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Francesco Moranino, il comandante «Gemisto»

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 1:28:44 PST

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La storia del processo al partigiano Francesco Moranino, il comandante «Gemisto», primo parlamentare della storia della Repubblica a subire l’autorizzazione a procedere e all’arresto. Come in molti altri casi, Moranino fu indagato per fatti accaduti durante la guerra di Liberazione solo dopo le elezioni dell’aprile del 1948 che segnarono la sconfitta del Fronte Popolare delle sinistre. Alla fine ...

Immoderate Greatness

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 4:00:21 PST

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Immoderate Greatness explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is globa ...

The World Until Yesterday

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:31:15 PST

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Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond reveals how traditional societies around the world offer an extraor ...

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:59:00 PST

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A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism," begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movement ...

La conquista dell'inutile

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:30:42 PST

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Questo testo raccoglie il lungo diario tenuto da Werner Herzog durante i dueanni e mezzo di lavorazione del suo film "Fitzcarraldo" nella giunglaamazzonica, tra il giugno 1979 e il novembre 1981. Protagonisti di questepagine sono, come nel film, la lussureggiante foresta pluviale e le suepopolazioni di indios che a centinaia lavorarono come comparse nellapellicola, oltre a Klaus Kinski, ...

Tutto bene

Wed, 5 Dec 2012 3:57:23 PST

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Eichmann in Jerusalem

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 7:25:52 PST

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This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in "The New Yorker" in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.

Monoculture

Sun, 2 Dec 2012 23:46:09 PST

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Michaels draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among disciplines to take a big-picture look at how the narrowing of diversity and ...

Impara l'arte

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:23:11 PST

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Kick-Ass

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 2:01:50 PST

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Avete mai voluto essere un supereroe? Dave Lizewski non si è limitato a sognarlo a occhi aperti. Dopo essersi fatto un costume e scelto il nome “Kick-Ass”, ha deciso di rendere la sua monotona vita più interessante e di provare ad aiutare qualcuno. Ma senza alcun superpotere e circondato dai criminali più violenti di New York, potrebbe aver fatto male i suoi conti. Mentre la sua identità segreta ...

Campana

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:05:51 PST

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Grazie ad attente ricerche bibliografiche, studio delle corrispondenze e viaggi nei luoghi in cui Dino Campana visse e operò, Simone Lucciola e Rocco Lombardi costruiscono un’opera di raffinata fattura, riportando all’attenzione degli appassionati del fumetto e della poesia, la controversa figura dell’autore dei Canti Orfici, protagonista di un intesa quanto sofferta esistenza umana e autore dell ...

Enigma

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:08:46 PST

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Un bambino chiuso, lento, sottovalutato dai maestri. Poi uno studente scostante, irrequieto, dai modi bizzarri. Un uomo dotato di un genio puro, le cui intuizioni contribuiranno a creare Colossus, il sistema in grado di decifrare le comunicazioni dell'esercito tedesco durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, e a porre le basi della scoperta che ha cambiato il mondo per sempre: l'intelligenza artificia ...

Straw Dogs

Fri, 9 Nov 2012 3:00:01 PST

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John Gray's Straw Dogs attempts to present a world view in which humans are not central and which argues against the humanist belief in progress. The heart of the book is summed up in the idea that modern humanists have still not come to terms with Darwin, still not come to terms with the idea that humans are like other animals. Christians and modern humanists in the Platonic-Cartesian tradition ...

Limite

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:06:13 PST

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Storia delle merende infami

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:52:24 PST

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Misquoting Jesus

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:40:06 PST

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In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only ...

Memorie di un malato di nervi

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:36:28 PST

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Daniel Paul Schreber, presidente della Corte d'Appello di Dresda, figlio di un illustre educatore dalle idee ferocemente rigide, ebbe nel 1893, a cinquantun anni, una grave crisi nervosa ed entrò nella clinica psichiatrica di Lipsia, affidandosi all'autorità del suo direttore, l'anatomista P.E. Flechsig. La crisi aveva avuto inizio quando un giorno, nel dormiveglia, il presidente Sc ...

2052

Mon, 28 May 2012 21:43:52 PST

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A Report to the Club of Rome Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of The Limits to Growth Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop—either through catastrophic "overshoot and ...

Before the Dawn

Sun, 13 May 2012 8:59:42 PST

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Nicholas Wade's articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity's origins as never beforea journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language like? How large were the firs ...

Prehistory

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:54:29 PST

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A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory—human existence that predates the development of written records—while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself. “In this complex, closely argued text . . . field giant Renfrew sets forth quite a task, to sum u ...

13 Things that Don't Make Sense

Sun, 8 Apr 2012 4:34:55 PST

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Science’s best-kept secret is this: Even today, there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770s, when ...

