An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrantFrom his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. and Japan[...]
Il cinema di Ingmar Bergman, il Genio di Uppsala, spiegato a chi lo ignora attraverso le recensioni di 18 grandi film e due saggi sull'influenza sui suoi film della filosofia di Kierkegaard e del teatro di Strindbergh.[...]
'But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine.' Four personal, sun-drenched sketches of Lawrence's experiences in Italy. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little[...]
Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction writers today, Perec used formal constraints to dazzling effe[...]
This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history [...]
This is a Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regime. Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared t[...]
Uno spirito pellegrino, un'anima proveniente dal mondo dei morti diviene involontariamente un ODybbuqO, uno spirito possessore. Un ragazzo senza pi un corpo da abitare viene invece catapultato OaltroveO. Due gemelli nati dal peccato scoprono di avere virt oltre le possibilit DEGREES terrene. Il [...]
Questo racconto narra le vicende di un gatto molto speciale, in grado di parlare E' proprio attraverso Smoke - questo il nome del gatto, razza scottish fold - che viene trasmesso nel racconto l'amore per gli animali e per la Scozia, una terra piena di magia. Smoke, insieme con il suo amico Peter,[...]
Francesca Caccini (1587-ca.1640) was an accomplished composer, singer, and instrumentalist in the tradition of the Florentine Camerata. Her 1618 volume Il primo libro delle musiche was dedicated to her patron the Cardinal dei Medici (1596-1666). This modern critical edition presents 17 secular monod[...]
"When the sky grows dark
and the moon glows bright,
everyone goes to sleep . . .
except for the watchful owl
"With a spare, soothing text and beautifully rich and textured illustrations of a starry night, this is the perfect "book of sleep." Join the owl on his moonlit journey as he w[...]