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Diabolik il re del terrore nr1 anastatica de agostini

Diabolik ristampa integrale, del re del terrore, eva kant, ginko e il mondo di clerville creato dalla fantasia della mitica angela giussani e di luciana giussani, le 'sorelle del brivido' e oggi diretto dal formidabile mario gomboli.edizione fuori commercio edita da de agostini editore integrativa al periodico "la grande avventura del fumetto" -data di pubblicazione: \ ristampa anastatica praticamente identica,anche nel formato,al numero uno! anno i - 1 novembre -casa editrice: de agostini editore su licenza astorina -descrizione: formato tascabile, copertina morbida, rilegatura americana -condizioni: pari a nuovo ancora in stato ottimo (leggeri segni di lettura) - e' presente,perfettamente attaccata all'interno del volume,la cartolina a colori che presentava il personaggio di diabolik de' "la grande avventura del fumetto" come da foto. rarissimo in quanto edito solo in pochissime citta' campione, con tiratura molto bassa.

Children's Books about Religion

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dole, Patricia Pearl, PUBLISHER: Libraries Unlimited, This selective bibliography makes it easier than ever to find quality children's books that focus directly on religious themes or characters. Dole offers more than 675 critical evaluations of recently published (since ) materials appropriate for preschool through middle school students. Material is arranged alphabetically by author within subject-based chapters (e.g., "God," "Prayer," "Christian Church History and Biography"). Works covered range from age-appropriate reference materials to folktales, prose, poetry, plays, and picture books. Reflecting publishing trends, the largest sections of the book are those on Christianity and Judaism, but Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and African, Chinese, and Native American beliefs are also addressed. Useful as a ready reference and collection development guide, this book is an ideal reference and collection development tool for school, public, and church libraries.

The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mark, Joan, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the "dude ranches" of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of intermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic "Forest People." Mark describes Putnam's mercurial relations with family and with his African and American wives--and follows him to his sad and violent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.

Shakespeare's Face: Unraveling the Legend and History of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nolen, Stephanie, PUBLISHER: Free Press, A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years -- adding new drama to the Bard's life. When author Stephanie Nolen reported the discovery of the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was alive, the announcement ignited furious controversy around the world. Now, in this provocative biography of the portrait, she tells the riveting story of how a rare image of the young Bard at thirty-nine came to reside in the suburban home of a retired engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, and how he embarked on authenticating it. The ultimate "Antiques Roadshow" dream, the portrait has been confirmed by six years of painstaking forensic studies to date from around , and it has not been altered since.

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kitts, Thomas M., PUBLISHER: Routledge, In Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else, Tom Kitts presents a critical biography of Davies, his music and his times. Based on interviews with his closest associates as well as thorough study of the recordings themselves, Kitts creates the most thorough picture of Davies' work to date. He places the work in the context of the British Invasion and growth of the rock in the '60s and'70s, affirming Davies' role as a key innovator whose groundbreaking techniques often predated more famous examples by years. Throughout, Kitts balances a fan's appreciation with a critical eye to place Davies and his work in proper perspective. For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else will be a must purchase. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century.

England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ruskin, John / Carrier David / Carrier, David, PUBLISHER: Routledge, John Ruskin (), Walter Pater (), and Adrian Stokes () represent three generations of English aesthetes whose writings have transformed art history and the formations of museums as we know them. They are three great writers in a distinctively English tradition. Concerned with the nature of aesthetic experience, and with the interpretation of visual art, they offer approaches that are dramatically different, in challenging ways, from those of professional art historians. They published autobiographies, explaining the relationship of their conceptions of aesthetic experience to their critical thinking about social questions. With "England and Its Aesthetes," David Carrier has assembled the autobiographical sketches of these influential aesthetes. His "reading" reveals them to be less concerned with art appreciation or an aesthetic approach to everyday life than with issues of identity, politics, and desire. He unfolds their texts, revealing the complexity that lies be

