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Lincoln in American Memory
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Peterson, Merrill D., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archtypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people. More than thirty years ago, Peterson won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "an engrossing story of the uses and abuses of a great legend," saying that Peterson's writing is often "brilliant." This absorbing book follows in the footsteps of that landmark work, leading us on a revealing tour through our changing image of our greatest president--and our changing image of ourselves.
VHS originali cartoni animati e film Disney e no
VHS Originali con custodia rigida o morbida, ritirabili a Milano zona piazza Susa/Dateo, spedibili singolarmente con ulteriori 2 euro via posta prioritaria. Invii multipli via pacco postale a 9 euro. SCONTI sulla quantità! VHS DISNEY - L'isola del tesoro, un film Disney con attori tratto dal romanzo di Stevenson, 96 min - La carica dei 101 - Il re leone - Le vacanze di Pippo VHS cartoni non Disney - Moby Dick, 60 min, le favole più belle Stardust (non Disney) - Dragonball Z, due episodi, 50 min - Asterix conquista l'America Film con attori - Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo in "Chiedemi se sono felice" 100 min - Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo in "Tre uomini e una gamba", 99 min - Mr Bean l'ultima catastrofe, 85 min - Stanlio e Olio Vent'anni dopo, 70 min - Federazione Ginnastica Italiana Ginnastica aerobica - Edixon Massaggio zonale del piede e della mano - Patricia Walden Yoga per tutti - Luciano Sicco Massaggio posturale: principi, metodi ed elementi di base - Frank Capra E' arrivata la felicità Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper - Jack Conway L'amico pubblico n.1 Clark Gable, Myrna Loy - Howard Hawks Il sergente York Gary Cooper - Norman Taurog La città dei ragazzi Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney - George Simenon Il cadavere scomparso Gino Cervi - George Simenon L'innamorato della signora Maigret Gino Cervi - il messaggio biblico di Chagall - Forrest Gump Tom Hanks - 3 dell'operazione drago Bruce Lee 100 min - il duro del road hose Patrick Swayze 113min - Mortal kombat paul anderson Christopher Lambert - aquila nera Vandamme sho kosugi 90min - Dredd la legge sono io Sylvester Stallone 104min - il sesto senso bruce willis 102min - Uno sguardo dal cielo denzel washington whitney houston 119min - Doppio inganno goldie hawn 103 min - la linea sottile tra amore e odio martin lawrence lynn whitfield min - Bambola con Valeria Marini - Tommyknockers (le creature del buio) di Stepehn King cofanetto con doppia VHS - Nine months Imprevisti d'amore Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore - Criminali nella notte Christopher Lambert, Julien Guiomar, - Passion of Mind Demi Moore - Tutto Benigi Roberto Benigni - L'incredibile Benigni Roberto Benigni - La vita è bella Roberto Benigni - Matrix - Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Carrie-Anne Moss - Space cowboys Clint Eastwood, Frank Corvin, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, Donald Sutherland- 125 min - Il meglio di AVANZI - La mummia: il ritorno Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser, Patricia Velásquez - Il signore degli anelli (making of) National Geographic - We were soldiers - Schindler's list - Liam Neeson
Cerco: (Solo quelli listati) Giochi PC, PS1, PS2, PS3 e DS
Ciao a tutti, cerco i seguenti videogames originali per PC, PS1, PS2, PS3 e DS. Compro oppure scambio con giochi che ho in vendita nelle altre mie inserzioni. Cerco solo giochi con determinate caratteristiche, ossia: - edizione ITALIANA (manuale, retrocopertina, scatola di cartone in italiano. Laddove esistente, ovviamente) - prima edizione (no ristampe, platinum, allegati editoriali eccâ€?) - completi di tutto (manuale, scatola di cartone ove presente ecc) ed in ottime condizioni *PC* A Mind Forever Voyaging Adventure in Odyssey and the Treasure of the Incas Age of Mythology Agon: London Scene Amber: Journeys Beyond Annaâ€(TM)s Quest (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Back to the Future Battlezone Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity Beneath a Steel Sky Bioscopia Blade Runner Broken Age (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Brother: A Tale of Two Sons Callahanâ€(TM)s Crosstime Saloon Chaos Overlords Circle of Blood Chessmaster Chessmaster Civilization II Civilization III Civilization V (solo nuovo) Close Combat III: the Russian Front Conquest of Longbow â€" The Legend of Robin Hood Cracking the Conspiracy Dark Reign Dark Side of The Moon Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Deponia Doomsday Destination: Treasure Island Diablo: Hellfire Dracula 3: Il Sentiero del Drago Drawn: Trail of Shadows Dust: a Tale of the Wired West Eco Quest: The Search for Cetus Emerald City Confidential Flight on the Amazon Queen Flight Simulator Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist Future Boy! Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Gemini Rue Gobliiins 4 Gold Rush! Gone Home (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Goodbye Deponia (Addio Deponia) Great Journey: Mr. Penguin's Letter Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Leisure Suite Larry 7 Lighthouse Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion Nascar Racing 3 Real Myst Riddle of the Sphinx Sam and Max Hit the Road Sid Meier's Gettysburg Silence: The Whispered World 2 (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Simon the Sorcerer 1 Simon the Sorcerer 2 Stacking (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Super Meat Boy Tales of Monkey Island The Last Express The Longest Journey The Neverhood The Testament of Sherlock Holmes Theme Park The Walking Dead â€" Season 1 (collectorâ€(TM)s edition) Tomb Raider Total Annihilation Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness *PS1* Resident Evil - Director's Cut Silent Hill *PS2* Nba Street Silent Hill 2 Directorâ€(TM)s Cut Virtua Fighter 4 World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International *PS3* Max Payne 3 Tekken 6 Valkyria Chronicles *DS* Phoenix Wright â€" Ace Attorney Pago solo con: Paypal, Bonifico Bancario, Contanti (con ritiro a mano se siete di Napoli o zone limitrofe Massima serietà. Vi aspetto numerosi!;) Grazie
Dream of the Blue Room
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Richmond, Michelle, PUBLISHER: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, On a warm night in July, thirty-two-year-old Jenny finds herself sitting on the deck of a Chinese cruise ship next to a charming but secretive stranger. Her husband, Dave, is down in their cabin sleeping, and in Jenny's lap is a cookie tin containing the ashes of her best friend, Amanda Ruth, brutally murdered fourteen years earlier. In this foreign landscape filled with ancient cities and doomed villages, removed from the comforts and rituals of home, Jenny must confront her haunted past and decide the direction of her future. Dream of the Blue Room explores the nature of friendship and the deep intimacy that often exists between young friends as they struggle toward adulthood. Set against the impressive landscape of the Yangtze River, the novel encompasses the dramatic changes of our world and the results of the human desire to control and tame what is ultimately untamable. No matter where I travel, I find that my fiction inevitably comes home, somehow, to the Southern landscape of my childhood. That is exactly what happened in Dream of the Blue Room. In the summer of , on a sleeper bus traveling through Northern China, I met a Chinese geologist, who lay on the adjacent bunk and related to me in soft tones his concerns about the Three Gorges Dam. As the bus trundled over bumpy dirt roads, a red moon rising in the black sky, I was struck by an almost overwhelming sense of the strange. That night, I tried to trace the events that conspired to propel the trajectory of my life in that direction. I found myself thinking, "How did I get here?" Over time, the question ceased to be one of fact, and instead became the driving force of a fiction. As I began to write about the Yangtze,another, smaller river took shape in my mind: a river in Alabama that feeds into the Gulf. On the banks of this hot, winding river, two girls fall in love. One of them, a Chinese-American, is murdered, and there is the beginning of our story. I've always been a little obsessed with the concept of obsession, especially as it pertains to love. And I'm mystified by the way childhood friendships so often rival in intensity and depth any relationships we have as adults. Dream of the Blue Room is a novel about obsession, about the ways we are haunted by people dead and gone. And it is about the places to which we are bound, not merely by birth, but by other, messier means. Michelle Richmond is an amazing author who has written a gentle Southern novel, which just happens to be set on a river in China--no small feat. She's a wonderful storyteller, both on the printed page and while trading anecdotes in a bar on a rainy afternoon.--P.W.
