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Between Two Fires

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:23:14 PST

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A collection of essays on various incidents of European history that occurred in the 1930s which build up an image of Europe on the brink. Episodes are linked to illustrate this, such as the Stavinsky affair in France, the murder of Ernst Roehm, and the civil war in the red quarters of Vienna.

Noir Histoire d'une couleur

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:22:58 PST

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Historischer Atlas Deutschland

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:39:24 PST

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Historica

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:38:31 PST

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My Holocaust

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:34:26 PST

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Thüringen

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:34:07 PST

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Der Norden Die Region >ganz oben<, wie Nordhausens Werbeslogan heißt, reicht vom Südharz bis zum Thüringer Becken. Dampflokomotiven schnaufen hier durch die ...

I mercanti della salute

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:32:44 PST

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Per sentito dire. Conoscenza e testimonianza

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:32:20 PST

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The archaeologist's handbook

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:22:21 PST

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"The Archaeologist's Handbook" takes a look at the role of archaeologists from the discovery of an artefact or archaeological site to the identification, dating, preservation, restoration and understanding of what has been found. This book looks at everything from the most basic archaaeological techniques to the latest technological advances used to assist the modern archaeologist. The book has a ...

The Mesoamerican Indian languages

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:18:50 PST

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Duden - Das Bedeutungswörterbuch

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:18:31 PST

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Die unendliche Geschichte. Sonderausgabe.

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:16:07 PST

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The Neverending Story

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:15:35 PST

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Dossier: i nuovi Templari

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:14:57 PST

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Breaking the Maya Code

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:14:22 PST

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Michael Coe's classic inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time--the last great decoding of an ancient script--has been updated throughout and now includes an epilogue that brings the reader up to date in the fast-changing field of Maya decipherment. Among the more exciting advances to be described are: * the discovery of the specific Maya language and sophisticated ...

Global Pentecostalism

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:14:07 PST

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How and why is Christianity's center of gravity shifting to the developing world? To understand this rapidly growing phenomenon, Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori spent four years traveling the globe conducting extensive on-the-ground research in twenty different countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The result is this vividly detailed book and accompanying DVD, which togeth ...

Il tedesco

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:13:43 PST

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La fractura mexicana

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:13:15 PST

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The Fading of the Greens

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:12:27 PST

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We all care about the planet: few are untouched by a concern for the environment and the future of the earth. Yet very few of us apparently want to see the political representatives of green ideology in power. Why should this be, and where did the energy behind Green politics go? In this sequel to her "Ecology in the Twentieth Century," Anna Bramwell provides an analysis of the failure to create ...

Le guerre del Vietnam

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:11:12 PST

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Un resoconto a tinte fosche dei vari aspetti, diplomatici e politici, delle guerre del Vietnam - contro Francia prima e USA poi - e delle loro conseguenze. Per la prima volta si dà eguale peso agli Americani e ai Vietnamiti, sconfessando l'idea che tutte le azioni compiute dai "buoni" americani contro i "cattivi" comunisti siano state lecite, concezione ribadita in molt ...

Reluctant Spiritualist

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:10:45 PST

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* Nominated for a New York Historical Society Book Prize in American History * Honorable Mention in General Nonfiction from the American Society of Journalists and Authors Here is the first authoritative biography of Margaret Fox, the world-famous medium and cofounder of the Spiritualism movement that swept America in the mid-1800s. In 1848, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her sister Katy created rap ...

Ancient America

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:10:12 PST

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Presunto colpevole

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:36:25 PST

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"Io credo che prima di tutto sia bene non nuocere. È importante riconoscere i colpevoli ma prima vanno salvaguardati i bambini." Massimo Ammaniti, la Repubblica. Essere accusati ingiustamente. Può capitare a tutti. Difficile difendersi, quasi impossibile se il reato di cui si è accusati è quello più tremendo e infamante: abuso sessuale di adolescenti. L'emozione ci travolge quando si parla di b ...

