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This special book of sixteen thought-provoking essays includes discussions concerning subjects of particular importance to all people traveling the Mystic Path. The author encourages every reader to see through the illusions of the modern world so as to experience life’s true values.  Among...

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea...

Recalculating the GPS for the Soul takes you on an intimate mother-daughter journey of self-discovery and healing through numerotherapy and metaphysics. Andrea shares the experience of her own twenty-five-year journey integrating numerotherapy and metaphysics, and each chapter is filled with...

In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array of films, journalism, scholarly theories, melodrama, video, and propaganda literature, Slane describes...

What do you get when a preeminent newspaper recruits an opportunistic rug entrepreneur, who will remind you of Donald Trump, as its moral pundit? You get a charmingly crass satiric tell-all inspired by The Ethicist column and real scandals about false memoirs. Narrated by an adult daughter who possesses...

C’è un morto sulla spiaggia con una siringa in vena: Montalbano, con Livia a Vigàta per il Ferragosto, non è convinto si tratti di overdose ma sospetta una montatura. Il racconto 'Notte di Ferragosto' (36 pagine) di Andrea Camilleri è tratto dall'antologia 'Ferragosto in giallo' (Sellerio 2013).

A Vigàta, a ogni cambio di stagione, giunge con la sua mercanzia Ciccino Firrera, detto «Beccheggio». La promessa di Beccheggio è un abito alla moda di una famosa sartoria palermitana, ritoccato su misura, se necessario, da lui stesso, sarto bravissimo. Casa per casa, signora per signora, nubile...

«Secondo me, Vitali sorpassa con la sua levità Guareschi.» La lettura – Corriere della Sera - Antonio D'Orrico «Un grande narratore che, come Piero Chiara e Mario Soldati, sa raccontare la profondità della superficie.» Tuttolibri - Bruno Quaranta Abramo Ferrascini, quello del...

Si festeggia il capodanno del secolo a Vigàta, quello tra il 1899 e il 1900. Al Gran veglione mascherato presenti due famiglie da sempre nemiche, e i loro figli. Mariarosa Petralonga e Manueli d’Asaro sono seduti l’uno accanto all’altra. Sembrano due statue di marmo, mai uno sguardo, mai una...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation...

Dubbio è il soprannome che hanno dato a Ernesto Livera, e si addice bene alla sua indole un po’ tentennante. Di solito, infatti, l’Ernesto si lascia prendere dall’indecisione. Una certezza, però, l’ha molto chiara: dai carabinieri è meglio stare alla larga. Perché di «mestiere» fa il...

"There is something special that happens when you get a group of powerful women in a room . . . and shut the door." --Andrea Wong, President and CEO, Lifetime Networks "There's such a reservoir of power among us when we pool our resources and uplift each other. We are limitless...

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.   During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The...

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe. In Italy, however, Islam has met a unique model of state neutrality, religious freedom and church and state collaboration. This book gives a detailed description of the legal treatment of Muslims in Italy, contrasting it with other European...