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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinasby Umberto EcoISBN 0091823595 (0-09-182359-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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Apocalypse Postponedby Umberto Eco , Robert LumleyISBN 0006548512 (0-00-654851-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Baudolinoby Umberto EcoISBN 0099428393 (0-09-942839-3)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudolino'Book summary:The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century. Baudolino's other gift is for spontaneous but convincing lies, and so his unfolding tale--as recounted in 1204 to a nobleman of Constantinople, while the fires of the Fourth Crusade rage around them--exemplifies the Cretan Liar's Paradox: He can't be believed. Why not, then, make his story as outrageous as possible? In the course of his picaresque tale, Baudolino manages to touch on nearly every major theme, conflict, and boondoggle of the Middle Ages: the Crusades; the troubadours; the legend of the Holy Grail; the rise of the cathedral cities; the position of Jews; the market in relics; the local rivalries that made Italy so vulnerable to outside attack; and the perennial power struggles between the pope and the emperor. With the help of alcohol and a mysterious Moorish concoction called "green honey," Baudolino and his ragtag friends engage in typical scholastic debates of the period, trying to determine the dimensions of Solomon's Temple and the location of the Earthly Paradise. And when the Emperor needs support in his claims for saintly lineage, who but Baudolino can craft the perfect letter of homage from the legendary Prester John, Holy (and wholly fictitious) Christian King of the East? A giddy and exasperating romp, Baudolino will draw you into its labyrinthine inventions and half-truths, even if you know better. --Regina Marler [via]
Baudolino Headerby Umberto EcoISBN 0099462788 (0-09-946278-8)
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Conversations about the End of Timeby Umberto EcoISBN 0149023316 (0-14-902331-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Five Moral Piecesby Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwenISBN 0151004463 (0-15-100446-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essaysby Umberto Eco , William WeaverISBN 0151001367 (0-15-100136-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays'Book summary:Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much more--including himself. [via]
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The Island of the Day Beforeby Umberto Eco , William WeaverISBN 0151001510 (0-15-100151-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of the Day Before'Book summary:In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessels mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his eras obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via] 
James Joyceby Umberto EcoISBN 0091757541 (0-09-175754-1)
Softcover, Random House
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognitionby Umberto EcoISBN 0151004471 (0-15-100447-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition'Book summary:Describing Umberto Eco as a writer is like describing the platypus as an animal. What do readers expect when they see the author's name on a book jacket? It's a tricky question to answer, given his range and versatility: he has produced studies of semiotics, children's books, medieval history, essays on contemporary culture, and, of course, novels--most notably The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before. So first, a word of warning. Anyone familiar with Eco the novelist or essayist might well be dismayed by Kant and the Platypus, for this new book returns to his preoccupations of the 1960s and 1970s--to semiotics and cognitive semantics. As such, it can be a daunting volume (the initial chapter, for example, riffs on the numerous philosophical concepts of being). And second, a word of encouragement: this is a wonderful engagement with the issues of language itself. Even as he beckons the reader into one linguistic thicket after another, Eco always keeps a commonsensical perspective, using stories to explicate the knottiest concepts.
Why did Marco Polo describe the rhinoceros as a type of unicorn? Why couldn't 18th-century observers figure out how to classify the duck-billed platypus? Given a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of a mouse, how easy would it be to identify one if we had never seen one before? These are some of the examples that Eco uses to explore the ways in which we see and describe the world--the ways, that is, in which cultures develop taxonomies. If you want to know "why we can tell an elephant from an armadillo," or why mirrors do not in fact reverse images, this book will tell you. In fact, it will also tell you why you know what I am talking about when I say "this book." Got it? No? Then get it. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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Misreadingsby Umberto EcoISBN 0099308614 (0-09-930861-4)
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Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanaby Umberto Eco , Geoffrey BrockISBN 0151011400 (0-15-101140-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana'Book summary:Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco. [via]
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Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 0099497034 (0-09-949703-4)
Softcover, Random House
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On Literatureby Umberto Eco , Martin McLaughlinISBN 0151008124 (0-15-100812-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Literature'Book summary:In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes.[via]
Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers.More editions of On Literature:
The Open Workby Umberto EcoISBN 0091759013 (0-09-175901-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Textsby Umberto EcoISBN 0091463912 (0-09-146391-2)
Softcover, Random House
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The Search for the Perfect Languageby Umberto EcoISBN 0006863787 (0-00-686378-7)
Softcover, Fontana
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Taking a Backward Stepby Umberto EcoISBN 0099503689 (0-09-950368-9)
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto EcoISBN 0099287153 (0-09-928715-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth. [via]
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