Franco: 887 books

Materiali indica i prodotti e le tecniche, l'origine naturale e la produzione industriale, i vari usi e le diverse modalità, in una parola la costruzione. Moderno è il prodotto o il suo impiego, sempre il senso e il modo dell'applicazione, nuovi in ogni opera, diversi per ogni autore. Materiale...

Le Olimpiadi, i Mondiali di calcio, il Giro d’Italia, la boxe: pochi scrittori italiani hanno vissuto così avidamente lo sport come Franco Cordelli. In questo quaderno filosofico sulla portata dei riti sportivi moderni di massa, l’autore di fortunati romanzi come Una sostanza sottile gioca a...

Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990 respectively, Francis Ford Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments (and financial successes) in the history of Hollywood cinema. The latest in Scarecrow's Film Score Guides series, Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy*: A Film Score Guide*...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...

Is it possible that the death of our physical bodies was never part of a divine plan? Is it possible that the key to unlocking our immortality lies not so much in the realm of science as it does in our own hearts and minds? In Life Unlimited, author Edward Franco examines the attitudes and beliefs...

At the center of Franco Ferrucci's God: An Autobiography is one tender, troubled character: God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with Earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve...

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ** How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them...

Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future. In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...

«E’ morto da qualche anno. Da quanti? Non lo so. Non voglio saperlo. Per me è ancora qui, si aggira silenzioso fra noi. Il dialogo cominciato settant’anni fa è ancora aperto. Il silenzio dei morti è eloquente. Basta saperlo ascoltare». «Nicola Abbagnano aveva imparato per tempo a rinunciare,...

Il caos è meglio del traffico, funziona da solo. Le notizie oggi viaggiano talmente veloci che quelle brutte si possono anche prevedere. Anarchia è vivere in libertà totalitaria. Il momento più eccitante per un politico è lo spoglio delle schede elettorali. Dio è...

Las mejores anécdotas que desde el regreso de la democracia esconden las paredes de la Casa Rosada, la Meca con la que sueñan todos los políticos. Como todas las casas, la Rosada tiene vida cotidiana. Pero su día a día no se parece al de todos los hogares, porque las decisiones que allí...

Snapshots of Judy-ism: Part 2 has four focuses: one, to bring awareness to the Christian, to the Gentile, and to the Jew of the boundaries and borders (not barriers) upon which the Torahs Seven Laws of Noah and their sixty-six extrapolations expound; two, to bring attention to the rate of voluntary...

In 38 stages, the route of the ancient Via Francigena, from Montgenèvre to Rome. A unique and complete guide book which rediscovers the whole itinerary walked by Europeans for centuries, from Piedmont to Lazio through Lombardy, Emilia and Tuscany. With a detailed everyday description of the route,...

"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery...