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  • The Useful Spectacle: The Origin of Popular Science

    by Amedeo Pitzoi ...
    "There's no better way to open the mind than curiosity."— Abbot PlucheToday, everyone enjoys the results of science… but it took so long to get there.Cicero was the first to translate scientific language so that his fellow citizens could understand it.Then, Galileo used dialogue to try convincing the Aristotelians that Earth moved. He failed, but his example lived on and inspired other scientists ... Read more

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  • Pagan and Christian Rome

    It has been contended, and many still believe, that in ancient Rome the doctrines of Christ found no proselytes, except among the lower and poorer classes of citizens. That is certainly a noble picture which represents the new faith as searching among the haunts of poverty and slavery, seeking to inspire faith, hope, and charity in their occupants; to transform them from things into human beings; ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gambino Hit On Pizza Shop Owner Pietro Alfano Greenwich Village February 1987 The Pizza Connection

    The Pizza Connection was a conspiracy involving the Sicilian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra in the United States and pizza parlor owners and employees. It was a virtual international heroin racket with a splendidly contrived front. Pietro Alfano, an Oregon, Illinois pizza shop owner was just one of the men involved in the vast criminal organization. On February 11, 1987 Alfano was one of two men shot ... Read more

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  • The Global Airline Industry

    Series series Aerospace Series
    Extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling textbook, provides an overview of recent global airline industry evolution and future challengesExamines the perspectives of the many stakeholders in the global airline industry, including airlines, airports, air traffic services, governments, labor unions, in addition to passengersDescribes how these different players have contributed to ... Read more

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  • Naples 1343

    The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia

    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families’ power in the 14th century.1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several sailors and their captain. The attackers returned to the ... Read more

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  • The Unfinished Dollhouse

    A Memoir of Gender and Identity

    No mother is prepared for the moment when a child comes out to her as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate memoir, she recounts her experience as the mother of a transgender child.The central metaphor of The Unfinished Dollhouse tells the story: on Frankie's fourth birthday, her parents Michelle and Rob ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the History of Naples since the Late Middle Ages

    This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of Naples—a city of profound historical depth and multifaceted complexity situated at the geographic and cultural crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean. Spanning from the Late Middle Ages to the present day, it examines the intricate relationships between power, society and urban transformation that have shaped its distinctive ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)

    Series Book 27 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Though he died young in relative obscurity, the works of Amedeo Modigliani are now regarded as some of the most important canvases of the twentieth century. Modigliani’s innovative portraits and nudes are characterised by their asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures and monumental use of line. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to ... Read more

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  • Amedeo

    The True Story of an Italian’s War in Abyssinia

    War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost.This is the story of Amedeo Guillet – an Italian calvary officer who was sent out to Abyssinia as part of Mussolini’s army to establish and command a troupe of 2,000 Spahis – or Arabic calvary. He met and fell in love with Khadija – a beautiful ... Read more

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  • INDO-EUROPEAN AND ITS SPEAKERS

    A search into Indo-European and into the Historical (Cultural, Biological, Geographical) Anthropology of its Speakers

    This book, Indo-European And Its Speakers, is about some old European and Middle Eastern extant words, not about the artificial “Proto-Indo-European language” [PIE], or a Dictionary of its roots, or the history of researches and theories the geographically defined Indo-European languages. It is a diary of original, sporadic excursions, researches, and critiques in the field of postmegalithic Proto ... Read more

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  • Social Virtue Epistemology

    This collection of 19 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time and written by an international team of established and emerging scholars, explores the place of intellectual virtues and vices in a social world. Relevant virtues include open-mindedness, curiosity, intellectual courage, diligence in inquiry, and the like. Relevant vices include dogmatism, need for immediate certainty, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Shell and Spatial Structures

    Proceedings of IWSS 2023

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of shell and spatial structures, as presented by leading international researchers at the 2nd Italian Workshop on Shell and Spatial Structures (IWSS), held in Turin, Italy on June 26-28, 2023. The conference was meant to give an overview on experimental and theoretical studies, analysis methods and approaches for ... Read more

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