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  • Akhenaton

    Figura affascinante e oscura della storia egiziana, Akhenaton è stato oggetto – secondo gli archeologi – di numerosi tentativi di "cancellazione" delle tracce del suo breve regno, eppure, fortunatamente, ne rimangono a sufficienza per raccontare una straordinaria storia di incesto, eresia, androginia e di enorme culto della personalità. Come il celebre Caligola di Camus, Akhenaton di Dorothy ... Leer más

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  • A Childhood in Scotland

    Series series Canongate Classics
    This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the ... Leer más

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  • La maschera di scimmia n.e.

    Chi ha detto che la poesia epica non esiste più? Ha solo cambiato indirizzo: non sta più nell'antica Grecia o nella penisola italica, ma a Sidney in Australia. E non canta più di dame, cavalieri, arme e amori, ma delle atmosfere cupe, dei caratteri ambigui e dei personaggi disperati e violenti del noir, e lo fa con un ritmo teso e veloce come quello di un rap. Jill è una detective specializzata ... Leer más

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  • Crete

    The follow-up to the international bestselling The Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy Porter’s Crete is an astonishing collection that traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon of love.Crete is a heady mix of dark humour, archaeology, breathtaking eroticism, risk-taking and effortless economy. It is a book by a writer at the peak of her highly original powers.This ... Leer más

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  • What a Piece of Work

    Series Libro 75 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter’s third verse novel deepens her work on Akhenaten and the groundbreaking The Monkey’s Mask with a dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney’s iconic asylum Callan Park.It’s 1968, and the sexual revolution, Freudian psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy are all still in full swing. Dr Peter Cyren has a secret as dark as any of his patients’ as he shuttles ... Leer más

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  • On Passion

    Series series On Series
    'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book'A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other ... Leer más

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  • Wild Surmise

    Series Libro 77 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter’s fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an unstable conjunction.Alex is searching for signs of life—in polar ice cores, in volcanic chimneys on the sea floor, on the moons of Jupiter, and within and outside her marriage. An affair with the celebrated astronomer Phoebe exerts an ongoing ... Leer más

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  • Other Worlds

    Series Libro 76 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter’s sixth poetry collection (1997–2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America and the Northern Territory and finishing with a selection of commissioned works—including one for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and one for the collection Dick for a Day.This collection sees a number of emerging themes and images that ... Leer más

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  • Driving Too Fast

    Series Libro 73 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter's fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.From a modern, petrol-headed Carmen and Don José to pairs of polar explorers and silent twins, an intersection of birds and asylums, reflections on vanished love and new desire, Driving Too Fast bursts with vitality, a horsepower rhythm and language that turns on a dime.Includes In ... Leer más

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  • Health, Civilization and the State

    A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

    This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times* the Enlightenment and its effects* ... Leer más

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