Warriors and Scribes: Essays in the History and Politics of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dunkerley, James, PUBLISHER: Verso, Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism. An investigation of Jorge Castaneda's Utopia Disarmed reveals that Latin American politics are eminently transformable beyond the failed nostrums of multilateral organizations and collapsed dictatorships of the s. In surveying regional relations with the USA since , and a taking a wry look at Hollywood's treatment of Central America under Reagan, Dunkerley points out that Anglo-America has possessed neither a uniform imperialist vocation nor the consistent capacity to impose it. Two pieces written in the late s -- a reappraisal of Latin American Studies since the Cuban Revolution and a survey of the contemporary politics of Bolivia -- reflect the author's concerns with a place that was "American" for half a millennium before "Americanization through globalization" became a watchword.

Oliver Jones

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sansregret, Marthe / Marthe, Sansregret, PUBLISHER: Dundurn Group, Born in Montreal, Oliver Jones performed his first piano concert at five years old. He has become one of the most celebrated representatives of the Montreal Jazz Festival and a worldwide musical ambassador for Canada on many international tours. This exclusive authorized biography begins with his roots x; the enslavement of his African ancestors and immigration of his parents to Canada from Barbados x; and takes us to the present. Oliver Jones has received many awards to recognize his achievements, both as a musician and as a human being: the Martin Luther King Award, a Juno Award, the Cool Jazz Award of the Izzy Asper Foundation, the Order of Canada, the Order of Quebec, the Oscar Peterson Award, the Governor General x;s Performing Arts Award, and in , two National Jazz Awards: Best Jazz Keyboard of the Year and Best CD with Ranee Lee for their album "Just You, Just Me"

Kent Rowley: The Organizer: A Canadian Union Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Salutin, Rick, PUBLISHER: James Lorimer & Company, First published in , Rick Salutin's biography captures Kent Rowley's unforgettable personality and details his life struggle: an epic tale in which one man's life intersects with all the major issues of his time. Kent Rowley's remarkable odyssey through Canadian history began with a Montreal high school strike. In the depths of the Depression he organized office workers. He was interned under the War Measures Act in , emerging from jail to take on Premier Maurice Duplessis and the textile giants of Quebec alongside Madeleine Parent, a brilliant and influential union organizer. He survived fifteen years in the wilderness during the Cold War; and his stubborn opposition to international unions culminated in the founding, in , of the Confederation of Canadian Unions dedicated to fight for independent Canadian trade unionism. "Kent Rowley" is a brilliant examination of the career of one of the great figures of Canadian labour history.

Peerless Educator: The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Null, J. Wesley / Ravitch, Diane, PUBLISHER: Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc., Isaac Leon Kandel () was a major figure in educational philosophy and comparative education in the twentieth century. As a professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, Kandel almost single-handedly developed the field of comparative education, and was an early critic of Progressive educational philosophy. As the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant writers on education, this book presents Kandel as a democratic traditionalist who tirelessly advocated the ideal of liberal education for all. This book tells the story of Kandel's life and the many obstacles that he faced because of his faith and political views. The philosophy of democratic schooling that Kandel embodies is crucial to the reconstruction of American education today. Peerless Educator will be of interest not only to scholars of education, but also to practitioners who want to improve education in the twenty-first century.

The Search for Meaning: A Short History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ford, Dennis, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, In "The Search for Meaning: A Short History, "Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the difference between viewing the world from a religious point of view and that of a naturalist, and comparing a scientific worldview to a philosophical one. Ford investigates the contributions of the Greeks, Kant, and William James, and brings the discussion up to date with contemporary thinkers. He proffers the refreshing idea that in today's world, the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many and that the reductive or rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions.

Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Prather, Marla F. / Kuspit, Donald B., PUBLISHER: Whitney Museum of American Art, Throughout his remarkably prolific career of more than 40 years, Lucas Samaras has built a diverse and highly textured body of work, largely with his own image. Self-depiction is arguably the driving force of his life's work. This book, the catalogue for a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is the first to focus on his self-portraiture. Marla Prather surveys Samaras's career from the late s to the present, tracing his self-portraits in various mediums, including drawings, photography, boxes, mirrored environments, and film. There will also be an extensive, illustrated biography of the artist, making the catalogue an essential source for scholars. Including some 300 illustrations, Unrepentant Ego demonstrates Samaras's critical place in art history, which he has earned by creating provocative, multifaceted work outside the dominant trends of his time.

Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rollyson, Carl, PUBLISHER: iUniverse.com, Carl Rollyson was Norman Mailer's first literary biographer to draw on unpublished letters and manuscripts as well as on interviews with the writer's friends and foes. Rollyson provides a full account of Mailer's college years, especially his fear of being drafted. Here are the sources of Mailer's mental crisis in the s that led to the stabbing of his second wife, Adele. The Lives of Norman Mailer gets at the sources of Mailer's obsession with violence while also portraying a major literary figure in the making, from his fabulous debut war novel, The Naked and the Dead to his final bid for literary fame, The Castle in the Forest, a brooding foray into 20th century evil via an account of Adolf Hitler's early life. A final chapter rounds out a penetrating account of Mailer's final two decades of productivity which yielded books as various as a controversial biography of Picasso and a philosophical dialogue on the nature of God.

How It All Began: The Personal Account of a West German

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fragoulis, Tess / Baumann, Bommi, PUBLISHER: Arsenal Pulp Press, Cultural Writing. Biography. Memoir. HOW IT ALL BEGAN is the personal testimony of Michael "Bommi" Baumann, a man who, in the late s and early '70s, was a member of the June 2nd Movement, one of the most spectacular urban guerrilla organizations in West Berlin. Of this book, Baumann said, "Others should understand why people take the road of armed struggle, how they come to it, how the seeds are planted, and what the emotions behind it are, what kind of considerations and psychic preconditions are needed to overcome the fear involved." But Baumann, ultimately, had to make a choice. He renounced violence when he left the June 2nd Movement in . Security police seized the original German edition, Wie Alles Anfing, when it appeared in . The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outcry and the book ended up being republished in German and translated into six languages.

A Love Supreme: 2the Making of John Coltrane's Masterpiece

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kahn, Ashley / Jones, Elvin, PUBLISHER: Viking Books, Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach to music that characterized his critically acclaimed "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece," Ashley Kahn has written an even more illuminating celebration of saxophone legend John Coltrane's spiritual opus and masterwork. "A Love Supreme" is a passionate and revealing portrait of a timelessly resonant musical statement, artfully balancing biography, analysis, and a palpable enthusiasm that anyone from the casual listener to the avid fan will enjoy. "A Love Supreme" was written with the full cooperation of Coltrane's family and features the voices of more than a hundred musicians, producers, and witnesses, including the surviving participants in the album: Elvin Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner, and engineer Rudy Van Gelder. With unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison and scores of never-before-seen photographs, "A Love Supreme" weaves a rich historical backdrop to the recording and examines the questions and myths surrounding the album.

Death's Deceiver: The Life of Joseph P. Machebeuf

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bridgers, Lynn, PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press, Joseph Machebeuf has been overshadowed for more than a century by his friend and fellow priest, Jean Baptiste Lamy. In this biography Machebeuf comes into his own, emerging as a major figure in the spread of European Catholicism through the American West. Although not physically robust, Machebeuf's nickname "Trompe la Mort" ("Death's Deceiver") reflected his optimistic nature and indomitable will. During his lifetime spent in Ohio, Santa Fe, and Denver, Machebeuf survived typhoid, cholera, dysentery, and malaria. Immortalized as Father Vaillant in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop," Machebeuf reminds us of the frequently overlooked French influence in New Mexico culture. Initially hated because of conflicts with local priests, Machebeuf soon developed a broad understanding and love of Hispanic culture. In his role as pastor he faced many challenges that resonate today--the friction of diverse cultures, the secularization of society, and a spectacular growth in the population of the West.

