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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38859-4
EAN 9780241388594
Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson traces the great transitions of evolution, from the origin of life to the invention of sexual reproduction to the development of language itself.The only way for ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198496-4
EAN 9780141984964
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book' - John BanvilleThe bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198653-1
EAN 9780141986531
A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesThe West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns.How will the West react to its new status ...
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- Faber, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33017-1
EAN 9780571330171
Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the rule book of ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-242-0
EAN 9781783782420
We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground ...
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- Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-073-8
EAN 9781789290738
Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe - unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way. Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately demonstrates the very best - and worst - instances of genuine grammar-gargling from around the world, ...
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The Ecology Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Dorling Kindersley, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35038-6
EAN 9780241350386
Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change. Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has ...
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The Value of Everything
Making and Taking in the Global Economy
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198076-8
EAN 9780141980768
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation- the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. We misidentify takers as ...
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- Random House UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84794-221-0
EAN 9781847942210
*A Financial Times Book of the Month* The founder of Richer Sounds is one of the finest entrepreneurs we have.' Archie Norman, chairman of Marks x{0026} SpencerCapitalism has lost its way. Every week brings fresh news stories about businesses exploiting their staff, avoiding their taxes, and ripping off their customers. Every week, public anger at ...
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- Bantam, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-593-07359-9
EAN 9780593073599
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his ...
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France
A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-6384-8
EAN 9781473663848
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . .his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPHI can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of ...
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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
A Twentieth-Century History
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197597-9
EAN 9780141975979
Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This nation was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ...
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The Long '68
Radical Protest and Its Enemies
- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198252-6
EAN 9780141982526
'Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times 'A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in history that deserves to be dwelt on' Andrew Marr, The Times1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199009-5
EAN 9780141990095
This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ... the finest of guides to the man of the times' Tristram Hunt, Guardian'A ...
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- Orion, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-641-5
EAN 9781780226415
'Fresh, gripping and vivid' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Exhaustively researched and scrupulously even-handed' David Starkey 'A portrait that chills you to the bone' Leanda de Lisle, The TimesA dedicated brother and loyal stalwart to the Yorkist dynasty for most of his early life, Richard's personality was forged in the tribulation of exile and the brutality of ...
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- Canongate, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-933-3
EAN 9781782119333
EVERYTHING IS MADE OF MAGIC . . .Effie Truelove and her school-friends Lexy, Wolf, Maximilian and Raven must use their magical skills to defeat the Diberi, a corrupt organisation intent on destroying the worlds at Midwinter. But during a visit to the Otherworld, Effie is mistaken and imprisoned for being a galloglass - a dangerous, ...
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- Canongate, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78211-932-6
EAN 9781782119326
THERE IS MAGIC BEYOND THE REALWORLD . . .When Effie and Maximilian both mysteriously vanish, friends Raven, Lexy and Wolf don't know where to turn for help. Effie is in deep danger and she's running out of time. To make things worse, Raven's mother is caught up in a plot with the ruthless billionaire Albion ...
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- Granta Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-392-2
EAN 9781783783922
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, ...
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The jungle is a fascinating place full of exotic creatures. The most interesting of these is the Wakey Bird. Wakey Birds get their name because they have trouble sleeping, and tonight the littlest Wakey Bird is finding it harder than ever.What will happen if she wakes up the Jungle Beast? Author and illustrator Maddie Frost ...
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- Usborne, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 10 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4749-5370-2
EAN 9781474953702
A delightful question-and-answer board book for very young children. On each double-page spread there are two questions to answer by looking at the pictures. For example, Where's the jumping frog?/Where's the hungry dog? There are lots of endearing animals to meet and the illustrations are full of details to talk about and share.
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