Too smart for our own good

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 2:55:44 PST

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We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This 2009 book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book ex ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 3:06:23 PST

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The Emperor of All Maladies

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 5:45:46 PST

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The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s ...

Il maiale e il grattacielo

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:47:51 PST

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L'autore racconta questa avventura di esplorazione, sul piano sensoriale e suquello intellettuale, fatta di scosse e di rimescolamenti, di un europeo trapiantato con tutto il proprio carico concettuale dal Vecchio Mondo nella sconosciuta Chicago. Come un detective, l'autore si trova d'improvviso a indagarei vari piani di realtà, esterni e interiori, che scopre via via che si addentra nella ...

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:22:36 PST

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Short excerpt: The discussion started the general question of the future improvement of society, and the Author at first sat down with an intention of merely stating his thoughts to his friend…

La Terra svuotata

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 5:04:28 PST

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[...] Le preoccupazioni sull'esaurimento del petrolio sono all'ordine del giorno, ma sono solo una parte di un problema molto più grande. Quando si esauriranno i minerali? Partendo da questa domanda, Ugo Bardi costruisce un racconto di tutta la storia dell'attività mineraria umana, dall'età della pietra fino al petrolio ai nostri giorni. Abbiamo ancora tante cose da scavare e tanto petrolio da es ...

Drilling Down

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:30:15 PST

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For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex th ...

Nirvana n. 1 - Variant Cover

Wed, 9 Nov 2011 16:47:37 PST

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L’esordio più atteso dell’anno! Dalle menti di Emiliano Pagani e Daniele Caluri, gli autori del bestseller Don Zauker, una nuova, esilarante serie umoristica che sconvolgerà il panorama del fumetto italiano: NIRVANA è tra noi, e niente sarà più come prima! Ramiro è un piccolo farabutto, scaltro e intelligente che vive la sua vita nell’Italia di oggi, senza rispetto per niente e per nessuno, imbro ...

The Botany of Desire

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:59:32 PST

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Nirvana n. 0

Thu, 3 Nov 2011 4:19:24 PST

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Senti questo

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 2:03:07 PST

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La mamma di Psycho è lui con la parrucca

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 2:02:50 PST

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Oltre 500 finali di film per chi è drogato di cinema, oltre 500 pillole tutte da ridere. I soliti sospetti Keyser Soze è Kevin Spacey. Wall-e Nel futuro saremo tutti grassi ed emigrati nello spazio . Ma grazie a Wall-e resusciteremo il nostro pianeta abbandonato coltivando piante di pizza. Le conseguenze dell’amore Servillo diventa parte integrante dell’A2. Shrek Una volta Fiona era ...

When the Rivers Run Dry

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:21:45 PST

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In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. "A strong—and scary ...

The End of Growth

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:51:02 PST

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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. "The End of Growth" proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilisation is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Richard He ...

Germs, Genes, and Civilization

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 1:19:23 PST

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In Germs, Genes and Civilization, Dr. David Clark tells the story of the microbe-driven epidemics that have repeatedly molded our human destinies. You'll discover how your genes have been shaped through millennia spent battling against infectious diseases. You'll learn how epidemics have transformed human history, over and over again, from ancient Egypt to Mexico, the Romans to Attila the Hun. Yo ...

1493

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 16:12:19 PST

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Asterix apud Britannos

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 3:43:13 PST

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Nonostante Malthus

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 3:41:40 PST

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The Bridge at the Edge of the World

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 2:14:44 PST

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How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels - they are accelerating, dramatically - and so, too, is the pace of climat ...

Empires of the Word

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:25:42 PST

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An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread ...

Peak Everything

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 3:04:13 PST

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The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically. The 21st century ushered in an era of declines, in a number of crucial parameters:Global oil, natural gas and coal extractionYearly grain harvestsClimate stabilityPopulationEconomic growthFr ...

The Lucifer Effect

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 3:03:14 PST

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What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how–and the myriad reasons why–we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history as well ...

Floods, Famines and Emperors

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 2:09:02 PST

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In 1997-98, El Nino disrupted weather patterns the world over. Europe suffered a record freeze, the American West was hit by terrible floods and snowstorms, and drought brought famine to East Africa and forest fires to Southeast Asia.In this groundbreaking work of "historical meteorology", Brian Fagan shows that these events were neither isolated nor new: El Nino has been wreaking intermittent ha ...

Prepariamoci

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 8:56:19 PST

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Mai tante crisi tutte insieme: clima, ambiente, energia, risorse naturali, cibo, rifiuti, economia. Eppure la minaccia della catastrofe non fa paura a nessuno. Come fare? Ci vuole una nuova intelligenza collettiva. Stop a dibattiti tra politici disinformati o in conflitto d'interessi. Se aspettiamo loro sarà troppo tardi, se ci arrangiamo da soli sarà troppo poco, ma se lavoriamo insieme possiamo ...

