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In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota - and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.

The year is AD 504. The all-powerful Roman Empire lies in tatters, its western provinces dismembered into a patchwork of new kingdoms ruled by barbarians. In Constantinople, the New Rome, the Eastern Roman emperor is beset by problems. New and dangerous barbarian hordes appear on the frontier year after year. The powerful king of Persia demands tribute and threatens Roman Mesopotamia and Syria. Religious controversies spawn catastrophic military uprisings. But unbeknownst to all, in that same year was born Belisarius, the greatest Roman general of them all. At a time when Roman power was ...

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the centre of Mediaeval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of financial crisis, it was here that the foundations of modern banking were born. In Money and Promises, the distinguished financier, entrepreneur and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the fascinating, complex relationship between states and banks.

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Having marital issues? If you were looking for a solution. It is quite likely you answered "yes" to this question. After some time a marriage could get stale and boring. Wouldn't it be nice to find a solution to all these marital problems? I won't lie, some of these tips will be hard to do because you are so used to doing them differently or you take your spouse for granted, but it will get easier in no time.

God and the Self in Hegel proposes a reconstruction of Hegel’s conception of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego Bubbio argues that in Hegel’s view, subjectivism—the tenet that there is no underlying “true” reality that exists independently of the activity of the cognitive agent—can be avoided, and content can be restored to religion, only to the extent that God is understood in God’s relation to human beings, and human beings are understood in their relation to God.

Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat. Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso, and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly unassailable bond. But there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret.

A partire dai suoi studi nell'ambito della linguistica cognitiva e della fisiologia del comportamento umano e utilizzando uno stile narrativo innovativo che va a toccare le nostre corde più profonde, con questo libro Paolo Borzacchiello ci indica quali sono le domande giuste da porci, in grado di scardinare gli schemi mentali a cui siamo abituati e di cambiare il corso dei pensieri che abbiamo in testa, per sviluppare nuovi punti di vista e nuove visioni. E aprire così nuovi mondi che ci conducono verso la realizzazione dei nostri desideri più alti.

Fausto moves to Fontana Fredda—Cold Fountain—a small, remote village high in the mountains, having left Milan and an old love behind. Out of the way and off the beaten path, Fontana Fredda is a town that operates by its own rules, sense of time, and movement of seasons. Its citizens lead quiet but complex lives—and Fausto is attracted to that contrast. There’s Santorso, the former forest ranger who prefers the company of wolves to humans.

Trentatré racconti, pubblicati tra il 1947 e il 1953, di un Philip K. Dick che muove i primi passi nella letteratura fantascientifica: storie che possono essere raggruppate in tre categorie principali, quella basata sul grimmick, la trovata che risolve un complesso quadro di indizi volti a porre l'enigma di una civiltà aliena, quella dei racconti di fantasia, in cui l'immaginazione dickiana può uscire dagli schemi ed esprimersi al meglio, e quella fondata sul tema della guerra, una delle sue ossessioni, che risente ancora delle visioni apocalittiche con cui l'umanità ha visto schiudersi il secondo conflitto mondiale.

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming haven stifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parish priest. The residents have other things on their mind: literature. Everyone’s a writer - the nights are alive with reworked manuscripts. So when the devil turns up in a black car claiming to be a hot-shot publisher, unsatisfied authorial desires are unleashed and the village’s former harmony is shattered.

Un uomo cammina lungo le rive di un grande lago tedesco. È partito all’improvviso, dopo avere provocato una serie di “incidenti emotivi”, come lui stesso li definisce. È ripiombato nella vita di persone che non vedeva da tempo. Ha risposto a email rimaste lì per quindici anni, facendo domande fuori luogo. Ha provato a riannodare fili spezzati. Mauro Barbi, storico di professione, cerca di aggiustare i ricordi degli altri – le persone che ama e ha amato – proponendo la sua versione dei fatti. Cerca di costruire una “memoria condivisa” che lo riguarda.

Quei tre ragazzi che si tuffano in piscina, nudi, di nascosto, entrano come un vento nella vita di Teresa. Sono poco più che bambini, hanno corpi e desideri incontrollati e puri, proprio come lei. I prossimi vent'anni li passeranno insieme nella masseria lì accanto, a seminare, raccogliere, distruggere, alla pazza ricerca di un fuoco che li tenga accesi. Al centro di tutto c'è sempre Bern, un magnete che attira gli altri e li spinge oltre il limite, con l'intensità di chi conosce solo passioni assolute: Dio, il sesso, la natura, un figlio.

"Olivetti, l'occasione perduta" è il racconto dell’avventura pionieristica dell’Olivetti nel mondo dell’elettronica: un laboratorio di giovani talenti, i primi passi dell’informatica in Italia, l’invenzione dell’Elea 9300, la straordinaria realizzazione del primo personal computer – la mitica P101 – malgrado la immaturità tecnica dei primi anni ’60.Nel podcast curato dal prof. Paolo Colombo ne emerge un affresco intrigante dell’Olivetti di Adriano, fucina di sogni, di creatività e di cultura raffinata, ma anche di robusti successi commerciali a livello internazionale. ...

Seventeen years after Shay Michaels said goodbye to summers in Red Maple Falls and the only boy she ever truly loved, she's back and the proud owner of Sweet Dreams Bakery. Life is good until someone breaks into her shop, making her question if the life she left behind in New York followed her.

In this inventive, fast-paced novel, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes - from food safety to racism and immigration - and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from. The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink.

Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ‘crime’ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children’s block where she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity.

A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child, Alice’s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia, she recognizes a kindred, tortured spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found.

In una Roma postbellica, tra i palazzoni delle periferie e il centro monumentale, il racconto picaresco dai risvolti comici, tragici e grotteschi, delle giornate di un gruppo di ragazzi di borgata. Un romanzo fortemente emblematico di una trasformazione epocale del nostro paese, che mette in scena con struggente tenerezza il rito crudele del passaggiodall'infanzia alla prima giovinezza.

Il misterioso omicidio di un avvocato milanese porta due investigatori molto diversi a collaborare alla risoluzione del caso. Ascolta il nuovo avvicente giallo firmato Paolo Roversi. Durante i giorni dell’Expo, mentre la città freme di attività, un cadavere viene inspiegabilmente ritrovato in pieno centro a Milano. Camilla Farina, giovane ispettrice di polizia, è la prima a raggiungere la scena del delitto, fiduciosa di poter dimostrare una volta per tutte le proprie capacità.