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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-725-3
EAN 9781788167253
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling insight on world history Robert Peckham considers the impact of fear in history, as both a coercive tool of power and as a catalyst for social change. Beginning with the Black Death in the fourteenth century, Peckham traces a shadow history ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-257-6
EAN 9781805222576
Artificial Intelligence will create gigantic benefits for humankind but will become more powerful than many governments, with purposes and plans of its own, and the ability to alter the very basis of life on earth. Many believe that AI poses a threat to human dominance. In this punchy, follow-up to his bestselling The Future of ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-667-6
EAN 9781788166676
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics How to be a Renaissance Woman allows us to glimpse the world of the female artists, artisans and businesswomen carving out space for themselves, as well as those who gained power and influence in the cut-throat world of the court. In a vivid exploration ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-379-4
EAN 9781846683794
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN x{0026} NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' TelegraphWhat was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?In her international best-seller SPQR, ...
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Warriors, Rebels and Saints
The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80522-111-1
EAN 9781805221111
Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and become better leaders today? This book offers a deep-dive into the art, science and practice of leadership around the world and across ages, led by ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-239-5
EAN 9781788162395
The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world. Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? If adorable things really do rewire our ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-762-3
EAN 9781800817623
Lena has always lived in the jungle with Mother. There they look after a holiday home in surroundings that burst with colour and crawl with danger.Lena's only other friend is Isabella, who once visited regularly with her wealthy parents and security drone, Anton. But Isabella and her family haven't been seen in years. Mother is ...
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Best Story Wins
Storytelling For Business Success
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-577-3
EAN 9781800815773
How to harness the power of storytelling in your communications at work Whether you're standing up in front of a crowd at a conference or chatting with a colleague on Zoom, storytelling is the most effective way to get your point across. Why? The short answer is that people don't make decisions based on logic. ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-699-2
EAN 9781800816992
The sequel to 2021's critically acclaimed Black Drop and 2022's bestselling Blue Water, in which reluctant sleuth Laurence Jago becomes enmeshed in a deadly election in his native Cornwall. A rigged election. A feuding Cornish town. A suspicious death. And a perspicacious pig. Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-631-7
EAN 9781788166317
If we do what is right, everything else will follow: happiness, success, meaning, reputation, love. This is central to Stoic wisdom. The path isn't always easy, but it is essential, and the alternative - taking the easy route - leads only to cowardice and folly. In the third book in his bestselling Stoic Virtues series, ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-281-9
EAN 9781800812819
Provocative contemporary Hong Kong noir, blending together politics and personal rivalry into an explosively exciting debut Wai and Ling are secondary school Chinese language teachers in Hong Kong, both crumbling under the pressure of a forced transition from using Cantonese to Mandarin as a medium of Chinese-language instruction. Apolitical and focused only on surviving their ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-099-0
EAN 9781800810990
** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF YEAR **'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESSWriters are monsters. We eat everything we see... In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write.It is the story of his ...
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Mathematical Intelligence
What We Have that Machines Don't
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-684-3
EAN 9781788166843
There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to our robot overlords. But Junaid Mubeen isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. As far as he is concerned, we have the creative edge over machines, because of a remarkable system of ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-297-5
EAN 9781788162975
Peer into a microscopic world - and fall in love with the beauty of the brain There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-016-7
EAN 9781800810167
'Had me gripped from start to finish ... timely, horrifying, and hugely entertaining'Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree and The Mercies'Swerves through a fascinating, fractured landscape of folkloric traditions and contemporary divisions' Cari Thomas, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Threadneedle'A vibrant and devastating tale of loss and love ... Characters to treasure' - Saara ...
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Surviving the Daily Grind
How to get by and get on at work today
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-925-7
EAN 9781788169257
The esteemed Bartleby's one-stop guide to surviving the daily grind Today, many people work in jobs with titles that would have baffled our ancestors: creative director, logistics coordinator or social media curator. Based on his immensely popular Bartleby Economist column, Philip Coggan rewrites the rules of work to help ordinary workers get through the week, ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-758-6
EAN 9781800817586
What if the person you loved was on another planet? Kevin is a thirty-something homebody, happily committed to his hydroponics- expert girlfriend, Amber, as they grow weed in their basement in Vancouver. Out of the blue, Amber announces that she has been selected for a reality show where she will compete for one of two ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-631-2
EAN 9781800816312
Grotesquely gothic short stories to keep you awake all night Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tales. A reaper readies herself for her next gruesome assignment and a bereaved African witch prepares for a showdown with a rigidly traditional white Salem coven while an outcast teenage boy ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-459-2
EAN 9781800814592
An exquisitely beautiful novel from one of the world's greatest living writers - now in paperback The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for ...
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George
A Magpie Memoir
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80081-480-6
EAN 9781800814806
Then, just in time, before I swung the spade again, I saw, right by the blade and camouflaged by the leaves on the ground, a magpie chick. It squatted belligerently, peering up at me with miniature magpie fury.George. When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on ...
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