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Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these 34 dazzling stories - collected here in one definitive anthology - relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world.

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge French army. Against all odds, Garibaldi was determined to turn defeat into moral victory.

Roberto Calasso's The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch—every verse—may offer some revelation.

Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out. Overwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise that eventually leads him to take up meditation. This was the very last place Parks anticipated finding answers.

Landscape photography questions are answered by our core team of Tim Parkin and Joe Cornish with monthly featured guests. Part of On Landscape magazine.

Att 2021 kommer bli ett speciellt år, det är vi nog alla överens om. Att det finns podcasts utan innehåll, det är vi nog också överens om. För att få ett "bryt" från denna trend kommer Aronsson och Park göra en unik podd, med innehåll.Låter det spännande?Innehållet i denna podd kommer att vara Hockey och Tennis i en unik kombination, blandat med mycket annat surr.Välkomna Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast gives you a glimpse into different KY artists lives. We break down the music and the human being as well. But most importantly we always have a great time!

Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge, and that's a big advantage. Beth has been working as a server, assisting in the kitchen and helping out - discreetly, so the meditators aren't disturbed. The meditators are making big sacrifices to come here and change their lives. So the servers must observe the rules, and silence and separation of the sexes are chief among them.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.

There are endless stories in a school of 1,900 students. Meet the people at Kingwood Park High School in Texas through the newest channel on KP Media Podcast Network.

Detta är en podcast där vi kommer lägga fokus på världens bästa hockeyliga, NHL! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bienvenidos a Air Time, el podcast de parques de Danolo y Tilldrop. Somos Dani García (Danolo) y Màrius Tomé (Tilldrop). Únete a nosotros cada domingo para charlar de parques temáticos y de atracciones, montañas rusas, novedades, y cualquier tema de actualidad relacionado con este mundo que tanto nos apasiona. Un podcast hecho por y para los entusiastas. ¡Sube, tiembla, grita, repite!