TITLES
WITTGENSTEIN CONVERSATIONS, 1949-1951
Philosophy
Genre:
O. K. Bouwsma
Edited by J. L. Craft and R. E. Hustwit
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Publisher:
Hackett
Offers insights into what Wittgenstein was like as a human being. This title presents Wittgenstein's outlook on morality and religion, and reveals some of his personal problems.
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CLIMATE STORIES
Current Issues
Genre:
Gianluca Lentini
Author:
Publisher:
Hoepli
How and how often has climate changed over the past five thousand years?
Ever since the Ice Age, climate changes have affected the development of cultures and civilisations.
This book tells the complex and changing story of Climatology, a science as old as human civilisation.
Starting from ancient Mesopotamia, where special climatic conditions led to the first flourishing civilisations, it goes all the way to the latest research on the climate of far away planets, while never averting eyes from the fact that today, climatology is at the centre of the political and economic debate on global warming: while climate triggered human development (e.g. it was thanks to warmer temperatures that agriculture was made possible), now it is man who determines climate
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THE ABSENT'S PLACE
Literary & General
Genre:
Francesco Puccio
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Publisher:
Marlin
What if the place that has always been ours, that place next to the one we love, would end up being taken by someone else?
Absence hovers on each page of this book like a fog that gradually clears, disappearing at the end, timed by the writing of a subtlety becoming to fragile things.
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THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF COLONIALISM
History
Genre:
Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy
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Publisher:
Bristol U.P. - Policy Press
This pioneering text provides a concise and accessible resource that introduces key readings, builds connections between ideas and helps students to develop informed views of colonialism as a force in shaping the modern world.
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MY GREAT TIME TRAVEL
Children Fiction
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Written by Jó Rivadulla
Illustrated by Pupi Herrera and Jó Rivadulla
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Publisher:
AZ
Time travel is an attractive topic for authors and readers of all ages. This story adds a new touch to the classic motif a new look: sometimes, traveling to the past and the future can also mean the beginning of a new present.
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