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THE SCARLET FLOWER
Children Fiction
Genre:
Sergej Aksakov, Galja Zin’ko (Illustrations)
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Publisher:
Atmosphere Libri
Many of our children have grown up listening to and reading the story of "Beauty and the Beast" not knowing that children in Russia read "The Scarlet Flower". This fairy tale shows the real Russian heart.
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JOHN FALCO
Thriller & Noir
Genre:
Oliviero Sorbini and Jordan Foresi
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Publisher:
Paesi Edizioni
The double life of a wine critic secretly at the head of an international hackers organisation. A story which unfolds between excellent wines and increasingly complicated intrigues: both because of the hidden world in which Falco operates, and because of his personal history.
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WASTE OF TIMELESSNESS AND OTHER EARLY STORIES
Literary & General
Genre:
Anaïs Nin
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Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
Sixteen stories written by the late diarist and novelist in her early twenties manifest the origins of her irony, humor, and feminism.
Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories is a small collection of rare short stories by Anaïs Nin, written before her more known publications. The book is an example of the early work of a person who was later a successful writer.
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A RULEBOOK FOR ARGUMENTS (Fifth Edition)
Philosophy, Logic
Genre:
Anthony Weston
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Publisher:
Hackett
From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before.
A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly, a veritable entry-level book for those seeking information on how to employ critical thinking.
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THE STRUCTURE OF APPEARANCE
Philosophy
Genre:
Nelson Goodman
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Publisher:
Springer
In "The Structure of Appearance" Nelson Goodman aims at describing the world as composed of individuals.
This is perhaps Goodman’s main work, although it is less widely known than, for example, "Languages of Art". It is a constitutional system, which shows how from a basis of primitive objects and a basic relation between those objects all other objects can be obtained by definitions alone.
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FINE BOYS
Literary & General
Genre:
Eghosa Imasuen
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Publisher:
Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s.
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CULTURAL ECONOMICS
Economy & Politics
Genre:
Christiane Hellmanzik
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Publisher:
Agenda Publishing
Through the careful use of case studies, the book explores the core economic considerations such as supply and demand, competition and pricing, alongside macro trends such as globalization, digitalization and the internet, which are changing the industry's business models.
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FACT, FICTION AND FORECAST
Philosophy
Genre:
Nelson Goodman
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Publisher:
Harvard U.P.
Nelson Goodman here explores some problems regarding scientific law and counterfactual conditionals and presents his New Riddle of Induction.
Hilary Putnam described the book as "one of the few books that every serious student of philosophy in our time has to have read."
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OF MIND AND OTHER MATTERS
Philosophy
Genre:
Nelson Goodman
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Publisher:
Harvard U.P.
This volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years.
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DOCTRINE SPEECHES FROM FIVE DECADES (1963-2004)
Religion
Genre:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Publisher:
Fr. Pustet
An insight in Joseph Ratzinger’s thought, spanning from 1963 to 2004. The wide ranging thematic outlook casts light on underlying questions, whose up-to-dateness is made clear on a retrospective.
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MISSION: LONDON
Literary & General
Genre:
Alek Popov
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Publisher:
Ciela
The new Bulgarian ambassador to London is determined to satisfy the whims of his bosses at all costs. Putting himself at the mercy of a shady PR-agency, he is promised direct access to the very highest social circles. Meanwhile, on the lower levels of the embassy, things are not as they should be. With criminal gangs operating in the kitchens, police on the trail of missing ducks from Richmond Park and a sexy Princess Diana impersonator employed as the cleaner, how is an ambassador supposed to do his job? Combining the themes of corruption, confusion, and outright incompetence, Popov masterly brings together the multiple plot lines in a sumptuous carnival of frenzy and futile vanity, allowing the illusions and delusions of the post-communist society to be reflected in their glorious absurdity!
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