Bruno: 2026 books

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able...

Dal mito della fondazione di Roma sono passati quasi 3.000 anni, eppure l’identità degli italiani appare ancora oggi sfuggente, un carattere in perenne formazione, inquieto, ribelle alle definizioni che pure la storiografia ufficiale ha tentato di dargli. Nasce così l’esigenza di un’Antistoria:...

«Un grande narratore capace di cogliere i dettagli più profondi nel magistrale artigianato del raccontare.» La Stampa «Sepúlveda ha il senso della narrazione concisa ed efficace, il gusto delle immagini finemente cesellate, un grande dono dell’evocazione che gli permette di rendere semplici,...

The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. They were also the stateless, the children who suffered war's consequences, and later the victims of the great Russian...

Sono i sicari del potere: Fondo monetario internazionale, Banca Mondiale e Banca centrale europea. La nomenklatura finanziaria della globalizzazione si è consolidata nel corso degli ultimi dieci anni con il passaggio dal pensiero unico al potere unico. Secondo Bruno Amoroso sono gli "incappucciati...

" Ceux qui me connaissent m'appellent Bruno. Depuis l'enfance, je reçois les messages de personnes passées sur l'autre rive. Mais je n'ai pas toujours compris pourquoi elles s'adressaient à moi, je croyais que la vie et la mort étaient séparées d'une barrière infranchissable... Et puis...

Maria Boulding was a highly-respected spiritual writer and translator, notably of St Augustine. Her testimony, as a contemplative nun, is eloquent and forceful: “love is the mightiest source of power in the world, and because of the solidarity of mankind contemplatives believe that lives handed...

Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist. Focusing on eleven individuals who influenced him significantly, it follows their roles through his career from his childhood in Czechoslovakia and his family's forced departure...

An archaeological exploration of the mysterious world of cave art through the ages Deep underground, some of humanity’s earliest artistic endeavors have lain untouched for millennia. The dark interiors of caves, wherever they may be found, seem to have had a powerful draw for ancient peoples,...

Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer....

Roman Jakobson has had a strange fate. Everybody knows his name and are willing to recognise him as an important character of the global cultural scene. Few, however, have read what he wrote beyond those four or five famous quotes. Quotes that, taken out of context, might not be understood completely...

“[A] tautly paced stunner . . . [Anthony Bruno] leavens the suspense with dark humor and builds to a slam-bang finale” (Publishers Weekly).   After two bodies—each of them hacked in half—are found in the Hudson River, FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons begin to investigate a deadly...

Miss Flite è la vecchietta che in "Bleak House" di Dickens frequenta quotidianamente la Court of Chancery trascinandosi dietro una borsa con i suoi «documenti», nell'attesa di un «giorno del giudizio» che dovrà restituirle il patrimonio perduto a seguito di remote vicende giudiziarie...

In crisp, simple language, the author introduces the reader to the essence of an unfolding universe and natural development. Homo sapiens are the spearhead of evolution. The human mind and the concept of reality take center stage, as does quantum mechanics, which is described as one of the pinnacles...