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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.

È un compito difficile, o addirittura "impossibile" come scriveva Sigmund Freud, fare i genitori? È sicuramente difficile perché più o meno consciamente si vorrebbe a propria immagine e somiglianza un figlio che, invece, può prendere strade imprevedibili e inattese. Troppo spesso si desidera letteralmente costruirlo, mentre si può solo preparare il terreno in cui crescerà, curandolo, proteggendolo e amandolo. Questo libro illustra come sono cambiate le famiglie negli ultimi anni e come sono cambiati i padri e le madri.

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.

The overall focus of The Seven Games of Leadership is simple: the disruptive moment in which we find ourselves living - the combined effect of the fourth industrial revolution, climate change, political divisions/fake news, COVID 19, wealth distribution, immigration, and so on - demands that we are our own agents of change. We can start our own revolutions in order to live the most rewarding lives possible - we just need to know how to do it. The Seven Games of Leadership provides the tools and practical advice you need to reassess your priorities.

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.

Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres today, including George R. R. Martin, Hugh Howey, Junot Díaz, David Brin, and many more. This eclectic mix of tales explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and harbingers of the biblical apocalypse.

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.

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.

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 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.

"Pensez avec votre cerveau droit !" : derrière cette injonction familière se cache une vision binaire, celle d'un hémisphère droit siège de la créativité, de l'intuition, de la spiritualité, etc. qui serait sous la coupe d'un hémisphère gauche analytique et froid. Or les neurosciences ont montré qu'il était temps d'en finir avec ces mythes éculés. Médecin et chercheur, Paolo Bartolomeo révèle dans cet ouvrage une tout autre réalité, à l'issue d'une passionnante enquête scientifique reposant sur de nombreux cas cliniques.

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.

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.

Quei tre ragazzi che si tuffano in piscina, nudi, di nascosto, entrano come un vento nella vita di Teresa. Sono poco più che bambini, hanno corpi e desideri incontrollati e puri, proprio come lei. I prossimi vent'anni li passeranno insieme nella masseria lì accanto, a seminare, raccogliere, distruggere, alla pazza ricerca di un fuoco che li tenga accesi. Al centro di tutto c'è sempre Bern, un magnete che attira gli altri e li spinge oltre il limite, con l'intensità di chi conosce solo passioni assolute: Dio, il sesso, la natura, un figlio.

"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.

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.

Un voyage fantastique vers les merveilles de la Ville Éternelle : le Forum romain, le Panthéon, les Thermes de Caracalla, le Théâtre de Pompée, le Forum d'Auguste, le Colisée y le Palatin.

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the centre of Mediaeval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of financial crisis, it was here that the foundations of modern banking were born. In Money and Promises, the distinguished financier, entrepreneur and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the fascinating, complex relationship between states and banks.