Cortese: 28 books

In the fourth edition of Provocateur, sociologist Anthony J. Cortese offers an up-to-date, critical analysis of modern advertising. Though we often hear that we live in a period of unprecedented gender and racial equality, both racism and sexism persist in a most telling area—the ads with which...

GianLorenzo Cortese, a gamer who traveled from a distant future to our present, is writing his memoirs. In The Emperors Legacy, he dives deeper into the future of gaming with all its glamour and danger. GianLorenzos future games are as intense and involving as real life. The game engine is a machine...

A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference...

How individuals and communities can profit from local investing In the wake of the financial crisis, investors are faced with a stark choice: entrust their hard-earned dollars to the Wall Street casino, or settle for anemic interest rates on savings, bonds, and CDs. Meanwhile, small businesses...

What were the women of the Bible really like?Eve’s smooth-talking snake. Delilah’s haircut.Jezebel ‘s bad rap. Mary’s family drama. Themen had their say, but a story always has twosides if we just know where to look.

When Melodie Baine takes the elevator, why does it entirely leave the building? Why does a Wizard of Oz head keep appearing in Grace Hearthstone’s bed- room? Why would Purvis Waddell want to exorcise his teenage daughter? At New York’s most exclusive address, celebrity residents are dying in horrible ways, and soon the media is calling it Freak House.

This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives.

Following on from his hugely successful Justinguitar.com Beginner’s Course and his songbooks for Guitar, celebrated Guitar tutor Justin Sandercoe has created a complete and easy-to-follow guide to note reading for guitarists. This book is specially written for beginner guitarists who want...

From the precocious adolescent seducing Father Dauphinais while confessing her sins, to the legendary L.A. photographer touring the environs of the Hotel Paradiso with Henry L. Mencken, Zoe’s account is one woman’s erotic and spiritual journey through the last half of the 20th century, as she...

With the dot-com bubble in full swing, a high-flying software tycoon can't quite decide if the man he killed has taken over his body or he's just insane. Or maybe the answer is in a 1930s sci-fi novel that isn't a novel at all, but an alien instruction manual.

When you’re thirty, love is everything, while treachery inevitably opens a door into the void. Doll – the nickname she has chosen because she hates her name – spends her time daydreaming, and spying on the life of her neighbours across the road, to fill the void in her own. The girl is fragile...

Il titolo dell'opera, Bise Normande, implica un viatico romantico, simbolico ed evocativo: il nome di un vento che trasporti questi componimenti in fuga, verso altri territori, altre culture, lettori, autori. All'interno di Bise Normande (vento di tramontana che coinvolge diverse regioni, dalla Savioia,...

Chi sono le "anime smarrite" e perché cerchiamo di tenerle il più possibile lontane da noi invece che tentare di aiutarle? Caterina è una giovane infermiera che presta servizio presso Villa Ebe, una casa di riposo per anziani che sorge solitaria su una collina come un eremo. Il rapporto che ha...

L’Opera costituisce un commento autorevole ed approfondito alla normativa civile in materia di stranieri : costituisce uno strumento utilissimo per la comprensione e l’applicazione delle norme in materia di circolazione , ingresso e soggiorno degli stranieri, apolidia , protezione internazionale...