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Industry and Empire - E. J. Hobsbawm - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain''s rise as the world''s first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people.

DKK 155.00

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The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug - some of the most famous tales of terror and the most macabre detective stories ever written. Acknowledged master of suspense, Poe was also a poet and - as his stories of mesmerism and time travel prove - a pioneer of science fiction. In this collection, probing to the depths of the human psyche, Poe''s haunted genius will chill and enthral you.

DKK 241.00

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A Lost Lady - Willa Cather - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksHow light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her unwavering confidant. Yet, her irresistible charm and dazzling wit conceal a dangerous vulnerability – and her greatest secret. A significant inspiration for The Great Gatsby, this exquisite novella is a poignant elegy for a bygone era, fading into history.

DKK 92.00

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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Nellie Bly - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America''s first ''girl stunt reporter''. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an exposé of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This volume, the only printed and edited collection of Bly''s writings, includes her best-known works as well as many lesser-known pieces that capture the breadth of her career from her fierce opinion pieces to her remarkable World War I reporting.

DKK 119.00

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Warm Worlds and Otherwise - James Tiptree - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Tiptree''s narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction''s most vivid and influential bodies of work'' The New York Times This landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.''Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood'' Vox

DKK 113.00

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Wolf Willow - Wallace Stegner - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Enchanting, heartrending and eminently enviable'' Vladimir NabokovPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner''s boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded fro 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applies childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of pioneer community existing in the verge of a modern world.''Stegner has summarized the frontier story and interpreted it as only one who was part of it could'' The New York Times Book Review

DKK 127.00

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Ornament and Crime - Adolf Loos - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why ''the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power''.Translated by Shaun WhitesideWith an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

DKK 120.00

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Useful Work v. Useless Toil - William Morris - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings – no matter what their class. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

DKK 107.00

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O Pioneers! - Willa Cather - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it To the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd in. A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cather''s 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American.

DKK 120.00

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Food - Gertrude Stein - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

DKK 73.00

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Everywoman - Derek Llewellyn Jones - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The definitive voice in women''s health and gynaecological study with over TWO MILLION COPIES sold worldwide. ''Everywoman deals sensitively and thoroughly with every physical and psychological aspect of internal female development'' VOGUE Everywoman is the essential manual to women''s health. This book will provide you with the knowledge to ask questions and make empowered decisions about your own wellbeing.A leading pioneer in gynaecology, Derek Llewellyn-Jones'' balanced and clear-cut advice provides medical guidance and a comprehensive exploration of women''s sexuality. Everywoman will educate you on:· Adolescence and sexual development · Birth control and family planning· Pregnancy and labour· Postpartum care Newly revised with up-to-date information, Everywoman is a gynaecological guide for life for the twenty-first century women.

DKK 155.00

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My Antonia - Willa Cather - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather''s strongest heroine at its heart Jim and Ántonia meets as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college and a career in the east, while Ántonia stays at home, dedicating herself to her farm and family. As the years roll by, Jim will come to view Ántonia as the embodiment of the prairie itself - tough, spirited and enduring, despite the hardness and loneliness of pioneer life. Willa Cather''s beautiful novel is a celebration of the Nebraskan prairie she loved she much, and a powerful depiction of a pivotal era in the making of America.

DKK 120.00

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The Great Science Fiction - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man''s'' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity''s dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine , The Island of Doctor Moreau , The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are.With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont

DKK 139.00

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The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah - Masanobu Fukuoka - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah , the celebrated pioneer of the ''do-nothing'' farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

DKK 85.00

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BRUGT BOG - The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah - Masanobu Fukuoka - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

BRUGT BOG In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah , the celebrated pioneer of the ''do-nothing'' farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

DKK 42.00

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The Purple Cloud - M. P. Shiel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. John Sutherland''s introduction discusses M. P. Shiel''s dissolute life, the originality of his book and its place within the context of ''last man'' novels. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and further reading.

