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We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-786-9
EAN 9781781257869
The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-212-8
EAN 9781788162128
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N.Wilson, Spectator'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon WinchesterOne day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-168-8
EAN 9781788161688
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BOOKS OF THE YEARBoth inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise became a sensation on publication in the USA for its timely insights into sex, power and the nature of abuse. Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-331-6
EAN 9781788163316
We all have unfair advantages in life, whether we happen to be quick, have a talent for maths, a great feel for people. An unfair advantage is simply the element that gives you an edge over your competition. This innovative book shows how to identify your own unfair advantages and apply them to any project.Drawing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-043-8
EAN 9781788160438
When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-451-7
EAN 9781846684517
In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-332-3
EAN 9781788163323
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-072-8
EAN 9781788160728
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag.In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-503-7
EAN 9781788165037
This is Pleasure is an extraordinary work by one of the world's finest writers, and achieves more in 15,000 words than most full-length novels. Following the unravelling of the life of a male publisher undone by allegations of sexual impropriety and harassment, and the female friend who tries to understand, and explain, his actions, it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 34,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-632-9
EAN 9781781256329
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-981-8
EAN 9781781259818
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges.The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-685-5
EAN 9781781256855
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No is Not Enough The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-341-5
EAN 9781788163415
Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his German friend, Kressmann Taylor's classic novel is a haunting tale of a society poisoned by Nazism. First published in 1938, Address Unknown met with immediate success in English but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-641-1
EAN 9781781256411
If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse lingua francas, tracing their origins and their sometimes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-385-4
EAN 9781781253854
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-039-1
EAN 9781788160391
For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone can think like a mathematician - and see, argue and think better. Learn how to simplify complex decisions without over-simplifying them.Discover ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-029-2
EAN 9781788160292
Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plants at his ...
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When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan.In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-236-4
EAN 9781788162364
Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions he founded (the Royal Exchange, Gresham College) and in the ...
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