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Summary: Filippo Turati

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Summary: Il volume raccoglie alcuni scritti sull'anarchia dei più rappresentativi esponenti italiani del movimento libertario tra fine '800 e inizio '900. Non verità storiche assolute, ma stimoli alla critica del mondo odierno e all'azione contro e oltre l'attuale società capitalistica. Gli scritti proposti sono "Rivoluzione" di Carlo Cafiero, "L'anarchia" di Errico Malatesta, "Le basi morali dell'anarchia" di Pietro Gori e "L'ideale anarchico" di Luigi Fabbri.

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Summary: Nicolai Bukharin

Summary: La Signora di Riondino (1690)
La Marchesa Falconis (1705-1706)

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Summary: If you want to read an honestly written book that doesn't pull any punches then get this one.
I saw Ffyona Campbell on the TV news when she finished her walk through Africa and remember my mum saying that "she must be ignorant because she ignored some of the children who were waiting to speak to her ". After reading the book you start to realise that she has to focus entirely on her goal and not be waylaid if possible.
How else would someone who was very ill walk 40-50 miles every single day ?
She has my respect and admiration

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Summary: Cet ouvrage met en scène des révolutionnaires Russes. Pour mettre à bas le pouvoir en place, incarné par le Duc, ils décident de l'éliminer dans un attentat kamikaze. Mais au moment de tuer, il faut faire le choix entre les idéaux auxquels on croit, et la vie d'un homme.
La pièce interroge sur le sens que l'on peut donner à la vie, à sa mort (être près à tuer et à mourrir pour que les générations futures soient libres, mais pourtant hésiter à tuer un enfant lorsque qu'il se trouve sur le chemin de la bombe).
Une pièce assez courte et qui se lit rapidement, dans laquelle Camus pose une question bien actuelle : jusqu'où peut-on aller lorsque l'on s'engage pour une cause?

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Summary: L'anarchismo, quando si confronta con l'economia, lo fa di norma attraverso altre discipline. D'altra parte, sono pochi gli economisti che si confrontano con la visione anarchica, e spesso lo fanno solo per "giustificare" il ruolo dello Stato attraverso un dialogo in contrapposizione: Stato vs. anarchia. Questo libro accetta invece la sfida di sviluppare entrambi gli argomenti a partire proprio dal soggetto classico dell'analisi economica: l'individuo razionale mosso dalla ricerca del suo massimo tornaconto. Ma è appunto questo homo oeconomicus costruito su motivazioni egoistiche che oggi fa sempre più fatica a dare risposte "efficienti" alle nuove configurazioni socio-economiche, nel cui quadro analitico sono entrate variabili come l'ambiente o il futuro. In questo diverso scenario, sono piuttosto i soggetti capaci di aprirsi a motivazioni altruistiche quelli che sembrano garantire - a determinate condizioni - l'efficienza e l'equità proprie dell'agire economico, dimostrando come anche l'altruismo sociale possa, tutto sommato, risultare conveniente.

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Summary: Readings on Ethical and Scientific Issues concerning Sociobiology

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Summary: This book weaves a magical spell over the reader who is fascinated by both science and mysticism. It covers both in great depth and detail. The essential teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen are carefully distilled and the unifying principles of these paths are identified. The one characteristic all these '-isms' share is the awareness of unity of the connectedness of the whole. Capra compares and contrasts classical and modern physics while integrating the mystical truths as discovered in these religions. It is a daunting undertaking but he succeeds with aplomb! The close parallels between Eastern mysticism and modern physics (quantum physics) is amazing - each approaches reality from a different starting point but arrives at the same place. Capra writes about the cosmic dance of particle, energy, and consciousness - highly complex topics, in a very readable manner. He touches upon Geoffrey Chew's S-matrix theory (bootstrap philosophy) and Bohm's theory of Implicate Order. He calls the paradigm shift we are experiencing "a crisis of perception" from which all problems in the world arise. The manner in which scientific ideas are interspersed with mystical concepts is truly astonishing! Fritjof Capra manages to precipitate the essential kernal of truth from apparent divergent viewpoints ...This is a great book for anyone exploring the relationship of the rational scientific view and mysticism, i.e., the spiritual journey. This is a very valuable book for the modern world. Erika Borsos (bakonyvilla)

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Summary: The other reviews say it all, but I thought I would add my recommendation.

In 122 pages and a plain, readable style this book tells you everything you need to punctuate well, and makes you wonder why you ever found punctuation difficult. Forget Eats Shoots and Leaves; this is the real deal.

