Giovanni: 1569 books

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This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that “reads like an encyclopedia on the subject” (Portland Book Review). In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought...

Monaci e monasteri hanno cessato da tempo di far parte della comune esperienza degli abitanti d'Europa. Non hanno cessato di esistere ma non figurano più tra gli incontri ordinari e ricorrenti del suo paesaggio storico. Solo ne restano qua e là le imponenti vestigia: mascherate nelle città, dove...

La Repubblica italiana ha non uno ma molti padri, ma le decisioni cruciali prese nell'arco di un intero decennio portano tutte impresse il nome di De Gasperi. Nel settembre del 1943, alla nascita del Comitato di liberazione nazionale, atto fondativo di una Repubblica dei partiti che ancora non c'è,...

This is the best book we have ever seen to show the shortness and uncertainty of life and why we should live in anticipation of and preparation for death. Says we should not live being afraid to die because we are not prepared; but realizing that death is one's grand entrance into true life; if one...

An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, making this writing as pertinent today as it was in the Fifteenth Century.

De tout ce qu’il advient par le monde et des passions humaines vous tracer le tableau, telle est mon intention, dans ces nouvelles. Au moyen de certain récit assez gracieux, je veux aujourd’hui vous démontrer, ô belles dames, que souvent l’occasion fait le larron. Si l’on place devant lui...

I assure you, though, there is nothing trite about coming down with Guillain-Barr syndrome. For the person hit by it, it's war and revolution wrapped in one: A catastrophe, an upheaval, a devastating blow. But also an invaluable experience and a possibility for renewal. I wouldn't be...

An amazing collection of weird and funny stories from China.

It is not that God created or caused us; rather that God indwelling through Christ is creating or causing us. In the time we have and with what we are given in that time, it is for us to exist with ultimate existential significance, meaning and purpose. In the most simple of terms, reality...

The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly on the far-right of the political spectrum. They see themselves as victims of the EU “technocracy” and liberal moral values, and look for...

Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most successful homicide detectives on the Naples police front. But the horror of his visions has hollowed him out emotionally....

A GIANT AMONG ADVENTURERS AND EXPLORERS Among the noted explorers and adventurers of the great age of discovery, few can compare with the Great Belzoni. No study of the modern exploration of ancient Egypt is complete without his extraordinary work. Once a circus strongman, trained...

Roma, febbraio 2013. Nei giorni che intercorrono tra le dimissioni di Benedetto xvi e l’elezione di papa Francesco, il commissario Ponzetti viene chiamato in Vaticano per indagare sulla morte di un sacerdote, il “prete di San Damaso”, che tutte le settimane teneva affollate catechesi in una...