Quaderni ucraini

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:35:58 PST

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I Quaderni ucraini sono la prima parte di un dittico consacrato ai paesi dell'ex Unione Sovietica. L'autore ha trascorso in tutto quasi due anni in Ucraina e in Russia, raccogliendo pazientemente le parole dei testimoni e dei sopravvissuti di un passato terribile che oggi si trovano a essere gli smarriti protagonisti di un presente ancora più incerto. In brevi capitoli, Igort ridà vita ai ricordi ...

Islamophobia

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:35:13 PST

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In the spirit of Edward Said's Orientalism, this book graphically shows how political cartoons-the print medium with the most immediate impact-dramatically reveal Americans demonizing and demeaning Muslims and Islam. It also reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the Muslim world in general and issues a wake-up call to the American people.

Zeal for Zion

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:34:39 PST

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Goldman offers a fresh perspective on the history of Zionism, deftly weaving together the stories of poets and diplomats, Christian scholars and Jewish leaders, ...

Bevrijd

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:33:28 PST

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Autobiografisch relaas van een vrouw die jarenlang lid was van een streng- gesloten, behoudende katholieke groepering en daar werd gecontroleerd en ...

The Lost History of Christianity

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:33:02 PST

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Leading religion scholar Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the RomanEmpire and explains how the earliest, most influential churches of the ...

Lo Stato seduttore

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:32:42 PST

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Tra i primi a comprendere e segnalare l'avvento di una democrazia mediatica, nella quale l'enorme sviluppo dei mass media è destinato a cambiare profondamente i meccanismi della vita pubblica, Debray analizza il modo in cui i messaggi simbolici si iscrivono, si trasmettono e si sedimentano nella società. L'ingresso nella videosfera e la metafora sportiva, il ruolo dei corpi mediali e i nuovi ling ...

La preistoria spiegata ai miei nipoti

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 2:32:20 PST

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L'autore, affermato paleoantropologo e direttore scientifico dell'équipe della Grotte Chauvet, cerca di trasmettere la propria passione per una materia affascinante, prendendo spunto dalle domande dei suoi nipotini che hanno tra i 6 e i 16 anni.

Petit guide des noms des lieux bretons

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:41:08 PST

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L'homme et l'outil

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:19:34 PST

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Bibliographie Allman JM, MclLaughlin T., Hakeem A. (1993), « Brain weight and life-span in primates species », Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Science ...

Le coût de la Terreur

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:19:07 PST

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Le coût de la Révolution française

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:18:47 PST

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L'invention de la France

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:17:13 PST

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Ils ont trahi Salomon

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:16:31 PST

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La fascination de l'Inde en Allemagne

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:15:15 PST

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Le 2 juin, la conférence que Tagore doit donner à Berlin dégénère en scène d' hystérie collective. La presse recense des malaises parmi le public féminin. ...

Le chouan du Tyrol

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:13:41 PST

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1809, alors que Napoléon domine la moitié de l'Europe, un paysan se rebelle contrel'empereur des Français.

L'invention des continents

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:13:17 PST

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Des fascinantes mappemondes médiévales aux plafonds baroques, des allégories de laRenaissance aux sculptures impérialistes des chambres de commerce, c'est ...

Le sexe au temps des Cro-Magnons

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:12:53 PST

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... préhistorique des données archéologiques et anthropologiques concernant la sexualité est ici doublée d'un comparatisme ethnologique qui permet de mieux ...

Celtic Legends of Brittany

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 1:10:36 PST

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Translation of: Légendes traditionnelles de la Bretagne. Saint-Brieuc : Editions de la Bretagne touristique, 1928.

Histoire religieuse de la Bretagne

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:09:23 PST

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Les grands mythes de l'histoire de France

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:48:45 PST

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Quand les Alliés bombardaient la France

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:48:13 PST

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Les aventurières de Dieu

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:47:51 PST

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A travers l'expansion des communautés religieuses féminines à l'extérieur del'Europe, Elisabeth Dufourcq raconte l'épopée de ces femmes qui, poussées ...

