Editorial Quercus Publishing
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-899-7
EAN 9781848668997
Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crecy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-721-1
EAN 9781848667211
To what extent is memory based on mood? Why do we compare ourselves to others? Are there different types of intelligence? How do we change with age? This book answers all these questions and many more in 200 short and accessible essays. From Pavlov's dogs to experimental ethics and from the development of personality to ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-723-5
EAN 9781848667235
What happens when a star dies? How many asteroids are in our solar system? Can galaxies collide? What is dark energy? Astronomy in Minutes answers all these questions and more as it condenses 200 key concepts into easily digestible essays. From Trojan asteroids to stellar black holes, and from superclusters to cosmic microwave background, this ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-725-9
EAN 9781848667259
What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions - and many more - in 200 simple and accessible essays. From the 100 Years War to the Gulf Wars, ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85705-413-5
EAN 9780857054135
The smash-hit satirical bestseller, more than 3 million copies sold worldwideFilm a box-office hit in Germany, now available on NETFLIXA two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring David Threlfall (Shameless)Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no ...
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London 1968. A city of two sides. A copper caught in the crossfire.The Black Sheep. The wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspicious circumstances. The Honest Detective.DS Cathal Breen dodges political embargo and death threats to pursue the case. The Rolling Stone. Notorious art dealer Robert Fraser may provide the ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-868-3
EAN 9781848668683
Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell - stories which can bring ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-85705-364-0
EAN 9780857053640
Why did he return to Beirut?Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from war?It was not to answer his brother Naseem's call and raise a hospital out the ashes; it was not to pursue past sweethearts and father the ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-998-5
EAN 9780857389985
At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the successful hunters are shaken by a grisly discovery. Across in Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with frenzied brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed, her young grandson nowhere to be found. Only Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection.Dropped from the ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78206-210-3
EAN 9781782062103
FRANCE. A death sentence. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Enzo Macleod is running out of time to crack the most confounding of unsolved French murders.A death threat. His daughter is nearly killed, Enzo is mugged - and then he is arrested. Someone is trying to destroy his character.Someone is framing him for murder. A deathly ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85705-151-6
EAN 9780857051516
Originally published in Catalan in 1956, albeit in a heavily censored form, Uncertain Glory was the first novel to tell the story of the Spanish Civil War from the losers' side. Joan Sales fought on the Madrid and Aragon fronts before fleeing into exile. He distilled his experiences of this bitter fratricidal conflict into a ...
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Without God, is Everything Permitted?
The 20 Big Questions in Ethics
- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78087-597-2
EAN 9781780875972
Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really tough 'right vs right' dilemmas, where each side has ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78206-154-0
EAN 9781782061540
Numericon tells the stories of the numbers, mathematical discoveries, oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us. Funny, bizarre, tragic and dramatic, these stories reveal the power, passion and beauty of mathematics. Each chapter is an intriguing story about a number, including why 3 is strong, e is natural ...
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In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have uncovered a crime that has no rhyme or reason: a young girl, attacked and left for dead. Zoe and Joseph - their pasts, cultures and upbringings radically different - must work together. Their task is not only to help the girl, Kuyeya, recover but, ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-378-7
EAN 9781848663787
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE 2014. Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over.He was wrong. Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies. ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-420-3
EAN 9781848664203
Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it.But Salwa is not ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78206-851-8
EAN 9781782068518
Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight for the seven-year-old girl, each remembers what death has stolen from their ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78087-579-8
EAN 9781780875798
Junk has jumped through space and time to find his sister Ambeline. She has been taken to a country ruled by the nine emperors. Junk and his friends Garvan and Lasel set off to find her.On his quest, Junk will fight off lions, morph into a cyborg, discover the secret of the universe, and play ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-893-3
EAN 9780857388933
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, once a prison. The body may be that of Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Called Mother Hook for her claw-like hand, Jemima was hanged for the murder of five children.DCI Harry Nelson has no time for long-ago killers. Investigating the case of ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-840-7
EAN 9780857388407
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