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Hades, or the House of Many Mansions. a Serious Rhyme for
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hancock, Charles, PUBLISHER: British Library, Historical Print Editions, Title: Hades, or the House of Many Mansions... A serious rhyme for the new year. By the author of "Lines upon the Death of Wellington" Charles Hancock].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Hancock, Charles; Hancock, Charles Esq.; .g..)
Three Graves Full
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mason, Jamie, PUBLISHER: Gallery Books, For fans of the Coen brothers' films or for those who just love their thrillers with a dash of sharp humor--an engaging and offbeat story about a man driven to murder, who then buries the body in his backyard only to discover that there are two other shallow graves on his property. "There "is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard."" With this memorable first line, we meet Jason Getty, a regular guy in every mild sense of the word. But extraordinary circumstances push this ordinary man to do something he can't undo...and now he must live with the undeniable reality of his actions. And just as Jason "does" finally learn to live with it, a landscaper discovers a body on his property--only it's not the body Jason buried. As Jason's fragile peace begins to unravel, his life is hitched to the fortunes of several strangers: Leah, an abandoned woman looking for answers to her heartbreak; Tim, a small-town detective just doing his job; and Boyd, a fringe-dweller whose past is about to catch up to him--all of them in the wake and shadow of a dead man who had it coming. With the tense pacing of a thriller and the language and beauty of a fine literary novel, "Three Graves Full" heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in fiction.
Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, Arts Between World Wars
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Tyrus, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the s and s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years. In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, new technological media and the social forces of mass politics opened fault lines in individual and collective experience, undermining the cultural bases of the modernist movement. He shows how late modernists attempted to discover ways of occupying this new and often dangerous cultural space. In doing so they laid bare the ruin of the modernist aesthetic at the same time as they transcended its limits. In his wide-ranging theoretical and historical discussion, Miller relates developments in literary culture to tendencies in the visual arts, cultural and political criticism, mass culture, and social history. He excavates Wyndham Lewis's hidden borrowings from Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer"; situates Djuna Barnes between the imagery of "haute couture" and the intellectualism of Duchamp; uncovers Beckett's affinities with Giacometti's surrealist sculptures and the Bolshevik clowns Bim-Bom; and considers Mina Loy as both visionary writer and designer of decorative lampshades. Miller's lively and engaging readings of culture in this turbulent period reveal its surprising anticipation of our own postmodernity.
Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cohen, Theodore Jerome, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May leads to Base Bernardo O'Higgins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodrguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Osorio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudo's prime theft and murder suspects. Fearing he will die, Barbudo reveals the identity of his two suspects to visiting scientist Ted Stone, thereby placing Stone's life in jeopardy. But who can Stone trust with this information, if it comes to that, to see justice done? This story is a work of fiction based on real events that took place between and . It is a tale of greed, betrayal, and murder-one in which the reader is given a window into the frozen world at the bottom of the Earth that few people ever will read about, much less experience. Among other things, it explores why, though seemingly unfair, bad things happen to good people; how the battle between good and evil can change forever even the most innocent person; and most of all, the role deception plays in Nature, Man, and Life.
What We Have
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boesky, Amy, PUBLISHER: Gotham Books, The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time's shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family's medical curse. But Amy didn't want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life's smallest pleasures, she did just that. In "What We Have," Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family's life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief. In a true story as compelling as the best in women's fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky's journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.
