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A Book of Numbers is a small collection of poetry dealing with the subject of numbers. A small experimental booklet meant to be interpreted loosely by the reader.

This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class. Just a handful of years into the new millennium,...

Sea Foam is a short book of poems about life and death, heaven and hell, love, with some experimental poetry mixed in.

Il commissario Mariani è salito al Centro di rieducazione cardiovascolare per fare visita alla madre Emma. Come altre volte, fa due passi nella zona. Non sentendo abbaiare una cagna che di solito gli faceva festa, occhieggia attraverso la siepe e la vede insanguinata. Spinge il cancello ed entra....

Forester was the son of an English gentleman, who had paid some attention to his education, but who had some singularities of opinion, which probably influenced him in his conduct toward his children. Young Forester was frank, brave, and generous, but he had been taught to dislike politeness so much,...

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. “A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins “A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting...

"In the diaries [Rilke] kept from 1898 to 1900, now translated for the first time . . . the overall impression is that of a genius just coming into his own powers."—Boston Phoenix In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was...

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic...

The Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than 7.000 of his letters have survived. One of his best known collection is Rilke's Letter to a young woman, published in 1930. This collection gathers several letters that Rilke wrote to Lisa Heise between...

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories...

Existentialism is a movement in philosophy and literature that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice. It holds that, as there is no God or any other transcendent force, the only way to counter this nothingness (and hence to find meaning in life) is by embracing existence. The...

A new, expanded edition detailing Niagara-on-the-Lake’s ghostly inhabitants. Long-dead British soldiers, grieving lovers, lingering spirits — Niagara-on-the-Lake’s long and colourful history is kept alive by ghosts of its past. Through historical investigation and eyewitness accounts,...

When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam’s Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh’s study reveals the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history.

Il "Memoriale" che qui si presenta e si traduce, in lingua italiana e sarda, raccoglie le memorie inviate da Giovanni Maria Angioy al Governo francese nel corso del 1799, allo scopo di sensibilizzarlo verso la causa rivoluzionaria sarda e chiederne l’aiuto militare per liberare la Sardegna...