The Wall of the Earth

The Wall of the Earth
Author: Giorgio Caproni
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1992
Genre: Italian poetry
ISBN: 9780920717530

"The work of Giorgio Caproni has been translated into French, German, and Chinese, among others, but this collection is his first book-length English publication. His works are finely tuned to modern man's preoccupations with existence in a world deprived of certainties (for example, the existence or inexistence of God). Most are touched by experiences such as the Second World War and its atrocities, the Resistance Movement, or the death of loved ones, events that represent the conviction of a subject that will do its best to survive all adversity, uncompromised" -- from the Introduction by Pasquale Verdicchio

Lines of Light

Lines of Light
Author: Daniele Del Giudice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Heldenplatz

Heldenplatz
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: Oberon Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781840029956

Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria’s most controversial authors. Bernhard wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler’s Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. ‘Heldenplatz’ is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss. In Heldenplatz, Bernhard's final play, he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings, along with most of their illusions.

Documenting the Roman Army

Documenting the Roman Army
Author: J. J. Wilkes
Publisher: University of London Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

Ten papers, resulting from a colloquium in honour of Margaret Roxan held at the Institute of Classical Studies in 2002, examine the written record of the Roman army from archaeological and historical perspectives. Contents: The commissioning of equestrian officers (A R Birley); An Augustan officer on the Roman army: Militaria in Velleius Paterculus and some inscriptions (D B Saddington); Having been a soldier' (Lawrence Keppie); Der Kaiser als Herr des Heeres (Solobodan Dusanic); Auxiliary deployment in the reign of Hadrian (Paul Holder); Auxiliaries, legionaries and the operation of Hadrian's Wall (David J Breeze); Ostraca and the Roman army in the eastern desert (Valeries A Maxfield); Documenting the Roman army at Carlisle (R S O Tomlin); The future of Roman military diplomata (Peter Weiss) .

One World

One World
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0300128525

Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.

Singer and His Critics

Singer and His Critics
Author: Dale Jamieson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781557869081

This is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Singer, one of the leaders of the practical ethics movement, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

Colombia

Colombia
Author: Francis Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1825
Genre: Colombia
ISBN:

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Angela Nuovo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004208496

This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Author: Mauro Mancia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2007-04-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 8847005507

Recent scientific studies have brought significant advances in the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. This book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: emotions and the right hemisphere, serotonin and depression. It is a unique tool for professionals and students in these fields, and for operators of allied disciplines, such as psychology and psychotherapy.