Editorial Quercus Publishing
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- Quercus Publishing, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78087-145-5
EAN 9781780871455
100 ILLUSTRATIONS Big Ideas in Brief provides an accessible and easily understood tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects - Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and the Arts. A series of short and lively articles accompanied by 100 illustrations, introduce a ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-037-7
EAN 9781849160377
Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish main, other ships in his squadron failed to support him.His leg shattered by a cannon-ball, Benbow fought on ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-386-6
EAN 9781849163866
The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-166-8
EAN 9780857381668
Constantine is a masterly survey of the life and enduring legacy of the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the later Roman emperors - from a richly gifted young British historian. In 312, Constantine - one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire - marched on Rome to establish his sole control of its ...
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Emperor of the West
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-162-0
EAN 9780857381620
Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of the Franks in 768, he expanded their kingdoms into an empire that incorporated much of western and central Europe, recreating a single Christian imperium in the heartlands of the old Western Roman ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85738-328-0
EAN 9780857383280
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-414-6
EAN 9781849164146
'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island.But the US Navy has other ideas, ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-244-9
EAN 9781849162449
It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton's happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander's dead mother's family in Ireland. The family has been placed under a poet's curse, threatening death ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-518-1
EAN 9781849165181
Laos,1976. The monarchy has been deposed, the Communist Pathet Lao have taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor remains.And so this 72-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite having no training, equipment, experience or even inclination for the job. But the job's not that bad and ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-193-0
EAN 9781849161930
Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination.Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie ...
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Dark Vineyard
Bruno Chief of Police
- Quercus Publishing, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84916-185-5
EAN 9781849161855
Industrial sabotage spills over into murder. Bruno, chief of police must balance tradition and progress while bringing a killer to justice in the second instalment in this mouthwatering series of mysteries.Just before dawn one summer morning Bruno is summoned by the wail of the siren in the little town of St Denis in the Perigord. ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-932-6
EAN 9781847249326
Sealed for 125 years, a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time collaborator Wilkie Collins, reveals the dark secret that obsessed both men - a secret that not only ended their long friendship, but also brought each writer to the very brink of murder. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-723-0
EAN 9781847247230
2041 - First global dust storms, 2050 - First shot in The Last War fired, 2051 - The Great Sea Fence completed; the Republic founded, 2052 - First plague released, and 2077 - The Great War begins. A...Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better.She's sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-791-9
EAN 9781847247919
Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess that he's been poisoned.His body is discovered in the house of Alexander Seaton - a ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-764-3
EAN 9781847247643
Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow ...
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Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
- Quercus Publishing, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-767-4
EAN 9781847247674
In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Enraged and humiliated, Dandolo beat his brains out against the mast of his flagship ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 413 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-558-8
EAN 9781847245588
Bernie Gunther, Berlin's hardest-boiled private eye, returns in this his latest outing. Moving the plot from Pre-War Germany to the dangers of Argentina in 1950 and the post-war world of Hitler's most notorious war-criminals, Kerr yet again delivers a powerful, compelling thriller.Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having ...
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The Tenderness of Wolves
Costa Book of the Year 2006
As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her seventeen-year-old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds and inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township -some want to solve the crime; others ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84724-292-1
EAN 9781847242921
Bernie Gunther is the ideal narrator for Philip Kerr's bleak tale of the dirty deals made by victors and vanquished alike in post-war Germany. Having learned that there's no way to distinguish the one from the other', the cynical P.I. has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and ...
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