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  • WHY NATIONS FAIL
    ACEMOGLU, DARON ET AL.
    Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and...
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    15,50 €

  • THE SLEEPING ARMY
    SIMON, FRANCESCA
    This is an exciting new novel for children 8+ from one of the bestselling children's authors in the world, the creator of the "Horrid Henry" series. Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen and Heimdall's...
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    3,00 €

  • GOOD STRATEGY BAD STRATEGY : THE DIFFERENCE AND WHY IT MATTERS
    RUMELT, RICHARD
    When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz speak so often and misleadingly masquerading as the real thing. Since then, his original and pragmatic ideas have won fans around the world and continue to help readers to recognis...
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    15,50 €

  • THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM
    ZUBOFF, SHOSHANA
    THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most important book to be published this century. I find it hard to take any young activist seriously who hasn't at least familarised themselves with Zu...
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    17,85 €

  • AFTER ME COMES THE FLOOD
    PERRY, SARAH
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    13,25 €

  • SPQR
    BEARD, MARY
    Entrega 10 - 15 días

    16,80 €

  • EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES FOR KIDS
    TRUSS, L
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    17,10 €

  • THE GUN, THE SHIP AND THE PEN
    COLLEY,LINDA
    'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when you arrive you wonder that you never did it...
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    38,75 €

  • THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER
    BYTHELL, SHAUN
    Entrega 10 - 15 días

    12,75 €

  • SIGNIFICANT FIGURE
    PROFESSOR STEWART, IAN
    Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thursto...
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    17,03 €

  • PROFESSOR STEWART'S INCREDIBLE NUMBERS
    PROFESSOR STEWART, IAN
    Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several you might have thought you couldn't think of. He explains the insights of the ...
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    15,48 €

  • ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING
    FRANCIS, GAVIN
    Image for Adventures in Human BeingClick to enlargeAdventures in Human Beingby Gavin Francis (Author)Series:Wellcome CollectionFormat:Paperback / softback 272 pagesPublisher:Profile Books LtdImprint:Wellcome CollectionEdition:MainISBN:9781781253427Published:4 Feb 2016Classifications:Physiology, Popular scienceReadership:General (US: Trade)Weight:228gDimensions:195 x 125 x 19 (m...
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    15,49 €

  • POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY
    FUKUYAMA, FRANCIS
    In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with...
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    20,13 €

  • THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY
    HOLIDAY, RYAN
    OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller'Follow these precepts and you will revolutionize your life.' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art 'A book for the bedside of every future - and current - leader in the world.' - Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of PowerThe Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the w...
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    13,45 €

  • THE WAR THAT ENDED THE PEACE
    MACMILLAN, MARGARET
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    15,00 €

  • CONCISE MASTERY
    GREENE, ROBERT
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    12,25 €

  • DOLLY
    HILL, SUSAN
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    12,25 €

  • 17 EQUATIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - MP
    STEWART, IAN
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    15,49 €

  • THE WALK
    WALSER, ROBERT
    Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M.Coetzee. Like Kafka and Sebald, Wals...
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    15,48 €

  • THE STORY OF ENGLISH IN 100 WORDS
    CRYSTAL, DAVID
    Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising. In this unique new history of the w...
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    15,48 €

  • FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY
    SHARP, GENE
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    8,50 €

  • DECISION BOOK
    KROGERUS ,MIKAEL
    Entrega 10 - 15 días

    13,50 €

  • PROFESSOR STEWART`S HOARD OF MATHEMATICAL TREASURES
    STEWART, IAN
    Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past. A...
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    13,93 €

  • DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA
    TORRENS, C
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    28,25 €

  • 13 THINGS THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE
    BROOKS, MICHAEL
    Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse.In ...
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    19,48 €

  • THE ART OF SEDUCTION
    GREENE, ROBERT
    Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint? This book will show you which. 'Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seducti...
    Entrega 10 - 15 días

    27,89 €

  • THE 48 LAWS OF POWER
    GREENE, ROBERT
    THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERDrawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way. Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies Law 3: Conceal your intentions La...
    Entrega 10 - 15 días

    29,43 €

  • THE USES AND ABUSES OF HISTORY
    MACMILLAN, M,
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    12,75 €

  • INTO THE HEART OF THE MAFIA
    LANE, D
    Entrega 10 - 15 días

    12,75 €

  • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
    MOSLEY, W
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    12,80 €


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