Massimo: 1008 books

The financing of modern construction projects reflects the need to address the costs and benefits of the whole life of the project. This means that end of life economics can now have a far greater impact on the planning and feasibility phases. During the project itself, decisions on construction materials...

Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one of science’s best-established findings. Parents still refuse to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link has been consistently disproved. And about...

How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science. In Answers for Aristotle, Pigliucci argues that the combination...

The Inconvenient Truth about Online Advertising and Social Media. Are brands really created by “branding campaigns”? Is there a single banner ad that was so brilliant or so effective that we all remember it? What has “display advertising” on the web become, if not the reign of large-scale,...

In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization,...

"Swim Sweet strani amori" è un romanzo adolescenziale scritto in prima persona. I protagonisti sono un gruppo di nuotatori che tra studio e piscina si imbattono in avventure di amori sanguigni e passionali, alla scoperta del sesso e dell’amore in tutte le sue forme. Usciti di casa...

Fumetto - fumetto (40 pagine) - Da dove pensate che arrivino tutti i personaggi dei libri o dei film dell’orrore che tanto adorate? Da Horrorville, naturalmente! Horrorville è una “saga” a fumetti dove ogni albo è composto da diverse storie autoconclusive di genere horror/thriller presentate...

“One for the road” is a widely used toast around the English-speaking world. The origin of this expression is linked to the London tradition of offering a drink to those sentenced to death during the journey of the approximately three miles which separated them from Tyburn Tree and the gallows....

Herodotus tells us that not all of the three hundred Spartan warriors died at the hands of Xerxes, King of the Persians, in the battle of the Thermopylae: two were saved bringing a life-saving message back to the city . . . Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Spartan is the saga of a Spartan family,...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Tyrant starts in Sicily 412 BC: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Over the next eight years, Dionysius'...

The 4th century BC. A village in Syria. A woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead . . . Her story encompasses one of...

ZOMBIE - Dopo la torre ponte-radio delle allucinazioni, i quattro Nomads continuano la discesa verso la Stazione 28. La minaccia degli infetti è costante e la fame e la sete si fanno sentire: Korvin, Red-Eye, Doc e Jester hanno bisogno di un rifugio. Lo troveranno nella Casa del Signore. O forse...

Catalogo della mostra aperta presso la Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Latina dal 13 giugno al 18 luglio 2015. Antonio Fiore, nato a Segni nel 1938, è considerato dalla critica specialistica l’erede dei futuristi dell’ultima generazione. Non si considera però un epigono del...

Tredici autori di talento e fama raccontano altrettante storie in cui il filo conduttore è l’intreccio inestricabile tra bene e male che caratterizza ogni buon noir. Tredici racconti profondamente diversi tra loro, mai banali. Maria Silvia Avanzato racconta la storia di un’anziana innamorata,...