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Arte -Storia Universale

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:07:44 PST

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Friedrich

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 1:44:58 PST

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The Swan King

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 1:44:30 PST

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"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and for the fabulous palaces which he created as part of a dream-world to escape the resp ...

Kandinsky

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:27:38 PST

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Plateforme

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:26:27 PST

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De l'exotisme et du pittoresque, du sexe et du fanatisme, tels sont les ingrédients (torrides et subversifs) de Plateforme, dernier roman de Michel Houellebecq, probablement l'écrivain le plus controversé aujourd'hui… Michel est un employé du ministère de la Culture. Il vit simplement, au rythme des feuilletons et des jeux télé, des peep shows au sortir du boulot, des purées Mousline dégluti ...

Quatrevingt-treize

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:26:07 PST

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Greece, the Hidden Centuries

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:25:37 PST

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For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule? Was it a period of exploitation and enslavement for the Greeks until they were finally able to rise up against Turkish rule ...

Thomas Becket

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:24:53 PST

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From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award John Guy, comes Thomas Becket, a lively and enlightening new book that brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. This is the man, not the legend...Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, he was befriended and favoured by Henry II and quickly ascended th ...

Romanovs

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:24:19 PST

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In 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinberg, Siberia. Were these the remains of the last tsar and his family, murdered over 70 years before? Pulitzer Prize winner Massie now answers this question, going back to the horrifying moments of the slaughter, and describing in detail the ultimately successful efforts in post-communist Russia to discover the truth. of photo ...

L'education sentimentale

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:14:36 PST

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The Measure of the Magic

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:50:11 PST

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world.

Una storia infausta

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:48:15 PST

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Parigi

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:46:51 PST

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Praga e la Repubblica Ceca. Con cartina

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:40:33 PST

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Praga e dintorni

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 0:37:26 PST

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Khyber Pass. Una storia di imperi e invasioni

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:47:17 PST

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Tomorrow the World

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 2:16:52 PST

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Tomorrow the world: in which Cadet Otto Prohaska carries the Habsburg Empire’s civilizing mission to the entirely unreceptive peoples of Africa and Oceania. Laced with smart humor, this naval tale follows the early career of Lieutenant Otto Prohaska, a cadet in the Austro–Hungarian Navy at the turn of the century. Bad luck continues to shadow Otto, and when a fellow cadet breaks his leg, Otto mu ...

Lo potevo fare anch'io

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 0:03:56 PST

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Guida breve museo '900

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 0:02:27 PST

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Museo diocesano

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 0:00:18 PST

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Il Museo diocesano, inaugurato il 5 novembre 2001 nei chiostri del convento di Sant'Eustorgio a Milano, raccoglie i beni artistici più pregevoli della diocesi ambrosiana. Nella sua lunghissima storia, dal primo vescovo di Sant'Ambrogio (334-397) al cardinale Dionigi Tettamanzi, succeduto nel 2002 a Carlo Maria Martini, tra gli artefici principali del museo, la Diocesi ha raccolto un ingente patri ...

Da Canova a Boccioni

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:36:57 PST

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De Nittis. Catalogo della mostra (Padova, 19 gennaio-26 maggio 2013)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:57:36 PST

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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Wed, 6 Mar 2013 21:28:58 PST

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About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.

L'incontro

Sat, 2 Mar 2013 0:12:54 PST

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"Con il termine di Esercizi Spirituali s'intendono tutti i modi di esaminare la coscienza, di meditare, di contemplare e pregare con le parole o con la mente e ogni altra attività spirituale" scrive Ignazio di Loyola nel suo celebre manuale di istruzioni "per vincere se stessi e mettere ordine nella propria vita." "L'incontro" raccoglie i testi degli Esercizi Spirituali predicati da Gianfranco Ra ...

Gli Asburgo

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:52:55 PST

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L'età moderna e contemporanea - vol. 19

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:28:00 PST

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Il Buon Paese

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:48:23 PST

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The Two-headed Eagle

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:29:49 PST

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It is the summer of 1916 and, as luck would have it, Otto is assigned to the nascent, unreliable, and utterly frightening Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Flying Service. Ottto's aerial chauffeur is the self-willed Sergeant-Pilot Toth, with whom he can only communicate in broken Latinalthough when all else fails, screaming will suffice! On the ground the rickety Habsburg Empire begins to crumb ...

La Storia vol. 9

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:57:25 PST

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La Storia vol. 8

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La Storia vol. 7

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La Storia vol. 6

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:57:19 PST

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La Storia vol. 5

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:57:16 PST

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La Storia vol. 3

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:57:14 PST

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La Storia vol. 16

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:57:10 PST

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La Storia vol. 15

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:56:41 PST

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La Storia vol. 14

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:56:39 PST

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La Storia vol. 13

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:56:33 PST

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La Storia vol. 11

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La Storia vol. 10

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:56:19 PST

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La Storia vol. 1

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:29:56 PST

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Death Comes to Pemberley

Sat, 2 Feb 2013 0:06:45 PST

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The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, as the guests are preparing to retire for the night a chaise appears, ...

