Télécharger le livre :  The Arrogant Ape

Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking persuades us to exploit the earth at the expense of...
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Parution : 2025-09-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Power and the Glory

The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a century. Yet there is no comprehensive history of the tournament: based on fresh...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  In the Time of Five Pumpkins

Book 26 in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe rains are coming, but not just yet. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish - particularly those of Mma...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-09-04
Collection : No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Télécharger le livre :  Chasing the Dark

'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' Sarah Waters 'Shiversomely eerie... so impressive in its research and remarkable in all it uncovers' Tom...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Burr

Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton.In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
Collection : Narratives of empire
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Télécharger le livre :  1876

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Lincoln

In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Confessions of Samuel Pepys

'A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys's diary' Claire TomalinA collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their publicationThe Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Bertie's Theory of Ice Cream

Book 18 in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith"It's like ice cream, Mr Flynn," Bertie continued. "When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-07
Collection : 44 Scotland Street
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Télécharger le livre :  Washington D C

History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Hollywood

Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Second Life

At Amanda Hess's seven-month scan, the doctor analysing the ultrasound saw something he 'didn't like' - a potentially serious abnormality in her baby. Telling the moving story of this moment and everything that happened afterwards, Amanda Hess explores how it feels to...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-05-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mouthless Dead

'Anthony Quinn has found an ingenious way of shaping the story into a gripping work of fiction... a compelling mixture of crime story and character study' Sunday Times'A dark, unsettling, completely addictive mystery' Jonathan CoeA powerful and gripping crime novel...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-03-06

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Télécharger le livre :  One Palestine, Complete

'By some way the best history of the Mandate I have ever read, with the greatest scope, the widest research and the clearest moral sense' JOHN SIMPSONTom Segev's widely acclaimed work has changed the way we view the history of Israel. He discussed the three decades when...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-02-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Captain de Havilland's Moth

The most iconic of all light aircraft, the DH60 Moth was the brain-child of Geoffrey de Havilland, visionary son of an angry and disappointed Victorian clergyman. A successful designer of military aircraft, Geoffrey dreamed of doing for aircraft what Ford had done for...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Memorial Days

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of? Horse.Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-02-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Invisible Helix

'The Japanese Stieg Larsson' The TimesDetective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads in surprising ways. The body of a young...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-01-30
Collection : Detective Galileo Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Far from Eutopia

In 2020, after three and a half years of bitter negotiations, Britain left the European Union. For some it was a day of freedom, for others a tragedy which would leave Britain isolated and poorer. Vote Brexit, the Remain campaign warned us, and it would be an act of...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-01-23

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Télécharger le livre :  House of Huawei

The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world'Authoritative... a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today' Financial Times'Explosive' Sunday Times'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang'Riveting, robustly researched' TLS...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-01-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Sweet Vidalia

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a life-affirming novel about marriage, friendship and the powerful dignity of a woman forced to rebuild her life - unexpectedly and alone - in 1960s Texas.She made herself see Robert with the kids, telling stories of...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2024-12-03

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