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What Do We Know about War?

Sat, 18 May 2013 4:43:57 PST

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What Do We Know About War? reviews the causes of war and the conditions of peace. Drawing analyses from the thirty-five year history of this discipline, leading researchers explore the roles played by alliances, territory, arms races, interstate rivalries, capability, and crisis bargaining in increasing the probability of war. They emphasize international norms and the recent finding that democra ...

The Namesake

Sat, 18 May 2013 4:43:20 PST

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The New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of "Interpreter of Maladies", in a brand-new movie tie-in edition "The Namesake", Jhumpa Lahiri's remarkable debut novel, is a beautiful family portrait that has been hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "emotionally charged and deeply poignant." The Academy Award-nominated director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair) pick ...

Bring Up the Bodies

Sat, 18 May 2013 4:41:58 PST

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In Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize- winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:27:14 PST

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It is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. we may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him ona strange course through uncharted territory. The world o ...

Cuore di cane

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 4:05:49 PST

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C’è una vicenda di continue metamorfosi. Uno striscione pubblicitario cubitale promette: «È possibile ringiovanire». Un luminare della medicina (Bulgakov era medico) tramuta un cane di strada in un uomo fallimentare, e l’uomo fallito in cane. La rivoluzione vuol tramutare il proletario sfruttato in cittadino liberato e poi lo riprecipita nel fanatismo e nella soggezione. Dall'introduzione di Adr ...

Mai più paura di volare. Storia di un battaglia vinta

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 0:27:33 PST

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Heart of Darkness

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:34:50 PST

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Fai bei sogni

Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:18:45 PST

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Fai bei sogni è la storia di un segreto celato in una busta per quarant’anni. La storia di un bambino, e poi di un adulto, che imparerà ad affrontare il dolore più grande, la perdita della mamma, e il mostro più insidioso: il timore di vivere. Fai bei sogni è dedicato a quelli che nella vita hanno perso qualcosa. Un amore, un lavoro, un tesoro. E rifiutandosi di accettare la realtà, finiscono per ...

England, England

Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:42:14 PST

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As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. In Julian Barnes's new novel, the grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Buck House to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the White Cliffs of Dover. The pro ...

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 4:08:12 PST

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Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne’s landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. Few authors inspire the same devotion as Jane Austen. Her six novels are perennial favourites, forever topping polls and appearing on screen. However, we know remarkably little about her. The Jane of pop ...

Mr Gwyn

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 0:35:11 PST

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Jasper Gwyn es escritor, vive en Londres y, verosímilmente, es un hombre que ama la vida. De repente, tiene ganas de parar de escribir, aunque la suya no es la crisis que aflige a los escritores sin inspiración, él parece querer cambiar de perspectiva, llegar hasta el meollo de cierta magia. Le sirve de apoyo, de cómplice, una muchacha que va recogiendo lo que progresivamente va siendo el misteri ...

Journal d'un corps

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 3:28:07 PST

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

Fri, 7 Dec 2012 4:10:48 PST

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When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. 'The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching'. - Claire ...

Il giocatore

Sat, 6 Oct 2012 4:06:54 PST

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Da principio mi pareva molto strano che

The Sea

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:52:01 PST

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When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myl ...

The Casual Vacancy

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 1:49:27 PST

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Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.

The Sense of an Ending

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 1:44:14 PST

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Christine Falls

Sat, 8 Sep 2012 15:22:41 PST

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In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living.One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, alt ...

Inseparabili

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:05:33 PST

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I protagonisti della striscia ideata da Filippo erano due pennuti vestiti da supereroi. Una versione ornitologica di Batman e Robin. A furia di guardarli, Samuel si era convinto che uno dei due goffi uccelli dal becco uncinato somigliasse a Filippo. E che l'altro, invece, somigliasse a lui. Infine si era soffermato sui costumi. Più o meno in mezzo al petto, al centro della blusa indossata da entr ...

Triptych

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:31:49 PST

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When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing it's shocking, but when it becomes clear that it's just the latest in a series of simil ...

Il simbolo perduto

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:14:00 PST

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The Great Automatic Grammatizator

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 6:45:22 PST

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Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about a landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? Here are thirteen of Roald Dahl's most unexpected tales, offering young readers the perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius. From the sens ...

La stazione termale

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:45:50 PST

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Due coppie di donne soggiornano in una stazione termale: una bambina con la zia, e due vecchie amiche. Si incontrano, si chiacchiera, si fa amicizia; si osservano e si studiano. Le vite delle quattro donne, ognuna con i suoi segreti e i suoi silenzi, si rispecchiano l’una dentro l’altra. E poco a poco affiora il passato, si scoprono i segreti, inconfessati o rimossi, si illuminano caratteri, emo ...

