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  • Capote, Truman: Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's
    Desayuno En Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's
    by Truman Capote
    ISBN 9500716453 (950-07-1645-3)
    Softcover, Sudamericana

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  • Camus, Albert: El Extranjero
    El Extranjero
    by Albert Camus
    ISBN 9500423693 (950-04-2369-3)
    Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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  • El Senor De Los Anillos
    by J. R. R. Tolkien
    ISBN 9505470673 (950-547-067-3)
    Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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    Buy with confidence.A+ Customer Service! Order this today or browse our incredible selection of jewelry, books and more. [via]

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  • Flying High America
    by Jim Wark
    ISBN 8854400033 (88-544-0003-3)
    Hardcover, Random House Inc

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    This book takes a pictorial look at the nation from above, with dazzling full-color photographs of each region of the United States of America. These territories continue to reach out to settlers and travelers, challenging those who would try to conquer its mountains, rivers, and canyons as well as those who try get to know its patchwork quilt of people and regional cultural variations. The reader takes a thrilling journey over mountains, deserts, mighty rivers, swaths of farmland, and the great cities and landmark skyscrapers, all shown from an aerial vantage point. The design of the pages is carefully planned to bring out the panoramic qualities of the exceptionally beautiful photographs. The reduced album format of the book has been chosen to emphasize the wide-angle approach of the pictures. [via]

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  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt
    ISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
    Softcover, Harpercollins

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    Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe

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    Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, author and co-author of this season's bestselling quirky hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, graciously answered the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.

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  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
    ISBN 006089637X (0-06-089637-X)
    Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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    Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe

    Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Answer The Amazon.com Significant Seven

    Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, author and co-author of this season's bestselling quirky hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, graciously answered the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.

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  • Freakonomics Intl Pb: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt
    ISBN 0061131326 (0-06-113132-6)
    Hardcover, Harpercollins

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  • Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
    by J. K. Rowling
    ISBN 1417751398 (1-4177-5139-8)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) [Paperback] by Rowling, J.K. [via]

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  • Harry Potter Y El Misterio Del Principe / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    by J Rowling
    ISBN 1417729872 (1-4177-2987-2)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort society, The Order of the Phoenix, begins meeting again. [via]

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  • The Historian
    by Elizabeth Kostova
    ISBN 0316154547 (0-316-15454-7)
    Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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    a novel about Vlad the Impaler and the modern world [via]

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  • How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius
    by Michael Gelb
    ISBN 0385323816 (0-385-32381-6)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:

    • Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
    • Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
    • Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
    • Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
    • Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
    • Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
    • Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."

    Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a program recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional Renaissance." [via]

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  • How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
    by Michael Gelb
    ISBN 0440508274 (0-440-50827-4)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." Author Michael Gelb, founder of High Performance Learning and consultant for companies including AT&T and National Public Radio, says that we all can unlock the "da Vincian" genius inside us. Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job:

    • Curiosita: An insatiably curious approach to life.
    • Dimonstratzione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience.
    • Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience.
    • Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
    • Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination ("whole-brain thinking").
    • Corporalita: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
    • Connessione: A recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all things and phenomena; "systems thinking."

    Gelb discusses each of these principles in relation to what da Vinci accomplished, thereby giving this book a built-in history lesson. The illustrations from the master's work and time add a nice warmth to the work. As the president of NPR said after working with Gelb, this is a program recommended for "anyone who wants to experience a personal and professional Renaissance." [via]

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  • Zabor, Rafi: I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir, Aporia
    I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir, Aporia
    by Rafi Zabor
    ISBN 9780374299 (978-037-429-9)
    Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
    by Susanna Clarke
    ISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
    Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA

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    It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]

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  • LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
    ISBN 8497592190 (84-9759-219-0)
    Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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    Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico.Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.

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  • La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    ISBN 950491036X (950-49-1036-X)
    Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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    Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página. [via]

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  • Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel
    ISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
    Softcover, Harcourt

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    Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."

    An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]

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  • Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fiodor M. Dostoievski, Juan Cano Ballesta
    ISBN 8497930770 (84-9793-077-0)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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  • Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville
    ISBN 8497594878 (84-9759-487-8)
    Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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    Book in Spanish [via]

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  • Naked Pictures of Famous People
    by Jon Stewart
    ISBN 0688171621 (0-688-17162-1)
    Softcover, Rob Weisbach Books

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    Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart's book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he's writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."

    HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.

    KING: And this ... new Hitler?

    HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.

    Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience. --Simon Leake [via]

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  • Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen, Patricia Franco Lommers
    ISBN 8497646932 (84-9764-693-2)
    Softcover, Edimat Libros

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    For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.
     
    Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.

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  • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
    by Ray Kurzweil
    ISBN 0143037889 (0-14-303788-9)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an eventthe "singularity"in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.

    The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event a human- machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death; and virtually any physical product can be created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near also considers the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005. [via]

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  • Bruegmann, Robert: Sprawl: A Compact History
    Sprawl: A Compact History
    by Robert Bruegmann
    ISBN 0226076911 (0-226-07691-1)
    Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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  • Gilman, Laura Anne: Staying Dead
    Staying Dead
    by Laura Anne Gilman
    ISBN 0373802536 (0-373-80253-6)
    Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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    Manhattan's night life just got weirder...

