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For many years, vertical integration characterized the international oil industry, with the same company controlling the entire process from crude exploration and production to the retailing. This structure was radically transformed in the 1970s and this book, originally published in 1984, examines...

Dreamscapes i racconti perduti seconda antologia composta da quindi racconti che spaziano dall'horror, fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, fantascienza. Fabio Porfidia è l'illustratore che ha partecipato sia per la copertina che per alcune illustrazioni interne. I racconti inseriti sono disponibili anche singolarmente.

A huge anthology of classic Italian writers with an active table of contents.Authors and works include:Giovanni Boccaccio:The DecameronLa FiammettaBoethius:The Consolation of PhilosophyMarcus Tullius Cicero:De Amicitia, Scipio's DreamHistory of Famous OratorsTreatises on Friendship and Old AgeDante...

YEVU: ruthlessness on the aid system Yevu is a kind of diary of a volunteer doctor in Africa, with a personal analysis of the problems of the Third World. The author uses a concise language, generating somethinng like a report direcly coming from the field. Through the paper, the book is trying...

Bottarelli— A Letter from Pauline— The Avenging Parrot— Pocchini— Guerra, the Venetian— I Meet Sara Again; My Idea of Marrying Her and Settling in Switzerland— The Hanoverian

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW,

About This Book It was his intention to trade a few sword-thrusts in some place or another, and get the business over with. A sparkling new translation tells the tale of a young libertine who finds his rapier wit matched by actual rapiers. In this autobiographical tale, a young...

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women...

I Make a Mistake and Manucci Becomes My Mortal Foe— His Vengeance— I

Le opere di Leopardi sono proposte da UTET in un inedito formato digitale, corredato di un accurato e autorevole compendio esegetico. Dai Canti alle Operette morali, passando per i Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia e i Pensieri, la produzione letteraria del maggior poeta dell'Ottocento italiano...

Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts - a collection of philosophical and critical observations...

Raccolta di 24 scritti brevi in forma di dialogo tra personaggi immaginari ma anche realmente esistiti, ecco un gustoso estratto della più convincente lirica leopardiana che mette in risalto la concretezza della vita e la sua condizione talvolta ignobile e misera. Al suo interno leggerete i dialoghi...

What a strange and unexplained power certain words exercise upon the soul! I, who the evening before so bravely fortified myself with my innocence and courage, by the word tribunal was turned to a stone, with merely the faculty of passive obedience left to me.

Le Operette morali, composte nel 1824 e rimaneggiate fino al 1835, sono una raccolta di racconti e dialoghi che Leopardi dice di aver progettato «quasi per vendicarmi del mondo». Si tratta di scritti che risentono della “conversione filosofica” dell’autore ed esprimono, con la chiarezza di...