Catching Fire

Mon, 21 May 2012 5:39:51 PST

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After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen returns to her district, hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she and Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss and Peeta can co ...

Mockingjay

Mon, 21 May 2012 5:39:49 PST

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The Hunger Games, Vol. 3 Can Katniss Everdeen win the final fight against the Capitol? Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear tha ...

The Hunger Games

Mon, 21 May 2012 5:39:46 PST

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Katniss has been providing for her family since her father died, but is she strong enough to win the Hunger Games, a deadly competition that can have only one winner?

Sostiene Pereira

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 3:04:45 PST

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Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 3:04:11 PST

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It starts as a lark for Jasmin Field, the charming, acerbically witty columnist for a national women's magazine. She joins a host of celebraties gathering in London to audition for the season's most dazzling charity event: a one-night only stage production of Jane Austen's immortal Pride and Prejudice, directed by and starring the Academy Award -- winning Hollywood heartthrob Harry Noble. And ...

The Lost Diaries Of Adrian Mole 1999 To 2001

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 3:03:46 PST

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La cote 400

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 3:54:36 PST

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Dizionario delle cose perdute

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:12:46 PST

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Il messaggio dell'imperatore

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 1:54:53 PST

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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:13:43 PST

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It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. James’s sense o ...

Allegro ma non troppo

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:02:45 PST

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Un «divertissement», un guizzo anarchico dell'intelligenza. È così che crediamo di poter definire queste pagine nelle quali Cipolla abbandona gli austeri panni dello studioso e, giocando sul filo del paradosso e dell'assurdo, costruisce due brevi saggi: il primo, una ilare parodia della storia economica e sociale del Medioevo; il secondo, una sorta di scherzosa teoria generale della stupidità uma ...

Deception

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:24 PST

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"With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she ...

Indignation

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:01 PST

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Book of Not

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:05:35 PST

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Who Moved My Cheese?

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:04:42 PST

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The Change Survival Kit is an A-Mazing Way to Deal with Changes in Your Work and in Your Life. It reminds you to use what you discovered in the "Cheese" story - and enjoy it! The kit contains: A copy of the #1 Hardcover Book 12 Animated Reminders 24 Screen Saver Prompts 12 Desktop Wallpapers Photo-Top Mouse pad FREE! Multi-Level Maze Game

BROOKLYN

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:04:00 PST

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Ellis Lacey, original de un pequeño pueblo de Irlanda, no duda en aceptar un trabajo en América. Se abre paso en Brooklyn, superando la nostalgia y los rigores del exilio e incluso encontrando un primer y gran amor. Pero algo trunca su camino, pues pronto le llegan noticias trágicas de Irlanda y Ellis se ve obligada a volver. El peso de su familia y su pasado devoran sin piedad el nuevo y frágil ...

Of Mice and Men

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 2:39:06 PST

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Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in Ca ...

Naked

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 2:35:47 PST

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Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore

Thu, 1 Mar 2012 3:37:06 PST

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Un viaggiatore, una piccola stazione, una valigia da consegnare a una misteriosa persona... Da questa premessa si possono snodare innumerevoli vicende, ma sono dieci quelle che l'autore propone in questo sorprendente e godibilissimo romanzo. "È un romanzo sul piacere di leggere romanzi: protagonista è il lettore, che per dieci volte comincia a leggere un libro che per vicissitudini estranee alla ...

The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year

Thu, 1 Mar 2012 3:35:36 PST

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The day her gifted twins leave home for university, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance. Perhaps she will be able to think. Her husband Dr Brian Beaver, an astronomer who divides his time between gazing at the expanding universe, an unsatisfactory eight-year-old affair with h ...

Memorie di un cacciatore

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 5:15:35 PST

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Quando, tra il 1847 e il 1850, apparvero i racconti di Turgenev, poi raccolti con il titolo "Memorie di un cacciatore", il pubblico li lesse prevalentemente come un atto di denuncia sociale: le condizioni miserevoli dei contadini, il dispotismo dei proprietari, il processo di impoverimento delle campagne vi erano descritti con tanta evidenza da suscitare emozione. Si dice che lo stesso erede al t ...

Zia Antonia sapeva di menta

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 0:58:14 PST

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Il garofano rosso

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 0:16:59 PST

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The great Gatsby

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:55:29 PST

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L'ordine del discorso

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:37:12 PST

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"L'ordine del discorso" è il testo della lezione inaugurale di Michel Foucault al Collège de France, e costituisce ancor oggi, pur nella sua brevità, un documento di grande importanza per comprendere l'inflessione che il cantiere foucaultiano avrebbe conosciuto a partire dagli anni settanta. In esso, infatti, l'autore pone al centro delle proprie preoccupazioni teoriche, per la prima volta in man ...

