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A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole’s hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times). NAPOMENA: inverted text block

Il fascismo

I testi raccolti e presentati in questo volume offrono al lettore un panorama di come il fascismo e stato visto e giudicato dai suoi contemporanei immediati prima e dagli studiosi delle piu varie discipline e formazioni poi, sia – all’inizio – come fenomeno soprattutto italiano sia – in un secondo tempo – come fenomeno europeo, per alcuni addirittura mondiale, ‘epocale’ persino. Chi scrive e convinto che, per giungere a una spiegazione in termini effettivamente storici del fenomeno fascista in genere e dei vari fascismi in particolare, sia necessario tenere presenti e contemperare tra di loro tutte le interpretazioni sin qui prospettate. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1970 e poi aggiornato – postumo – nel 1998 a cura di Giovanni Sabbatucci, sulla base delle indicazioni lasciate dallo stesso De Felice, questo libro e senza dubbio la piu ampia e autorevole antologia delle interpretazioni del fascismo, un classico indispensabile per comprendere origini, sviluppo e declino di un fenomeno storico che ha dominato e marchiato indelebilmente la prima meta del ventesimo secolo.

The Annals of Imperial Rome

His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus’ The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus’ Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life. Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively, Tacitus’ account is sharply critical of the emperors’ excesses and fearful for the future of Imperial Rome, while also filled with a longing for its past glories. Michael Grant’s translation vividly captures the emotional patriotism of Tacitus’ moral tone, offset by a lucid understanding that Rome is doomed, and conveys with cinematic vigour the lives of the great Emperors who laid the foundations of modern Europe.

The Rich and the Super-Rich

A study focusing on the political and economic power of the five hundred super-millionaire families who control American life

Yugoslavia : Peace, War, and Dissolution

The Balkans, in particular the turbulent ex-Yugoslav territory, have been among the most important world regions in Noam Chomsky’s political reflections and activism for decades. His articles, public talks, and correspondence have provided a critical voice on political and social issues crucial not only to the region but the entire international community, including “humanitarian intervention,” the relevance of international law in today’s politics, media manipulations, and economic crisis as a means of political control. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of virtually all of Chomsky’s texts and public talks that focus on the region of the former Yugoslavia, from the 1970s to the present. With numerous articles and interviews, this collection presents a wealth of materials appearing in book form for the first time along with reflections on events twenty-five years after the official end of communist Yugoslavia and the beginning of the war in Bosnia. The book opens with a personal and wide-ranging preface by Andrej Grubačić that affirms the ongoing importance of Yugoslav history and identity, providing a context for understanding Yugoslavia as an experiment in self-management, antifascism, and mutlethnic coexistence.

Natural Born Killers : The Original Screenplay

Natural Born Killers is a disturbing and brilliant indictment of violence in the media and American celebrity culture. Mickey and Mallory Knox, outlaw lovers on the run, go on a killing spree of startling viciousness — and find themselves transformed into cult celebrities by the tabloid media. The film, directed by Oliver Stone, departed significantly from Tarantino’s original screenplay, so much so that Tarantino removed his name from the screenplay credits. Now available in America for the first time, the original screenplay offers fans and film buffs of all stripes the opportunity to compare Tarantino’s original vision with Stone’s version of the story of Mickey and Mallory.

The 100

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW television show. No one has set foot on Earth in centuries — until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents — considered expendable by society — are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life…or it could be a suicide mission. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she’s haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor’s son, came to Earth for the girl he loves — but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth. Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind’s last hope.

Bog je veći od našeg srca

U Isusovoj, zasigurno najljepšoj, prispodobi o Izgubljenom sinu izrečeno je nešto nečuveno, na čudesan način oslobađajuće: Bog nije otac koji se ljuti i osvećuje. U njegovim očima nitko nije izgubljen. Svatko ima pravo vratiti se u svoj dom bez obzira tko je i što je učinio. Čovjek se ne mora ni opravdavati ni ispričavati. Jedino mora biti spreman napustiti svoju oholost. Praznih ruku smije primiti Božje milosrđe čija beskrajna ljubav prašta bez postavljanja ikakvih uvjeta. Naša želja za srećom, naša neutaživa čežnja za pravdom, slobodom i ljubavi ne završava u ništavilu nego se uklapa u Božju beskonačnost. Bog je sabrao sve naše suze, i nijedan mu osmijeh neće izmaknuti. Bog je veći od našeg srca i od našeg svijeta. Johannes B. Brantschen, dominikanac, profesor dogmatike u Fribourgu (Švicarska), otkriva nam na uvjerljiv i snažan način smisao i poruku ove prispodobe: onako kako se Bog ponaša prema nama, čak i onda kada smo krivi, isto tako se i mi moramo ponašati jedni prema drugima i na taj način izbjeći međusobno optuživanje. Srž kršćanske poruke je: radost u Bogu i radost s ljudima u Bogu.

