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1984by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George OrwellISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Age of Capitalby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0679772545 (0-679-77254-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Capital'Book summary:In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live. [via]
Age of Capital: Eighteen Forty-Eight to Eighteen Seventy-Fiveby E. J. HobsbawnISBN 0452006961 (0-452-00696-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Age of Capital, 1848-1875by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0297769928 (0-297-76992-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Age of Voltaireby Will DurantISBN 1567310206 (1-56731-020-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, With Special Emphasis on the Conflict Between Religion and Philosophy'Book summary:Book with dust jacket, minor edge wear " The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, With Special Emphasis on the Conflict Between Religion and Philosophy (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 9)". FAST shipping.(A8) [via]
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Angels & Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 037543318X (0-375-43318-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Demons'Book summary:Hardcover Special Illustrated edition of Angels & Demons [via]
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Angels and Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 0739326759 (0-7393-2675-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels and Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ann PatchettISBN 0452284244 (0-452-28424-4)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Baudolinoby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156029065 (0-15-602906-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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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]
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Bella Tuscanyby Frances MayesISBN 076790284X (0-7679-0284-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bella Tuscany'Book summary:Following up on her bestselling novel, Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes returns to her beloved villa in the small hill town of Cortona, Italy. Welcomed back like an old friend, she is soon puttering in the garden, and as Mayes devotees might expect, busy in the kitchen as well. As Mayes rediscovers her taste for la dolce vita, she embarks on a journey of cultural awakening and embraces a newfound romance with the Italian language and people. "I came to Italy expecting adventure," reads Mayes. "What I never anticipated is the absolute sweet joy of everyday life."
Mayes is as generous a cook as she is a writer, flavoring her story with tasty descriptions of local gustatory delights--many of which are included in a small recipe book. She also serves as narrator, and the beguiling simplicity of her voice makes listening as enjoyable as spending an afternoon with a well-traveled favorite aunt. (Running time: 9 hours, 6 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italyby Frances Mayes, Janet PedersenISBN 0767902831 (0-7679-0283-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italy'Book summary:Work's still not completely finished on Bramasole, the Tuscan house that California-based poet and bestselling author Frances Mayes bought a decade ago and has been fixing up every summer since. Nevertheless, in Bella Tuscany, she goes out--in search of Italy and Italian life. The sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun is awash with sensual discovery, from Sicilian markets with "rainbows of shining fish on ice" to the aqueous dream of Venice "shimmering in the diluted sunlight." Wherever she is, Mayes celebrates everyday rituals, such as picking wild asparagus, "dark spears poking out of the dirt ... stalks as thin as yarn" and driving through country rains, as "the green landscape smears across the windshield" for buffalo mozzarella and demijohns of sfuso--bulk wine kept fresh with a slick of olive oil on top. Mayes also ventures into the world of the locals, some "bent as a comma" and others throwing six-hour communion feasts where half a dozen cooks in a barn continually send out heaping platters of pasta with wild boar sauce, roasted lamb, and even the thigh of a giant cow--wrapping up the festivities with honeyed vin santo, grappa, and dancing to the accordion. Capturing the details that enrich the commonplace, in Bella Tuscany Mayes appears less like a visitor and more like someone discovering in Tuscany a real home and a real life. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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Citizen Soldiersby Stephen AmbroseISBN 061350125X (0-613-50125-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Citizen Soldiers'Book summary:Stephen E. Ambrose combines history and journalism to describe how American GIs battled their way to the Rhineland. He focuses on the combat experiences of ordinary soldiers, as opposed to the generals who led them, and offers a series of compelling vignettes that read like an enterprising reporter's dispatches from the front lines. The book presents just enough contextual material to help readers understand the big picture, and includes memorable accounts of the Battle of the Bulge and other events as seen through the weary eyes of the men who fought in the foxholes. Highly recommended for fans of Ambrose, as well as all readers interested in understanding the life of a 1940s army grunt. A sort of sequel to Ambrose's bestselling 1994 book D-Day, Citizen Soldiers is more than capable of standing on its own. [via]
