598 results for '"Da Ponte, Lorenzo'

A Junior Library Guild Selection 2017Amazon Top Twenty Children’s Book of the Year 2017Amazon Best Book of the month December 2017Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017Texas Maverick Graphic Novel...

La selezione, la lavorazione e l'impiego dei materiali in architettura rappresentano punti cardine nella progettazione. Una vasta gamma di soluzioni studiate ad hoc rende possibile conferire funzioni...

Hanói é um romance sobre deslocamentos, sobre detalhes que mudam um destino, e sobre a transitoriedade da vida. É também uma história contemporânea sobre o encontro de culturas distintas e...

An inspirational guide to help creatives overcome obstacles and find success―filled with tips, anecdotes, and encouragement for anyone whose working life depends on imaginative thinking.If you have...

As every reader knows, New York defies any single attempt to take its measure. Here is a unique approach: a single-volume, thematically organized history of the city filled with prints, paintings,...

Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics"We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman’s book takes a big first step in paying that debt." —San Francisco Review of Books"Soni and...

A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives”...

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over themCharles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a...

The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect...

When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and...

Die Ost-West-Debatte der Deutschen ist oft von gegenseitigem Unverständnis und Zuspitzungen geprägt. Christina Morina vermeidet die übliche Frontenbildung und rückt - anhand vieler bisher...

A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied...

Historians of the European Jewish experience have long marginalized the intellectual achievement of Jews in England, where it was assumed no seminal figures contributed to the development of modern...

Se in generale la grande letteratura è non solo una lavagna su cui riprodurre creativamente la realtà ma uno strumento per indagarla e comprenderla, Turgenev, Tolstoj e Dostoevskij misero decisamente...

A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives”...

After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the...

Dieses Buch handelt vom Schreiben bei Baudri de Bourgueil, Gervasius von Tilbury, Otto von Freising, Rudolf von Ems und Ulrich von Liechstenstein. Was ihre Texte verbindet, ist ihr Status in dem...

A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the world In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were...

"Delicious and addictive."--Salon.com "Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel."--CNN "What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.“A magisterial portrait.” —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,...