Giorgio: 880 books

Dopo la fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale lo Chaberton divenne territorio francese e gli italiani abbandonarono il forte. Il ghiaccio in breve tempo si impossessò di tutti i suoi locali interni e per oltre sessant'anni impedì a chiunque di avventurarsi nelle sue viscere. Da qualche anno però l'aumento...

From Giorgio Locatelli, bestselling author of Made in Italy, comes an exquisite cookbook on the cuisine of Sicily, which combines recipes with the stories and history of one of Italy’s most romantic, dramatic regions: an island of amber wheat fields, lush citrus and olive groves, and rolling vineyards,...

Entre todas las teorías para el tratamiento de los trastornos alimentarios, destaca la aproximación estratégica propuesta por Giorgio Nardone. Para ésta, la anorexia, la bulimia y el vomiting son el resultado de un proceso en el que la persona se esfuerza por transformar una situación que permanece...

An Italian ethnobotanist explores the remarkable propensity of wild animals to seek out and use psychoactive substances. • Throws out behaviorist theories that claim animals have no consciousness. • Offers a completely new understanding of the role psychedelics play in the development...

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that...

THIS ISSUE CONTAINS THE ROLE OF BURINS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ART THROUGH TRACE ANALYSIS AT THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITE OF POLESINI CAVE (LATIUM, ITALY) Flavia Venditti, Cristina Lemorini, Magda Bordigoni, Daniela Zampetti, Mario Amore, Antonio Tagliacozzo THE STATE OF THE LATE NEOLITHIC POTTERY...

Per primo è arrivato l’uomo nudo, perfetto, silenzioso, discreto. Poi si è presentata Lucia, e Canio dopo di lei. Infine, Federico. Hanno occupato le sedie disposte a circolo, cinque, una era per me. Cinque sedie al centro di un’enorme stanza al piano superiore di un edificio abbandonato. Pilastri...

Un titolo elisabettiano (ne ebbe di amanti la Regina Vergine) per un tentativo di rotta, di circumnavigazione di un mondo così tondo da prevedere ogni tipo di situazioni, ogni gioco di contrasti: la gloria e la vergogna, l’arroganza e l’umiltà, il martirio e la joie de vivre, l’ascesa e la...

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music listening has remained a special occurrence....

Nel 1550 presso l'editore Torrentino a Firenze uscì la prima edizione delle Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori e scultori italiani da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri di Giorgio Vasari. Quest'opera, di vastissime dimensioni, costituisce ancora oggi un documento di fondamentale importanza...

We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks...

In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas...

In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics, is exemplary in an age when the question...

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana...