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- Selfmade Hero, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-1-914224-16-4
EAN 9781914224164
Sophie's come a long way since the day she received that cryptic letter with its intriguing question: Who are you? . The mysterious correspondence sweeps our curious young heroine off on a tour of Western philosophy from its ancient foundations through the Renaissance. But it also prompts more personal reflection: What is my place in ...
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Sophie s World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy
From Socrates to Galileo
- Selfmade Hero, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-914224-11-9
EAN 9781914224119
One day, Sophie receives a cryptic letter posing an intriguing question: Who are you? A second message soon follows: Where does the world come from? It is the beginning of an unusual correspondence between our curious young heroine and her mysterious penpal. As the questions begin to pile up, Sophie is propelled headlong into a ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-914224-01-0
EAN 9781914224010
"All I want is a proper body..." Born as biologically female, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers, social ostracism from his peers, and incomprehension from his family - because from as early as he can remember, he knows he has been born in the wrong body. But, as his family comes to ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-87-5
EAN 9781910593875
George Orwell's most celebrated work, 1984, and the prescient vision it contains of a society governed by Big Brother predates the constant monitoring of people and data we are familiar with today by almost 70 years. But his life was every bit as fascinating and forward-looking as his books. Orwell studied at Eton, joined the ...
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Wine
A Graphic History
- Selfmade Hero, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-80-6
EAN 9781910593806
The history of wine is the history of civilisation. It is the religious drink par excellence. In Greek mythology, references to wine abound.In the Bible, after the Flood, Noah plants a vineyard. In the Middle Ages, it was in the monasteries and churches that the syrupy drink of antiquity, unpalatable if not diluted, was transformed ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-72-1
EAN 9781910593721
In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius. But there is no grand entrance for the former child prodigy.When Mozart arrives in Paris, he is cash-strapped, unknown and ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-63-9
EAN 9781910593639
Paris in the 1950s: the reign of Sartre and existentialism. Daniel Brodin-bibliophile, book thief, self-proclaimed poet-enters the heated atmosphere of the Cafe Serbier, home of the Parisian literati. A poetry night is taking place and, when one luminary suggests giving the floor to an unknown, Daniel impulsively puts himself forward.Under pressure, he recites not one ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-66-0
EAN 9781910593660
Saudi Arabia offers few prospects for the bright young Mohammed El-Gorani. With roots in Chad, Mohammed is treated like a second-class citizen. His access to healthcare and education are restricted; nor can he make the most of his entrepreneurial spirit. At the age of 14, having scraped together some money as a street trader, Mohammed ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-56-1
EAN 9781910593561
In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five-year reverie. In a mysterious and vivid dreamworld, a melancholy man seeks the home of the gods.And in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, polar explorers unearth secrets that reveal a past almost beyond ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-55-4
EAN 9781910593554
Since the turn of the century, technology has transformed the way we communicate and consume, how we work and fall in love and navigate the world. We are increasingly reliant on it-but few of us know anything about the science that is driving this technological change. Kurt Vonnegut famously said that to leave technology out ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-49-3
EAN 9781910593493
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism". Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Frederik Engels' Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. It remains the most incisive introduction to the ideas of ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-50-9
EAN 9781910593509
In 1969, mankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins carried the fire for all of humankind. Backed by the brightest minds in engineering and science, the three boarded a rocket and flew through the void - just to know that we could.In Apollo, Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and ...
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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-27-1
EAN 9781910593271
In 1891, Paul Gauguin arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create.In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife enjoys no such freedom. She would rather forget her odious husband and his degenerate artwork. Instead, ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-18-9
EAN 9781910593189
Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. Chillingly atmospheric, quietly terrifying, M.R. James's stories explore the darkness just beyond the flicker of the candle or the creaking door.Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 1 comprises graphic adaptations of four of ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-22-6
EAN 9781910593226
It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly coloured geometric shapes everywhere.You'll see them in your dreams. Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-15-8
EAN 9781910593158
Genius, eccentric, exhibitionist: there is no shortage of adjectives to describe the great surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Yet this iconic artist and controversial thinker remains a figure shrouded in mystery. Plunging into the Spanish painter's unbridled, fantastical universe, graphic novelist Edmond Baudoin guides us on the trail of a man known as much for his ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 119 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-11-0
EAN 9781910593110
The life of Agatha Christie was as mysterious and eventful as her fiction. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel traces the life of the Queen of Whodunnit from her childhood in Torquay, England, through a career filled with success, mischief, and adventure, to her later years as Dame Agatha. Revealing a side to Christie that will ...
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- Selfmade Hero, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-910593-10-3
EAN 9781910593103
In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, travels to London. There she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford. Like Irmina, Howard is looking for an independent existence and a love affair blossoms between the two outsiders.But the relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political ...
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Filmish
A Graphic Journey Through Film
Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favourite films. In Filmish, Ross's cartoon alter-ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing us to some of the strange and fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme - the body, architecture, language - ...
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