Le Moyen âge, une imposture

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:47:22 PST

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Jacques Heers utilise son érudition au service d'une démystification salutaire desmille ans qui séparent la chute de l'empire romain d'Occident et la ...

Les Tsiganes, ou, Le destin sauvage des Roms de l'Est

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:46:59 PST

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Les Tsiganes d'Europe de l'Est qui ont enchanté jadis les ethnologues par leurs rites, leurs coutumes, intrigué les observateurs par leur nombre, leur ...

La nuova Intifada. Per il diritto alla vita del popolo palestinese

Wed, 19 May 2010 22:27:48 PST

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El chingolés

Wed, 19 May 2010 22:27:05 PST

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Alla conquista del cuore della terra

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:36:09 PST

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Il punto fisso

Sun, 16 May 2010 15:03:49 PST

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Selling Spirituality

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:46:48 PST

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From feng shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living, and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace--a cultural addiction that ...

Brands of faith

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:44:14 PST

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Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively faiths have had to become brands a?? easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom ...

L'ultima vittima di piazza Fontana

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:17:26 PST

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Dream Catchers

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:56:19 PST

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In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. While early Americans had not ...

Un luogo incerto

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:55:16 PST

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Adamsberg, con l'impagabile Danglard, si trova, un po' annoiato, in Inghilterra per una riunione della Grande Europa poliziesca: si tratta nientemeno che di "armonizzare i flussi migratori" con i colleghi di ventitré Paesi. Ma dove c'è Adamsberg tutto può accadere. E il ritrovamento delle diciassette scarpe - o come dice il preciso Danglard, "diciassette piedi, otto paia e un piede singolo" - spi ...

The World of Venice

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:54:54 PST

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A fascinating exploration of the history, sights, seasons, arts, food, and people of an incomparable city. "A highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city, written in powerful prose and enlivened by many curious mosaics of information...a beautiful book to read and to possess" (The Observer). New Foreword by the Author. Index.

The Puffin book of animal stories

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:54:40 PST

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Circoncisione. Dalla selce al bisturi

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:54:21 PST

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The Wee Free Men

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:53:55 PST

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Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk's no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster i ...

Charakterwäsche

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:53:25 PST

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Indian tales

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:51:04 PST

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Based on Berkeley's KPFA radio broadcast program of Jamie de Angulo's Indian songs and stories, this book recounts an allegorical journey of Bear, his wife ...

L'industria della solidarietà

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:50:39 PST

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Quarantamila organizzazioni internazionali, oltre sei miliardi di dollari stanziati ogni anno: intorno agli aiuti umanitari si è sviluppata una vera e propria industria (la quinta nel mondo). Animate - oggi come alla loro origine - da scopi nobilissimi, ma anche obbedienti alle leggi di mercato, le ONG entrano in concorrenza fra loro per ottenere spazi di intervento e lottano per guadagnare visib ...

Il volo della sirena

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:49:47 PST

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Gloria o morte

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:45:21 PST

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La Guerra di Crimea, combattuta da Gran Bretagna, Francia, Regno di Piemonte e Turchia contro l'impero russo, ebbe inizio nel 1853 e venne inizialmente vissuta come una grande avventura da soldati e ufficiali, ma presto si trasformò in una delle campagne più disastrose dell'era moderna, in uno scontro a distanza e impersonale, combattuto con l'artiglieria, che sembrò anticipa ...

In the shadow of the giant

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:45:00 PST

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In this first book to view modern Mexico in the era of NAFTA and globalization, In the Shadow of the Giant offers insight into the land on our southern border ...

Napoleon and the Hundred Days

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:44:42 PST

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A masterly blend of history and novelistic narrative about Napoleon's triumphant return from captivity and the critical days before Waterloo. In Vienna, 1815, as the political aristocrats of Europe assemble to determine the fate of the continent after defeating Napoleon, the news arrived that Napoleon had escaped captivity and was returning to France. Bonaparte-the revolutionary turned emperor an ...

The City of Light

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:44:06 PST

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In 1270, Jewish scholar-merchant Jacob d'Ancona embarked on a remarkable voyage from his native Italy to Zaitun, the City of Light, a vast coastal metropolis in Southern China. Translated and edited by David Selbourne from a manuscript hidden from the outside world for centuries, it is a brilliant work of historical significance, a fascinating first-person insight into life in the 13th century. I ...

Thomas More's Magician

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:43:48 PST

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In 1532, eleven years after the Spanish conquest, Mexico is in crisis. As the conquistadors discover an earthly paradise, its peoples and their Gods are being destroyed. This is a time of greed, uncertainty—and idealism. Despairing of his surroundings, Vasco de Quiroga, a new member of the Spanish ruling council, forges a commune on Mexico City's outskirts, using Thomas More's book, Utopia, as hi ...

American beginnings

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:43:28 PST

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The 100 illustrations in this book come largely from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine and include many rare early maps (1500-1800).

La mente del viaggiatore

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:42:23 PST

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Beirut

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:42:05 PST

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Da sempre Beirut, tra i bagliori di una città aperta - orientale e occidentalizzata, cristiana e musulmana, moderna ma profondamente radicata in una storia che ha visto passare Pompeo, Saladino, i Pascià Jazzar e Ibrahim e gli incubi di un luogo esposto di continuo alla guerra, con i suoi abitanti di svariata provenienza, i suoi scrittori e artisti, i suoi contrasti ed eccessi, continua ad alimen ...

A Corkscrew is Most Useful

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:41:44 PST

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In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared. In 1841 Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agent, organised its first tour (from London to Leicester and back by train). The age of mass touri ...

Lost shores, forgotten peoples

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:41:21 PST

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"This is totally new, very important material.

Black Mischief, Scoop, the Loved One, the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:40:40 PST

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Little mother of Russia

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:40:21 PST

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Using information from the Royal Archives and previously unavailable material from Scandinavia, this biography offers a re-appraisal of the life of Empress Marie Feodorovna, whose son Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia.

The Dark Heart of Italy

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:40:00 PST

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In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine bu ...

Girotondo cinese

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:38:50 PST

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Mexican Phoenix

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:38:30 PST

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In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a seco ...

Il Cammino di Santiago

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:38:03 PST

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Nel suo primo romanzo Coelho accompagna il lettore nel viaggio di Paulo, il narratore, lungo il sentiero che conduce a Santiago de Compostela. Un percorso che Paulo deve affrontare per diventare il Maestro Ram e conquistare la spada che lo trasformerà in Guerriero della Luce. Con lui c'è la sua guida spirituale, il misterioso ed enigmatico Petrus. Settecento chilometri in tre mesi, durante i qual ...

The invention of prophecy

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:37:34 PST

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00 Armin Geertz corrects what he sees as basic American and European tendencies to misrepresent non-Western cultures.

I riti di passaggio

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:37:10 PST

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"L'opera di Van Gennep è uno dei grandi classici dell'etnologia e in generaledelle "scienze umane". Pubblicata nel 1909, segnò un momento capitale neglistudi delle culture "primitive", del folklore, e della "Kulturgeschichte" ingenerale, rivelando così si può dire, senza esagerare il concetto diiniziazione e la sua dinamica. A que ...

Storia della Scuola

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:36:48 PST

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Licht und Finsternis

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:36:28 PST

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Ordine nero, guerriglia rossa

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:35:20 PST

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Guido Panvini ricostruisce il processo di militarizzazione della lotta politica in Italia innescato dalla violenza diffusa tra l'estrema destra e l'estrema sinistra. Lo studio sistematico delle fonti d'archivio da un lato ci riporta al clima nel quale maturò il terrorismo, ma, soprattutto, ne individua una delle piú importanti condizioni genetiche nei discorsi e nelle pratiche della violenza dei ...

Dinosaur with an attitude

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:34:59 PST

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Winner of the 1993 Austrian Children's Book Prize, this story is about a royal pain, dog-sized Compsognathus who sleeps in the room of his young owner, Zawinul.

