Mostrando 3704 libros encontrados (186 páginas)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 1,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-33926-8
EAN 9780241339268
'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?'The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing American housewives, and examines the malignant role advertising plays in perpetuating the myth of the 'happy housewife heroine'.P
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1376 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119228-4
EAN 9780141192284
Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-42167-3
EAN 9780241421673
By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. Today his name is echoed as that of a 'great man' alongside Plato, Montaigne and Shakespeare. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having conversations with the young Johann ...
más informaciónPendiente de recibir (pedido en curso)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda de bolsillo · 48 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98637-0
EAN 9780241986370
The timeless 'green man' fable reimagined for the age of nuclear warheads and illustrated with haunting cross-hatch etchings. Inspired by the bleak and ghostly salt marshes of Orford Ness - where for seventy years, British scientists conducted military research on the empty land, working on everything from machine guns in the First World War to ...
más informaciónPendiente de recibir (pedido en curso)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98971-5
EAN 9780241989715
In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98707-0
EAN 9780241987070
The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need.Welsh ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199167-2
EAN 9780141991672
A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020' The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198648-7
EAN 9780141986487
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-40235-1
EAN 9780241402351
Illumen Hall is a boarding school of tradition and achievement.But tragedy strikes when the body of a student is discovered on the beach - and on her back is an elaborate tattoo of a magpie.For new student Audrey, it is just another strange and unsettling thing about her new surroundings, along with the secrets the ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50975-3
EAN 9780241509753
Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the principle achievements of James Tiptree Jr - the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon. Demonstrating Tiptree's eye for unnerving future dystopias and her unparalleled depiction ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199228-0
EAN 9780141992280
This is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda de bolsillo · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44158-9
EAN 9780241441589
After journeying across the stars, a man from Earth finds himself lost among the scarlet deserts, black cliffs and semi-sentient oceans of Tormance, a world lit by the star Arcturus. Pulled northward by the sound of drums, and undergoing strange physical transformations, the Earthman's adventures with the planet's inhabitants begin to shine with arcane significance ...
más informaciónPróximamente (avisar cuando esté disponible)
In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While searching for his crew, he falls for the tricks of a wily insect dealer and his friends. In the surreal drama that ensues, the ark is invaded by first a gang of youths and then a sinister ...
más informaciónPróximamente (avisar cuando esté disponible)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44297-5
EAN 9780241442975
Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses the birth and death of civilizations.As the scope ...
más informaciónPróximamente (avisar cuando esté disponible)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50770-4
EAN 9780241507704
The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, trample for lentil 'steaks', and sweat beneath a sweltering sun. Amid it all, a city cop tries to catch a gangster's killer and vie for the affection of a dangerous woman...Offering a disturbing ...
más informaciónPróximamente (avisar cuando esté disponible)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44298-2
EAN 9780241442982
Olaf Stapledon's masterpiece - 'dictated' by the final human species - follows the rise and fall of humanity and its ancestors from their primordial abysses to their cultural and technological heights. Over many long years of future history, the human form itself undergoes dramatic changes - elongating, shrinking, and, finally, escaping the bounds of the ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda de bolsillo · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50572-4
EAN 9780241505724
It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the news: a mysterious doctor has discovered a strange process that can turn black skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected and abused ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98855-8
EAN 9780241988558
They stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them.It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck ...
más informaciónPróximamente (avisar cuando esté disponible)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98695-0
EAN 9780241986950
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His best book yet' The Times'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITORUrsula ...
más informaciónPendiente de recibir (pedido en curso)
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda de bolsillo · 376 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199125-2
EAN 9780141991252
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are.In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating, eye-opening journey ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)