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0684848015 (0-684-84801-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945'Book summary:This sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the liberation of Paris, the attempt to leap the Rhine in operation Market-Garden, the near-miraculous German recovery, the battles around Metz and in the Huertgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the capture of the bridge at Remagen and, finally, the overunning of Germany. From the enlisted men and junior officers, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from those on both sides of the war. The experience of these citizen soldiers reveals the ordinary sufferings and hardships of war. They overcame their fear and inexperience, the mistakes of their high command and their enemy to win the war. [via]
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- Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945: ISBN 0606251375 (0-606-25137-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945: ISBN 0684815257 (0-684-81525-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945: ISBN 0783801742 (0-7838-0174-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945: ISBN 0788160508 (0-7881-6050-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co - Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945: ISBN 0684848015 (0-684-84801-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Buldge to the Surrender of Germany Jun 7, 1994-May 7, 1945: ISBN 0606251375 (0-606-25137-5)
The Cube And The Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics Without Godby George WeigelISBN 0465092683 (0-465-09268-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Danubeby Claudio MagrisISBN 0374522456 (0-374-52245-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danube'Book summary:There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his travel books (some would say even more so than in his novels), and the legacy of this kind of non-pareil work may be found in Claudio Magris' Danube, a book which seamlessly combines sharp descriptive information with prose of the greatest transparency. Magris (whose amazing breadth of knowledge is evident on every page) takes the reader on a colourful journey from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. At every stage of this voyage from the past to the present, Magris conjures up all the atmospheric associations of the houses, monuments and great personalities (from Marcus Aurelius to Kafka) and, in the process, produces a richly drawn picture of central Europe and a culture rich in the influences of the East and West. As in his celebrated Bohemia, Magris effortlessly incorporates his encyclopaedic knowledge into the kind of book that both recreates a whole continent and deeply inspires the reader to investigate this territory. In fact, to call this a travel book is an inadequate attempt to categorise something that can really only be judged as fine writing.
I take a few steps from my bench downhill to the source of the Berg, then, sousing my shoes and socks, climb up through the meadow towards the house. The water glitters in the grass, the spring flows quietly out, the green of the trees is good, and so is the smell. The traveller feels rather clumsy and small, aware of the superior objectivity in which he is framed. Is it possible that all those little trickles in a field are the Danube...which pours out into the Black Sea every year?
--Barry Forshaw [via] 
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Seaby Claudio Magris, Patrick CreaghISBN 0374134650 (0-374-13465-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Die Ausgewandertenby W. G. SebaldISBN 3821840935 (3-8218-4093-5)
Hardcover, Eichborn
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Ageby Simon SchamaISBN 0679781242 (0-679-78124-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age'Book summary:In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations. [via]
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Emigrantsby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860463495 (1-86046-349-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emigrants'Book summary:In this remarkable work of fiction, W.G. Sebald explores the power of memory as he traces the lives of four people uprooted by war and prejudice. Each of the stories reflect the tragic impact of World War II on the survivors, who struggle with a loss of home, a loss of language, and a loss of self. Through memories, each person attempts to make sense of their histories and bridge the chasm the war ripped in their lives. Combined with each story are photographs that purport to show the subjects of the stories. The combination of photographs, biography, and autobiography combine to form a meditative, lyrical story that is at once powerful and introspective. [via]
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Emigrantsby Michael Hulse, W. G. SebaldISBN 0811213668 (0-8112-1366-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emigrants'Book summary:A meditation on memory and loss. Sebald re-creates the lives of four exiles--five if you include his oblique self-portrait--through their own accounts, others' recollections, and pictures and found objects. But he brings these men before our eyes only to make them fade away, "longing for extinction." Two were eventual suicides, another died in an asylum, the fourth still lived under a "poisonous canopy" more than 40 years after his parents' death in Nazi Germany.
Sebald's own longing is for communion. En route to Ithaca (the real upstate New York location but also the symbolic one), he comes to feel "like a travelling companion of my neighbor in the next lane." After the car speeds away--"the children pulling clownish faces out of the rear window--I felt deserted and desolate for a time." Sebald's narrative is purposely moth-holed (butterfly-ridden, actually--there's a recurring Nabokov-with-a-net type), an escape from the prison-house of realism. According to the author, his Uncle Ambros's increasingly improbable tales were the result of "an illness which causes lost memories to be replaced by fantastic inventions." Luckily for us, Sebald seems to have inherited the same syndrome. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Ernest Hemingway's a Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 1555460445 (1-55546-044-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms'Book summary:A guide to reading "A Farewell to Arms" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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The Europeansby Luigi BarziniISBN 0671245783 (0-671-24578-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Europeans'Book summary:A writing that expresses great passion, by a major author. This writing shows enlightenment and is both sobering as well as entertaining. [via]
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A Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 1556512759 (1-55651-275-9)
Hardcover, Cram Cassettes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Farewell to Arms'Book summary:As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:
I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know.
The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, Scribner - A Farewell to Arms: ISBN 0684102366 (0-684-10236-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - A Farewell to Arms: ISBN 0684155621 (0-684-15562-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co - A Farewell to Arms: ISBN 0816159718 (0-8161-5971-8)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - A Farewell to Arms: ISBN 0848821440 (0-8488-2144-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - A Farewell to Arms: ISBN 1556512759 (1-55651-275-9)
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The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559by Anthony Grafton, Eugene F. RiceISBN 0393963047 (0-393-96304-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559'Book summary:Was the shift from old to new in this period a transition from medieval to modern?
Professor Rice, assisted in this edition by Professor Tony Grafton continues to argue, as in the first edition, that this century represents a shift from medieval to "early" modern. [via]More editions of The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559:
The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559by Eugene F. RiceISBN 0393098982 (0-393-09898-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europeby Hilda Roderick Ellis DavidsonISBN 0140136274 (0-14-013627-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gods and Myths of Northern Europe'Book summary:This title surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic people. It provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the character traits of not only the well known but also the lesser gods of the age. [via]
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communismby Tina RosenbergISBN 0679744991 (0-679-74499-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europeby Angus BaxterISBN 0806316578 (0-8063-1657-8)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe'Book summary:This work is designed to guide the reader through the complexities of genealogical research in Europe, whether done in person or by correspondence. It covers the various types of genealogical records available in each country, where they are found and how they are used. With up-to-date information on church, state, and provincial archives (including current addresses), and a discussion of the characteristics of each area and the ways in which they affect the research process, it opens up great possibilities for tracing ancestors in Europe. Described in detail are the archival resources of each country from the national to the local level; the location of church records and census returns; the systems of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths; and how to find and use such records as certificates of domicile, orphan lists, emigration registers, guild records, internal passports, confirmation records, and even vaccination lists.
Besides the customary revisions and updates, this new Third Edition includes--for the first time-- telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, fax numbers, and URLS for most of the major European archives and organizations. Furthermore, now that the dust has settled on the historic upheavals of the 90s, it deals authoritatively with changes brought about by the unification of Germany, the break-up of the Soviet Union, and the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. [via]
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Journey Through Europeby John HillabyISBN 0586081410 (0-586-08141-0)
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850by Brian M. FaganISBN 0465022723 (0-465-02272-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850'Book summary:"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will mean unless we know something about its effects in the past: "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". And Fagan's story of the last thousand years, centered on the "Little Ice Age," reminds us of what we could end up repeating: flood, fire, and famine--acts of God exacerbated by acts of man.
