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Questa storia parla di un saudita non poi così ricco, né così carismatico, né così brillante, che l'incontro con un medico egiziano ha trasformato nell'immagine stessa del terrore globale, di una vicenda ormai molto lunga (e qui ricostruita in modo scrupoloso, con una quantità di particolari inediti), nata alla lettera dalle pagine roventi che il padre fondatore del "jihad" moderno, Sayyid Qutb, scrisse negli anni Quaranta durante il suo lungo...

A New York Times Notable BookNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn NPR Best Book of the YearGod Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas...

Originally published in 1983, this book is about the way we see things ¿ or think we do, which is by no means the same ¿ and about the ways in which we have tried to reproduce that visual concept in diagrams, pictures, photographs, films and television.

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Lawrence Wright has written for many years for The New Yorker and is the author of the bestselling The Looming Tower, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

È la storia della civiltà "in bagno", ordinata cronologicamente dalla preistoria ai giorni nostri e arricchita da aneddoti interessanti e notizie curiose. Ha ragione l'autore quando afferma che la storia dei popoli si impara meglio nelle loro stanze da bagno che dai loro campi di battaglia? Sigfried Giedion ha scritto: "per uno storico non esistono cose troppo banali". Lo storico di oggi infatti riesce a vedere caratteri di una società rifless...

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Per molti anni, la guerra al terrorismo islamico è stata la caccia a un fantasma che aveva il volto e il nome di Osama bin Laden. Poi un giorno, all'improvviso, quel fantasma è stato ucciso, e il suo corpo scaraventato nell'Oceano Indiano. Ma mentre dagli abissi quel volto e quel nome continuavano a perseguitarci, nelle nostre città, nelle nostre strade, i fantasmi sono diventati legioni: colpiscono e, che vengano o no identificati, subito tor...

A New York Times Notable BookNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn NPR Best Book of the YearGod Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas...

A New York Times Notable BookNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn NPR Best Book of the YearGod Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas...

Ganador del premio Pulitzer por La torre elevada, Lawrence Wright es considerado uno de los periodistas más prestigiosos en temas de terrorismo y Oriente Medio. Los reportajes reunidos en Los años del terror buscan dar explicación a la metamorfosis y la expansión de al-Qaeda desde sus orígenes en los años noventa hasta nuestros días, con el surgimiento del Estado Islámico. Desde el indeleble recuento de su estancia por Arabia Saudí, pasando po...

This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it with numerous high-quality images, specifically designed to make the challenging theoretical concepts accessible. The book begins with an historical introduction that provides a great deal of information about orienting, much of which will be new even to seasoned r...

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An up-close account of the experience of inner city New York kids—black and Latino, from ghettos and projects—who spent a summer in an Amish and Mennonite farm community in Central Pennsylvania in the late 1970s, sponsored by the Fresh Air Fund. City Chidren, Country Summer follows these children as they navigate two very different worlds, from Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, winner of the 2007 Puli...

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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrot...

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Compelling, original and strongly written, this book tells the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Chosen by many as a 2006 'Book of the Year' this paperback edition has been given a strong mass market look to bring it to a wide audience. 'The most detailed (and thrilling) account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the Twin Towers' "Observer" Books of the Year.