive while working alone?Picking up where the freelancer bibles stop, Solo ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-717-8
EAN 9781788167178
A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-807-6
EAN 9781788168076
Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed GBP208 billion to the economy in a single year -- that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf ...
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