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Oriana Fallaci
The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century, an inspiring and often controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage and established the "La Fallaci" style of interview.
Oriana Fallaci is known for her uncompromising vision. To retrace...
Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new...
by Edgar Morin, Stephane Hessel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
An incisive political tract that calls for a return to humanist values: equality, liberty, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out...
by Joel Dor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
About this Book...
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the...
Guapa
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East
Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval....
The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness....
In the Distance with You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
ABOUT THIS BOOK...
This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, has lived a mysterious, ascetic life...
The Quickening
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But...
Hitler, My Neighbor
Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor.
Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author,...
Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers
No More Unnecessary Biopsies, Radical Treatment or Loss of Sexual Potency
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Every year almost a quarter of a million confused and frightened American men are tossed into a prostate cancer cauldron stirred by salespeople representing a multibillion-dollar industry. In this flourishing business, the radical prostatectomy is still the most widely recommended treatment option....
Our Man in Tehran
The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis & the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked w/the CIA to Bring Them Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
For the true story behind Argo, read Our Man in Tehran
The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved...
The Elixir of Immortality
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A mesmerizing debut novel that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history seen through the beguiling members of the Spinoza family
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Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, after...
Mincemeat
The Education of an Italian Chef
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen.
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In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part...
Tregian's Ground
The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The significance of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to our musical canon is well known; the remarkable story of its copyist and compiler, Francis Tregian, less so. Born into Cornish Catholic nobility and plumb into the choppy waters of the Elizabethan Age, he must rely on his surpassing skill as a musician...