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The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home be...

Tom Wolfe (1931-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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The Soviet project of creating a new culture and society entailed a planfor the modeling of "new" persons who embodied and fulfilled the promiseof socialism, and this vision was expressed in the institutions of government. Usingarchival sources, essays, and interviews with journalists, Thomas C. Wolfe providesan account of the final four decades of Soviet history viewed through the lens ofjournalism and media. Whereas most studies of the Sovie...

Not quite three years old at the time of the Stock Market Crash in October 1929, the author spent the next twelve years experiencing the consequences of the Great Depression. Kindergarten in 1931 began school days that proceeded in lockstep with the depression years. These were life shaping experiences taking place at a time of growing unrest among nations. Personal values were shaped by the challenges of daily living. Everyone was affected by...

Not quite three years old at the time of the Stock Market Crash in October 1929, the author spent the next twelve years experiencing the consequences of the Great Depression. Kindergarten in 1931 began school days that proceeded in lockstep with the depression years. These were life shaping experiences taking place at a time of growing unrest among nations. Personal values were shaped by the challenges of daily living. Everyone was affected by...

Provides a rapid-reference, expert guide to all you need to know about gastrointestinal drugs, including dosing, indications and pharmacology, and all brought to you by one of the world's leading names in GI drug development. No other book in this area can match this.

Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issue including neuroaesthetics, brain science and the law, neurofeminism, embodiment, race, memory and pain.

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Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issue including neuroaesthetics, brain science and the law, neurofeminism, embodiment, race, memory and pain.

20 projects using wire, metal, beads, braids and resin, as well as lots of other materials.

Dalla morte al mattino" è una raccolta di segmenti narrativi ritagliati da un'unica, enorme opera che Thomas Wolfe non ha mai smesso di rielaborare durante i dodici anni che ha dedicato alla scrittura. Da questo processo di riduzione, operato dall'autore insieme al suo editor del tempo Max Perkins, nasce "From Death to Morning", uscito nel 1935 e qui proposto per la prima volta in lingua italiana nella forma che lo stesso autore avrebbe voluto...

In 1861 two religious traditions collided on Saint Helena Island. Already firmly entrenched on the island, the slaves' religion represented a mixture of Southern evangelicalism and African practices. The other, newer tradition would be an imported faith found primarily at the Penn School established for the islanders by Northern missionaries whose Protestantism emphasized citizenship, character development, service, and self-discipline.In The ...

If one looks at the history of philosophy (Aristotle, Lucretius, Augustine, Montaigne, Malebranche, Locke, Leibniz, and Diderot, to name some crucial figures) the right way, monsters (not 'mythical' entities but rather those forms of life which we would now call biological anomalies, teratogenic accidents of embryogenesis, etc.) simply leap off the page. Whether out of a desire to understand biological reality, or a more metaphysical concern w...

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My TimeMost people live their lives on a day to day basis. Our planning calendar is booked for three to seven days in the future. We seldom take a step back and look at recent events in perspective.This book is intended to provide that perspective look at events that shaped the course of our lives. Only in retrospect do we realize the changes that have occurred and influenced events of our lives.This process might be compared to watching an "O...

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