Editorial William Collins
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- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812683-4
EAN 9780008126834
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in March 2015. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged sperm whale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in ...
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Ted Hughes, the Unauthorised Life
Samuel Johnson 2015 Shortlist for Non-Fiction
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-811824-2
EAN 9780008118242
A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan Bate. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers ...
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Universal Man
The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751982-8
EAN 9780007519828
From the bestselling and award-winning author of 'An English Affair', a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice - over the course of two World Wars. He remains a highly ...
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Poland
A History
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755621-2
EAN 9780007556212
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to ...
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Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sack-ville West
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-748698-4
EAN 9780007486984
Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed girl whose lonely childhood at Knole inspired enduring feats of imagination, the celebrated author and poet, the adored and affectionate wife whose marriage included passionate homosexual affairs (most famously with Virginia Woolf ), and the recluse who found in nature and her garden ...
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Farewell Kabul
How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725693-8
EAN 9780007256938
How did the war in Afghanistan go so terribly wrong? This shocking account by the journalist who knows this story best provides answers that will surprise even the experts. An unmissable account of the conflict that has dominated foreign affairs since 9/11. Crouched in a ditch in Helmand, with Taliban gunfire exploding around her, Christina ...
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The Universal Man
The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 32,70 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751980-4
EAN 9780007519804
John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice - over the course of two World Wars. He remains a highly influential figure, nearly 70 years after his death.But who was he? In this entertaining biography, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us the man behind the economics: the connoisseur, intellectual, ...
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- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-810621-8
EAN 9780008106218
The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain's turbulence in the 20th century. From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco's Nationalist regime. Admired by many on the left as a ...
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- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 42,10 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745250-7
EAN 9780007452507
A history of warfare distilled into 100 momentous battles - epic moments that have shaped our world. From the earliest recorded skirmishes of the ancient world to the computerized conflicts of today, renowned military historian Richard Overy dramatically brings to life the sights and sounds of the most significant battles in world history: the flash ...
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- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-742779-6
EAN 9780007427796
A brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, 'Wired' writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more not less intelligent as is so often claimed. Our lives have been changed utterly and irrevocably ...
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Eyes Wide Open
How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-756473-6
EAN 9780007564736
In a fast-moving world we're often overloaded with differing opinions, conflicting data and changing advice. In this essential guide, Noreena Hertz offers practical steps to how to make better, smarter decisions. * Why should you be wary of experts? * Are emails destroying your ability to think? * How do you know which sources of ...
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- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-00-747651-0
EAN 9780007476510
Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. It is not a conventional history of ballooning. In a sense it is not really about balloons at all.It is about what balloons gave rise to. ...
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Cruel Victory
The French Resistance and the Battle for the Vercors 1944
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752080-0
EAN 9780007520800
From best-selling author of 'A Brilliant Little Operation', winner of the British Army Military History prize and the Royal marines History prize for 2013, comes the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the Vercors massif - the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War. In ...
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- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-0-00-733552-7
EAN 9780007335527
Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? In this ...
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Catastrophe
1914 Europe goes to War
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751974-3
EAN 9780007519743
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men ...
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- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-734709-4
EAN 9780007347094
The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of Rebecca', Jamaica Inn' and My Cousin Rachel', and short stories, Don't Look Now' and the terrifying The Birds' among many. Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired, three of ...
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Those Wild Wyndhams
Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754489-9
EAN 9780007544899
Three sisters - beautiful, cultured and aristocratic, born into immense wealth during the reign of Queen Victoria. Mary, Madeline and Pamela - the three Wyndham sisters - were painted by John Singer Sargent in 1899.For The Times it was, quite simply, 'the greatest picture of modern times'. But these beautiful, fin de siecle gentlewomen came ...
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The Lost
A Search for Six of Six Million
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755012-8
EAN 9780007550128
A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable ...
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Dogfight
How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
- William Collins, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752496-9
EAN 9780007524969
Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google-and how it's reshaping the way we think about technologyThe rise of iPhones, smartphones and tablets has changed the world. At the centre of this are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the age of the Android and ...
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- William Collins, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752202-6
EAN 9780007522026
The Catholic Church has been nearly destroyed by its resistance to change, censured for its abuses. Pope Francis has promised reform: radical theologian Hans Kung here presents what Catholics have long been yearning for: modern responses to the challenges of a modern world. In 1962 the Second Vatican Council met in the hope they could, ...
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