    It starts as a simple job--but simple jobs, when you're dealing with the magical world, often end up anything but.

    As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing--and then bringing them back, no questions asked. Normally her job is stimulating, challenging and only a little bit dangerous. But every once in a while...

    Case in point: A cornerstone containing a spell is stolen and there's a magical complication. (Isn't there always?) Wren's unique abilities aren't enough to lay this particular case to rest, so she turns to some friends: a demon (minor), a mage who has lost his mind, and a few others, including Sergei, her business partner (and maybe a bit more?).

    Sometimes what a woman has to do to get the job done is enough to give even Wren nightmares....

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  • Ulises / Ulysses
    by James Joyce
    ISBN 8497930967 (84-9793-096-7)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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  • The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
    by Thomas L. Friedman
    ISBN 0312425074 (0-312-42507-4)
    Softcover, Picador USA

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  • The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
    by Thomas L. Friedman
    ISBN 0374292795 (0-374-29279-5)
    Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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    When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists. [via]

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    • Baudolino
      by Umberto Eco
      ISBN 8845251950 (88-452-5195-0)
      Softcover, Fabbri - RCS Libri

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      In quella zona del basso Piemonte dove, anni dopo, sorgerà Alessandria, Baudolino, un piccolo contadino fantasioso e bugiardo, conquista Federico Barbarossa e ne diventa figlio adottivo. Baudolino affabula e inventa ma, quasi per miracolo, tutto quello che immagina produce Storia. Così, tra le altre cose, costruisce la mitica lettera del Prete Gianni, che prometteva all'Occidente un regno favoloso, nel lontano Oriente, governato da un re cristiano, che ha mosso la fantasia di molti viaggiatori successivi, compreso Marco Polo. Baudolino cresce, Alessandria nasce e, anni dopo, spinto dall'invenzione di Baudolino, Federico parte, col pretesto di una crociata, per andare a riconsegnare al Prete Gianni la più preziosa reliquia della cristianità. Morirà lungo il viaggio, in circostanze misteriose che solo Baudolino ci svela, ma il suo figlioccio continuerà il viaggio verso quel regno lontano, tra i mostri che hanno abitato i bestiari del Medio Evo, vicende mirabolanti, e una delicata vicenda d'amore con la più singolare fra tutte le figlie di Eva. Raccontata a Niceta Coniate, storico bizantino, mentre Costantinopoli brucia e i crociati la saccheggiano, la storia riserva ancora alcune sorprese perché, parlando con Niceta, Baudolino comprende cose che non aveva ancora capito, da cui un finale veramente inatteso. Avventura picaresca, romanzo storico in cui emergono in germe i problemi dell'Italia contemporanea, storia di un delitto impossibile, racconto fantastico, teatro di invenzioni linguistiche esilaranti, questo libro celebra la forza del mito e dell'utopia. [via]

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    • La Rabbia E L'orgoglio
      by Oriana Fallaci
      ISBN 881786983X (88-17-86983-X)
      Hardcover, Rizzoli

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      Con La Rabbia e lOrgoglio (2001), Oriana Fallaci rompe un silenzio durato dieci anni, dalla pubblicazione di Insciallah, epico romanzo sulla missione occidentale di pace nella Beirut dilaniata dallo scontro tra cristiani e musulmani e dalle faide con Israele. Dieci anni in cui la Fallaci sceglie di vivere ritirata nella sua casa newyorchese, come in esilio, a combattere il cancro. Ma non smette mai di lavorare al testo narrativo dedicato alla sua famiglia, quello che lei chiama il-miobambino, pubblicato postumo nel 2008, Un cappello pieno di ciliege.LUndici Settembre le impone di tornare con furia alla macchina da scrivere per dar voce a quelle idee che ha sempre coltivato nelle interviste, nei reportage, nei romanzi, ma che ha poi imprigionato dentro il cuore e dentro il cervello dicendosi tanto-la-gente-non-vuole-ascoltare. Il risultato è un articolo sul Corriere della Sera del 29 settembre 2001, un sermone lo definisce lei stessa, accolto con enorme clamore in Italia e allestero. Esce in forma di libro nella versione originaria e integrale, preceduto da una prefazione in cui la Fallaci affronta alle radici la questione del terrorismo islamico e parla di sé, del suo isolamento, delle sue scelte rigorose e spietate. La risposta è esplosiva, le polemiche feroci. Mentre i critici si dividono, ladesione dei lettori, in tutto il mondo, è unanime di fronte alla passione che anima queste pagine. La Rabbia e lOrgoglio, imprescindibile per capire i nostri tempi e quelli a venire, è pubblicato nella collana BUR delle Opere di Oriana Fallaci con la prefazione di Ferruccio de Bortoli che, direttore del Corriere nel 2001, chiese a Oriana larticolo sullabbattimento delle due Torri a Manhattan. In Appendice, due testi scritti dalla Fallaci a commento delle edizioni francese e americana. [via]

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      by Rebecca Wells
      ISBN 885152033X (88-515-2033-X)
      Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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