60 libri autori noti
libri come da foto in ottime condizioni come nuovi, dei quali la maggior parte con copertina rigida e copricopertina intatta. TOM CLANCY: Attentato alla Corte d'Inghilterra Contro tutti Nome in codice Red Rabbit Politika I denti della tigre Ali D'acciaio Potere esecutivo Endwar Barracuda Op center - parallelo Russia Op center - equilibri di potere Op center - linea di controllo Op center - giochi di stato Op center - atti di guerra Op center - presa di potere Op center - i signori del fuoco Andy Macnab: Fuoco di copertura Azione immediata nome in Codice Dark winter Giampaolo Pansa: Sconosciuto Il sangue dei vinti I figli dell'aquila I misteri di Orione - Lauval L'ipnotista - Kepler Il simbolo perduto - Dan Brown La verità di ghiaccio - Dan Brown Il codice da VInci -Dan Brown La confraternita della rosa - Morel Patagonia express - Sepúlveda Luis La croce e la spada - Camus Milano Bagadad - D'Ambrosio Sulle ali delle Aquile - Ken Follet La cattedrale dell'Anticristo - Delizios Le illusioni dello scorpione - Ludlum Il vangelo proibito - Gibbins Alien dentro l'allarme - Sheckley L'isola dei cani - Cornwell Il negoziatore - Forsyth l'anno del contatto - Braschi Notti e Nebbie - Castellaneta Il tempo che vorrei - Fabio Volo Il fine ultimo della Creazione - Willocks Gomorra - Saviano L'ora del leone - De Mille Il cerchio si chiude - Egeland Pulp - Bukowski La profezia vaticana - Trace L'assedio - Coonts Area 51 - Daherey Anima Templi - Robyn Young L'ereditá dei Templari - Khoury Raymond La missione dei 4 cavalieri - Khoury Raymond I guardiani del tempo - Giorgio Bialetti La cittá perduta dei Templari - C.A. Palov Iacobus - Matilde Asensi Il labirinto del Serpente - masot Il tredicesimo apostolo - M. Beinot L'ultima Cospirazione - Steve Berry I custodi del codice - J. Whyte Il templare - J. Guillon
Libri autori noti
libri come da foto in ottime condizioni come nuovi, dei quali la maggior parte con copertina rigida e copricopertina intatta. TOM CLANCY: Attentato alla Corte d'Inghilterra,Contro tutti Nome in codice Red Rabbit Politika I denti della tigre Ali D'acciaio Potere esecutivo Endwar Barracuda Op center - parallelo Russia Op center - equilibri di potere Op center - linea di controllo ;Op center - giochi di stato Op center - atti di guerra Op center - presa di potere Op center - i signori del fuoco Andy Macnab: Fuoco di copertura Azione immediata nome in Codice Dark winter Giampaolo Pansa: Sconosciuto Il sangue dei vinti I figli dell'aquila I misteri di Orione - Lauval L'ipnotista - Kepler Il simbolo perduto - Dan Brown La verità di ghiaccio - Dan Brown Il codice da VInci -Dan Brown La confraternita della rosa - Morel Patagonia express - SepÙlveda Luis La croce e la spada - Camus Milano Bagadad - D'Ambrosio Sulle ali delle Aquile - Ken Follet La cattedrale dell'Anticristo - Delizios Le illusioni dello scorpione - Ludlum Il vangelo proibito - Gibbins Alien dentro l'allarme - Sheckley L'isola dei cani - Cornwell Il negoziatore - Forsyth l'anno del contatto - Braschi Notti e Nebbie - Castellaneta Il tempo che vorrei - Fabio Volo Il fine ultimo della Creazione - Willocks Gomorra - Saviano L'ora del leone - De Mille Il cerchio si chiude - Egeland Pulp - Bukowski La profezia vaticana - Trace L'assedio - Coonts Area 51 - Daherey Anima Templi - Robyn Young L'ereditÀ dei Templari - Khoury Raymond La missione dei 4 cavalieri - Khoury Raymond I guardiani del tempo - Giorgio Bialetti La cittÀ perduta dei Templari - C.A. Palov Iacobus - Matilde Asensi Il labirinto del Serpente - masot Il tredicesimo apostolo - M. Beinot L'ultima Cospirazione - Steve Berry I custodi del codice - J. Whyte Il templare - J. Guillon Prezzo trattabile
I-Can b I-CANB - Gar.ITALIA
