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  • The Cheese and the Worms

    The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    de Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Traducido por John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...
    The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. In the fiftieth anniversary edition of this now-classic ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Malaparte: A Biography

    de Maurizio Serra ...
    Traducido por Stephen Twilley ...
    A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artists and thinkers of his time.Curzio Suckert—best known by his pen name, Malaparte—was not only a literary master but one of the mystery men of twentieth-century letters. The son of a cosmopolitan German ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Professor and the Siren

    de Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ...
    Traducido por Stephen Twilley ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalIn the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.“The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Maonomics

    Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do

    de Loretta Napoleoni ...
    Traducido por Stephen Twilley ...
    The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomics charts the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Charlie Chaplin's Last Dance

    de Fabio Stassi ...
    Traducido por Stephen Twilley ...
    'A day without laughter is a day wasted.'It is Christmas Day when Charlie Chaplin receives a visit from Death. The great actor is 82 years old, but not yet ready to face the final curtain. Desperate to see his teenage son grow up, the actor strikes a deal: if he manages to make Death laugh, he will win an extra year of life. As he awaits his final, fatal encounter, Chaplin composes an impassioned ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Rogue Economics

    de Loretta Napoleoni ...
    What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Terrorism and the Economy

    How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World

    de Loretta Napoleoni ...
    Economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored. In launching military and propaganda wars in the Middle East, America overlooked the war of economic independence waged by Al-Qaeda. The Patriot Act ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Islamist Phoenix

    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

    de Loretta Napoleoni ...
    An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • J

    A Novel

    de Howard Jacobson ...
    **Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris.” —Independent (UK)**Man Booker Prize–winner Howard Jacobson’s brilliant and profound new novel ... Leer más

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  • Collapse

    How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

    de Jared Diamond ...
    In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilizationEnvironmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $8.99 USD

  • This Has Happened

    An Italian Family in Auschwitz

    de Piera Sonnino ...
    Traducido por Ann Goldstein ...
    National Jewish Book Awards Finalist. "Concise, restrained, and tightly written, a look from the inside of the Holocaust out." — Entertainment WeeklyFive years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in 2005 in Italy and first published in English in 2006, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's

    de Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD