Francesca: 997 books
Relive
Media Art Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.
In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...
Print and Pleasure
Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Print and Pleasure tells the story behind the boom in commercial publishing in nineteenth-century North India.How did the new technology of printing and the enterprise of Indian publishers make the book a familiar object and a necessary part of people’s leisure in a largely illiterate society? What...
烈焰雙生
The Fire Sermon
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 1, 2017
烈火降世，雙子誕生，一美一殘、一尊一卑。生為手足，亦為死敵──最親密的，出手最狠。 即便生死相繫，活著的每一天，卻要彼此為敵，永無寧日。滅世烈火過後四百年，倖存者從廢墟中重建…… 初期人們無法受孕，幾乎滅種，然後，雙子降生。他們總是一個完美，一個殘缺。為了確保好種、排除劣種，雙子必須拆散教養，優秀的「阿爾法」日後統領社會；殘缺的「歐米伽」必須上繳稅金、感恩順服。卡珊卓殘缺的不是外在，所以她跟雙生哥哥一直沒分開，直到詭異的「預知力」藏不住，她才被壓著燙上烙印，驅趕出城。但她的阿爾法哥哥沒有就此放過她，反而囚禁她，因為每個阿爾法都害怕有人攻擊他的雙生手足。這是雙生的詛咒，一個病，另一個就衰弱，一個死，另一個必然沒命。囚禁期間，卡珊卓吞忍一切，絕不洩漏自己預見的神祕島──那是歐米伽反叛軍基地，要靠她的預知力穿越迷宮般路徑才能找到。但，那真是歐米伽可以安心居住的藏身處，抑或是殘酷的葬身之地？不給醜怪殘弱留一點餘地的世界，才是真正的末日。【封面設計故事】企鵝出版書封設計大獎得主Alexandra...
Happy and Merry
Seven Heartwarming Holiday Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Just in time for Christmas comes a collection of the very best holiday essays from the bestselling Mother/Daughter writing duo. Whether their shopping for matching reindeer dog sweaters or having second helpings of egg nogg, Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella will keep you warm with their humor...
Worry with Mother
101 Neuroses for the Modern Mama
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anyone who has ever given birth knows that a mother’s worrying is never done. Parenting books give wildly contradictory advice, late-night Googling induces blind panic, and, in today’s ultra-competitive environment, other parents just make you feel worse. This hilarious book, by first-time mother...
I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses
True Stories and Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life.
The New York Times bestselling mother daughter duo are back with more hilarious, witty,...
Bulldozer
Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban...
A due passi dalla meta
Come uscire dalla sedentarietà, mantenersi in forma e nutrire la propria creatività
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 15, 2016
L’autrice di 102 CHILI SULL'ANIMA racconta la sua nuova relazione con il corpo, le scelte strategiche per mantenersi in forma fisica e mentale e il contributo importante che hanno avuto, nella sua evoluzione, la scrittura e le parole con cui si racconta oggi e quelle con cui si raccontava ieri....
Mary
Mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Devotion to Mary has always been one of the defining characteristics of being a Catholic. Marian feasts, prayers, hymns, places of pilgrimage make up the very fabric of a lived Catholic Faith. Dr Francesca Murphy explores Mary's unique role in the incarnation and how it has always assisted the Church...
Mediterranean Enlightenment
Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the...
by Francesca Riario Sforza
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Il romanzo che racconta l’incredibile vita di uno dei personaggi più affascinanti della Storia italiana
«Se scrivessi la mia biografia, stupirei il mondo», ha detto Caterina Sforza. Figlia illegittima di Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Caterina ha dato prova del suo carattere già a dieci anni, quando...
Sidetracked
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick-and you finally reach your...
Destination Paradise
Among the Jihadists of the Maldives
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A breathtaking work of political reportage steeped in a deep understanding of the roots of Islamist terrorism.
Western tourists are not always aware that the Maldives, a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean, is a Muslim country, or that the Republic of Maldives is the non-Arab country with...
by Francesca Porco
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Non è facile staccarsi da una persona che abbiamo amato per anni, nonostante la stessa continui a farci del male. Nessuna donna però dovrebbe provare pietà per un uomo che, pur promettendole amore, l’ha ingannata privandola della dignità e del diritto alla vita. Nel 2013 sono state 177 le vittime...