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Told as a story of cosmic beginnings, this version of Pinocchio is about the formative energy and magic that reside in the wood that becomes the boy. This version is also about life on the molecular...

Perella's translation and introductory essay capture the wit, irony, ambiguity, and social satire of the original nineteenth-century text, finally reclaiming Pinocchio for adult readers. It also...

A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher’s eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi...

Pinocchio in Venice is a carnivalesque reemersion in the well-known fairy tale – as well as magic realism, Mann’s Death in Venice, and Nabokov’s Lolita – with the puppet, now an aged Nobel Prize...

The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished puppet can talk and...

A young woman enters a fantastically strange family in this "luminous and alarming lesson on desire" by the international-bestselling author (La Stampa, Italy). A young woman is promised to the...

In this rousing study, Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need a new approach to fundamental questions to turn back neoliberal economic policy. The Struggle for Development and Democracy makes the...

The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the...

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a...

What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or "evo-devo") answers this fundamental question by showing how evolution...

“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”—The Wall...

"Takes us to the heart of Amazon's empire and masterfully unpacks the intensive labor, hyper-surveillance, and gamification of work that warehouse laborers experience each day."--Veenav Dubal,...

Questo volume si inserisce nel panorama di un vivace, recente interesse per l'opera di Alessandro di Afrodisia, autore assai significativo nella storia del pensiero filosofico, e tuttavia...

Nessun uomo politico del Novecento ha inciso più di Mussolini sulla memoria storica e sull'immaginario, privato e pubblico, degli italiani, condizionando negativamente il loro legame con il passato...

Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in Natural Architecture have transformed the...

Come si fa a credere nel sogno americano dopo "Il grande Gatsby"? E cosa sognano gli americani dopo Trump? Il giovane romano che abita queste pagine arriva a Princeton, l'università dei sogni in cui...

« Que se trame-t-il exactement sur la Zad de Notre-Dame-des-Landes ? Notre anthropologue dessinateur mène l'enquête : s'agit-il d'un kyste peuplé de hippies violents ? Trop drogués pour comprendre...