Ugo: 201 books

As we dig, drill, and excavate to unearth the planet’s mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams, and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being squandered in just centuries–or sometimes...

When an American military cargo plane carrying top secret medical supplies hits a lightning storm off the coast of Nigeria, the chief pilot, Captain O’Riley, and his copilot decide to dump their cargo and save their lives. As cargo MH-XZ424G hurtles through the thunder ridden night towards the densely...

“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies...

Peter's crashing life is disrupted when a wizard from Wizzio accosts him, bearing an apocalyptic warning. The Great Meld approaches and Earth will not survive. He hands Peter an ancient heirloom which is the only key to Earth's survival. Peter must now journey across worlds to stop the Great Meld...

Un giovane di buona famiglia è caduto vittima di un’atroce vendetta che lo sottoporrà alla più tremenda delle prove. Il peggiore degli incubi per lui si è avverato e, seppur inizialmente incredulo, dovrà riconoscerlo e affrontarlo. Durante le obbligate ferie estive l’Ispettore Angelo Ardoino...

Ispirandosi alla famosa Disfida di Barletta, gli autori dei dodici racconti finalisti esplorano le mille sfide della vita, tappe fondamentali dell'esistenza di ogni essere umano, in una raccolta dal carattere fortemente introspettivo. L'essenza umana riscoperta nelle scelte di vita, una raccolta stupefacente,...

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism nexus. Drawing on a wide range...

A precise description of the anatomy and structure of the human hippocampus together with a survey of the current concepts about its functions and their clinical implications. Chapters on vascularization and three-dimensional MRI round off the study, making this of interest to everyone working in...

Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically...

The Cyrenaic school of philosophy (named after its founder Aristippus' native city of Cyrene in North Africa) flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE and whose importance was much recognized in ancient times. Ugo Zilioli's book provides the first book-length introduction to the school in...

«Questo volume raccoglie tre sceneggiature (corredate dai materiali scelti a suo tempo dall’autore) di Pier Paolo Pasolini, ambientate nelle borgate romane: Accattone, Mamma Roma e Ostia (realizzata a quattro mani con Sergio Citti, che del poeta era «consulente linguistico» per i romanzi e i film,...

The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and...

Rather than focusing on the contributions of theoretical physicists to the understanding of the subatomic world and of the beginning of the universe - as most popular science books on particle physics do - this book is different in that, firstly, the main focus is on machine inventors and builders...

Most of Nigeria has become a wasteland. Scores of men, women, and children have been slain by the five day sweep of a deadly viral plague. Anarchy reigns. The society has failed. Law and order and basic human amenities have become a distant utopian concept to the remnants of the scourging. But it...