Les Mains Sales

Les Mains sales est une piece de théâtre de Jean-Paul Sartre, en sept tableaux, écrite en 1948 et créée le 2 avril de la meme année au théâtre Antoine a Paris, avec notamment André Luguet et François Périer. Le premier et le septieme tableau se déroulent en 1945 tandis que les cinq autres ont lieu deux ans plus tôt, en mars 1943. Chaque tableau est divisé en scenes.

Zdravlje kao šansa

Knjiga je prikaz revolucionarnog aparata koji nas štiti od bakterija i virusa u telu. Neprekidno smo suočeni sa virusima, bakterijama, parazitima i drugim klicama. Sve se češće postavljaju pitanja: kako da tu opasnost izbegnemo i naše zdravlje održimo ili ponovo do njega dodemo? Vise od 30 godina Martin radi na iznalaženju odgovora na ova ključna pitanja našeg života. Godine 1971. konstruiše aparate za merenje srčanog ritma, a 1976, posie završenih Elektrotehničkih studija, istražuje električne frekvencije i njihov uticaj na ljudsko telo. Konstruisanje Frizap-a donosi mu prvi veliki uspeh. Za njim sledi 2000. godine Quickzap, da bi se 2002. PO WER-QuickZap i 2004. POWER-TUBE pojavili kao usavršeni modeli ove tehnike. Rezultati ostvareni primenom novog aparata prevaziŠli su njegova najsmelija očekivanja. Prvi put u nama poznatoj istoriji sveta na raspolaganju nam je konkretna pomoć za bolesti prouzrokovane bakterijama, virusima i klicama. Njegov izum je kao tračak svetlosti na pogrešnom putu antibiotika, kortizona i hemoterapije. Uspesi u primeni ove metode su potvrdeni i u Meksiku i na Filipinima, što pokazuje da Zaper-TENS-tehnika polako ali sigurno osvaja svet. Martin je u ovoj knjizi sva svoja iskustva dokumentovao i živim primerima pokazao kako svaki čovek može sam sebi pomoći i preuzeti odgovornost za svoje zdravlje.

Bachovo cvijeće kao lijek

Bachovo cvijeće je primjer kako jednostavnost prirode katkad može riješiti probleme koje imamo sa zdravljem. Možda zato što smo mi priroda, što je priroda oko nas i što je naše blagostanje prirodno.

We Can Build You

In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick tells a story of toxic love and compassionate robots. When Louis Rosen’s electronic organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit. Meanwhile, Rosen seeks Lincoln’s advice as he woos a woman incapable of understanding human emotions—someone who may be even more robotic than Lincoln’s replica.

High-Rise

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on enemy floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

The Girl Who Played with Fire

The next installment of the Millennium series: Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

The Possibility of an Island

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing. It is a masterpiece from one of the world’s most innovative writers.

Atomised

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker, an idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust being all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow ‘new age’ philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls’ magazines.

The Final Empire : Mistborn Book One

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the Sliver of Infinity, reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison. Kelsier snapped and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot. But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel’s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she’s a half-Skaa orphan, but she’s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?

Closing Time

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture — with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.

Five Letters from an Eastern Empire

The story examines the power of state artists Bohu and Tohu to make a political difference in a hierarchical society where whole sectors of the population are declared unnecessary people. It was inspired by a line from Ezra Pound’s Cantos: Moping around the Emperor’s court, waiting for the order-to-write.

From the Four Corners

Four world cities seen through the eyes of Jan Morris. Jan Morris’s books include works of history, travel, autobiography and fiction. Here she is represented by essays about four of the world’s great cities – Delhi, Manhattan, Sydney and Vienna – each from a different continent, each described in a different mood and with a different technique. They are taken from her collection Among the Cities, also published in Penguin.

False Impression

A thrilling novel of suspense from the international bestselling author of The Clifton Chronicles, Jeffery Archer’s False Impression. Why was an elegant lady brutally murdered the night before 9/11? Why was a successful New York banker not surprised to receive a woman’s left ear in the morning mail? Why did a top Manhattan lawyer work only for one client, but never charge a fee? Why did a young woman with a bright career steal a priceless Van Gogh painting? All these questions and more are answered in Jeffrey Archer’s novel, False Impression, but not before a breathtaking journey of twists and turns that will take readers from New York to London to Bucharest and on to Tokyo, and finally a sleepy English village, where the mystery of Van Gogh’s last painting will finally be resolved.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest : A Novel

The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy… Lisbeth Salander–the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels–lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge–against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.