Europe 1880-1945

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 20:46:45 PST

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This is a fascinating and best selling account, in which John Roberts explores the contrasts and contradictions between a socially creative and politically destructive Europe. Europe 1880-1845 integrates social, economic and cultural history within a framework of political narrative. The work examines how, in this 65 year time period, Europe's political and economic domination of the globe c ...

Vienna 1900

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:32:25 PST

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Il Palazzo del Quirinale

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:30:29 PST

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La preistoria e gli antichi imperi: dalle origini dell'uomo ai popoli mesopotamici

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:05:59 PST

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Quattro storie triestine

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:22:57 PST

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Monet to Picasso

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 1:37:34 PST

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Géraldine, reine des Albanais

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:51:29 PST

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L'età moderna e contemporanea - vol. 15

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:07:26 PST

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Museo Revoltella: la Galleria d'arte moderna

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 2:13:46 PST

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Japan: Fragilität des Daseins

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:24:14 PST

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Sisi, English edition

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:51:10 PST

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lloyd Triestino 1836 1986 dall'Adriatico al mondo

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:38:13 PST

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Poesia dialettale triestina

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:36:49 PST

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san Vito

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:16:37 PST

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seconda edizione riveduta e aggiornata

Ma pupa, Henriette. Le lettere di Eleonora Duse alla figlia

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:09:29 PST

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The Art of the Northern Renaissance

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:00:11 PST

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This book evokes the art of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern Europe in all its richness and splendour. The works of Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel, Durer and other masters are considered within the larger context of a changing society in which church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and woman, artist and patron, independent mercantile city and noble chivalric court all played a part. C ...

L'Afghano

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:37:07 PST

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Dopo l'11 settembre, Londra e Madrid, il mondo si chiede quale sarà il prossimo obiettivo di Al Qaeda. I servizi britannici scoprono che l'organizzazione di un nuovo grandioso attentato sarà la conferenza del G8, organizzata su un trasatlantico. A sventare l'attacco sarà un agente segreto inglese, detto l'afghano, che sfruttando le sue fattezze mediorientali e la sua conoscenza della lingua araba ...

Vittorio Emanuele II

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:30:02 PST

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Matematica per ragionieri programmatori. Per gli Ist. Tecnici commerciali

Sat, 1 Dec 2012 15:21:15 PST

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Breviario laico

Sat, 1 Dec 2012 15:18:46 PST

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"Perché continui a rovinare la creazione e te stesso con tanta leggerezza e superficialità?" domanda il Creatore in una antica parabola araba. A partire da questo interrogativo esistenziale che sollecita la coscienza di ogni uomo ancor prima di qualsiasi credo religioso, Gianfranco Ravasi raccoglie 366 citazioni (una al giorno) di filosofi, scrittori, mistici, artisti di tutti i tempi e di tutte ...

Ascolto il tuo cuore, città

Sat, 1 Dec 2012 15:17:14 PST

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PRIMA PAGINA Anche questo libro, come Dico a te, Clio, è un libro discorsivo: un entretenimiento. Queste poche righe per avvertire che un libro «discorsivo» non è un libro minore ma al contrario un libro maggiore: un libro massimo. Un libro di là dalle grandi luci e dalle grandi ombre, di là dalle vette e dagli abissi - di là dalle invenzioni, dalle rivelazioni, dalle illuminazioni. Nell ...

Le stanze delle meraviglie: Da Simone Martini a Francesco Mochi

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 2:02:10 PST

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Hiroshige

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 2:01:22 PST

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Ratisbona patrimonio mondiale

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 3:46:08 PST

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Lonely Planet Germany

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 3:44:03 PST

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An inspirational, new full-color section showcases both traditional and modern images of Germany.

The New Penguin History of the World

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:50:49 PST

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One of the most extraordinary history bestsellers on the "Penguin" list, John Roberts' book has now been updated by Odd Arne Westad to make sure it keeps its amazing appeal to a new generation of readers. 'A stupendous achievement...the unrivalled World History for our day. It extends over all ages and all continents. It covers the forgotten experiences of ordinary people as well as chronicling t ...

La grande storia - vol. 9 - L'antichità

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:03:22 PST

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Charles I

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:09:09 PST

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La grande storia - vol. 26 - Il Medioevo

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 3:34:27 PST

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Parlate con il cuore

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:58:45 PST

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Balkan Ghosts

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:07:42 PST

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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by "The New York Times," and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date ...

The Hobbit

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:36:38 PST

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Read the classic edition of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth. Featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his con ...

Breve storia dell'Italia unita a uso dei perplessi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:21:12 PST

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L'iliade

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 1:23:54 PST

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La grande pioggia

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:06:05 PST

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La grande storia - vol. 18 - Il Medioevo

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:21:34 PST

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L' uccello del sole

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:48:07 PST

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L'archeologo Ben Kazin è vicino alla scoperta della sua vita: ha trovato nel Botswana una debole traccia di Opet, la mitica "Città della Luna", centro di una grande civiltà africana comparsa nel nulla. Tra scavi e inseguimenti, dirottamenti e cacce grosse, la traccia mano a mano prende corpo, anche se tutto era stato predisposto affinché di Opet fosse cancellato persino il ricordo. Quale segreto ...

Centomila gavette di ghiaccio

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:46:17 PST

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Napoleone - Vol. 1

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:45:01 PST

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