i-CAN colore nero Il decoder i-CAN B è stato concepito da ADB per accedere all’offerta satellitare tivùsat., tivùsatè la prima piattaforma satellitare gratuita italiana che, oltre a replicare in versione integrale (cioè senza l’oscuramento di alcun programma in palinsesto) l’offerta generalista e i nuovi canali televisivi nazionali, offre numerosi altri canali sia italiani che internazionali, ed è in grado di soddisfare le preferenze e i gusti di tutta la famiglia: intrattenimento, informazione, cultura, sport, fiction, musica e cinema. Design e dimensioni molto contenute rendo unico questo prodotto. L’alta definizione e il Dolby Digital Plus porteranno il cinema a casa vostra.Decoder Satellitare TIVUSAT in alta definizione con telecomando universale, connessione Internet, funzione Unicable (consente di collegare 2 decoder in serie).Ordinamento automatico dei canali, funzione di Parental Control, guida TV, Teletex e sottotitoli, aggiornamento software via antenna e USB. Pausa TV su chiavetta USB. Decoder abilitato al servizio Infinity(servizio Video on Demand per mezzo di connessione ad Internet, contenuti televisivi sempre a tua disposizione), vai su infititytv.it e prova subito il servizio Streaming più innovativo d''Italia. Decoder abilitato al servizioCubovision, servizio di trasmissione televisiva online e di Video on demand che consente di visionare contenuti on demand gratuitamente o a pagamento Decoder abilitato al servizio La7 on Demand, servizio di trasmissione televisiva online e di Video on demand che consente di visionare contenuti on demand gratuitamente o a pagamento
Galindez
Galindez di Manuel Vázquez Montalbán - Edition du Seuil - vendo a euro 4 edizione in lingua francese Un romanzo d'inchiesta per svelare la misteriosa scomparsa di un politico spagnolo esiliato negli USA. Un uomo scompare a New York. Siamo a metà degli anni Cinquanta e quell'uomo non è una persona qualsiasi, ma Jesús de Galíndez Suárez, esponente in esilio del governo basco dopo la disfatta della guerra civile spagnola. Sulle sue tracce, quasi quarant'anni dopo, una ricercatrice testarda, che partita con l'idea di stilare una tesi di laurea, finisce per mettere la mano in un vespaio. Che, come già successo a Galíndez, potrebbe costarle caro, visto che dietro la scomparsa dell'uomo ci sono il regime dominicano di Trujillo e che, in qualche oscuro modo, sono coinvolti anche i servizi segreti americani. Oggi la chiameremmo non-fiction; nel , quando il giallista Manuel Vázquez Montalbán si prese una pausa dal suo detective seriale, Pepe Carvalho, per pubblicare Galíndez, si parlava di romanzo d'inchiesta. La sostanza è che a una ricca documentazione, che permette allo scrittore catalano di affrontare la realtà dei fatti con grande sicurezza, si sposa una storia d'appoggio, inventata, che serve da filo conduttore per guidare il lettore lungo il dipanarsi di quei tragici fatti. Là dove non è possibile la consegna a mano posso spedire con piego di libri ordinario 2,00 euro o raccomandato 5,50 da aggiungere al prezzo del libro
The Wish Maker
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sethi, Ali, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan. The unforgettable story of a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women, "The Wish Maker" is also a tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and indestructible friendship. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves "part of the same litter." Together they watched American television and memorized dialogue from Bollywood movies, attended dangerous protests, and formed secret friendships. In a household run by Zaki's crusading political journalist mother and iron-willed grandmother, it was impossible to imagine a future that could hold anything different for either of them. But adolescence approaches and the cousins' fates diverge. Samar's unconventional behavior-in which Zaki has played the role of devoted helper-brings severe consequences for her, while Zaki is sent out to discover the world for himself. It is only after years of separation from Samar that he is forced to confront the true nature of happiness, selfhood, and commitment to those he loves most. Chronicling world-changing events that have never been so intimately observed in fiction and brimming with unmistakable warmth and humor, "The Wish Maker" is the powerful account of a family and an era, a story that shows how, even in the most rapidly shifting circumstances, there are bonds that survive the tugs of convention, time, and history.
Something to Tell You
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kureishi, Hanif, PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA" RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST EXUBERANT NOVEL. In the early s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in film and fiction. His movies "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" and his novel "The Buddha of Suburbia" captivated audiences and inspired other artists. In "Something to Tell You, " he travels back to those days of hedonism, activism and glorious creativity. And he explores the lives of that generation now, in a very different London. Jamal is middle-aged, though reluctant to admit it. He has an ex-wife, a son he adores, a thriving career as a psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied desire. "Secrets are my currency," he says. "I deal in them for a living." And he has some of his own. He is haunted by Ajita, his first love, whom he hasn't seen in decades, and by an act of violence he has never confessed. With great empathy and agility, Kureishi has created an array of unforgettable characters -- a hilarious and eccentric theater director, a covey of charming and defiant outcasts and an ebullient sister who thrives on the fringe. All wrestle with their own limits as human beings; all are plagued by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive. Comic, wise and unfailingly tender, "Something to Tell You" is Kureishi's best work to date, brilliant and exhilarating.
Suburb of Dissent - PB
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Irr, Caren / Caren Irr / Irr, PUBLISHER: Duke University Press, In "The Suburb of Dissent "Caren Irr explores the leftist literary subculture of the United States and Canada during the s to reconstruct the ideas of mass culture, class, and nationality that emerged as a result of the Great Depression. Unearthing plots and characters that still surface in contemporary narratives, Irr juxtaposes classic and neglected works of criticism, fiction, poetry, and journalism and demonstrates how leftist writers resisted totalitarianism much more thoroughly than Cold War accounts would suggest. Irr highlights works by Richard Wright, John Dos Passos, Nathanael West, and others to uncover the complex relationship between American anti-communism and communist anti-Americanism. In an unprecedented move, she extends her inquiry to the work of Canadian intellectuals such as Dorothy Livesay and Hugh MacLennan to reveal the important yet overlooked fact that the territory at the border of the United States and Canada provided a vital contact zone and transnational "home" for leftist thinkers. Attending to intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender, Irr illustrates the ways dissenting writers made culture actively respond to the political crises of the Great Depression and questioned the nature of what it means to be "American." Drawing on insights from postcolonial and American studies and taking into account the intellectual and cultural dimensions of leftist politics, "The Suburb of Dissent" is the first study of the s to bring together U.S. and Canadian writings. In doing so, it reveals how the unique culture of the left contributed to North American history at this critical juncture and beyond.
CRIS CUCCIOLA DEI COLLARINI ROSSI CERCA ANCORA CASA!
CRIS FEMMINA CRIS e le sue sorelline insieme ai suoi fratellini sono stati ritrovati all'interno del tronco di un maestoso ed accogliente ulivo. Un posto sicuro, scelto con cura dalla loro mamma! Purtroppo, tanto sicuro non lo era perché a ridosso di una strada pericolosissima. Due volontari sono riusciti a recuperarli in tempo e a portarli al sicuro, come d'altronde chiunque dovrebbe comportarsi nei confronti di queste anime indifese anziché soffermarsi a semplici segnalazioni! Noi vogliamo aiutarli, vogliamo trovare una casa ed una famiglia che possa accoglierli e custodirli PER SEMPRE.....proprio come quel magico ulivo! Noi glielo abbiamo promesso e, col vostro prezioso aiuto nelle condivisioni di questo album, faremo di tutto per mantenere la promessa!!! Loro sono i "Collarini Rossi", belli e dolcissimi come i protagonisti dell'amatissima fiction "Braccialetti Rossi", girata proprio tra i nostri meravigliosi ulivi! Si trovano in provincia di Brindisi ma, per una buona adozione, li portiamo in tutte le regioni. Si affidano sverminati, vaccinati, microchippati e con l'obbligo di castrazione/sterilizzazione dopo l'ottavo mese d'età, previ contrlli e firma del modulo. Spese sanitarie sono a carico dell'associazione. N.B. L'AFFIDAMENTO SARA' EFFETTUATO DA QUATTROZAMPE NEL CUORE IN COLLABORAZIONE CON A.N.P.A.N.A. PREVIA VERIFICA DI PRE-AFFIDO. Per info: ANTONELLA EMAIL: PER SOSTENERCI: Poste Pay N° INTESTATO A: GIANNOCCARO Sabrina (Segreteria associazione) C.F.: GNNSRN67H65D508Y
A Fool's Life
