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In White Light, a single mother seeks refuge in a religious cult, a young girl hijacks road machinery while her family dresses for church, another family down on their luck finds a gold ingot and the stability of a marriage is threatened by the arrival of a well-travelled ex-lover. O'Flynn takes us...

Number One Bestseller The incredible story of the murder which gripped the nation. When Tom Nevin was brutally murdered in Jack White's Inn on the morning of 19 March 1996 there was widespread mourning for the man known as a 'gentle giant'. And none seemed as grief-stricken as his widow, Catherine....

A filosofia da mente é uma porta de entrada para os estudos filosóficos, pois reedita problemas clássicos. Situando-os no contexto da pós-modernidade, na qual coexistimos com tecnologias que mapeiam o cérebro, constroem robôs e depois criam uma psicologia especial para estudá-los. É nesse...

Pathways of the Very Young Autistic MindBy: Patrick O. Dewees and Meredith Z. Dewees Pathways of the Very Young Autistic Mind depicts the intense but ever-changing interests that children with Asperger’s Syndrome and other high-functioning autistic children explore. Author Patrick O. Dewees and...

Hookup culture is about much more than the quest for pleasure. It offers an easy way out of real communication and lasting relationships. It also teaches us to treat each other as objects for personal satisfaction. Even those who reject the hookup culture can still be negatively affected by it and...

Il riscatto di Capo Rosso è uno dei racconti più noti di O. Henry, che insieme a Mark Twain è il maggiore interprete dello humour americano tra Ottocento e Novecento. Il suo è un umorismo amabile, mai sarcastico, un umorismo da «contafavole», come lo definisce Giorgio Manganelli. Basti dire...

As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women.  The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,”...

美國媒體天后 歐普拉 精選40篇最真情流露的快樂生活提案！ 全心全意生活、洞悉生命智慧， 活出自己的夢想，方能領悟快樂真諦。 「實現別人的夢想，不可能快樂。 請活出自己的夢想， 如此方能確實領悟快樂的意義。」 "You...

Varlet Théo – Le dernier Satyre et autres nouvelles : Un mort dans les dunes : quel désastre pour le tourisme d’une station balnéaire ! Méfiez-vous des croisières à la voile trop exotiques … surtout pour votre lune de miel ! Un satyre, ça vieillit comment ? Que faire...

Let There Be Light By: Michael J. O'Loughlin All that we see occurs through the medium of light, whether as power in electromagnetic radiation, or as brightness visible to the human eye and mind. So pervasive is this illumination of light in our lives that it also has a metaphoric and symbolic...

Le gioie della vita sulla terraferma annoiano in fretta chi ama navigare, perciò il comandante Jack Aubrey e l’amico medico Stephen Maturin, seppur sposato da poco con la bella Diana Villiers, sono ansiosi di riprendere la via del mare. Ma stavolta rimpiangeranno entrambi di aver lasciato troppo...

Una investigación extensa para abordar el pasado argentino. Pacho O'Donnell opone al relato histórico escrito por la oligarquía porteñista vencedora en las guerras civiles decimonónicas, centralista y europeizante, una visión distinta, producto de una investigación extensa y cuidadosa...

Aborrecido por la historiografía liberal argentina, Juan Manuel de Rosas sigue representando aún hoy, para muchos, el atraso, el populismo, el totalitarismo y la barbarie. Aborrecido por la historiografía liberal argentina, Juan Manuel de Rosas sigue representando aún hoy, para muchos,...

«Maggie O’Farrell scava nel profondo di quello che mi piace chiamare “il teatro della famiglia”.» Catherine Dunne «Si inserisce a pieno titolo tra le migliori voci della narrativa inglese.» Literary Review «Chi cerchi l’equivalente britannico di Anne Tyler lo trova in Maggie...