DKK 119.00

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Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Like his Austrian contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and writer Arthur Schnitzlerwas a bold pioneer in exploring the dark tangled roots of human consciousness. His novella Dream Story tells the tale of a young married man who, after a discussion with his wife about their fantasises, experiences an eery reverie through Vienna''s underbelly.

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The Lusiads - William Atkinson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal''s voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama''s pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes''s narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India and the Far East. The poem''s twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, and its celebration of a turning point in mankind''s knowledge of the world unites the old map of the heavens with the newly discovered terrain on earth. Yet it speaks powerfully, too, of the precariousness of power, and of the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened not only from without by enemies, but from within by loss of integrity and vision.

DKK 155.00

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Holacracy - Brian J. Robertson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In Holacracy , Brian J Robertson outlines a ground-breaking approach to organisation: no managers, only roles ''Holacracy is the opposite of the cliché way to run a start-up. It creates clarity: who is in charge of what, and who makes each kind of decision '' - Evan Williams , cofounder of Blogger, Twitter and MediumIn traditional companies, managers make decisions, and workers execute the plan. But Holacracy is a revolutionary and tried-and-tested new system which turns everyone into a leader. The organisation looks like a nest of circles, not a pyramid -- but it''s not anarchy. It''s finally clear who should make each decision -- the person on the frontline has that authority -- and the organisation succeeds by adapting swiftly to pursue its purpose.In Holacracy, pioneer Brian Robertson explains how to adopt this system across your organisation -- and what you can do just within your department or for yourself -- and how to overcome any obstacles along the way.

DKK 127.00

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A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.'' A Zoo in My Luggage is Gerald Durrell''s account of his attempt to set up his own zoo, after years spent gathering animals for other zoos. Journeying to Cameroon, he and his wife collected numerous mammals, birds and reptiles, including Cholmondely the chimpanzee and Bug-eye the bush-baby.But their problems really began when they attempted to return with their exotic menagerie. Not only had they to get them safely home to Britain but they also had to find somewhere able and - most of all - willing to house them.Told with wit and a zest for all things furry and feathered, Gerald Durrell''s A Zoo in My Luggage is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo.

DKK 120.00

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Girl Decoded - Rana El Kaliouby - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Bold, inspired and hopeful'' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global ''Lucid and captivating'' Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0 A captivating memoir that chronicles one woman''s mission to humanise technology and what she learns about humanity along the way. Now more than ever, we find ourselves unable to express our true feelings through technology. Whether it''s a misunderstood text, an oversimplified emoji or a Skype call that leaves us feeling lonely, when most of our communication is carried out through tech, the result is a virtual world that''s lacking our humanity - a society lacking in empathy.Rana el Kaliouby discovered this when she left Cairo, a newly-married, Muslim woman, to take up her place at Cambridge University to study computer science. Many thousands of miles from home, she began to develop systems to help her better connect with her family. She started to pioneer the new field of Emotional Intelligence (EI). She now runs her company, Affectiva (the industry-leader in this emerging field) that builds EI into our technology and develops systems that understand humans the way we understand one another. This is the fascinating story of her mission to humanise technology and what she learns about humanity along the way.

DKK 127.00

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The Book of Why - Judea Pearl - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence ''Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read'' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow ''Correlation does not imply causation.'' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer, or carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl''s discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we too can think better. ''Pearl''s accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence and have redefined the term "thinking machine"'' Vint Cerf

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Spare Parts - Paul Craddock - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Compelling'' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times ''A fascinating book'' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world -- but it''s a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. In Spare Parts , cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey and unearths incredible untold stories, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost noses in the sixth century BC, to the seventeenth century architect who helped pioneer blood transfusions, to the French seamstress whose needlework paved the way for kidney transplants in the early 1900s.Expertly weaving together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery has constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal and machine. It shows us that the history -- and future -- of transplant surgery is tied up with questions not only about who we are, but also what we are, and what we might become._______________________________________________________________ ''By turns delightful and disturbing . . . A thoroughly engrossing read that I couldn''t put down'' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS, author of The Facemaker and The Butchering Art ''Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise'' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon and author of Life on a Knife''s Edge ''This is a joyful romp through a fascinating slice of medical history'' WENDY MOORE, author of The Knife Man

