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Summary: Brian MacArthur brings together the words of over a hundred men and women, from Moses to Mandela, who changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory./n/n /n/n Gladstone and Disraeli, and Pitt and Fox before them, forged the politics of their age through ferocious verbal combat in the House of Commons. Abraham Lincoln transformed forever the way Americans interpret the Civil War and their national destiny. Churchill, Kennedy and Martin Luther King inspired generations with their hopes and dreams. The world's most effective speakers, argues MacArthur, have always known how 'to move hearts or inspire great deeds, to uplift spirits or cast down enemies'. His definitive collection demonstrates that claim with many rousing examples.

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Summary: La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca
Istorie Fiorentine

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Summary: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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Summary: This book is an entertaining review of a number of popular crazes that occupied the minds of the English during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of its subjects are well known but others, like the passion for the catchphrase "What a shocking bad hat!", now long forgotten. Although around a hundred years old this book's continuing relevance is demonstrated almost daily by the proliferation of fads, crazes and popular delusions in our own time. It is pleasing to reflect that in another century such modern preoccupations as crop circles, alien abductions and satanic ritual abuse will appear as bizarre and absurd as duelling, tulipomania and the South Sea Bubble do now.

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Summary: Macquarrie enters the field at a comfortable pace and leads the reader step by step through the otherwise bewildering panorama of existential philosophers. Macquarrie clears away the fog of obscurity that this subject is so notorious for. Having failed repeatedly to make headway in understanding what the existentialists were getting at, I am now educated to be alert to the personal attacks underway in their literature, and pay attention to the common efforts.
This book is a precious resource for anyone new to the ideas these serious philosophers were struggling with.

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Summary: Newton and Einstein

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Summary: Lineamenti antropologici del medioevo italiano

Summary: Breve guida allo studio della Divina Commedia

Summary: Come coltivare con successo piante e fiori in casa, in giardino e sul terrazzo. 325 varietà illustrate in un manuale pratico e di facile consultazione

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Summary: Paesaggi, umori, incontri, riflessioni, racconti di un viaggiatore sterniano che ripercorre con pietas e humor il vecchio fiume, dalle sorgenti al Mar Nero, ripercorrendo insieme la propria vita e le stagioni della cultura contemporanea, le sue fedi e le sue inquietudini. Un itinerario fra romanzo e saggio che racconta la cultura come esperienza esistenziale e ricostruisce a mosaico le civiltà dell'Europa centrale, rintracciandone il profilo nei segni della grande Storia e nelle effimere tracce della vita quotidiana.

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Summary: Da Carlo di Borbone all'unità d'Italia (1734-1860)

Summary: Born of peasant stock in Gwlyog-Polye, Ukraine, Nestor Makhno became an anarchist after the Russian Revolution of 1905. Sentenced to death for armed struggle, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Liberated in 1917, he organized an army of anarchist resistance against both the Bolsheviks and the White counter-revolutionaries. Throughout his period of struggle, he consistently advocated the creation of anarchist communism in the most difficult and impractical of conditions. Forced to flee by the Bolsheviks, he eventually ended up in exile in Paris. Marginalized and impoverished, in poor health as a result of wounds sustained in fighting against the Whites and the Bolsheviks, and time spent in prisons inside tsarist Russia before the Revolution and in Eastern European prisons en route to exile afterwards, Nestor Makhno wrote occasional essays in self-vindication and in vindication of the peasant insurgent movement that bore his name. Published primarily for fellow-exiles, these essays ranged from the theoretical and analytical, establishing him plainly as a deliberate as well as a visceral anarchist, to challenges thrown out to his enemiesincluding some Jewish anarchists - to produce proof of the alleged anti-Semitism of his movement in revolutionary Ukraine. He remained politically active, contributing to Delo Truda and other papers, and helped create the Organizational Platform Of The Libertarian Communists. Makhno was determined that the next time anarchism, acting in the light of experiences dearly bought, revamped and more disciplined thanks to its Organizational Platform, might reap the rewards proportionate with the commitment and sacrifice of its activists. Nestor Makhno died from tuberculosis on July 25, 1934, aged 44. The essays in this volume date from his period in exile."--BOOK JACKET.

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Summary: Definizione, storia, bibliografia

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Summary: Une encyclopédie des 3000 langues parlées dans le monde

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Summary: I finally got around to reading a yellowed Penquin edition of A Book of One's Own and am pleased to see that Hungry Mind is keeping this alive and available for everyone else who has yet to enjoy it. Essentially, it is a pageant of diarists and their words, with Mallon standing to the side, offering an often witty, always insightful commentary. It is a literate, sensitive dialogue. As a sometime diarist, I fought for awhile with his notion that everyone writes with an audience in mind, that our most private writings are not unselfconscious, that we intend to be found out. But I did not go reading this to locate my own opinions. It is delightful, and with the bibliography neatly situated in the back, it reads silkily, without the interruption of footnotes.