The Tunguska Fireball

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:34:29 PST

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On 30th June 1908 a mysterious fireball exploded in the Siberian sky and flattened 2000 square kilometres of the remote Tunguska forest. As no crater and no material from outer space were ever found, a meteorite could not have caused this explosion. so what did? This book discusses all theories and then analyses the evidence.

Singing the past

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:33:13 PST

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Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in Old English, Old High German, and Old French ...

Iran- Fakten gegen westliche Propaganda

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:50:39 PST

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La cultura zapoteca

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:03:11 PST

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Elogio del gatto

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:21:18 PST

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Prima di diventare uno dei nostri animali domestici preferiti, il gatto haavuto una reputazione discutibile. Mentre i suoi estimatori ne hanno sempreelogiato l'eleganza, l'autonomia e la capacità di seduzione, i detrattori necondannano l'ipocrisia e l'ambiguità. Questo volume ci guida alla scopertadelle numerose metamorfosi che questo splendido animale ha subito nel corsodei secoli, ...

El revuelo de la serpiente

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:18:21 PST

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La vita quotidiana ai tempi dei Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:25:05 PST

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Il nostro progetto non è di descrivere l'esistenza, appassionante ma letteraria, degli eroi della Tavola rotonda rappresentata nei romanzi cavallereschi della fine del XII e degli inizi del XIII secolo, ma quello di studiare la vera vita quotidiana delle popolazioni inglese e francese nel periodo che va dall'ascesa del trono di Enrico II il Plantageneto (1154), re d'Inghilterra, fino alla morte d ...

Il Campo dei Santi

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:20:36 PST

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Scritto nel 1973 dal romanziere francese Jean Raspail, “Il Campo dei Santi” è un libro unico nel suo genere, assolutamente “scandaloso” rispetto ai falsi dogmi dell’ideologia liberal-marxista e sicuramente irrepetibile dal punto di vista di una tecnica letteraria che, per potenza narrativa e per l’incedere visionario, trova pochi eguali nel suo genere.Il libro immagina l’odissea di un’immensa fol ...

Two Nations in Your Womb

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:16:39 PST

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that of the Sages and even to have caused the latter to defend itself. Posing the problem of election in the center of early Christian doctrine and the ...

Medioevo simbolico

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:15:59 PST

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La mitologia di alberi e boschi, i bestiari delle fiabe, il gioco degli scacchi, la storia e l'archeologia dei colori, l'origine degli emblemi e delle bandiere, l'iconografia di Giuda, la leggenda di re Artù e quella di Ivanhoe. Un grande storico dei simboli si misura con un'affascinante indagine sulla complessità di segni e sogni del nostro Medioevo. Un viaggio intrigante lungo il labile confine ...

La caduta dell'impero romano

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:15:09 PST

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La caduta dell'impero romano è da sempre uno dei più affascinanti enigmi della storia. Roma disponeva di una formidabile forza militare ed economica, su un territorio immenso, che si estendeva dal Vallo di Adriano ai confini con la Scozia fino all'Eufrate, dall'Africa settentrionale al Reno e al Danubio. Era una macchina perfetta e collaudata, con una rete capillare di strade e di fortezze, ricch ...

Conflicted Antiquities

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:13:56 PST

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Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europ ...

Blu

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:13:16 PST

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Ormai è il colore preferito dalla maggior parte delle persone, eppure la storia ci insegna che non è sempre stato così: presso gli antichi Greci e Romani, per esempio, il blu aveva una connotazione fortemente negativa, tanto da essere associato agli spregevoli Barbari. A documentare la lenta ma progressiva inversione di tendenza che lo riguarda è un esperto in materia come Michel Pastoureau, che ...

My Battle of Algiers

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:12:44 PST

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In My Battle of Algiers, eminent historian and biographer Ted Morgan recounts his experiences in the savage Algerian War. In 1956, Morgan was drafted into the French Army and was sent thousands of miles overseas to help quell the Algerian uprising. Once there, he witnessed—and became involved in—unimaginable barbarism that would haunt him for the rest of his life.