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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-517-6
EAN 9781784875176
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BIDISHA It's all dry sand running through the fingers.'When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings.To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-518-3
EAN 9781784875183
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE HANNAH Every artist is an unhappy lover.And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.'Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels, Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement to writing a masterpiece. But the doorbell and the phone keep ringing, and every ring brings with it an ex-wife, a friend ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104953-3
EAN 9780141049533
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered.The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198711-8
EAN 9780141987118
Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the freedom of the individual? Or a prime mover of 'market ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-410-0
EAN 9781784704100
In Paris every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past... American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation and finds a city bursting ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-825-2
EAN 9781784708252
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency from perhaps his closest collaborator, and a political memoir about the power of words to change our worldThis is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes.A young writer ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-536-7
EAN 9781784875367
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindBeautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-530-5
EAN 9781784875305
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindLife on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming.Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-535-0
EAN 9781784875350
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-78487-538-1
EAN 9781784875381
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-78487-532-9
EAN 9781784875329
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindMr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day, many ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-529-9
EAN 9781784875299
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindLed by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3,000 Yogistani porters, set out to conquer the highest peak in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-537-4
EAN 9781784875374
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTouching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-534-3
EAN 9781784875343
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947491-3
EAN 9780099474913
A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith. In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical book, Derek Jarman explores the uses of colour. Shifting across the spectrum and from the medieval to the modern, he draws on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-760-6
EAN 9781784707606
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-881-8
EAN 9781784708818
In the moments after the bicycle accident, he doesn't see his life flash before his eyes, but his life's work.He's just narrowly missed out on the Nobel Prize (again) and even though he knows he should get straight back to his pie charts, his doctor has other ideas. All this work is killing him. He ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-425-4
EAN 9781784704254
Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history.Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. His deepest belief was that we can all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-588-6
EAN 9781784705886
At the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War - and its effects on their marriage - behind them. Back in England, Rosie's sisters are dealing with impossible challenges in their searches for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-198-7
EAN 9781784871987
Halfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How do you go on?This is the starting point of one of the most extraordinary and important journeys in western literature, a stunningly ambitious flight ...
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