La tentazione del crimine, L. Stephen, thriller PIEMME 1^
Leather Stephen La tentazione del crimine Prima edizione Pagine 366 Copertina rigida con sovraccoperta Rilegato formato cm. 14 X 22 Traduzione di Alfredo Colitto A. EditorePiemme Stato di conservazione: OTTIMO PARI AL NUOVO Descrizione Affascinante, raffinato, astuto: Terry Greene ha tutta l'aria della simpatica canaglia. Eppure, quando si tratta di difendere il suo impero economico, pazientemente costruito trafficando droga e riciclando denaro sporco, sa essere violento e spietato quanto basta. E così, sono in molti a dargli la caccia: le donne e la polizia, che non vede l'ora di sbatterlo dentro. Finché qualcuno riesce a incastrarlo e Terry viene condannato all'ergastolo per omicidio. Chiede allora aiuto all'unica persona di cui si fidi veramente, l'ex moglie Samantha, alias Sam: a lei il compito di prendere in mano le redini del suo impero che vacilla, trovare chi lo ha messo in trappola e toglierlo dai guai. Peccato che Sam, pur non avendo mai avuto dubbi sui tradimenti del marito, fosse all'oscuro dei suoi traffici illeciti. Inizialmente titubante, la donna capisce tuttavia di non avere scelta: darsi al crimine è l'unico modo per mantenere la famiglia. Con un passato nel mondo dello spettacolo e un presente da madre di tre figli, Sam dovrà improvvisarsi gangster, destreggiandosi nel sottobosco della criminalità londinese, tra amici veri e presunti, rivali da cui guardarsi le spalle e la polizia da seminare. E il suo debutto nella malavita sarà ricco di colpi di scena perché, per il crimine, Sam rivelerà un talento inaspettato e... un sottile piacere. Stephen Leather è un autore inglese che scrive thriller Pacy "pieno di azione" romanzi in uno stile volutamente basato sul lavoro di Jack Higgins e Gerald Seymour. I suoi romanzi sono spesso i temi della criminalità, il carcere e il servizio militare, e ultimamente il terrorismo e la Guerra contro il Terrore. Le impostazioni sono tipicamente a Londra e in Estremo Oriente. Egli è ora pubblicato da Hodder Stoughton ed e ha venduto più di due milioni di libri in più di venti lingue. Due dei suoi romanzi, il tratto e il Bombmaker, sono stati ripresi per Sky Television. Ha scritto anche per show televisivi come Il Knock, London's Burning e l'assassinio della BBC In Mind serie. I suoi romanzi più recenti ('Hard Landing' fino alla 'Rough Justice') hanno tutti trooper anche su SAS diventato poliziotto sotto copertura, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd come l'eroe. A partire da gennaio , Hodder Stoughton e sarà il rilascio di una nuova serie in pelle, caratterizzata da un ex negoziatore della polizia girato investigatore privato chiamato Jack Nightingale. Il primo libro della serie sarà Nightfall. Spese di spedizione € 2 con posta prioritaria "piego di libri" in apposita busta postale imbottita.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis, Michael, PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company, Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it-before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities-his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission-but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers-numbers -collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors. What these geek numbers show-no, prove-is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Billy paid attention to those numbers -with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to-and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win...how can we not cheer for David?
The Charlemagne Pursuit
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berry, Steve, PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, ONE Garmisch, Germany Tuesday, December 11, The Present 1:40 pm Cotton Malone hated enclosed spaces. His current unease was amplified by a packed cable car. Most of the passengers were on vacation, dressed in colorful garb, shouldering poles and skis. He sensed a variety of nationalities. Some Italians, a few Swiss, a handful of French, but mainly Germans. He'd been one of the first to climb aboard and, to relieve his discomfort, he'd made his way close to one of the frosty windows. Ten thousand feet above and closing, the Zugspitze stood silhouetted against a steel- blue sky, the imposing gray summit draped in a late- autumn snow. Not smart, agreeing to this location. The car continued its giddy ascent, passing one of several steel tres-tles that rose from the rocky crags. He was unnerved, and not simply from the crowded surroundings. Ghosts awaited him atop Germany's highest peak. He'd avoided this rendezvous for nearly four decades. People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily. Yet here he was, doing exactly that. Vibrations slowed as the car entered, then stopped at the summit station. Skiers flooded off toward another lift that would take them down to a high- altitude corrie, where a chalet and slopes waited. He didn't ski, never had, never wanted to. He made his way through the visitor center, identified by a yellow placard as MYncher Haus. A restaurant dominated one half of the building, the rest housed a theater, a snack bar, an observatory, souvenir shops, and a weather station. He pushed through thick glass doors and stepped out onto a railed terrace. Bracing Alpine air stung his lips. According to Stephanie Nelle his contact should be waiting on the observation deck. One thing was obvious. Ten thousand feet in the high Alps certainly added a height-ened measure of privacy to their meeting. The Zugspitze lay on the border. A succession of snowy crags rose south toward Austria. To the north spanned a soup- bowl valley ringed by rock- ribbed peaks. A gauze of frosty mist shielded the German vil-lage of Garmisch and its companion, Partenkirchen. Both were sports meccas, and the region catered not only to skiing but also bobsledding, skating, and curling. More sports he'd avoided. The observation deck was deserted save for an elderly couple and a few skiers who'd apparently paused to enjoy the view. He'd come to solve a mystery, one that had preyed on his mind ever since that day when the men in uniforms came to tell his mother that her husband was dead. ""Contact was lost with the submarine forty- eight hours ago. We dispatched search and rescue ships to the North Atlantic, which have combed the last known position. Wreckage was found six hours ago. We waited to tell the families until we were sure there was no chance of survivors." " His mother had never cried. Not her way. But that didn't mean she wasn't devas
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