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The view from Castle Rock : stories / Alice Munro
New York : Vintage Books, 2008
Abstract: Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.
City of bones / Cassandra Clare
New York : S. Pulse, 2008
Falling man : a novel / Don DeLillo
New York [etc.] : Scribner, 2008
Abstract: Testo originale in inglese
London : Delos book, 2008
Abstract: Testo originale in inglese
Viaggi fantastici / Jules Verne ; introduzione di Piero Gondolo della Riva
Milano : BUR, 2008
Abstract: Se all'avventura e al fascino della scoperta si decidesse di dare un altro nome, allora la scelta sarebbe tanto naturale quanto inevitabile. Il nome che racchiude al proprio interno quel caos di sentimenti diversi eppure simili tra loro è Verne. Jules Verne. Il grande scrittore francese autore di romanzi nei quali viene raccontata la pulsione umana a cercare e conoscere, a raggiungere luoghi inesplorati e a decifrarli. Con il Capitano Nemo o Phileas Fogg, immersi nelle profondità sottomarine o in volo su una mongolfiera, un viaggio nei mondi immaginati e raccontati dal grande Jules Verne. Un'opera che ci permette di scoprire che molte volte esplorazione e narrazione significano la stessa cosa. Il volume contiene: Viaggio al centro della terra; Dalla terra ala luna; Intorno alla luna; Ventimila leghe sotto i mari; Il giro del mondo in ottanta giorni.
New York : Dell, 2008
Abstract: Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steel’s new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy—and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof. Twenty-one-year-old Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel. Her sister Tammy, twenty-nine, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV. In New York, oldest sister Sabrina, thirty-four, is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie, at twenty-six, is an American in Florence, living for her art. One Fourth of July weekend, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family’s annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own lives come together to share one New York brownstone, to support each other, and to pick up the pieces while one of them struggles to heal her shattered body and soul. A bustling house is soon filled with eccentric dogs, laughter, tears, friends, men . . . and the kind of honesty and unconditional love only sisters can provide. But as the four women settle in, they are forced to confront the direction of their respective lives. With unerring insight and compassion, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of sisters who are irrevocably woven into the fabric of one another’s lives. Brilliantly blending humor and heartbreak, she delivers a powerful message about the fragility—and the wonder—of life.
New York : the modern library, 2008
Abstract: C'è un'idea che attraversa l'intera vicenda umana, anche se in modo spesso poco visibile e del tutto marginale rispetto al corso principale della storia, l'idea di nonviolenza. Dalle più antiche religioni fino ai più recenti conflitti bellici, la nonviolenza rappresenta tra gli uomini una strategia alternativa e sempre osteggiata per porre fine alle guerre e superare le ingiustizie sociali. La nonviolenza non è un'inclinazione gentile dell'animo e non è neppure un rassegnato disincanto di fronte all'insensatezza della violenza e gli orrori della guerra. Al contrario è una prassi politica fatta di atti concreti, di non collaborazione, di boicottaggi, di informazione alternativa e soprattutto di instancabile determinazione al dialogo e al confronto. Mark Kurlansky, autore di alcuni grandi bestseller internazionali, racconta in modo sintetico la storia della nonviolenza, un'idea pericolosa che dai testi sacri hinduisti arriva fino a oggi attraversando la sapienza religiosa delle più importanti civiltà e il pensiero dei più grandi filosofi.
A life teaching thinking / Matthew Lipman
Montclair : the Institute for the advancement of philosophy for children, 2008
Abstract: In questo scritto Matthew Lipman racconta, con stile autobiografico, il suo percorso di ricerca filosofico, esistenziale e politico che lo ha condotto a creare il progetto della "Philosophy for Children". Attraverso questo testo si intrecciano ricordi, idee e riflessioni dell'autore che, a partire dall'infanzia sino a giungere all'età adulta, hanno creato il tessuto teorico e pratico del suo impegno filosofico. Si tratta di un'occasione preziosa per approfondire le potenzialità emancipative offerte dalla "Philosophy for Children". "L'obiettivo che mi sono proposto con questo libro non era di scrivere la consueta autobiografia nella quale venisse rivelata per intero l'esistenza - professionale e privata - dell'autore. Mi premeva, piuttosto, realizzare un'opera in cui il lettore potesse trovare argomenti di interesse comune e, nello specifico, i passaggi cruciali nella storia della 'Philosophy for Children'. Solo se possiedi tutte queste cose - idee, ideali, una metodologia appropriata e coraggio - puoi cominciare a distinguere mezzi e fini e poi riunirli così che operino efficacemente insieme come se fossero una cosa sola." Prefazione di Duccio Demetrio. Postfazione di Pino Boero
Gandhi : the man, his people, and the empire / Rajmohan Gandhi
Berkeley : University of California, 2008
Madrid : Nowtilus, 2008
A place of my own : the architecture of daydreams / Michael Pollan
New York : Penguin books, 2008
Strengths based leadership : great leaders, teams, and why people follow / Ton Rath, Barry Conchie
New York : Gallup press, 2008
Abstract: The global economic slowdown will be reversed only when leaders discover and engage the world's most talented business builders, write Jim Clifton, Gallup's chairman and author of the coming Jobs War and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal, Ph.D., a laeding expert on entrepreneurship. Their new book combines Gallup's decades-long study of individual sterenghts and talent with in-depth research on some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs. Teh result is a powerful new way to discover individual entreprenaurial talent.
World without end / Ken Follett
New York, N.Y. : Signet, 2008
Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach
New York : W.W. Norton, 2008
Abstract: The study of sexual physiology, what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better, has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic. The author devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn't Viagra help women, or, for that matter, pandas? In this book she shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place
Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Mr. Darcy's decision : a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice / Juliette Shapiro
New York : Ulysses Press, 2008
Abstract: Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy begin their married life at Pemberley quite blissfully, but it is not long before the tranquility they seek is undermined by social enemies. The formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh makes little attempt to hide disdain for her nephew's wife. She is joined by Caroline Bingley, as sharp tongued and resentful as ever, in the shared amusement of criticizing Elizabeth. However, the new mistress of Pemberley has more pressing matters on her mind -- the fact that she is carrying the Darcy heir being the most pleasant of them.
New York [etc.] : Doubleday, 2008
Pop-up cards and other greetings that slide, dangle & move / with Sandi Genovese
New York ; London : Lark books, 2008
Abstract: Pop-up cards, with their wonderful interactive, dimensional nature, are very popular. This title helps crafters duplicate the techniques at home. It demonstrates how, with 25 projects that makes cards pop. The projects feature a colour shot of the completed card, templates and a page layout that's both approachable and modern.
Slumdog millionaire / Vikas Swarup
New York : Scribner, 2008
Playing for pizza / John Grisham
New York : Dell, 2008
Abstract: Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock--and was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds, Rick finally gets a job--as the "starting "quarterback for the Mighty Panthers . . . of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player--any former NFL player--at their helm. And now they've got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is) and doesn't speak a word of Italian. To say that Italy--the land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and "football americano"--holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement. . . .