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Summary: Storia documentaria dal Risorgimento alla Repubblica

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Summary: I am a big Henning Mankell/Kurt Wallender fan, but this book was a huge dissappointment. Not only is the plot far-fetched, but Mankell spends half the book (slight exaggeration) extolling the virtues of chairman Mao, to whom Mankell credits the rise of modern China (conveniently forgetting that the elected leaders of Taiwan and Hong Kong accomplished much more in a much shorter time, without the need to murder millions of their citizens, and that China's rise came only after Mao's death, after Ding turned their economy from socialism to capitalism). Mankell's villian is a modern Chinese capitalist, the heroine, his sister, is loyal to the old, Maoist, ways. He even paints Robert Mugabe as a hero in the fight against colonialism!

Please, Henning Mankell, go back to what you are good at and quit trying to turn your novels into boring, preachy, left-wing propaganda works.

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Summary: I had already seen this dictionary in a library, but this Oxford edition is of perfect size and very compact. Illustrations are great! One benefit with respect to photo dictionaries is the uniformity of style and the beauty of illustrations.
This is more than a dictionary, as one can learn enormously from the pictures. Almost anything of what you can think about is illustrated in detail.
Another interesting aspect is the fact that the dictionary is in four languages (English, French, German and Spanish), and it gives also the gender for nouns. The index is very practical for use too.
I hope that later a more global visual encyclopedia will be furnished by this team, covering in greater depth all aspects. But surely such a work would not be as easy to handle as this wonderfully compact dictionary!

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Summary: Saggio sulle origini dellagrande industria moderna in Inghilterra

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Summary: Record of actual experiments in money made by various states of the ancient and modern world, as drawn from their statutes, customs, traties, mining regulations, jurisprudence, history, archeology, coins, nummulary systems and other sources of information

Summary: 1918-1933 Preludio alla dittatura
1933-1939 L'impero di Hitler
1939-1945 Gli anni dell'apocalisse

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Summary: Qual è il momento più adatto per mangiare le fragole? Che differenze d'impiego ci sono fra i carciofi inermi e quelli spinosi? Perché il radicchio di Treviso ha quel bel colore rosso? A queste e a tante altre domande rispondono Gualtiero Marchesi e Fabiano Guatteri mettendosi nei panni del consumatore di oggi che, disorientato davanti all'offerta costante di ogni tipo di frutta e verdura, ha perso la bussola del tempo e delle stagioni. Insieme ci spiegano che se aspettiamo il periodo di maturazione naturale, ne beneficeremo in molti modi: nel gusto, negli apporti nutrizionali, nel risparmio sulla spesa quotidiana. E stando al passo con la natura, avremo anche aiutato i nostri agricoltori a fare bene il loro lavoro.

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Summary: So I'm the first one to tackle this one ?!? So be it: first published in 1955, "Eros" is a cornerstone of modern sociopolitical philosophy. It's a radical work, in the sense that Marcuse goes back to the roots and undertakes the task of carrying Freudian theory to its inescapable implications. (A task, by the way, set down by Herr Doktor Professor himself; if your edition of the Britannica still has the text originally written by Freud in 1926 for the "psychoanalysis" entry, check out his statement that "the future will probably attribute far greater importance to psychoanalysis as the science of the unconscious than as a therapeutic procedure".) As all true masterpieces, "Eros" is not flawless: in the latter part of the book, Marcuse falls into the trap of trying to describe / prescribe how a society freed from repression would organize itself for the common good, rather than self-destructing - and, of course, fumbles royally (a failure he admitted to in his later works). No matter; unless you've read it, you're like Dylan's Mr. Jones, and will have no inkling on how (and, most importantly, why) capitalism reinvented itself from industrial back into financial, much less on what the current "global crisis" is all about. I dare suggest that "Eros" be read back-to-back with Christopher Lasch's "The Culture of Narcissism". In a strange way, they complement each other

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Summary: L'ideologia della società industriale avanzata

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Summary: Hegel e il sorgere della teoria sociale

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Summary: With the Balkan humanitarian crisis shaping U.S. military and foreign policies, it is important to understand that humanitarians comprise a lobby and interest group as much as any "industry." This book points out many of the mistakes of past, and places humanitarian gestures in fascinating perspective. In addition, with the news that UNICEF projects in Bangladesh may be responsible for the deaths of 30 million people, it is so important that we learn the important lesson of this book: Our help often hurts. This book is extremely well written, and a compelling read.

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Summary: Viaggio agli Stati Uniti dell'America settentrionale del conte F. C. Volney
Viaggio nelle contrade di Mesopotamia, di Caldea e di Assiria del colonnello Chesney
Viaggio a Meroe in Etiopia dell'Hoskins

Summary: Eclogae
Georgicon
Aeneidos

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