The Trouble With Physics

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:54:24 PST

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In this groundbreaking book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics—the search for the laws of nature—is losing its way. One of the major problems, according to Smolin, is the growing gulf between the speculations of theorists and reality as revealed by experiment. Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions, exotic particles, multiple universes, and strings have ...

Il cimitero di Praga

Sun, 15 May 2011 6:48:40 PST

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The Lomborg Deception

Wed, 4 May 2011 23:50:51 PST

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In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim that global warming is 'no catastrophe' by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as ...

Gesù lava più bianco

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:12:35 PST

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In questo tour de force documentato e irriverente sulla storia della comunicazione pubblicitaria nella Chiesa cattolica, Ballardini decostruisce senza falsi ossequi la dottrina, la ritualità, la teologia, l'architettura, l'evangelizzazione nei loro elementi propagandistici e, in senso linguistico, pragmatici, e fornisce così un contributo a un'altra, nuova controstoria della Chiesa - la grande az ...

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 9:14:33 PST

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Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index."A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory ...

The Black Swan

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 8:19:12 PST

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Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new book, The Black Swan, in which he examines the influence of highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Engaging and enlightening, The Black Swan is a book that may change the way you think about the world, a book that Chris Anderson calls, "a delightful romp through hi ...

The Age of Empathy

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 8:16:06 PST

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The Big Short

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 8:14:18 PST

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Featuring an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael LewisWhen the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks ...

Astérix Tome 04

Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:55:17 PST

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Endgame

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:30:38 PST

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"Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived."-Howard Zinn The companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame stands to become Jensen's most influential book. Buildin ...

Pandora's Seed

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 6:38:58 PST

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Eating Animals

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:13:19 PST

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La Sinistra rivelata

Sun, 6 Feb 2011 7:58:30 PST

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Nonsense on Stilts

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 0:56:20 PST

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Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 per cent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link has been consistently disproved. And about 40 per cent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated, de ...

Meat

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:09:41 PST

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Capelli lunghi

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 8:06:19 PST

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Che fine ha fatto il futuro?

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:39:38 PST

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Storms of My Grandchildren

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 2:30:43 PST

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In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen-the nation's leading scientist on climate issues-speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Although the threat of human-caused climate change is now widely recognized, politicians have failed to connect policy with th ...

Eaarth

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 2:30:05 PST

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The book to move McKibben from the ranks of greatly admired, much-touted-by- enviros-kind-of-writer to the ranks of bestselling, blockbuster writers (agrave; ...

The Grand Design

Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:45:49 PST

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Stephen Hawking on The Grand Design How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to try to explain where the universe came from, and where it is going. But that book left some important questions unanswered. Why is there a universe--why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why are the laws of na ...

Dom Zauker exorciste, Tome 1

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 7:56:41 PST

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Don Zauker

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 7:53:49 PST

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Se è vero che per i peccati basta il perdono, per i reati serve anche la giustizia. E una volta perduta la speranza di giustizia, non rimane altra scelta se non la vendetta. Africa, Italia, Vaticano: fino a che punto il corso della giustizia viene regolato da leggi internazionali, da convenzioni sociali e non da squallidi mercati di convenienze? Tanti fedeli sono disposti a coprirsi occhi e or ...

Decrescita o barbarie

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 0:06:19 PST

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Seconda stella a destra

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 7:03:44 PST

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Ci vuole una certa immaginazione per mettersi a osservare il cielo, e difatti gli astronomi sono sempre stati tipi in gamba e per nulla prevedibili, a cominciare dagli antichi. Il bello viene però quando un certo Copernico cambia per sempre le carte in tavola. E si susseguono poi i colpi di scena con Keplero, Galileo, Newton e tutti gli altri fino ad arrivare a noi, a Einstein, a Hubble, alle teo ...

1491

Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:11:23 PST

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In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around ...

Editoria digitale

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:55:24 PST

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Questo testo propone uno spaccato sul panorama dell'editoria digitale, illustrando i presupposti che ne favoriscono la diffusione e analizzando nel dettaglio linguaggi, formati, dispositivi e concrete esperienze editoriali, con un occhio di riguardo ai problemi pratici legati alla produzione dei libri digitali e ad alcune criticità come quelle poste - per esempio - dal copyright. Queste le doman ...

Thinking in Systems

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 7:19:01 PST

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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for probl ...

Global Resource Depletion

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 5:37:54 PST

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Will the free market solve our problems with regard to global resource depletion or will technology alone save us? Are total absolute quantities of resources more important than the accessible part of them that can be converted into production at meaningful rates and at affordable cost? On a global scale we are facing energy scarcity due to the fact that the growth in net energy production, whic ...

Natural Experiments of History

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:15:31 PST

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Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods of observing, describing ...

