Sergio: 1038 books

Non è certamente un caso, se oggi la Libia è, insieme alla Siria, il Paese più violento e caotico del Mediterraneo. Nella Quarta sponda, Sergio Romano ne ripercorre la storia e ce ne illustra i tanti volti. Il primo è quello delle due province ottomane, alla periferia dell’Impero, quando l’Italia...

While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered is how the new government will...

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference-he was invited following the publication of his most recent...

Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than thirty travel guides on Cuba available today.Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending...

A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his life No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the...

Si la vida no se cuenta, da la impresión de que no existe, de que es apenas un lapso de tiempo que transcurre. En estas Memorias, edición revisada de su mítica Autobiografía precoz, Sergio Pitol evoca y reconstruye viajes, libros, primeras amistades; se convierte en su propio cartógrafo, su...

The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to...

The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy...

Il romanzo racconta una storia verosimile articolata negli ultimi dieci anni, dal 1600 al 1610, che Galileo Galilei trascorre tra la sua residenza a Padova e Venezia. Scomodando i reali personaggi che hanno convissuto con il Maestro, viene introdotto un marchingegno per certificare alcune sue teorie...

This is the 2nd edition of The Fire of His Holiness. Sergio Scataglini unflinchingly calls each of us to die to ourselves and be resurrected to an entirely new dimension of life in Christ where 98% purity is not enough. He challenges us to walk away from the "acceptable" Christian life,...

“If baseball is really a metaphor for life, then Kill the Ámpaya -- Dick Cluster's wonderful collection of Latin American baseball stories -- is an astonishing record of its beauty and coarseness, redemption and tragedy. You don't have to be a baseball fan to appreciate these stories, each one...

Pitigrilli è Pitigrilli, pubblicato nel 2003, è esaurito in edizione cartacea e lo proponiamo ora in formato digitale, certi di offrire uno strumento interessante agli studiosi . Autore di numerose pubblicazioni, tra cui diversi pregevoli lavori sulla Beata Angela da Foligno, don Sergio Andreoli,...

Prezioso strumento per lo studioso o semplicemente per il lettore curioso di conoscere meglio lo scrittore Pitigrilli, al secolo Dino Segre, questo libro, ricco di citazioni, note, appunti, indicazioni bibliografiche, testimonia l’attenzione partecipe con cui don Sergio Andreoli, canonico di Foligno,...

Sergio Valzania, storico della guerra, racconta cosa successe tra ateniesi e spartani nella guerra peloponnesiaca per l'egemonia e come Sparta e Atene rovinarono entrambe.