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ryunosuke, Akutagawa / Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, PUBLISHER: Allardyce, Barnett, Fiction. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Anthony Barnett and Toraiwa Naoko. Akutagawa Ryunosuke () is one of 20th Japan's great storytellers. He is best known in the West for the story "Rashomon," "Rasho Gate," which, with another of his short stories as primary source, "Within a Grove," was the inspiration behind Kurosawa's film Rashomon. Akutagawa read widely in world literature. He graduated from Tokyo University with a thesis on William Morris. His mentor was the great novelistNatsume Soseki, who had lived in London at the turn of the century. Akutagawa's writings include reworkings of motifs and tales of China's and Japan's past, modern fables, essays, and a few autobiographical fictions which, like A FOOL'S LIFE, follow his intense engagement and difficulty with the world. He ended his brief life the month after completing A FOOL'S LIFE. Anthony Barnett is a poet and music historian. His books include the collected The Resting Bell () and selected Miscanthus (). He wrote a Masters on the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation at University of Essex in . Hewas visiting scholar at the Center for International Programs, Meiji University, Tokyo in . His other translations include Albiach, O. Berg, Delahaye, Giroux, Lagerkvist, Vesaas, Zanzotto. His writing is most recently surveyed in Ian Brinton's volume Contemporary British Poetry: Poetry Since . Dr Toraiwa naoko is Professor of English at Meiji University. She received her doctorate from University of Sussex and divides her time between Japan and England.
Thematic Guide to the American Novel
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Adamson, Lynda G., PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press, This unique resource provides readers with a systematic guide to the central themes in 150 of the most commonly taught American novels. Each of the 50 well written essays identifies and discusses an important theme, such as Alienation, Corruption of Power, and Immigrant Life that recurs in American literature. The pertinence of these themes is examined in a wide range of novels that reflect this country's cultural diversity and that span the many time periods in America's literary heritage. These novels include the canonical and the contemporary, yet they are all works that are accessible and important to students, and were selected in consultation with educators and experts' published curriculum surveys. The organization of this guide allows users to compare and contrast thematically related novels and also provides help in the selection of titles for classroom discussion and assignments. This thematic guide is organized into 50 narrative essays. Each essay, written expressively with the student in mind, provides in-depth analyses of three American novels. The entries include selected lists of further suggested readings; additional fiction works that relate to the theme explored. Two helpful appendices make this resource even more valuable for the literature collection. One appendix provides additional themes and topics to be explored in the 150 novels. For quick reference, a second appendix organizes the 150 discussed novels alphabetically, identifying both the central and secondary themes for discussion in each. An author/title index, as well as a character/title index, facilitated optimum access to these works.
Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fleming, James Rodger, PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press, As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker and brighter to create a "planetary thermostat." These ideas might sound like science fiction, but in fact they are part of a very old story. For more than a century, scientists, soldiers, and charlatans have tried to manipulate weather and climate, and like them, today's climate engineers wildly exaggerate what is possible. Scarcely considering the political, military, and ethical implications of managing the world's climate, these individuals hatch schemes with potential consequences that far outweigh anything their predecessors might have faced. Showing what can happen when fixing the sky becomes a dangerous experiment in pseudoscience, James Rodger Fleming traces the tragicomic history of the rainmakers, rain fakers, weather warriors, and climate engineers who have been both full of ideas and full of themselves. Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the s, drought in the s, aircraft safety in the s, and world conflict since the s. Killer hurricanes, ozone depletion, and global warming fuel the fantasies of today. Based on archival and primary research, Fleming's original story speaks to anyone who has a stake in sustaining the planet.
A Death in Summer
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Black, Benjamin / Black, PUBLISHER: Picador USA, One of The "Chicago Tribune"'s Best Reads of . One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end--and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet. On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell--known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick--is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite. Jewell's coolly elegant French wife, Francoise, seems less than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. Further, Sinclair has been seeing Quirke's fractious daughter Phoebe, and an unlikely romance is blossoming between the two. As a record heat wave envelops the city and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find themselves caught up in a dark web of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster. Tightly plotted and gorgeously written, "A Death in Summer "proves to the brilliant but sometimes reckless Quirke that in a city where old money and the right bloodlines rule, he is by no means safe from mortal danger.
Libri Forsyth, Bukowski, vari
A mano a Pavia e Milano Rogoredo o spedizione come piego di libri. Charles Bukowski: - confessioni di un codardo, Guanda editore, e13 - pulp, e3 - i cavalli non scommettono sugli uomini (e neanche io).ita+eng, euro 45 - quando mi hai lasciato mi hai lasciato tre mutande. ita+eng, euro 45 - sotto un sole di sigarette e cetrioli. ita+eng, euro 45 - santo cielo, perché porti la cravatta? ita+eng, euro 45 - il crimine paga sempre. ita+eng, euro 8 - e cosi vorresti fare lo scrittore? ita+eng, euro 9 - quando eravamo giovani. ita+eng, euro 5 - ehi, Kafka! ita+eng, euro 17 - cena a sbafo. ita+eng, euro 8 - non c'è niente da ridere. ita+eg, euro 8 - so benissimo quanto ho peccato. ita+eng, euro 8 - una notte niente male. ita+eng, euro 10 - notte imbecille. ita+eng, euro 9 - la canzone dei folli. Poesie II. ita+eng, euro 7 - il grande.Poesie III. ita+eng, euro 4 - tutti gli anni buttati via. ita+eng, euro 7 - azzeccare i cavalli vincente. euro 4 - niente canzoni d'amore. euro 4 - Bukowski - una vita per immagini. Curato e introdotto da Howard Sounes - I edizione strade blu settembre (biografia). euro 45 - Cari compagni posteri - Vladimir Majakovskij , e55 - Poesie d'amore e di rivoluzione, Vladimir Majakovskij e7 - Per La Voce, Vladimir Majakovskij, e6 - Jack Hirschman, Volevo che voi lo sapeste (Altre Americhe), e17 - Kahlil Gibran, Il Vagabondo, e7 - La rivoluzione ecologica. Il pensiero libertario di Murray Brookchin, Selva Varengo, e7 - Ho ucciso un principio. Vita e morte di Gaetano Bresci, l'anarchico che sparò al re, Paolo Pasi, e7 - Succhi freschi di frutta e verdura, Norman Walker, e2,50 - Dizionario Italiano-Spagnolo essenziale, Zanichelli, e1,50 Frederick Forsyth, Oscar Mondadori, e3 ciascuno - L'Afghano - Il vendicatore - L'alternativa del diavolo - Il giorno dello sciacallo - I mastini della guerra - Dossier odessa - Il simulatore - Il quarto protocollo - Il negoziatore - Il veterano - Il pugno di dio - Icona
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Young, Alfred Fabian, PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group, The remarkable story of the woman who fought in the American Revolution as Robert Shurtliff- and got away with it. Serving for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time when peace was far from secure, Deborah Sampson accomplished her deception by becoming an outstanding soldier. Alfred Young shows us why she did it and exactly how she carried it off. He meticulously reconstructs her early life as an indentured servant; her young adulthood as a weaver, teacher, and religious rebel; and her military career in the light infantry- consisting of dangerous patrols and small-party encounters, duty that demanded constant vigilance- followed by service as an orderly to a general at West Point. Young also examines her postwar life as a wife- Mrs. Benjamin Gannett- and mother on a hardscrabble farm in southeastern Massachusetts, her collaboration with Herman Mann on the book that made her a celebrity and sent her on a pathbreaking yearlong lecture tour through New England and New York in , and her relentless and partially successful quest for veterans' benefits. He looks, too, at how Americans have dealt with Sampson in public memory and have appropriated her for a number of causes over the past two hundred years. Throughout we are aware of the historian as detective, as Young carefully sifts through layers of fact and fiction to reveal a fascinating, complex, and unusual woman who lived in an era that both opened opportunities to and imposed limitations on women.
