Alessandra: 470 books

Katzen auf geheimer Mission, Hitlerklone und die Area 51. Aleister Crowley, Organraub und der Slenderman. Urbane Legenden und Verschwörungstheorien werden erzählt, hinterfragt, geglaubt – und manchmal verändert. Wie lautet die Wahrheit und welche Geschichten werden nur als solche verkauft? Keilschrifttafeln...

An Samhain sind die Grenzen zwischen den Welten besonders durchlässig. Doch nicht nur Bedrohliches wagt sich an den Übergängen hindurch. Zarte Bande zwischen mythischen Gestalten und sonderbaren Wesen werden geknüpft. Der Funke springt über, wenn Hexen ihre sanften Seiten entdecken und Menschen...

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal...

Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth...

​​​​​​​​​​​​Humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest both from logistics academics and practitioners as a result of the dramatic increase in both natural and man-made disasters. The impact on affected populations can be all the more limited as much as the logistics...

College guides written by students for students. Mount Holyoke College Students Tell It Like It Is This insider guide to Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics,...

This book provides a broad set of information and data on the rise of private actors in the space sector, organized into different topics covering the various trends that have shaped the space sector during the last decade. The book, written in a descriptive fashion, concludes with recommendations for future analytical research on the topic.

Come si può crescere da adulti? Come si fa a trovare la forza e il coraggio di farlo? Quali sono gli strumenti professionali utili per supportare le persone in questo percorso? Un volume per tutti coloro che per mestiere e passione affrontano la complessa e meravigliosa sfida di supportare lo sviluppo...

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs...

‘This challenging and ambitious book captures the variety and richness of contemporary clinical developments in the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in relation to work with young adults. It sets these developments in lytic and systemic principles that are the centra up over their long and distinguished...

Questo ebook raccoglie il lavoro di studio e schedatura di 75 edifici alti costruiti a Milano a partire dal 1923 fino ad oggi. Trentasei brevi saggi narrano le vicende degli edifici alti milanesi, dalle forme primordiali ai contemporanei grattacieli. La struttura urbana di Milano dall’inizio del...

Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations as the heroines of novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But their real counterparts are now becoming better understood as active contributors to Russia’s varied cultural landscape. This collection...

Questa doppia biografia tratteggia le vite di due delle più famose protagoniste del Rinascimento italiano, Isabella d’Este marchesa di Mantova e Lucrezia Borgia duchessa di Ferrara, che divengono cognate in virtù del terzo matrimonio di Lucrezia con Alfonso d’Este. Erede di una grande dinastia,...

A cinquecento anni dallo svelamento della volta Sistina gli affreschi più celebri di Michelangelo non cessano di stimolare nuove e inedite letture. Secondo un taglio iconografico e iconologico aggiornato all'indagine contestuale, questo volume raccoglie i contributi più significativi degli studiosi...