For all that he takes a broad--a very broad--view of European history, Fagan's writing is laced with human faces, fascinating anecdotes, and a gift for the telling detail that makes history live, very much in the style of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. When Fagan talks about the voyages of Basque fishermen to American shores (probably landing before Columbus sailed), he puts in the taste of dried cod and the terrifying suddenness of fogs on the Grand Banks. The Great Fire of London, what it was like when the Dutch dikes broke, the Irish Potato Famine, the year without a summer, ice fairs on the Thames, and volcanoes in the South Pacific--Fagan makes history a ripping yarn in which we are all actors, on a stage that has always been changing. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 9706516212 (970-651-621-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Refugios De Piedra'Book summary:From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the church to minister fairly to all of its faithful, a group of Chicano priests formed PADRES (Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales, or Priests Associated for Religious, Educational, and Social Rights) in 1969. Over the next twenty years, PADRES became a powerful force for change within the Catholic church and for social justice within American society. This book offers the first history of the founding, activism, victories, and defeats of PADRES. At the heart of the book are oral history interviews with the founders of PADRES, who describe how their ministries in poor Mexican American parishes, as well as their own experiences of racism and discrimination within and outside the church, galvanized them into starting and sustaining the movement. Richard Martinez traces the ways in which PADRES was inspired by the Chicano movement and other civil rights struggles of the 1960s and also probes its linkages with liberation theology in Latin America. He uses a combination of social movement theory and organizational theory to explain how the group emerged, flourished, and eventually disbanded in 1989.... RICHARD EDWARD MARTINEZ is an independent scholar who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from UCLA. [via]
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The Making of the Middle Agesby R.W. SouthernISBN 1597401323 (1-59740-132-3)
Hardcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
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The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600by Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521639905 (0-521-63990-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Muslim Discovery of Europeby Bernard LewisISBN 0393321657 (0-393-32165-7)
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The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history. 30 black and white illustrations [via]More editions of The Muslim Discovery of Europe:
The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Name Of The Rose'Book summary:A 14th-century ex-Inquisitor investigates murder at a monastery and finds mysteries within mysteries. Eco's masterwork of literary genius is a fascinating and challenging read. [via]
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Paris to the Moonby Adam GopnikISBN 0375758232 (0-375-75823-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris to the Moon'Book summary:In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha, and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries. A self-described "comic-sentimental essayist," Gopnik chose the romance of Paris in its particulars as his subject. Gopnik falls in unabashed love with what he calls Paris's commonplace civilization--the cafés, the little shops, the ancient carousel in the park, and the small, intricate experiences that happen in such settings. But Paris can also be a difficult city to love, particularly its pompous and abstract official culture with its parallel paper universe. The tension between these two sides of Paris and the country's general brooding over the decline of French dominance in the face of globalization (haute couture, cooking, and sex, as well as the economy, are running deficits) form the subtexts for these finely wrought and witty essays. With his emphasis on the micro in the macro, Gopnik describes trying to get a Thanksgiving turkey delivered during a general strike and his struggle to find an apartment during a government scandal over favoritism in housing allocations. The essays alternate between reports of national and local events and accounts of expatriate family life, with an emphasis on "the trinity of late-century bourgeois obsessions: children and cooking and spectator sports, including the spectator sport of shopping." Gopnik describes some truly delicious moments, from the rites of Parisian haute couture, to the "occupation" of a local brasserie in protest of its purchase by a restaurant tycoon, to the birth of his daughter with the aid of a doctor in black jeans and a black silk shirt, open at the front. Gopnik makes terrific use of his status as an observer on the fringes of fashionable society to draw some deft comparisons between Paris and New York ("It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones") and do some incisive philosophizing on the nature of both. This is masterful reportage with a winning infusion of intelligence, intimacy, and charm. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterraneanby Paul TherouxISBN 0449910857 (0-449-91085-7)
