Claudio: 902 books

Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathered words that I can barely understand, gnats droning...

From one of Europe’s most revered authors, a tale of one man’s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity’s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio Magris’s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every...

Per chi ha amato la trilogia di Claudio Vergnani, Vergy è un personaggio familiare, un uomo che unisce la forza bruta della violenza a inaspettati slanci di filosofia. Un po’ il veterano, il saggio del gruppo. Ma è sempre stato così? Cosa è successo e cosa ha vissuto per diventare quello che...

In una città consegnata all’anarchia, preda di grottesche e letali bande criminali, logorata da cambiamenti climatici e rassegnata a un futuro dove la speranza è il lusso di pochi, i due protagonisti – Claudio e Vergy – tirano a campare, cercando di resistere al logorio di una vita priva di...

As fronteiras da fantasia medieval são exploradas em quatorze contos, quatorze visões do mesmo mundo, quatorze histórias de aventura, guerra, tragédia, magia, amor e traição. Ao lado de cavaleiros e ladrões, soldados e menestréis, vigaristas e bárbaros, somos levados em uma jornada por Arton,...

Una famiglia, con un bambino piccolo, lascia il lavoro, chiude casa per cinque mesi e se ne va dall’altra parte del mondo per un viaggio speciale. È l’avventura di Claudio, Myriam e Lieto, che hanno percorso 23 mila chilometri di Australia con un camper, cambiando stile di vita. Ad accoglierli...

In questo numero: Saggi e interviste Occulto e soprannaturale visti con gli occhi di Asimov – Tea C. Blanc. Speciale Kaiju – Omar Serafini. Ci sei o sci-fi Rubrica umoristica – Graziano Delorda e Michela De Domenico. I pulp: storia di una rivoluzione cartacea – Zeno Saracino. La fantascienza...

In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...

Comprehensive and clinically relevant, the 3rd Edition of Critical Care Nephrology provides authoritative coverage of the latest advances in critical care procedures for patients with renal diseases or disorders. Using common guidelines and standardized approaches to critically ill patients, this...

El origen de este libro es una conversación en la que el eminente historiador Friedrich Katz y su amigo y colega de muchos años, el antropólogo Claudio Lomnitz, dialogan detenidamente sobre el Porfiriato y la Revolución. La plática fue grabada para una serie de programas que transmitió el IMER...

You cannot hide from radioactivity. Even the book you are holding is slightly radioactive, but there are more serious risks. Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature. It is a process that has been harnessed to provide wide and...

On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed...

Shamandura Generation is an exhilarating portrait of Sharm el Sheikh's diving community. Between boats, corals and bars the characters of Shamandura Generation live and dive forgetting about their age in a surreal Egypt Riviera and a marvelous Red Sea. A real 'Cult Book' among the Red Sea divers. "This...

The most controversial area in competition policy is that of exclusionary practices, where actions are taken by dominant firms to deter competitors from challenging their market positions. Economists have been struggling to explain such conduct and to guide policy-makers in designing sensible enforcement...