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The Wordhord
Daily Life in Old English
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-611-9
EAN 9781788166119
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. 'A marvelous book' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful' - Tom Holland'A lovely, lovely read' - Lucy Mangan'Splendid' - David Crystal'Thorough, entertaining, and absolutely fascinating.' Paul Anthony Jones, Haggard HawksIn this beautiful little ...
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The Library
A Fragile History
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-343-9
EAN 9781788163439
LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNA SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ...
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Discipline Is Destiny
The Power of Self-Control
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-633-1
EAN 9781788166331
The inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C.S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further.' Easy to say, hard to practice - and if it was tough in 300 BC, or in the 1940s, it feels all but impossible today. Yet it's the most empowering and ...
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Courage Is Calling
Fortune Favours the Brave
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-628-7
EAN 9781788166287
An inspiring anthem to the power, promise, and challenges of courage, the first in a series examining the timeless Stoic virtues from 1 New York Times bestselling author Ryan HolidayFortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today so ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-642-3
EAN 9781788166423
"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The TimesSince Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but romantic love and the human condition. However, while Dante's ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-891-5
EAN 9781788168915
A New York Times Bestseller 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new ... This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder' - James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song'Unusual and captivating ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-686-7
EAN 9781788166867
'One of the most interesting and original thinkers about the rise of China' - Peter FrankopanIts vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-002-0
EAN 9781800810020
Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionA Sunday Times Book of the YearA Times Paperback of the Year In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which ...
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Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-062-4
EAN 9781800810624
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The Celts
A Sceptical History
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-880-9
EAN 9781788168809
The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer.There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages and cultures remain throughout Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall. The word keltoi first appears in Greek as applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians' - and ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-053-7
EAN 9781788160537
Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets.Our inner cartography ...
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Mountain Tales
Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-537-2
EAN 9781788165372
'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and story-telling, a deeply-felt exploration of ideas, and a gripping chronicle of the fates of the garbage-pickers of Mumbai ... I loved this book.' Suzy Hansen, author of ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-107-7
EAN 9781788161077
'Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant - I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up' - Caitlin Moran'Utterly wonderful ... full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry' - Marian Keyes'A glorious, outrageously funny retelling ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-063-1
EAN 9781800810631
It's the height of summer. As the heat shimmers on the streets and ice cream melts onto sticky fingers, tempers begin to rise and old grudges surface. From Cornish beaches to the French Riviera, it's not just a holiday that's on people's minds ...it's murder. In these ten classic stories from writers such as Dorothy ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-195-4
EAN 9781788161954
Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etrangerI want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Munoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-835-4
EAN 9781781258354
'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and SteelGeography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers ...
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The Crux
How Leaders Become Strategists
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-950-9
EAN 9781788169509
A revolutionary framework to turn any leader into a strategist - by the bestselling author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy'The Crux shows why Rumelt is a global authority on strategy.' Andy D. Bryant, chairman of the board, Intel Corporation, 2012-20'Another triumph from the most insightful - and entertaining - commentator on strategy ' Sir John Kay, ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-578-5
EAN 9781788165785
We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but can we see ourselves? In these wide-ranging, ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-967-7
EAN 9781788169677
'Booth is a triumph!' Ruth Ozeki'Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Her finest, most beautiful novel to date' Neel Mukherjee'Effortlessly resonant... breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters' Daily Telegraph'Karen Joy Fowler's novels are wildly inventive and deservedly popular' Daily Mail'In its stretch and imaginative depth, Booth has an utterly seductive authority'Guardian'Captures with enthralling vividness ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-584-6
EAN 9781788165846
Metro Best New Books to Read in Spring PickGlossary Magazine Highly Anticipated Fiction PickA road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?Meanwhile ...
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