Libri Scolastici Usati

Vendo libri scolastici usati: Filosofia: Logos, autori e testi della filosofia. Autore: Francesca Occhipinti, Volume 1 dalle origini all'umanesimo Einaudi scuola codice prezzo originale € Volume 2 dal Rinascimento a Kant codice prezzo originale € Volume 3 dalla crisi del positivismo ai dibattiti attuali codice prezzo originale € Valore Originale € Costo: €30 Scienze sociali: La mente. Autori: Adele bianchi e Parisio di Giovanni, Paravia -Vol. 1 la mente ISBN Costo originale €9,90 -Vol. 2 la comunicazione ISBN Costo originale € -Vol. 3 popolazione e ambiente ISBN X Costo originale €6,80 -Vol. 4 la società ISBN Costo originale € -Vol. 5 la cultura ISBN Costo originale €6,35 -Vol. 6 l'individuo nella vita sociale ISBN X Costo originale € -Vol. 7 socializzazione e formazione ISBN Costo originale € -Vol. 8 politica, economia, giustizia ISBN Costo originale €5,80 -Vol. 9 condizioni di vita ISBN Costo originale €5,50 -Vol. 10 tempo e trasformazioni evolutive ISBN Costo originale € Valore Originale € Costo: €40 Musica: Preludio terzo. Autori: Claudia Galli, Marcella Papeschi, Guido Siniscalchi. Casa editrice: Poseidonia, Volume A e volume B codice costo € Valore Originale € Costo: €10

Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pufendorf, Samuel / Samuel, Pufendorf / Tully, James, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Samuel Pufendorf is one of the most important moral and political philosophers of the seventeenth century. His theory, which builds on Grotius and Hobbes, was immediately recognized as a classic and taken up by writers as diverse as Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. Over the past twenty years there has been a renaissance of Pufendorf scholarship. On the Duty of Man and Citizen is Pufendorf's own epitome of his monumental On the Law of Nature and of Nations, and it served as a basic text in European universities throughout the Enlightenment. This edition has a lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its context, summarizes the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy that dominated reflection on politics until Kant.

AFFITASI SINGOLA A STUDENTESSA 267 EURO!!

Località Emilia Romagna Bologna e provincia Bologna Vedi su google map Tipo di annuncio Privati Offro Numero di locali 8 locali Classe energetica Non soggetto a Certificazione Indice prestazione energetica 0 kWh/mq Superficie 125 m² Località Emilia Romagna Bologna e provincia Bologna Vedi su google map Tipo di annuncio Privati Offro Numero di locali 8 locali Classe energetica Non soggetto a Certificazione Indice prestazione energetica 0 kWh/mq Superficie 125 m² singola a 267 euro in via murri 35, 2 bagni balcone, sala, cantina, fermata autobus ecc. Luogo idilliaco ove un nietzschiano eterodosso, un poeta romantico, il maggior esperto di Kant dell'unibo ed una fisioterapista supermassaggiatrice iperenergetica convivono accumunati dalla passione per l'alcolismo, la molestia, il disagio e la comunicazione preverbale o iperbestemmiante. Un'esperienza di vita, non una camera. Il Sogno Bolognese che si fa mattoni, letto e scrivania. Superficie: 125 m² m²