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Renaissance Europe: 1480-1520by J. R. Hale, Michael Edward MallettISBN 0631216251 (0-631-21625-1)
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Renaissance Europe: The Individual and Society, 1480-1520by John R. HaleISBN 0520034716 (0-520-03471-6)
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The Shadow of the Windby Lucia Graves, Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 0143034901 (0-14-303490-1)
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Shelters of Stoneby Jean M. AuelISBN 055328942X (0-553-28942-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelters of Stone'Book summary:Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The United States of Europe: The New Superpower And the End of American Supremacyby T. R. ReidISBN 0143036084 (0-14-303608-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The United States of Europe: The New Superpower And the End of American Supremacy'Book summary:While the United States flexes its economic and military muscles around the world as the dominant global player, it may soon have company. According to the Washington Post's T.R. Reid, the nations of Europe are setting aside differences to form an entity that's gaining strength, all seemingly unbeknownst to the U.S. and its citizens. The new Europe, Reid says, "has more people, more wealth, and more trade than the United States of America," plus more leverage gained through membership in international organizations and generous foreign aid policies that reap political clout. Reid tells how European countries were willing to discontinue their individual centuries-old currencies and adopt the Euro, the monetary unit that is now a dominant force in world markets. This is noteworthy not just for exploring the considerable economic impact of the Euro, but also for what that spirit of cooperation means for every facet of Europe in the 21st century, where governments and citizens alike believe that the rewards of banding together are worth a loss in sovereignty. Reid's most compelling portrait of this trend is in the young Europeans known as "Generation E" who see themselves not as Spaniards or Czechs but simply as Europeans. To illustrate America's obliviousness to this trend, Reid tells of former GE CEO Jack Welch, who never bothered to factor European objections into a proposed multi-billion dollar merger with Honeywell, leading to the deal being torpedoed and Welch disgraced. But what is most striking in The United States of Europe is the contrast between the new Europe and the United States. The Europeans cannot match the raw military size of the U.S., but by mixing wealth with diplomacy and continental unity (helped along by antipathy toward George W. Bush's brand of Americanism), they are forming an innovative and powerful superpower. --John Moe [via]
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying The West From Withinby Bruce BawerISBN 0767920058 (0-7679-2005-8)
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Women in the Middle Agesby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 0690017243 (0-690-01724-3)
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Homenaje a Catalunaby Iosu PeralesISBN 848845581X (84-88455-81-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homenaje a Cataluna'Book summary:Cuando en julio de 1936 se produce el levantamiento armado fascista contra la Republica espanola, George Orwel decide viajar a Espana para trabajar inicialmente como periodista; pero las circunstancias le llevaran a enrolarse en las milicias del POUM. Como miliciana luchara en el frente de Aragon y sera gravemente herido en la garganta, toma parte en los sucesos de Mayo del 37 en Barcelona; y, como sus companeros del POUM, sufrira persecucion por parte de los estalinistas del PSUC y se vera obligado a huir de Espana, atravesando la frontera como simple turista. En 1938, cuando aun no habia llegado a su fin la guerra civil, escribe Homeaje a Cataluna, donde relata sus experiencias en la Revolucion espanola. [via]
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto Eco, Ricardo PochtarISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 0743233573 (0-7432-3357-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Refugios De Piedra'Book summary:UNA DE LAS SAGAS MáS POPULARES DE NUESTRA ÉPOCA
Los Refugios de Piedra comienza cuando Ayla y Jondalar terminan su épico viaje a través de Europa en compañía de sus amigos, los animales Lobo, Relinchona y Corredor, y son bienvenidos por los zelandones, la gente del pueblo de Jondalar. Ayla se siente fascinada por la gente de la Novena Cueva de los zelandones. Y en Zelandoni, la líder espiritual de la Novena Cueva, y quien inició a Jondalar en el Regalo del Placer, descubre a una compañera con poderes curativos con quien compartir sus conocimientos y habilidades.
