Roberto: 2164 books

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense...

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The...

Da genitori di nazionalità diversa si ereditano due anime, che si fondono nell’acquisire la conoscenza del sé. Il frutto della simbiosi è la voce che narra i percorsi di vita di tre generazioni: gli amori, le guerre (spagnola, mondiale, partigiana), le speranze e il vivere quotidiano, raccontati...

Un libro decisamente fuori dagli schemi. Racconta la storia di un gioco, quello delle auto storiche ( da corsa o da collezione), dalla cabina di regia del mensile che l’ha inventato: AutoCapital. Sogni a motore e motori da sogno, che hanno cambiato weekend e vacanze di intere generazioni. “L’attimo...

01 - Yes, I can manage, is the beginning of a series of 6 ebooks, called The 6 "Yes, I can" Keys to success. In the experience of over 20 years as a university teacher, the author has found that these 6 issues do not exist in most University Degree Programs , especially of Sciences. A new professional...

Thriller - romanzo (197 pagine) - Può la morte suonare ottima musica jazz? Può un omicidio sconvolgere la situazione politica italiana? Può l’amore cambiare una vita (in peggio)? Le risposte si trovano nei giorni che anticipano Le idi di luglio. Federico Sica è il pianista di un quartetto...

They called him “Manos de Piedra”—Hands of Stone—and he was one of the greatest boxers of all time. Now Roberto Durán tells his unbelievable story: from the streets of Panama to being crowned one of the “Four Kings,” along with Hearns, Leonard, and Hagler, as he blazed a trail through...

“Zero zero zero” flour is the finest, whitest available. “Zero zero zero” is also the nickname among narcotraffickers for the purest, highest quality cocaine on the market. And it is the title of Roberto Saviano’s unforgettable exploration of how the cocaine trade knits the world into its...

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came...

When two former members of Los Angeles' most nefarious rival gangs decided to unite under one oven, they had no idea that they would be creating an empire. Trap Kitchen is more than just a cookbook. It's a glimpse into the meals that have now become famous in the LA streets thanks to the series of...

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics. Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay...

What is it about Tony Soprano that makes him so amiable? For that matter, how is it that many of us secretly want Scarface to succeed or see Michael Corleone as, ultimately, a hero? What draws us into the otherwise horrifically violent world of the mafia? In The Mafia, Roberto M. Dainotto explores...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka’s fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols?...

How many times have you wished to find a thought for your loved one? “One year of love”: On the wings of your heart, of imagination, of passion, of hope, of joy, ... for each day of the year a sentence to dedicate to your love.