Editorial William Collins
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Kahneman, Daniel; Sibony, Olivier; Sunstein, Cass R.
Noise
A Flaw in Human Judgement
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 270 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-830900-8
EAN 9780008309008
Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients - or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. Now imagine that the same doctor and the same judge make different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or ...
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Prisoners of History
What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-833958-6
EAN 9780008339586
What happens when our values change, but what we have set in stone does not? Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to make physical testaments to the past. There's just one problem: when we carve a statue or put up a monument, it can wind up holding us hostage to bad history.In this ...
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The Book of Queer Prophets
24 Writers on Sexuality and Religion
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-836009-2
EAN 9780008360092
Is it possible to believe in God and be gay? How does it feel to be excluded from a religious community because of your sexuality? Why do some people still believe being LGBT is a sin? The Book of Queer Prophets contains modern-day epistles from some of our most important thinkers, writers and activists: Jeanette ...
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- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-00-844665-9
EAN 9780008446659
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind's heedless ...
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The Splendid and the Vile
Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-827498-6
EAN 9780008274986
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, the Nazis would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons and destroying two million homes.In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik ...
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
What War Does to Women
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-830004-3
EAN 9780008300043
From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worked in war and combat zones for over thirty years.In Our Bodies, Their Battlefield she gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how ...
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A People Betrayed
A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755839-1
EAN 9780007558391
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly during ...
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- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 21,30 €
ISBN 978-0-00-842113-7
EAN 9780008421137
What do you value? Why is it that often the things we value the most - from frontline nurses to the natural environment to keeping children well fed and educated - seem of little importance to economic markets? In Value(s), one of the great economic thinkers of our time examines how economic value and social ...
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Three Mothers
How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-00-843105-1
EAN 9780008431051
In her groundbreaking and essential debut Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, ...
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- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-827492-4
EAN 9780008274924
What can one person do? At a time of division and upheaval, Samantha Power offers an urgent response to this question - and calls for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist combines gripping storytelling, vivid character portraits ...
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Islands of Abandonment
Life in the Post-Human Landscape
- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-832977-8
EAN 9780008329778
This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands - and what nature does when we're not there to see it.Exploring some of the eeriest, most desolate places in the world, Cal Flyn asks: what happens after humans pick up and leave? Whether due to war or ...
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- William Collins, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-831375-3
EAN 9780008313753
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the whole world was united in ...
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- William Collins, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-810071-1
EAN 9780008100711
How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world? In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years - working with nature can radically transform ...
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- William Collins, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-827497-9
EAN 9780008274979
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away.For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was down to ...
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets
- William Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-834856-4
EAN 9780008348564
In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine's assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the British ...
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- William Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-758108-5
EAN 9780007581085
This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture. His selection includes ...
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Born to be Posthumous
The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
- William Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-832981-5
EAN 9780008329815
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books ...
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The Dawn Watch
Joseph Conrad in a Global World
- William Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755372-3
EAN 9780007553723
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 FINALIST `Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a ...
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- William Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-831278-7
EAN 9780008312787
We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the US President.Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left ...
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- William Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828331-5
EAN 9780008283315
Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand ...
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