La cura di sé

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:36:52 PST

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La cura di sé è il terzo volume di quella "Storia della sessualità" di cui Michel Foucault aveva esposto ne La volontà di sapere il progetto iniziale: comprendere come, nelle società occidentali moderne, si era costituito qualcosa di simile a una "esperienza della sessualità", nozione familiare e tuttavia apparsa solamente all'inizio del diciannovesimo secolo. Parlare di sessualità come di un'esp ...

L'uso dei piaceri

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:36:23 PST

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"L'uso dei piaceri è il secondo volume di quella ""Storia della sessualità"" di cui Michel Foucault aveva esposto ne ""La volontà di sapere"" il progetto iniziale: comprendere come, nelle società occidentali moderne, si era costituito qualcosa di simile a una 'esperienza' della 'sessualità', nozione familiare e tuttavia apparsa solamente all'inizio del diciannovesimo secolo. Parlare di sessualità ...

Le parole e le cose

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:36:08 PST

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Una delle grandi opere filosofiche del Novecento in cui viene presentata un'accurata 'inchiesta archeologica' del sapere. La legge della 'rassomiglianza', che regolava il campo epistemologico del periodo arcaico in una continua correlazione di similitudini tra la scrittura e le cose, crolla nel XVIII secolo per lasciare il posto a una teoria della 'rappresentazione'. Tra le parole e le cose non e ...

La volontà di sapere

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:35:44 PST

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"Questo volume apre una serie di studi che non pretendono di essere continui, né esaustivi; si tratterà di qualche sondaggio in un territorio complesso. Il sogno sarebbe un lavoro di lungo respiro, capace di correggersi a mano a mano che si sviluppa, aperto alle reazioni che suscita, alle congiunture che gli toccherà d'incontrare, e forse ad ipotesi nuove. I lettori che si aspettassero di apprend ...

Sorvegliare e punire

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:35:13 PST

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Il conte di Montecristo

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:05:21 PST

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Vittima delle insidiose trame di due rivali e di un ambizioso magistrato, Edmond Dantès, un giovane ufficiale di marina, viene arrestato a Marsiglia il giorno stesso del suo matrimonio e rinchiuso per ben quattordici anni nel tenebroso castello d'If. Ma, fuggito avventurosamente dal carcere e divenuto ricchissimo grazie alla scoperta di un enorme tesoro, Dantès, che ha assunto il romantico nome d ...

Il nipote di Wittgenstein

Sun, 6 Nov 2011 20:43:04 PST

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Lo spazio letterario

Sat, 5 Nov 2011 2:45:14 PST

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Lettere persiane

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 23:32:30 PST

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La mia voce ti accompagnerà

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 23:21:20 PST

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Milton H. Erikson, il maggior esperto di ipnosi dei nostri tempi, non risolveva mai un problema con metodi tradizionali e chiunque conosca appena il suo modo di fare terapia sa bene a quale e quanta varietà di tecniche sorprendenti e nuove ricorresse nella sua pratica e quale influsso abbiano avuto sugli sviluppi più recenti della psicoterapia.

My Family and Other Animals

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:17:53 PST

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When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell's family's experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ...

Donne che corrono coi lupi

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:36:06 PST

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Il libro-culto che ha cambiato la vita di milioni di donne. Attingendo alle fiabe e ai miti delle più diverse tradizioni culturali, Clarissa Pinkola Estés fonda una psicanalisi del femminile attorno alla straordinaria intuizione della Donna Selvaggia, intesa come forza psichica potente, istintuale e creatrice, lupa ferina e al contempo materna, ma soffocata da paure, insicurezze e stereotipi.

Patrimony

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:52:51 PST

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Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does s ...

Everyman

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:50:52 PST

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SCHEDA DOPPIA da non aggiungere in libreria o, se lo si possiede, da eliminare. La scheda corretta è una di queste: http://www.anobii.com/books/Everyman/9788806186098/01cf3b266a60ef9a58/

The Story of English

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:48:25 PST

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Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes described as the world's lingua franca. Worldwide some 380 millio ...

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:46:43 PST

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Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and ...

La collina dei conigli

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:28:45 PST

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Il saggio Moscardo, l’ingegnoso Mirtillo, il prode Argento e tanti altri sono gli eroi di questo fantastico romanzo epico. Un drappello di piccoli coraggiosi conigli, alla ricerca di un avvenire più sicuro, migra attraverso le ridenti colline del Berkshire e aff ronta mille nemici in un indimenticabile cammino verso il più prezioso dei beni: la libertà. Con La collina dei conigli la letteratura ...

