Aa Vv : 25 books

Quello che avete tra le mani è il secondo volume dei Penny Steampunk, frutto di immani sforzi mentali dei due co-ideatori Roberto Cera e Anna Pullia e dell’indispensabile aiuto di amici, parenti e occasionali passanti impietositi.

My object in writing these hints on Conjuring is for the benefit of amateurs to promote lively and entertaining amusement for the home circle and social gatherings. My large experience enables me to explain and simplify many of the best tricks and illusions of the art. I present the key to many of...

Questa pubblicazione si pone l’obiettivo di ripercorrere lo scenario del Risorgimento nazionale nell’ottica particolare che parte dalla terra e dalla gente della Pianura veronese, rendendola protagonista di una microstoria che andrebbe altrimenti completamente perduta nel calderone della storia...

INDICE CAPITOLO I - SALUTE E SICUREZZA  La tutela della salute e della sicurezza del lavoratore  I destinatari delle norme  I soggetti tutelati e i rischi  A chi si applicano le norme in materia di salute e sicurezza?  Che cosa si intende per "lavoratore"?  Il datore di...

Nizza (Nice) 14 luglio 2016 Ciò che accadde è noto a tutti. Perché accadde immaginiamo resterà oscuro per sempre. Ciò che sappiamo è l'emozione che abbiamo provato. Ciò che sappiamo è l'emozione che vogliamo trasmettere, testimoniare, affinché resti un piccolo pensiero per gli innocenti...

We must begin with a strong and constant resolution to give ourselves wholly to God, professing to Him, in a tender, loving manner, from the bottom of our hearts, that we intend to be His without any reserve, and then we must often go back and renew this same resolution.----St. Francis de Sales

I am setting myself a task which some people would call very ambitious; others would call it by a name not quite so polite; and a considerable number would say it was positively absurd, accompanying their criticism with derisive laughter. Having discussed the possibility of teaching the art of writing...

According to Symmes's Theory, the earth, as well as all the celestial orbicular bodies existing in the universe, visible and invisible, which partake in any degree of a planetary nature, from the greatest to the smallest, from the sun, down to the most minute blazing meteor or falling star, are all...

The snow was falling, and the Cat's fur was stiffly pointed with it, but he was imperturbable. He sat crouched, ready for the death-spring, as he had sat for hours. It was night—but that made no difference—all times were as one to the Cat when he was in wait for prey. Then, too, he was under no...

From early days when the ancients showed their appreciation of fine pottery and old glassware by burying “these most esteemed possessions” with the dead, fine china has been synonymous with culture and breeding. With our ancestors for generations we share the tradition that, just as first editions...

In the following pages certain things supposed to be of comparatively modern origin have been traced back to the remotest historic ages of the world; as a consequence, it follows that the modern symbolical meaning given to such things is sometimes only one acquired in subsequent times, and not that...

Icy est la danse macabre des femmes toute hystoriee & augmentee de nouueaulx personnaiges auec pluseurs dis moraulx en latin et francoys qui sont enseignemens de bien viure pour bien mourir Lex metuenda premit mortales. omnibus vna Mors cita sed dubia. nec fugienda venit. Circuit et surgens...

OPHIOLATREIA, the worship of the serpent, next to the adoration of the phallus, is one of the most remarkable, and, at first sight, unaccountable forms of religion the world has ever known. Until the true source from whence it sprang can be reached and understood, its nature will remain as mysterious...

The sky is dull and grey, Piercing and chill the blast, Each step resounds on the frosty ground, Winter is come at last. Mamma sits by the fire Her little ones round her knees. "How cosy we are, Mamma," they cry, "Tell us something, if...