How To Travel With A Salmon. and Other Essays, Paperback - Umberto Eco

Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umbert...

A collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces published in English. Organized into ...

But who are 'they'?HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - includ...

Reducere. Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, "anger is often a pr...

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Reducere. Think you have to suppress your sense of wanderlust now that you're a parent? Think again In How to Travel With Kids (Without Losing Your Mind), pa...

Reducere. Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the ...

Reducere. "Underscores the writer's profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco's pleasure in such explorations i...

Reducere. How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on lin...

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Reducere. A selection of twenty-nine essays. " Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everyth...

Reducere. Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other ne...

Reducere. Anarchism and Other Essays, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extrem...

Reducere. „Odata cu atmosfera specifica romanelor lui Eco, Numarul zero lasa sa se vada, cu o amara eficienta, partea intunecata a vietii Italiei de la incep...

Reducere. •Autor distins cu Premiul Strega pentru literatura in 1981 Editie noua, cu desenele si insemnarile pregatitoare ale autorului In anul 1327, intr-o ...

Reducere. In anii ’90, un om de afaceri dubios stringe un grup de ziaristi pentru a pregati un numar de proba – numarul zero – al unui cotidian dedicat nu at...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of...

Reducere. Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anth...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Reducere. Traducere si note de Stefania Mincu Postfata de Marin Mincu Pendulul lui Foucault este un roman elaborat cu ingeniozitate inginereasca, in care mis...

Reducere. Cimitirul din Praga are in centru aventurile misteriosului Simonini, un personaj ciudat, cu lacune de memorie si dubla personalitate. Nu se stie ex...

Reducere. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) a urmat cursurile Universitatii din Torino, luindu-si licenta in estetica. in anii ’60 a fost unul dintre exponentii de fru...

Reducere. Pe umerii gigantilor reprezinta pentru cititorii lui Umberto Eco un eveniment cu totul deosebit. Departe de salile de curs din universitati, de con...

Reducere. The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name o...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as ...

Reducere. The six essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later scepticism that ...

DescriptionAn irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spuff...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Monique WittigNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 142 x 216 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generat...

Author of How Fiction Works James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff, he confirms his pr...

Reducere. Insula din ziua de ieri (1994) este al treilea roman al medievistului si semioticianului Umberto Eco. Roberto della Griva, un tinar nobil italian d...

Reducere. A repackaged edition of the revered author's anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis--the great Bri...

Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only...

Reducere. "Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to l...

Reducere. Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau's popular essays included here: Civil Disobed...