PS, I Love You

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:29:08 PST

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Rebels and Traitors

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:25:33 PST

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Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth, "Rebels and Traitors" tells of soldiers, adventurers, aristocrats and kings, tradesmen, politicians, radicals and scavengers - and the hopes and dreams that carried them through one of the most turbulent eras of English history. Men who never imagined fighting a war gladly risk their lives; women st ...

Togliamo il disturbo

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:36:10 PST

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Questo libro è una battaglia, perché la cultura non abbandoni la nostra vita e prima di ogni altro luogo la nostra scuola, rendendo il futuro di tutti noi un deserto. È anche un atto di accusa alla mia generazione, che ha compiuto alcune scelte disastrose e non manifesta oggi il minimo pentimento. Infine, è la mia personale preghiera ai giovani, perché scelgano loro, in prima persona, la vita che ...

Solar

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:44:50 PST

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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard is coasting through his professional life, making no real contribution since he won his award, while his fifth ...

The Course of Honor

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:58:34 PST

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In ancient Rome, the career path for ambitious citizens who aspire to become senators is called "The Course of Honor." And this honorable course has an unbreakable rule: A senator is forbidden to marry a slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl frying sausages in the imperial palace, he doesn't know that Caenis is immensely intelligent, or that she holds a position in the house ...

Black Coffee

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:55:47 PST

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The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st Century. Sir Claud Amory has discovered the formula for a new powerful explosive, which is stolen by one of the large household of relatives and friends. Locking everyone in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula on the table, no questions asked. When the lights come on, however, he is de ...

The Garden Party

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:50:27 PST

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The Bostonians

Wed, 11 May 2011 3:35:08 PST

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Published in 1886, "The Bostonians" begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer and showman. When they hear Verena talk, Olive hopes to win the girl over to the feminist cause, Ransom is attracted to her looks, and a battle ...

Una scuola da rifare

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:58:51 PST

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Lo scenario è noto: nel 2008 il ministro Tremonti abbatte la scure dei tagli sulla scuola e poco dopo la ministra Gelmini annuncia la sua riforma. Le piazze si riempiono di migliaia di docenti che protestano contro lo smantellamento della scuola pubblica. A distanza di diversi mesi, cosa rimane di quella protesta? E - soprattutto - cosa rimane della scuola pubblica? Sotto forma di una lunga lette ...

L'impero dei segni

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:32:35 PST

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Il piacere del testo

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:32:07 PST

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Miti d'oggi

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:31:00 PST

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Filosofia della musica moderna

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:33:13 PST

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la "Filosofia della musica moderna" di Theodor W. Adorno può a buon diritto essere annoverata tra gli esiti piú alti della riflessione musicologica e filosofica del secondo Novecento. Nell'interpretazione di Adorno le linee di fondo del Novecento musicale sono rappresentate da due figure contrapposte, Schönberg e Strawinsky, la cui opera, profondamente immersa nella dialettica st ...

Il dottor Zivago

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:24:16 PST

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Il segreto di Luca

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:23:28 PST

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L'anello di Re Salomone

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:38:54 PST

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La signora di Ellis Island

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:46:08 PST

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Tom Jones

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:39:08 PST

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Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero w ...

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 4:43:22 PST

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Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana Secretarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma Ramotswe discovers that her van is actually still in use (and, of course, sets out to retrieve it), Mma Makutsi wonders whether her dream will turn out to be prophetic as well. They can only wait and s ...

American Pastoral

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 4:10:37 PST

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As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and ...

Narratori delle pianure

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 2:17:17 PST

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Le piccole donne crescono

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 4:22:01 PST

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How to be Decadent

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:31:37 PST

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How to Be an Alien

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:31:18 PST

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George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead'. But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 4:18:35 PST

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These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include "The Happy Prince", who was not as happy as he seemed; "The Selfish Giant", who learned to love little children; and "The Star Child", who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents...Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

Bad Blood

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:39:25 PST

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Alexandra Cooper has a tough case to prosecute. Brendan Quillan, a wealthy businessman from the Upper East Side, has been charged with hiring an assassin to kill his wife, but the evidence is flimsy and the defendant has one of the most successful defence lawyers on his side. Then an explosion kills Quillan's brother, one of the construction workers in a tunnel being built to secure Manhattan's w ...

La bicicleta estàtica

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 4:49:17 PST

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Els naufragis de la maduresa són al centre d'aquest nou recull de vint relats de Sergi Pàmies. Les fatalitats individuals i col·lectives, la capacitat de sobreviure-hi i les emocions de tota mena que provoquen són tractades amb l'estil obsessiu i sobri que ha caracteritzat els últims llibres de l'autor i que ha aconseguit atrapar milers de lectors. Per primera vegada, Pàmies construeix ficcions a ...

The Time Machine

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:07:34 PST

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When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason t ...