Libri (cultura generale) PREZZO CONTRATTABILE

Stefano Benni: La Storia di Cyrano de Bergerac Croce-Einaudi: Liberismo e Liberalismo Biblioteca della Repubblica= -"L'Enciclopedia" (20 volumi + "Dizionario Medico") -"L'Antichità" a cura di Umberto Eco (13 volumi) -"L'Età Moderna e Contemporanea" a cura di Umberto Eco (22 volumi) -"La Costituzione della Repubblica italiana" -"L'Universo" -I Presocratici e la Nascita della Filosofia -Giordano Bruno e la Filosofia del Rinascimento -Kant e l'Illuminismo -Hegel e la Dialettica -Marx e la Rivoluzione -Nietzsche e la Volontà di Potenza -Freud, Jung e la Psicoanalisi -Einstein e la Relatività -Heidegger e la Filosofia della Crisi -Popper e la Filosofia della Scienza -Pitagora ed Euclide -Isaac Newton -Charles Darwin -Maxwell -Pasteur -Lavoisier e Memdeleev -Gauss, Reimann, Poincaré ed Hilbert -Marie Curie -Albert Einstein -Enrico Fermi -Il DNA e il Segreto della Vita -La Teoria dei Giochi -Il Genoma Umano -La Teoria dei Numeri -La Teoria delle Stringhe Biblioteca Treccani= I Classici del Pensiero italiano: Niccolò Machiavelli Corriere della Sera= "Enciclopedia dei Ragazzi" (26 volumi) Protagonisti della Storia: Giuseppe Garibaldi De Agostini= Atlante degli Animali

The Agony of Lewis Carroll

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wallace, Richard, PUBLISHER: Gemini Press (Melrose, MA), Rage-filled by abuse, author Lewis Carroll hid smut in his children's books. -- Was on the "short list" for the Children's Literature Association's annual award based on the quality of its research. -- Shows how the famous "Alice" books were filled with hidden smut and intended to fool both children and adults. -- This work suggests strongly why Carroll's children's books are decidedly not for children. -- The research on this title identified a very angry man and led to its sequel, Jack the Ripper: "Light-hearted Friend" which identified Lewis Carroll as the famous murderer of London prostitutes. A psychological biography of Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. It identifies the rage which lies buried in his children's books, including the famous "Alice" works, and the origins of that rage. Identifies where Dodgson coyly revealed the presence of this hidden material, and presents numerous examples to prove that they are not accidental.

A Beginner's Guide to Very Cool Skateboarding Tricks

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rosenberg, Aaron, PUBLISHER: Rosen Publishing Group, Essential Information for Current and Future Skateboarders Skateboarding is back on top of the teen sport scene, and this new series has all the information teens need to learn about this extreme sport. Packed with full-color photographs capturing skateboarding's exciting action, these six books cover many aspects of the skateboarding world, including the basics of how to skate; the popularity of skateboarding in the X Games; buying, decorating, and repairing a skateboard; and a biography of the guru of skateboarding, Tony Hawk. Included in this series are two how-to titles that utilize step-by-step instructions combining text with stop-action photography. Every day someone somewhere is riding a skateboard for the first time. A Beginner's Guide teaches new skaters the basics of skateboarding safely. Rosenberg offers practical how-to information on turning, tricks, and safety, including step-by-step photo/text instructions for ten different tricks.