In Search of Small Gods
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harrison, Jim, PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press, "Funny and tender beneath a wry and gruff seen-it-all veneer, Harrison contemplates death, discerns divinity in every stone and leaf, and nobility in ordinary lives, and laughs at our attempts to separate ourselves from the rest of nature."--"Booklist" "His poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."--"The Texas Observer" Now in paperback, Jim Harrison's best-selling poetry book "In Search of Small Gods" is where birds and humans converse, autobiographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real and imagined--from remote canyons and anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe--Harrison calls upon readers to live fully in a world where "Death steals everything except our stories." "Maybe the problem is that I got involved with the wrong crowd of gods when I was seven. At first they weren't harmful and only showed themselves as fish, birds, especially herons and loons, turtles, a bobcat and a small bear, but not deer and rabbits who only offered themselves as food. And maybe I spent too much time inside the water of lakes and rivers. Underwater seemed like the safest church I could go to... " Jim Harrison is one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including "Legends of the Fall" and "Dalva." His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He lives in Arizona and Montana.
Istanbul Passage
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kanon, Joseph, PUBLISHER: Atria Books, From the acclaimed, bestselling author of "Stardust, " "The Good German, "and "Los Alamos"--a gripping tale of an American undercover agent in Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue and moral confusion. Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon's attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own. How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to make? "Istanbul Passage" is the story of a man swept up in the aftermath of war, an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it. Rich with atmosphere and period detail, Joseph Kanon's latest novel flawlessly blends fact and fiction into a haunting thriller about the dawn of the Cold War, once again proving why Kanon has been hailed as the "heir apparent to Graham Greene" ("The Boston Globe").
Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McCaskill, Barbara / Gebhard, Caroline, PUBLISHER: New York University Press, The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem" era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of disciplinary approaches, the sixteen scholars gathered here offer both a reappraisal and celebration of African American cultural production during these influential decades. Alongside discussions of political and artistic icons such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James Weldon Johnson are essays revaluing figures such as the writers Paul and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the New England painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, and Georgia-based activists Lucy Craft Laney and Emmanuel King Love. Contributors explore an array of forms from fine art to anti-lynching drama, from sermons to ragtime and blues, and from dialect pieces and early black musical theater to serious fiction. Contributors include: Frances Smith Foster, Carla L. Peterson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Barbara Ryan, Robert M. Dowling, Barbara A. Baker, Paula Bernat Bennett, Philip J. Kowalski, Nikki L. Brown, Koritha A. Mitchell, Margaret Crumpton Winter, Rhonda Reymond, and Andrew J. Scheiber.
