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The Written World
How Literature Shaped History
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-314-4
EAN 9781783783144
From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history. The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198748-4
EAN 9780141987484
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by ...
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- Andersen Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78344-688-9
EAN 9781783446889
Topher is desperate to find his beloved cat Ka when she disappears, leaving a single clue on his computer: TENOCHT*I*TLaN. When Topher follows Ka back in time, finds himself in the dangerous world of the Aztecs. The people of the wondrous, floating city of Tenochtitlan believe Ka is one of their gods, but El Sol, ...
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Infernal Devices
Mortal Engines III
- Scholastic, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4071-8916-1
EAN 9781407189161
Tom and Hester's daughter, Wren, longs to escape the peace of static Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents once had - and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take her to sea. But the mysterious object that she steals for him ignites a conflict that will tear the whole world apart...
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A Darkling Plain
Mortal Engines IV
- Scholastic, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4071-8917-8
EAN 9781407189178
MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. Now, in time for the film debut, the critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet is repackaged with a fantastic and eye-catching cover featuring new artwork. In the fourth and final brilliant installment of ...
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- Scholastic, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4071-8677-1
EAN 9781407186771
Return to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of three short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by Ian McQue. A key character in the Mortal Engines book and film, this is your chance to learn more of her past. Night Flights includes Traction City, the 2011 World Book ...
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- Robinson, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-4094-4
EAN 9781472140944
The Universe came into being 13.8 billion years ago. At this point, all of existence could be summed up as an endless soup of particles frothing at temperatures many times hotter than the Sun. It was chaos.Fortunately, as the Universe expanded, everything began to cool and the particles stabilised. It was around this time, as ...
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Asia's Reckoning
The Struggle for Global Dominance
- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198285-4
EAN 9780141982854
'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017 A Financial Times Best Book of 2017'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal'A compelling and impressive read.' The Economist'Skillfully crafted and well-argued.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times'An excellent modern history. .. . provides the context needed to make sense of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198079-9
EAN 9780141980799
The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!' Philip Pullman'A glorious and delightful compendium and guide to London from Above, Below and all the in-betweens' Neil GaimanCuriocity is a London book unlike any other. Its 26 chapters weave together ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-038-4
EAN 9781788160384
Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric.In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly - and know when ...
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- Canongate, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-113-6
EAN 9781786891136
A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual tournament; a prisoner is released and finds freedom more complex and baffling than he expected. In this stunning debut story collection, Curtis ...
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What You Did Not Tell
A Russian Past and the Journey Home
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198684-5
EAN 9780141986845
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017' Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' GuardianUncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation ...
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Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197828-4
EAN 9780141978284
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century.With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who ...
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- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35108-6
EAN 9780241351086
A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On ...
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- Canongate, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-168-6
EAN 9781786891686
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal ...
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- Dorling Kindersley, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31782-2
EAN 9780241317822
This stunning visual guide explores and explains the greatest inventions, ideas, and discoveries throughout the ages, and introduces their inventors. Discover the first inventions, from fire, stone tools, and the wheel to ploughs and paper, that shaped societies and grew mighty civilizations and empires such as those in ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and ancient China. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33826-1
EAN 9780241338261
'Where there is great love there are always miracles'Two French priests have been sent to New Mexico to reawaken the faith. There, they must contend with unforgiving landscapes, danger, rebellion and loneliness. But through their many years together they are sustained by faith, friendship and the awe-inspiring majesty that surrounds them. A work of great ...
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The Future is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-402-8
EAN 9781783784028
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their ...
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Real situations, real language, real Outcomes!The second edition of Outcomes has been fully revised and updated to provide contemporary, global content and stunning National Geographic photos and videos. Its trademark lexically-rich approach shows students how vocabulary works, and the evenly-paced grammar syllabus provides examples and tasks based on what people actually say and write. With ...
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- Icon Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-376-0
EAN 9781785783760
In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene - the thinnest substance in the world - by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite. Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of graphene and other ...
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