Teologia, Filosofia, Letteratura

Testi di Filosofia: Psicologia, filosofia dellâ€(TM)uomo, corso di filosofia tomista, verneaux, paideia ed. Scritti in onore di Cleto carbonara Collana 9 vol: Possibilità e libertà, La deduzione nellâ€(TM)opera di Kant, studi sulla dialettica, la logica di Aristotele, Scritti editi e inediti sulla tolleranza, spazio tempo e creazione, problemi di sociologia, La sociologia come partecipazione, Caso amore e logica; Abbagnano, Locke, Viano, Ferrarotti, ed. Taylor Torino Nietzsche, Aurora e scelta frammenti postumi , mondatori Letture filosofiche, dallâ€(TM)età del romanticismo ai giorni nostri, vol 3, la manna, felice le monnier, Numenio dâ€(TM)apamea, un precursore del neo-platonismo, martano, armanni, Napoli Storia della filosofia, Thonnard, società S. Giovanni Evangelista, editori pontifici Storia della filosofia, il pensiero antico e medievale, vol 1, la nuova cultura ed. Napoli Lâ€(TM)etica nicomachea, Aristotele, carbonara, libreria scientifica editrice, Napoli Lâ€(TM)uomo questo squilibrato, saggio sulla condizione umana, sciacca, fratelli bocca ed. Il Secolo XV e altri saggi, carbonara, libreria scientifica ed. Napoli Lâ€(TM)eterno e il tempo in g. leopardi poeta filosofo, carbonara naddei, libreria scientifica ed. Napoli Freud e Lacan, Althusser, editori riuniti "Storia del pensiero occidentale", Curcio editore, E. Severino - opera in 6 volumi Letteratura: Orientamenti Culturali - Letteratura italia, i Critici - Marzorati editore. Opera in 16 volumi I propilei - Grande storia universale Mondadori, mann, opera in 11 volumi Storia della letteratura italiana ed. Grazanti, Cecchi, Sapegno. Studi di varia umanità in onore di Francesco Flora, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Storia del pensiero occidentale, 6 volumi, ed. Marzorati: Dall'umanesimo alla controriforma, da bacone a kant, dal romanticismo al positivismo, dalla critica del positivismo ad oggi. Rigobello, Raschini, Pieretti, Maluba, Santinello. Teologia: La legge di Cristo 1-2-3, Haring, Morcellania Aurelio agostino, Confessioni, ed Sei Con la chiesa nel mondo, il laico nella storia nella teologia nel magistero, semeraro I problemi dell'ateismo, tresmontant, ed. paoline Il magistero ecclesiologico di paolo VI, d'auria ed. in napoli Enciclopedia Apologetica 4 volumi, ed. Paoline Theologia Moralis, vol. 1-2, urbania XII, damen, marietti Quaderni V.M.R. 3 vol, partenogenesi dei vangeli, perche leggere diversamente?, in difesa di un fattore infedele Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra errores Infidelum, vol. 1,2,3 Enciclopedia Catechetica, barth, galati, vol. 1,2,3, ed. paoline Meditazione su Giovanni, gutzwiller, ed. paoline Meditazione sulla chiesa, lubac, ed. paoline In librum de causis expositio, aquinatis, marietti Quaestiones quodlibetales, aquinatis, marietti De regimine principum, aquinatis, marietti

Old Testament Women

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ward, Elaine, PUBLISHER: Enchanted Lion Books, The women of the Old Testament are bold, determined, sagacious, courageous, and as lively as any about whom one might wish to read. Some of the most memorable events in the Old Testament involve the intervention of these heroic women, whose deeds radically alter the course of events. Episodes from the Old Testament and Biblical tradition-- such as the temptation of Eve, Ruth's conversion, and the triumph of the virtuous Susanna over villainy-- are retold here through thirteen stunning reproductions, each accompanied by an engaging account of the story depicted. Relevant quotations from the Bible and an easy-to-read schematic line drawing that explains what is happening in the scene accompany each of the thirteen paintings. An illustrated time-line, a brief biography of each artist, and a comprehensive index also are provided, making this a richly detailed and thorough volume. Both engaging and informative, "Old Testament Women" is a visually pleasurable retelling of Old Testament stories involving the deeds of determined, curious, brave and virtuous women. Acquista Ora

Wizard:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Seifer, Marc J., PUBLISHER: Citadel Press, Nikola Tesla (), credited by many as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Yet very few people know about his life and work. Based on original source materials and previously unavailable documents, Wizard is the definitive biography of this founding father of modern technology. For the first time, Wizard reveals the details of Tesla's struggles with competing contemporary inventors such as Edison, Steinmetz, and Marconi and with financial giants like J. R Morgan and John Jacob Astor, who underwrite his work. An immaculately groomed figure, Tesla once lived at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and dined at the finest restaurants. Tesla's genius was challenged, however, when his peers vilified his attempts to contact other planets. In the last years of his life, unable to secure financing for his newest inventions, he lived in semipoverty in a fourth-rate hotel. Wizard brings to the fore the intriguing life of this legendary innovator.

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