1491

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 7:40:40 PST

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Read by Peter Johnson Based on the latest scientific findings, this breakthrough book argues that most of what we thought we knew about the Americas before Columbus was wrong. In the last 20 years, archaeologists and anthropologists equipped with new scientific techniques have made far-reaching discoveries about the Americas. For example, Indians did not cross the Bering Strait 12,000 years ag ...

Abandon affluence!

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:00:10 PST

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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:48:44 PST

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In "Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum," he caps a career at the cutting edge with a great new scientific debate. The book makes for good reading, too.

Against the Grain

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:58:14 PST

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In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase ...

Della natura umana

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:41:47 PST

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Questo libro è il frutto di una conversazione tra Noam Chomsky, famoso linguista e politologo americano, e Michel Foucault, noto filosofo e storico francese. Questa conversazione fu il primo e ultimo confronto pubblico tra i due pensatori e avvenne nel 1971, in Olanda. Tema del dibattito era il problema del potere, della giustizia e della natura umana. I due autori si confrontano da due prospetti ...

Manuale Pratico della Transizione

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:37 PST

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“Se la vostra città non è ancora in transizione, ecco una guida che ci può aiutare. Abbiamo poco tempo e molte cose da fare”. Possiamo cambiare prospettiva e guardare gli eventi da un altro punto di vista. Trasformare una situazione apparentemente negativa in una grande occasione di cambiamento. Possiamo prepararci alla transizione. Perché un cambiamento ci sarà di certo e coinvolgerà il nostr ...

Walden ovvero Vita nei boschi

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:03:37 PST

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Nel luglio 1854, Henry Thoreau lasciava la sua cittadina natale per andare a vivere in una capanna nei boschi del vicino lago di Walden. Il suo voleva essere un esperimento, che assumeva però risvolti politici e sociali insieme: era una scelta di “disobbedienza civile” verso una società di cui non condivideva gli ideali mercantili. Nell’introduzione Piero Sanavio spiega come il vagabondo di Wald ...

The Death of Nature

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:51:42 PST

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An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.

The Vegetarian Myth

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 2:25:28 PST

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This story eased my mind, because the tree ate the humans. The standard narrative of Man the Hunter was repugnant to me, with its biological determinism , ...

Con il mondo sulle spalle. Questioni globali e limiti alla crescita

Sat, 15 May 2010 22:41:49 PST

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The Earth System, Second Edition

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:52:50 PST

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The first book of its kind that addresses the issues of global change from a perspective of Earth as a system, The Earth System offers a solid emphasis on lessons from Earth history that may guide decision-making in the future. This book teaches global change and how it affects our environment. Modern topics covered by this comprehensive book are the atmosphere and global warming, the circulatio ...

Il mondo nuovo - Ritorno al mondo nuovo

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:05:35 PST

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Romanzo del 1932, Il mondo nuovo è ambientato in un immaginario stato totalitario del futuro, pianificato nel nome del razionalismo produttivistico, dove tutto è sacrificabile a un malinteso mito del progresso. I cittadini di questa società non sono oppressi dalla guerra né dalle malattie e possono accedere liberamente a ogni piacere materiale. Affinché si mantenga questo equilibrio, però, gli ab ...

Dirt

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:43:16 PST

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Dirt, soil, call it what you want - it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations" explo ...

La Musica Liberata

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 8:56:06 PST

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Estate 1999: Shawn Fanning distribuisce ai suoi amici la prima versione di Napster. Autunno 2001: Steve Jobs presenta l'iPod. Autunno 2007: i Radiohead pubblicano su Internet il nuovo album In Rainbows. E chiedono al pubblico di deciderne il prezzo. Bastassero questi tre episodi a raccontare ciò che è successo alla musica negli ultimi dieci anni, sarebbe tutto più semplice. Ma non è così. Dal gio ...

Reinventing Collapse

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:09:39 PST

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In the waning days of the American Empire the US administration finds itself mired in political crisis; foreign policy has come under sharp criticism and the economy is in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. "Reinventing Collapse" examines the circumstances of the demise of the Soviet superpower and offers clear insights into how we might prep ...

Toward a History of Needs

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:09:39 PST

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:09:38 PST

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For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.

Stone Age Economics

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:07:19 PST

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Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it was originally published in 1974, E. Evans-Pritchard of the Times Literary Supplement noted that t ...

Wonderful Life

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:13:00 PST

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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

Fences and Windows

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:07:24 PST

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Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, the author of "No Logo" offers a bird's-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the "anti-globalization" movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. [예스24 제공]

The Naked Darwinist

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:59:50 PST

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Francese

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 9:59:27 PST

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Oltre 500 esercizi, giochi e domande graduati per difficoltà. Regole grammaticali di base, soluzioni e punteggi per una verifica immediata della propria conoscenza.

Making Democracy Work

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:08:38 PST

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Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for ...

Don Zauker

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 3:58:51 PST

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