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In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.

Interviste fatte da Paolo Avanzi a scrittori, artisti, personaggi della cultura.Queste interviste sono state trasmesse su radio web nel 2023 e 2024.

Lo specchio infranto. Romanzo di Paolo Avanzi. Albatros editore.Letture e riflessioni.

Estratto dal romanzo “Lo specchio infranto” di Paolo Avanzi. Albatros editore.

A quasi un anno dalla scomparsa di Silvio Berlusconi, Paolo Del Debbio ragiona sul-l'eredità politica di una delle figure più emblematiche della Seconda Repubblica. Su quale sia il lascito, ma soprattutto l'attualità del programma del 1994 di Forza Italia. L'avventura politica di Silvio Berlusconi è stata ricca di successi. La forza delle sue idee, il linguaggio sempre chiaro e diretto, le intuizioni, le alleanze e le strategie pensate con lungimiranza hanno cambiato il modo di fare politica e di comunicarla.

Incipit del romanzo

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.

Vous voulez vous initier à l'italien ? Vous avez envie de réactiver vos connaissances ? "40 leçons pour parler italien" est un outil d'auto-apprentissage complet et progressif.

In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota - and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.

In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man - a bioengineered war beast named Tool - who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses.

Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the mountains that surround Italy. While on vacation at the foot of the Aosta Valley, Pietro meets Bruno, an adventurous, spirited local boy. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountains’ meadows and peaks and discover the similarities and differences in their lives, their backgrounds, and their futures. The two boys come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie, even as their divergent paths in life.

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming haven stifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parish priest. The residents have other things on their mind: literature. Everyone’s a writer - the nights are alive with reworked manuscripts. So when the devil turns up in a black car claiming to be a hot-shot publisher, unsatisfied authorial desires are unleashed and the village’s former harmony is shattered.

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science-fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.

"Quel que soit notre destin, il habite les montagnes au-dessus de nos têtes." Pietro est un garçon de la ville, Bruno un enfant des montagnes. Ils ont 11 ans et tout les sépare. Dès leur rencontre à Grana, au cœur du val d'Aoste, Bruno initie Pietro aux secrets de la montagne. Ensemble, ils parcourent alpages, forêts et glaciers, puisant dans cette nature sauvage les prémices de leur amitié. Vingt ans plus tard, c'est dans ces mêmes montagnes et auprès de ce même ami que Pietro tentera de se réconcilier avec son passé - et son avenir.

God and the Self in Hegel proposes a reconstruction of Hegel’s conception of God and analyzes the significance of this reading for Hegel’s idealistic metaphysics. Paolo Diego Bubbio argues that in Hegel’s view, subjectivism—the tenet that there is no underlying “true” reality that exists independently of the activity of the cognitive agent—can be avoided, and content can be restored to religion, only to the extent that God is understood in God’s relation to human beings, and human beings are understood in their relation to God.

Pietro è un ragazzino di città, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di periferia, e farsi carico degli altri è il suo talento. Il padre è un chimico, un uomo ombroso e affascinante, che torna a casa ogni sera dal lavoro carico di rabbia. I genitori di Pietro sono uniti da una passione comune, fondativa: in montagna si sono conosciuti, innamorati, si sono addirittura sposati ai piedi delle Tre Cime di Lavaredo.

Tutto comincia con Delitto e castigo, un romanzo che Paolo Nori legge da ragazzo: è una iniziazione e, al contempo, un'avventura. La scoperta è a suo modo violenta: quel romanzo, pubblicato centododici anni prima, a tremila chilometri di distanza, apre una ferita che non smette di sanguinare. "Sanguino ancora. Perché?" si chiede Paolo Nori, e la sua è una risposta altrettanto sanguinosa, anzi è un romanzo che racconta di un uomo che non ha mai smesso di trovarsi tanto spaesato quanto spietatamente esposto al suo tempo.

Volume Audiobooks presenta l'audiolibro "Fantozzi", dal libro capolavoro di Paolo Villaggio del 1971, letto e interpretato magistralmente dallo stesso autore Paolo Villaggio. Uno dei più grandi best seller italiani di sempre, che ha dato origine alla saga della maschera comica più popolare del cinema italiano, in versione aggiornata e con l'aggiunta di capitoli inediti.

Tool, a half man/half beast designed for combat, is capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed. He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered "augments" and emerged a victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys. But he is hunted relentlessly by someone determined to destroy him, who knows an alarming secret: Tool has found the way to resist his genetically ingrained impulses of submission and loyalty toward his masters....

Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, the last archmage in the world. Together they try to collect all the magic for themselves so they can control the citizens of the city. But when their decadence reaches new heights and begins to destroy the environment, the people stage an uprising to stop them.