Maurizio: 532 books
by Maurizio Fei, Lamberto Tomassini
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2016
L’epistolario sul messenger di facebook tra i due autori di Bricconello, l’unico grande insuccesso a fumetti sia del vecchio sia del nuovo secolo.
Il cinema di cartone (animato)
150 anni di magia da Topolino, Braccobaldo e Betty Boop ai Puffi, l’Era glaciale, Shrek, Cattivissimo me…
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Il primo cartone animato, del 1906, porta la firma del fumettista Winsor McCay, che realizzò i quattro minuti della dinosaura Gertie. All'origine del cartoon però c'è un brevetto, registrato a Parigi: il Praxinoscope. L'inventore era Charles Émile Reynaud, l'anno il 1877. Ma 14.000 anni prima,...
Filosofia moderna
Questioni e risposte nelle parole dei filosofi
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 16, 2013
I filosofi del Novecento e dei nostri giorni senza interpretazioni e apparati, ma in presa diretta attraverso i loro scritti e le loro parole. Weber - Freud - Croce - Gentile - Peirce - James - Dewey - Blondel - Bergson - Maritain - Husserl - Frege - Russell - Gödel - Poincaré - Wittgenstein - Popper...
Redeeming The Prince
The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus,...
Thailand
The Worldly Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Tourist brochures and travel guides depict Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions, and a popular monarchy. Historians also contribute to Thailand’s international allure with chronicles of its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison...
by Maurizio Viroli
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli,...
by Maurizio Ferraris
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Positive Realism could be seen as the "sequel" to Maurizio Ferraris' Manifesto of New Realism and Introduction to New Realism. The focus here is the other side of unamendability: a notion, described in his previous books, according to which reality is "unamendable", it cannot be corrected at will. This...
As If God Existed
Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy. But in this book, Maurizio Viroli, a leading historian of republican political thought, challenges this conventional wisdom. He argues that political...
The Bottom of Your Heart
Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most...
by Maurizio Viroli
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
'Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues.' Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. His works, above all The Prince, The Discourses on Livy,...
by Carla Curina Cucchi, Maurizio Grassi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 25, 2016
* Hoy, los profesionales y los directivos están obligados a renovarse en lo referente a competencias y valores, ya que la propia competitividad entre las empresas se está trasladando, cada vez más, del terreno tecnológico-financiero al del conocimiento y la innovación * Gracias a esta obra, usted...
by Maurizio de Giovanni, Luigi De Pascalis, Marco Vichi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2014
10 grandi autori per un noir avvincente e affilato. Roma, 2012. Maria Letizia Pomarici, 25 anni, commessa in un negozio di calzature, rientra a casa verso le 21.00. Il corpo scheletrico e nudo di Chiara Maffei, ragazza introversa e problematica con cui divide il piccolo appartamento al piano terra...
The Liberty of Servants
Berlusconi's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants....
Glass Souls
A Commissario Ricciardi Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The eighth entry in Maurizio de Giovanni's internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series.
In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner,...