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  1. The Penguin History of the United States of America (Storpocket)

    av

    Hugh Brogan

    ISBN: 9780140252552 - UTGIVEN: 200103

    This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress, Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the B[...]

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    från 155.00 kr
  2. The Penguin History of Economics (Storpocket)

    av

    Roger E. Backhouse

    ISBN: 9780140260427 - UTGIVEN: 200201

    A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core book.[...]

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    från 119.00 kr
  3. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers (Storpocket)

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    D.G. Wells

    ISBN: 9780140261493 - UTGIVEN: 199709

    This dictionary of numbers, arranged in order of magnitude, exposes the fascinating facts about certain numbers and number sequences. The aim of the book is to entertain and enthral the reader, which it certainly does.[...]

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    från 141.00 kr
  4. The Penguin History of Europe (Storpocket)

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    J. M. Roberts

    ISBN: 9780140265613 - UTGIVEN: 1997-09

    Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling "Penguin History of the World". Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, "The Penguin History of Europe" traces the development of European identity in its many gui[...]

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    från 184.00 kr
  5. The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century (Storpocket)

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    J. M. Roberts

    ISBN: 9780140276312 - UTGIVEN: 200008

    This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been trans[...]

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    från 184.00 kr
  6. The Penguin Book of Word Histories

    ISBN: 9780140282986 - UTGIVEN: 2010-04

    Compiled by Fred McDonald, this new book traces the origins and explains the meanings of approximately 15,000 words. Words with similar ancestry or semantic development are cross-referenced or subsumed into one entry, making comparisons easier for the reader. There is also a short introduction expla[...]

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    från 214.00 kr
  7. Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Häftad)

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    J. M. Coetzee

    ISBN: 9780140283358 - UTGIVEN: 199910

    These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front.

    "A real literary event."--The New York Times Book Review

    "A story of profound beauty, clarity and eloquence, which even at its most melodramatic holds to a biblical nobility."--Chicago Trib[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  8. The Penguin History of the Second World War (Storpocket)

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    Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint, R.John Pritchard

    ISBN: 9780140285024 - UTGIVEN: 199909

    First published in 1972 under the title "Total War", "The Penguin History of the Second World War" was designed by its authors to show a rising generation why the Second World War happened and how it was conducted. In this bold feat of compression they give as much stress and space to political, soc[...]

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    från 264.00 kr
  9. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse (Storpocket)

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    H.R. Woudhuysen

    ISBN: 9780140423464 - UTGIVEN: 199305

    The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, E[...]

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    från 172.00 kr
  10. The Penguin Book of French Poetry (Storpocket)

    ISBN: 9780140423853 - UTGIVEN: 199303

    This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants among them Baudelaire, Verl[...]

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    från 160.00 kr
  11. The Penguin Book of English Verse (Storpocket)

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    P. J. Keegan

    ISBN: 9780140424546 - UTGIVEN: 200409

    This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.[...]

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    från 155.00 kr
  12. The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780140424669 - UTGIVEN: 2006-10

    THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE is the first anthology ever to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish history, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve.Acknowledged masters such as Robert Burns and [...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  13. The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (Pocket)

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    T. (EDT) Carmi

    ISBN: 9780140424676 - UTGIVEN: 2006-08

    This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from "The Song of Deborah" to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of piyut, or liturgical poetry, and retell episodes from the Bible and exalt the glory of God. Medieval work[...]

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    från 188.00 kr
  14. Penguin's Poems for Life (Storpocket)

    av

    Laura Barber

    ISBN: 9780140424706 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09

    Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a l[...]

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    från 128.00 kr
  15. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (Storpocket)

    av

    Gerald Moore

    ISBN: 9780140424720 - UTGIVEN: 200708

    'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-[...]

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    från 162.00 kr
  16. The Penguin Book of Haiku (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780140424768 - UTGIVEN: 2018-05

    The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running over three lines in seventeen s[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  17. Penguin's Poems for Love (Häftad)

    ISBN: 9780140424805 - UTGIVEN: 201009

    Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the gr[...]

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    från 130.00 kr
  18. The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry (Storpocket)

    av

    Jonathan Wordsworth

    ISBN: 9780140435689 - UTGIVEN: 2005-05

    The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Bla[...]

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    från 180.00 kr
  19. Early Christian Writings (Storpocket)

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    Penguin

    ISBN: 9780140444759 - UTGIVEN: 1987-04

    The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of who[...]

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    från 106.00 kr
  20. The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780140445787 - UTGIVEN: 1998-10

    Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes [...]

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    från 185.00 kr
  21. The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Storpocket)

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    Penguin Press

    ISBN: 9780140455502 - UTGIVEN: 200808

    "The Book of the Dead" is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were ofte[...]

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    från 172.00 kr
  22. The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary (häftad)

    ISBN: 9780140511369 - UTGIVEN: 1985-08

    Lists in numbered phonetic groups the rhymes for a wide range of words

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    från 116.00 kr
  23. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (Häftad)

    av

    Colin McEvedy

    ISBN: 9780140511536 - UTGIVEN: 198607

    Colin McEvedy has compiled an absorbing source of reference to the major developments of modern history from 1483 to 1815.[...]

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    från 150.00 kr
  24. The Penguin Dictionary of English Synonyms and Antonyms (Storpocket)

    ISBN: 9780140511680 - UTGIVEN: 199202

    The Penguin Dictionary of English Synonyms and Antonyms is the ideal work of reference for both home and office. Anyone who has found themselves stumped for the best and most appropriate word or who wants to avoid repetition whether student or writer, politician or advertiser, after-dinner speaker o[...]

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    från 122.00 kr
  25. The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Storpocket)

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    A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Pierre Grimal, Stephen Kershaw

    ISBN: 9780140512359 - UTGIVEN: 199108

    This concise, abridged edition of Pierre Grimal's celebrated "Dictionary of Classical Mythology" brilliantly distils and captures the essence of Greek and Roman mythology. It is the ideal reference tool for anyone with an interest in the Classics or those seeking to explore the many allusions to its[...]

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    från 146.00 kr