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Superbosses - Sydney Finkelstein - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

'' Superbosses shows the incredible impact that great managers can have, both on their employees and on entire industries. Finkelstein has written a true leadership guide for the Networked Age'' Reid Hoffman, cofounder and chairman, LinkedIn; coauthor of The Alliance '' Superbosses is the rare business book that is chock-full of new, useful, and often unexpected ideas'' Robert Sutton, author of Scaling Up Excellence and The No Asshole Rule ''One of the most important, groundbreaking, and actionable leadership books to hit the market in years''James M. Citrin, author of The Career Playbook ; leader, CEO Practice, Spencer Stuart A GOOD BOSS HITS HIS GOALS AND LEADS HIS TEAM. A SUPERBOSS BLOWS AWAY HER GOALS BY BUILDING AN ARMY OF NEW LEADERS. WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE?Superbosses exist in nearly every industry, from the glamorous to the mundane. They are defined by consistent success in their fields and their approach to finding, nurturing and developing talent. If you study the top fifty leaders in any field, as many as one-third will have once worked for a superboss. After ten years of research and more than two hundred interviews with superbosses including technology CEO Larry Ellison and fashion pioneer Ralph Lauren, Finkelstein explores this previously unidentified phenomenon - and shows how each of us can emulate their best tactics to create our own powerful networks of extraordinary talent.

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Rebooting India - Nandan Nilekani - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field. For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and fair elections to communication, infrastructure and the rule of law - technology can play an increasingly positive, revolutionary role. In India, for example, where many underprivileged citizens are invisible to the state, a unique national identity system is being implemented for the first time, which will help strengthen social security. And throughout the world, technology is essential in the transition to clean energy.This book, based on the authors'' collective experiences working with government, argues that technology can reshape our lives, in both the developing and developed world, and shows how this can be achieved.Praise for Nandan Nilekani:''A pioneer . . . one of India''s most celebrated technology entrepreneurs'' Financial Times ''There is a bracing optimism about Nilekani''s analysis . . . which can only be welcome in this age of doom and gloom'' Telegraph ''The Bill Gates of Bangalore . . . Nilekani achieves an impressive breadth'' Time Nandan Nilekani is a software entrepreneur, Co-founder of Infosys Technologies, and the head of the Government of India''s Technology Committee. He was named one of the ''100 Most Influential People in the World'' by TIME magazine and Forbes'' ''Business Leader of the Year'', and he is a member of the World Economic Forum Board.Viral B. Shah is a software expert who has created various systems for governments and businesses worldwide.

DKK 190.00

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Industry and Empire - E. J. Hobsbawm - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Lost Lady - Willa Cather - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Nellie Bly - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Warm Worlds and Otherwise - James Tiptree - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wolf Willow - Wallace Stegner - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ornament and Crime - Adolf Loos - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Useful Work v. Useless Toil - William Morris - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

O Pioneers! - Willa Cather - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Food - Gertrude Stein - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Everywoman - Derek Llewellyn Jones - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

My Antonia - Willa Cather - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Great Science Fiction - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah - Masanobu Fukuoka - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

BRUGT BOG - The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah - Masanobu Fukuoka - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Purple Cloud - M. P. Shiel - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Lusiads - William Atkinson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Holacracy - Brian J. Robertson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Girl Decoded - Rana El Kaliouby - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Book of Why - Judea Pearl - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Spare Parts - Paul Craddock - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Superbosses - Sydney Finkelstein - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rebooting India - Nandan Nilekani - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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