How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos's funny, wise and life-affirming book, which shows how, from puns...
- 78 книг
Международный книжный сюрприз
Myth_inc _78 книг
Myth_inc _Международный книжный сюрприз
The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, a...
The tenth anniversary edition Dissolution: the first book in the bestselling Shardlake series.
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in Englan...
Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. But where did this fixation deve...
The Lost Thing is a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tri...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte cambia de registro, aunque sin salir de su mundo personal, y escribe una gran historia de amor. El tango de la Guardia Vieja, sigue la relación amoros...
A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror.
In late 19...
A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again.
It was not common to awaken in a cloning va...
Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her...
My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Se...
Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. "On academic ...
Una niña siente una envidia creciente hacia su hermana Nona a quien todo lo que le ocurre es “especial” y, lo que es peor, le ocurre a escondidas. Una mujer al borde del d...
Obra escrita con un humor y una agudeza sobre los que no pasa el tiempo, EL ESPAÑOL Y LOS SIETE PECADOS CAPITALES es una radiografía incomparable de los usos y costumbres ...
Un encargo editorial pone a Alejandra Varela, especialista en arte urbano, tras la pista de Sniper, un reconocido artista del grafiti, promotor de acciones callejeras al l...
Judgment of the WitchThe Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies -- and they demand that beautiful w...
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuro...
"There are four tongues worthy of the world’s use", says the Talmud: “Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.” Other authori...
Cristian y Míriam están esperando su segundo hijo. Su matrimonio no pasa por su mejor momento. Por riesgo a un parto prematuro, los médicos han ordenado a Míriam reposo ab...
Ya en el titulo de esta novela de Mario Vargas LLosa, publicada en 1977, se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento: por un lado, la relacion amorosa del ...
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as thoug...