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Economist: Video Games
All the World's a Game
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.In the US, the average age …
My Dining Hell
Twenty Ways To Have a Lousy Night Out
Av Jay Rayner
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion …
Protection
E-bok, 2011
57 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'Florence lives in the country, lapped by …
At the Hairdresser's
E-bok, 2011
57 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a poignant novella from Anita Brookner.'I rather hope I shall die at the hairdresser's, for they are bound to know what to do. At least …
A Guest at the Feast
A Memoir
Av Colm Tóibín
E-bok, 2011
40 kr
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A Guest at the Feast is Colm Tóibín's touching memoir. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author's early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place and family. Tóibín's …
Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana
The Great Zulu Victory of 1879
Av Saul David
E-bok, 2011
34 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Saul David's compelling examination of one of history's greatest battles.On 22nd January, at Isandlwana in Zululand, South-East Africa, …
Great Battles: The Battle of Alamein
North Africa 1942
E-bok, 2011
40 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. In this Special, Colin Smith and John Bierman make the battle of Alamein come alive.A turning point in the Second World War, the battle of El …
Perfect Christmas Day
15 Essential Recipes for the Perfect Christmas
E-bok, 2011
39 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form.Christmas dinner is perhaps the one meal of the year where even the most relaxed cook feels the pressure of perfection - and, although few menus …
Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker
A Selection of Real Meals
Av Will Self
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker - hilarious restaurant reviews by Booker nominee Will Self'Most food writing and restaurant criticism is concerned with the ideal, with how by cooking this, or dining there, you can somehow ingurgitate a new - or at any rate improved - social, …
Economist: Women and Work
Closing the Gap
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.When students graduate from …
Economist: Personal Technology
Beyond the PC
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Twenty years ago one …
Economist: Financial Innovation
Playing with Fire
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Is financial innovation good …
Economist: China
Rising Power, Anxious State
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.'The line up for next year's …
Economist: The Future of Jobs
The Great Mismatch
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Globalisation and technology …
Economist: Pakistan
Perilous Journey
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Pakistan is in a tricky …
Who's in Charge Here?
How Governments are Failing the World Economy
Av Alan Beattie
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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As we watch wave after wave of volatility threaten the global economy, it is tempting to ask, who is in charge here? The answer, journalist and economist Alan Beattie explains, is all too often no one.The crisis that began with mortgages in American suburbia has now spread around the world from …
Making of the Greek Crisis
New Revised Edition: 2015
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form.The financial and social crisis in Greece has deep roots in the country's society and history. In this newly revised edition James Pettifer, the …
House of Cards
The Inside Story of the Fall of Custom House Capital
Av Niall Brady
E-bok, 2012
34 kr
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In the summer of 2011, investors with Custom House Capital - some of whom had all their pension savings tied up with the investment house - faced a nightmare: the possibility that their money was gone, and that they wouldn't be getting it back. Finance journalist Niall Brady takes us behind the …
Economist: State Capitalism
The Visible Hand
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.As Western liberalist …
Economist: Cuba
Revolution in Retreat
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Raúl Castro is changing …
Economist: International Banking
Retail Renaissance
Av The Economist Publications (PUK Rights)
E-bok, 2012
39 kr
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The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Retail banking is heading …
Being Sam Frears
A Life Less Ordinary
Av Mary Mount
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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This is Sam Frears' story.This is also the story of an actor, a rock-climber and a man born with an extremely rare genetic disorder only affecting Ashkenazi Jews. Sam was supposed to live to the age of 5. In February, he celebrated his 40th birthday.Challenged by blindness and a body under great …
Pray
Notes on the 2011/2012 Football Season
Av Nick Hornby
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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Pray is bestselling author Nick Hornby's extraordinary account of an astonishing season'That is why there is NOTHING better than sport' Kevin PietersenThe 2011-12 Premier League season finished on an afternoon so extraordinary that it prompted Kevin Pietersen's tweet. Yet this was just the climax …
Roy Lichtenstein
How Modern Art Was Saved by Donald Duck
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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A Penguin Special on Roy Lichtenstein by Alastair Sooke - read in 2 hours or less'Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece! My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work!' Roy Lichtenstein - architect of Pop art, connoisseur of the comic strip, master of irony and prophet of …
Famous Trials: Unwanted Spouses
E-bok, 2012
34 kr
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From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the GuiltyA respectable solicitor in the town of Hay-on-Wye, harried by his …
Famous Trials: Thrill-Killers
Av Alex McBride
E-bok, 2012
34 kr
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From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the GuiltyThomas Cream, erstwhile Sunday school teacher and serial poisoner, …
Famous Trials: Lucky Escapes
Av Alex McBride
E-bok, 2012
34 kr
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From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the GuiltyNineteen year-old Madeleine Smith may have been charged in 1857 with …
Land Lubbers Lying Down Below
E-bok, 2012
57 kr
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'Tonight it is the concert. Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady's ball-room. As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to stare and listen.'Scipio is eleven years old and a lady's page. He plays the harpsichord, speaks French and German, and sings in …
Everybody's Hacked Off
Why We Don't Have the Press we Deserve and What to Do About It
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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A brilliantly written, concise and accessible summary of the Leveson inquiry and a convincing argument for why we need press reform from an expert on the subject, with an introduction by Hugh Grant, a Hacked Off campaigner, recent witness at the Leveson inquiry and presenter of the Channel 4 …
Abroad
E-bok, 2013
40 kr
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A brilliantly funny original short story from Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.'Anyone artistic needed Abroad in the 1950s.'Paul and his girlfriend are artists in need of subject matter. Arresting, evocative subject matter. So they decide to go Abroad, as much as possible, for as long as …
