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NOVEDAD!!- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5363-2
EAN 9780712353632
John Dickson Carr lays on the macabre atmosphere again in this follow-up to It Walks by Night, in which Inspector Bencolin attempts to piece together a puzzle involving a disappearing street, a set of gallows which mysteriously reveals itself to a number of figures traipsing through the London fog, and the bizarre suggestion that a ...
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NOVEDAD!!- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5395-3
EAN 9780712353953
In the midst of today's highly politicised debates on gender equality, one thing is clear: the fight for women's rights is unfinished business. This book, which accompanies a bold and forward-facing British Library exhibition, presents the history of women's rights in sixteen diverse and timely essays. Among the topics explored are biology, including the first ...
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NOVEDAD!!- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5371-7
EAN 9780712353717
Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the 1960s is a fascinating ...
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NOVEDAD!!- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5333-5
EAN 9780712353335
Horror: A Literary History is the book horror readers and students need. It will hold you in its grip, leaving you replete with invaluable information about the range, longevity and mutations of the horror genre as it consistently forces you to engage with serious cultural and personal issues. Horror is unlike any other literary genre.
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NOVEDAD!!- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5337-3
EAN 9780712353373
Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas tree growing over a forgotten homicide.
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- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5377-9
EAN 9780712353779
Patrick McGuigan is a British food journalist and cheese writer, who contributes to The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times, among many other titles. He has travelled the world, from the Swiss Alps to the hipster cheese bars of New York, to write about cheese makers, maturers and retailers. A senior judge at the World ...
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- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5332-8
EAN 9780712353328
Originally published in hardback, Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library is now available in paperback. This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in this book could reasonably be called accurate in the modern sense and could almost certainly not be used to plan a journey. Yet this atlas ...
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- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5336-6
EAN 9780712353366
Staffordshire in the 1950s. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson.Kelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for ...
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- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5356-4
EAN 9780712353564
Terror in the steamy jungles of Venus, encounters on the arid expanse of Jupiter; asteroids mysteriously bursting with vegetation whizz past and reveal worlds beyond imagination orbiting the giver of all known life - the Sun. Mike Ashley curates this literary tour through the space around this heavenly body, taking in the sights of Mercury, ...
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- The British Library, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5375-5
EAN 9780712353755
Enjoy hearty wholesome meals courtesy of the foot soldiers of the Women's Suffrage movement. The recipes in this book cover every meal of the day, as well as sections on vegetarian dishes, beverages and preserves. Choose between a Curry contributed by Mrs Julian Osler from Edgbaston, Cauliflower Souffle sent in by Miss Mildred Martineau of ...
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How do you create an active reader? Why is reading good for creativity? Why is it vital for teaching the next generation resilience and positive mental health? In the digital age of never-ending screen time you could argue that the power of books has diminished. But while screens have changed the act of reading, Alex ...
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This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre overhang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5310-6
EAN 9780712353106
Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to Christmas, Nightingale's enquiry takes him to a gramophone shop and a jewellers, culminating in the wrapping of the mystery on Christmas Eve.
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5219-2
EAN 9780712352192
If you centre a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes, but this is a view dominated by water. The immense stretch of the Pacific Ocean is inhabited by a diverse ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5289-5
EAN 9780712352895
The detective's role is simple: to catch the culprit. Yet behind each casual observation lies a learned mind, trained on finding the key to the mystery. Crimes, whatever their form, are often best solved through deliberations of logic - preferably amid complicated gadgetry and a pile of hefty scientific volumes.The detectives in this collection are ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5264-2
EAN 9780712352642
We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5204-8
EAN 9780712352048
The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Garthmere Hall itself was old before Flodden Field, and here hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled his household with a rod of iron. The peaceful ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5288-8
EAN 9780712352888
From picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels crawl along riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal more than one gruesome murder. The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unintended ...
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Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo's art and thought. Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo's handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo's ingenious, cutting-edge ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5278-9
EAN 9780712352789
Beards and Coffee, this witty history of wine - its cultivation and enjoyment - sheds light on the rich traditions of wine from around the world. An apt gift for oenophiles everywhere, it includes chapters on the development of wine production, from the use of casks to bottles to the switch from feet to presses, ...
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