The Heaven of Animals

The Heaven of Animals

Author: David James Poissant

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476729964

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A first collection by an award-winning writer features characters at relationship crossroads in such stories as "Lizard Man," in which two men race to save a sick alligator; and "The End of Aaron," in which a girl helps her boyfriend face his greatest fears.


The Hummingbird

The Hummingbird

Author: Sandro Veronesi

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2022-03-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474617482

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A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN: 'DEEPLY PLEASURABLE' A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR: 'WHAT A JOY' 'Magnificent' Guardian 'A towering achivement' Financial Times 'Inventive, bold, unexpected' Sunday Times 'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, death, high seriousness, low comedy, philosophy, subtle personal relationships and the complex interior life of human beings' Guardian 'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness' Financial Times 'There is a pleasing sense of having grappled with the real stuff of life: loss, grief, love, desire, pain, uncertainty, confusion, joy, despair - all while having fun' The Sunday Times 'Instantly immersive, playfully inventive, effortlessly wise' Observer 'Masterly: a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders' Ian McEwan 'A real masterpiece. A funny, touching, profound book that made me cry like a little girl on the last page' Leïla Slimani 'A remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world' Michael Cunningham 'Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core' Jhumpa Lahiri Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change. As he navigates the challenges of life - confronting the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; taking care of his parents as they approach the end of their lives; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, can no longer be there for her; coming to terms with his love for the enigmatic Luisa - Marco Carrera comes to represent the quiet heroism that pervades so much of our everyday existence. A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end. THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Over 300,000 copies sold Soon to be a major motion picture Winner of the Premio Strega Winner of the Prix du Livre Etranger Book of the Year for the Corriere della Sera


Co-operation Between the Sexes

Co-operation Between the Sexes

Author: Alfred Adler

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780393300192

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Discusses relationships between men and women and types of deviant behavior often found in sex role adjustment


In Praise Of Imperfe

In Praise Of Imperfe

Author: Rita Levi-Montalcini

Publisher:

Published: 1988-05-08

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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The autobiography of Levi-Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1986. Born in Torino into a middle-class Jewish family, she experienced the rise of fascism and antisemitism in the 1930s-40s (discussed on pp. 73-105). After the promulgation of the racial laws in 1938, it was impossible for her to pursue research at the Neurological Clinic and she continued her work in private. She survived the war hiding in a small town in Italy and later emigrated to the United States.


IRRESISTIBILMENTE - Le vie della persuasione e della manipolazione

IRRESISTIBILMENTE - Le vie della persuasione e della manipolazione

Author: ROBERTO SOLINAS

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-06-05

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1291444750

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C'è una psicologia del persuadere e del manipolare che abbraccia e incide sulla nostra vita irresistibilmente. In lei sono impressi i temi ricorrenti della dominazione, della possibilità, del potere e dell'interesse. La sottile storia dell'influenzamento umano percorre questi cieli e così ogni suo navigatore. Chi legge,riflette e poi fa pratica con le esercitazioni consigliate alla fine, otterrà una capacità comunicativa irresistibile.Contiene saggio più esercitazioni.Roberto Solinas è psicologo-psicoterapeuta.


What Mad Universe

What Mad Universe

Author: Frederic Brown

Publisher:

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780586071632

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Pulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away. But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the same, but Bems (Bug-Eyed Monsters) just like the ones on the cover of Startling Stories walked the streets without attracting undue comment. And when he brought out a half-dollar coin in a drugstore, the cops wanted to shoot him on sight as an Arcturian spy. Wait a minute. Seven-foot purple moon-monsters? Earth at war with Arcturus? General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Venus Sector? What mad universe was this? One thing was for sure: Keith Winton had to find out fast - or he'd be good and dead, in this universe or any other.


The Wall of the Earth

The Wall of the Earth

Author: Giorgio Caproni

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9780920717530

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"The work of Giorgio Caproni has been translated into French, German, and Chinese, among others, but this collection is his first book-length English publication. His works are finely tuned to modern man's preoccupations with existence in a world deprived of certainties (for example, the existence or inexistence of God). Most are touched by experiences such as the Second World War and its atrocities, the Resistance Movement, or the death of loved ones, events that represent the conviction of a subject that will do its best to survive all adversity, uncompromised" -- from the Introduction by Pasquale Verdicchio