The Guns of Ticonderoga
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Richardson, William T., PUBLISHER: Trafford Publishing, This is a fictional story, based on fact, of two l3 year old boys who join their fathers in assisting Henry Knox and the citizens of the frontier and the colonial militia in delivering Fort Ticonderoga cannon to George Washinglon and his troops in Boston. While the account of the boys' adventures enroute is fiction, they are representative of the type of experiences many young people had in growing up and assuming adult responsibilities while living on the frontier of early America. In November George Washington and his militia had the British forces in Boston, MA blockaded from the mainland. The British did not have sufficient forces in Boston to break the blockade. Washington did not have sufficient heavy weapons (cannon and mortars) to force the British to leave Boston. It was a stalemate. Henry Knox and his brother William volunteered to bring some of the heavy weapons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. Washington agreed, and with the assistance provided by General Phillip Schuyler at Albany, NY the Knox expedition moved pounds cannon and mortars across lakes, rivers, streams and mountains during the winter of . When the weapons arrived, Washington placed them in a strategic location overlooking Boston and its harbor, thereby convincing the British in March to evacuate Boston. The result was that Boston and New England remained in the hands of the Americans throughout the Revolutionary War. The success of the Knox expedition and its result for the outcome of the American Revolution is little known but deserves the attention provided here and elsewhere. This book is a good read for anyone who is interested in the contributions young citizens made tothe success of the American Revolution.
The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nemoianu, Virgil P., PUBLISHER: University of South Carolina Press, In this sequel to his Harry Levin Prize-winning The Taming of Romanticism, Virgil Nemoianu expands his survey of the intellectual and literary movement that swept Europe in the early and middle decades of the nine-teenth century to include rarely studied paraliterary texts in historiography, travel writing, and religious exposition. With The Triumph of Imperfection, Nemoianu traverses literary terrain beyond the canon to gauge the impact of late romanticism's moderate tone on the upheaval, revolution, and agitation associated with the advent of the modern era. He suggests that writers and scholars of the period wielded tools of discourse in such a way as to integrate the new ideals of modernity peacefully and calmly into the normal evolution of society. Subverting the conventional approach to romanticism, Nemoianu argues for a balance between works composed in Western and Central Europe. From this fresh starting point, he analyzes texts from authors both remembered and forgotten, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franois Auguste-Rene de Chateaubriand, and Robert Southey. He considers their approach to educational techniques, the aesthetics of religion, and the interplay of history writing with fiction and contends that, in dealing with the radical changes of their day, thinkers, writers, statesmen, and reformers of the period sought a practical accommodation between the avalanche of revolutionary ideas and the intellectual history that had shaped the past millennia. Nemoianu suggests that at the center of this reconciliation was an acceptance of the notion of imperfection, of partial victories, and of a deliberate search for moderation and balance. Sure to spark scholarlydebate, Nemoianu underscores the value and relevance of the moderating influences he finds in romanticism for the intellectual and social questions facing the current century.
Praying for Miracles
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walkin, Newton, PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, PRAYING FOR MIRACLES is a non-fiction book about Bible study, faith, prayer and miracles. The author, Newton Walkin, surveys the miracles of the Bible and shows how relevant these are in assisting Christians today when praying for miracles. The book has three parts: (1) deals with the person and work of the Holy Spirit and the veracity of the Bible; (2) examines the principles of intercessory prayer; and (3) looks at prayers and miracles in action. The Appendix II helps those studying the Bible from cover to cover more than once. The book is useful for the general Christian reader, lay preachers, Sunday school teachers, prayer groups, intercessors and first year Bible Studies students at university, seminary and Bible College. The book has 550 pages and 27 chapters.Walkin comes from a Christian home. He is a member of West Croydon Baptist Church (WCBC), Croydon, England founded by James Spurgeon in . The views in this book are entirely those of the author and do not represent any church, organisation or ministry. From July to December , Walkin achieved, by God's generous grace, his vision to read the Bible from cover to cover 21 times, shown in Appendix II.Walkin believes in the awesome power of intercessory prayer of faith. Walkin said, "If our faith is strong enough we can successfully pray for miracles." On November , Walkin wrote a prayer for London to win the Olympic Bid, held July . He wrote another prayer: Olympic Prayer for Peaceful Games In . And in January wrote a Prayer/Psalm for President Barack Obama's protection.Now an evangelist Christian writer, Walkin and his wife Eileen were baptized in March at WCBC. Walkin also regularly attends Trinity Baptist Church, Croydon, England.