Pero en tanto que Ayla y Jondalar se preparan para convertirse formalmente en pareja durante los Encuentros de Verano, se presentan dificultades. No todos los zelandones los reciben con agrado. Algunos temen la influencia de Ayla y detestan su relación con aquellos a quienes llaman cabezas chatas, y ella llama los del Clan. Algunos hasta se oponen a que forme pareja con Jondalar y hacen evidente su disgusto. Ayla tiene que recurrir a todas sus habilidades, inteligencia, conocimientos e instintos para poder hallar el camino en esta complicada sociedad, prepararse para el nacimiento de su hijo, y decidir si está dispuesta a aceptar nuevos desafíos y desempeñar un papel significativo en el destino de los zelandones. [via]
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En evoquant Wagner: La Musique Comme Mensonge Et Comme Veriteby Francis PagnonISBN 2851841300 (2-85184-130-0)
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Les Refuges De Pierreby Jean AuelISBN 2258058376 (2-258-05837-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Refuges De Pierre'Book summary:Dans ce cinquième volet de la saga préhistorique « Les Enfants de la Terre », Ayla donne naissance à un enfant très attendu et prend conscience du rôle qu'elle est appelée à jouer dans la destinée des Zelandonii, la tribu de Jondalar. Après un long voyage épique à travers l'Europe, Ayla et Jondalar arrivent à l'emplacement de la Neuvième Caverne, un camp de l'âge de pierre situé dans ce qu'on appellera bien plus tard le Périgord. C'est là que Jondalar retrouve la tribu qui l'a vu naître, et qui se réjouit de son retour. L'accueil fait à Ayla est plus mitigé. Cette femme parle avec un accent curieux et, surtout, elle est suivie par un loup et deux chevaux sur lesquels elle exerce un pouvoir troublant. Mais, si la jeune femme étonne les Zelandonii, ceux-ci la surprennent tout autant par leur façon de vivre dans leurs confortables abris-sous-roche et par la splendeur des peintures dont ils ornent leurs grottes. Plongée dans cet univers étranger, Ayla parviendra-t-elle à gagner la confiance des membres de la tribu de Jondalar ? [via]
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Die Ausgewandertenby W. G. SebaldISBN 359612056X (3-596-12056-X)
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Ayla Und Der Stein Des Feuersby Jean AuelISBN 3453213998 (3-453-21399-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ayla Und Der Stein Des Feuers'Book summary:Zwölf Jahre dauerte die schöpferische Pause der unbestrittenen Königin des prähistorischen Romans -- doch jetzt können alle Fans aufatmen: Der fünfte Band aus der Reihe der Ayla-Romane ist endlich erschienen. Nahtlos setzt Auel die Geschichte von Ayla und das Tal der Großen Mutter fort und erzählt, wie die Steinzeit-Heldin am Ende ihrer langen Reise quer durch Europa in der Heimat ihres Gefährten Jondalar aufgenommen wird.
Ayla ist eine Angehörige der Cro-Magnon-Menschen, die dem heutigen Homo sapiens schon sehr ähnlich waren, aber die Welt vor 30.000 Jahren noch mit den Neandertalern teilten. In Ayla und der Clan des Bären wurde die fünfjährige Ayla durch einen Erdrutsch zur Waise und vorbeiziehende Neandertaler nahmen das fremdartige Kind auf. Dieser erste Band bezieht einen Großteil seiner Faszination aus der Konfrontation zweier sehr unterschiedlicher, menschlicher Spezies. Ebenso faszinierend ist der beeindruckend recherchierte Detailreichtum, mit der Auel das prähistorische Europa für ihre Leser zum Leben erweckt.
Dem fünften Band kann man dasselbe vorwerfen wie auch schon früheren Bänden: Allzu verliebt ist die Autorin in ihre Heldin, die sich nach ihrer schweren Kindheit jetzt der verzückten Bewunderung ihrer Freunde allzeit sicher sein kann. Darüber hinaus verliert sich Auel oft in detaillierten Beschreibungen und Wiederholungen und vernachlässigt dabei die eigentliche Handlung. Doch ungebrochen ist die Faszination, die Auels Reise in die Urzeit auf uns ausübt: Ayla steht für den Einfallsreichtum und Überlebenswillen unserer Vorfahren, für den Anbeginn der menschlichen Zivilisation.
Nicht zuletzt werden Auels Romane auch als Liebegeschichte geschätzt, die nicht mit Einzelheiten aus dem Intimleben ihrer Titelheldin geizt. Und nach vielen scharfsinnigen Überlegungen der Steinzeit-Medizinerin, wo denn eigentlich die Babies herkommen, können sich alle Fans auf ein ganz besonderes Highlight im fünften Band freuen. --Birgit Will [via]
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
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