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The story of how literature shaped world history, in sixteen acts'from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to Don Quixote and Harry PotterIn this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we ...
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PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7242-4
EAN 9780804172424
We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs--Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos--are seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. But Beyond Earth does not offer another wide-eyed technology fantasy: instead, it is grounded not only in the human capacity for invention and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-1-101-90674-3
EAN 9781101906743
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho's best friend who meets his own ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-777-1
EAN 9781609807771
Paul Austers A Life in Words'a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster and the Danish professor I. B. Siegumfeldt'is a remarkably candid and sharply focused investigation into one writers art, craft, and life. It includes many revelations that have never been shared before. This is a book thats full of surprises, composed of spoken words that sometimes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7372-8
EAN 9780804173728
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-8498-9
EAN 9780812984989
Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city's political and cultural golden age, to its decline into the ancient equivalent of a modern-day university town. Anthony Everitt constructs his history with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 23 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-779-5
EAN 9781609807795
At War with War visualizes humanitys 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate historys most notorious battles ' from 3300 BCE to the present day. Interspersed are contemplations on war from historic thinkers, including excerpts from 'The Art of War' by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-399-59280-5
EAN 9780399592805
Salman Rushdie's mesmerising new novel is a modern-day thriller set against the panorama of American culture and politics since the inauguration of Barack Obama. Invoking literature, pop culture and cinema, The Golden House presents a host of memorable characters, including a young American film-maker whose involvement with a secretive, tragedy-haunted family teaches him how to ...
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A stunning seasonal Italian cookbook from the creator of the award-winning blog Hortus Cuisine, featuring 125 delicious all-vegetarian recipes from the author's family farm in northeastern Italy. As the daughter of an Italian farming family, Solfrini grew up eating fresh, local, seasonal foods, but when she moved to New York City to study design, she ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-1-61180-561-1
EAN 9781611805611
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-7003-1
EAN 9780804170031
These powerful investigative pieces, which take us from the religious police of Saudi Arabia to the rise of the Islamic State, comprise an essential primer on jihadist movements in the Middle East--and the attempts of the West to contain them. In these pages, Lawrence Wright examines al-Qaeda as it experiences a rebellion from within and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-60774-978-3
EAN 9781607749783
Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science. A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-553-52234-1
EAN 9780553522341
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 33,19 €
ISBN 978-1-101-90425-1
EAN 9781101904251
A sinister, sexy noir about art, motherhood, and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles, from the New York Times bestselling author of California. High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Shes going to need a hand with her ...
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From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help us understand the difficulties we face in the twenty-first: There Your Heart Lies is a deeply moving novel about an American womans experiences during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she learned, and how her story will shape her granddaughters ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-385-53721-6
EAN 9780385537216
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-3728-7
EAN 9780804137287
A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. Its a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in ...
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PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-385-74252-8
EAN 9780385742528
In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning 1 New York Timesbestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics. On a May ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-553-52148-1
EAN 9780553521481
"Gripping from start to finish . . . with twists that left me shocked."'Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen For fans of Gillian Flynn and Pretty Little Liars, The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths those lies become. There are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-59051-839-7
EAN 9781590518397
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulles military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance ...
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