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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-192-3
EAN 9781788161923
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-658-4
EAN 9781788166584
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-267-8
EAN 9781788162678
On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. The Aeneid has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universities, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-605-8
EAN 9781788166058
In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence. This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over 40 years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 8,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-572-3
EAN 9781788165723
The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?In this beautifully written and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-206-7
EAN 9781788162067
Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world. Drawing on a wide range of history's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-225-8
EAN 9781788162258
'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times'Provocative and rich' Economist'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire'An absolute must-read for 2020' StylistIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-451-1
EAN 9781788164511
With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959.It includes all of his best known ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-934-4
EAN 9781781259344
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam ChomskyThe twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-381-1
EAN 9781788163811
How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 35,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-697-8
EAN 9781781256978
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs and Germany. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-514-3
EAN 9781788165143
Six years in the making, The Pink Line follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how "LGBT Rights" become one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the twenty-first century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-255-5
EAN 9781788162555
A Sunday Times must read book of 2019 'An out-of-this-world read ... brilliant and compelling. Morton is a high-octane British science journalist, and every chapter is littered with material that strikes, amazes or haunts ...this is a book filled not just with a lifetime's knowledge of its subject but with a lifetime's suppressed excitement.'James McConnachie, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-851-4
EAN 9781781258514
Rummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems from the rubbish pile of centuries past and introduces us to the visionaries, crooks and everyday do-gooders who have shaped the material world we live in today - like the fancy ladies of the First World War who turned dog hair ...
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The concise edition of the 2019 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-429-0
EAN 9781788164290
'I love it. A practical, spiritual, nurturing book.' - Russell BrandTHE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERSince its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides ...
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This is an extraordinary, quite brilliant book' - C. J. Sansom What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years? And who would agree to be part of such an experiment? Herbert Powyss lives on a small estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable cultivation ...
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Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the ...
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