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Summary: Studio sulle origini dello sviluppo capitalistico in Italia

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Summary: Anyone interested in the (currently much disputed) philosophical issues surrounding the study of history should read this one. Carr doesn't sit on the fence - instead makes his position clear and with a refreshingly simple and easy (though nontheless articulate) use of language which is sadly missing from other work in this area of discussion.

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Summary: This fully comprehensive general introduction to Criminology covers all the major areas of the discipline. It serves students in their first and second years as a core text and acts as a starting point for more advanced work for third-year students doing criminology degrees. Key topics covered are the history of criminology, measurement of crime, crime and social exclusion, criminological theory, the criminal justice system, categories of crime, including property crime, violent crime, drugs and crime and crimes of the state and new areas such as environmental crime and the globalization of crime.

Especially designed to be user-friendly each chapter contains boxed material on current controversies, key thinkers, and examples of crime and criminal justice around the world with statistical tables, maps, summaries, critical thinking questions, annotated references, and glossed key terms.

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Summary: This is Martin Gardner's classic edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking-Glass, annotated to explain, for the modern reader, the wealth of hidden references in the books: mathematics, chess, logic, Victorian politics, the original poems Carroll parodied, and much more.

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Summary: Una straordinaria storia del mare. Gli inizi misteriosi. I mari antichi. Il vento, il sole, le maree. L'uomo e il mare

Summary: The Sea Around Us is wonderfully written and it's a must for all who are fascinated by the sea and the oceans.
Tides and tidal bores, land and underwater rivers, volcanoes, tidal waves, el nino, the impact of weather etc, how our oceans work around the world - east to west and pole to pole - it's all there, clear and concise yet easy to follow.

Summary: I read the original version of this book published in 1962, and I believe this book should be compulsory reading not only for every person who says that s/he cares for the environment, but also for those that say they don't care. Maybe it'll make them care. The book is a strong indictment against the chemical industry and the havoc that their products create in every part of the world (including our cosy homes), about the dangers of more and more insects and pests becoming resistent to chemicals and a strong call to look for alternatives that do not damage all our lives (animal, plant and human). But when I read the newspapers, not much appears to have changed in almost 40 years: many of us (especially politicians) still live in the back pockets of the chemical industry! After all, money and jobs are more important than saving what is left, isn't it?

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Summary: A contribution to the Theory and Practice of Planning

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Summary: Le parole e le cose nel pensiero primitivo

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Summary: Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or, in the most economical fashion, you write your own code out in a text file, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. "HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide" will teach you what you need to know quickly.
The book covers the latest specifications of HTML 4 set by the World Wide Web Consortium, from the most basic tags that place text, images and links on the page to more complex ones that set up tables, frames or forms. New to this fourth edition, the book provides a chapter on debugging, including browser compatibility issues, expanded sections on Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, and CGI scripts for use with forms.
As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, "HTML 4" features clear and concise instructions side-by-side with well-captioned illustrations and screenshots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a good reference book for intermediate users who are already familiar with basic HTML but need help with specific topics.
The book also includes extensive and useful appendices. One offers a chart that describes each tag (along with its compatibility with Netscape Navigator and/or Internet Explorer.) Other appendices show the code for special symbols, hexadecimal equivalents for RGB colours and a comparison chart for some of the HTML editors on the market. All in all, this is the perfect desktop reference for Web designers. --"Angelynn Grant, Amazon.com"
Topics covered: HTML code for creating Web pages, including formatting text, images, links, colours, tables, frames, forms, embedded multimedia clips, cascading style sheets, basic javascript actions like rollovers, finer points like drop caps and page counters, debugging code, browser compatibility issues, publishing pages on the internet, registering with search engines. --"Sarah Taylor"

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Summary: Gli esordi di un'economia-mondo, gli sviluppi dell'industrializzazione, il neo-capitalismo e il suo successo, la contesa fra i paesi più avanzati, l'ascesa dell'Asia e la rivalsa della Russia, i problemi del sottosviluppo e quelli di governo del mercato globale, l'avvento dell'informatica, la ricerca di un nuovo modello sociale, uno scenario geo-economico senza più frontiere. Valerio Castronovo traccia, in forma chiara e accessibile, un profilo d'insieme su scala mondiale degli eventi che hanno segnato la storia economica e sociale nel corso del tempo sino ai giorni nostri.

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