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“dominique simon”

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  • The world in a sea

    Catholics and the Mediterranean during the Pontificate of Pius XII

    by Simone Azzopardi, Dominique Avon, Nicholas Joseph Doublet, Carlos Veci Lavín, Massimo de Leonardis, Roberto Regoli, Paolo Valvo ...
    The Mediterranean, both a sea and a theatre, has served throughout history as a fundamental crossroads for the political-religious dynamics and international tensions that characterize the various worlds, east and west, south and north, that meet in this basin. Starting from these premises, the present work examines - within a chronological span that goes from the conclusion of the Second World ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Survive!

    How to Survive Anything, Anywhere

    by Guy Campbell, Steve Martin, Dominique Enright, Juliana Foster, Guy MacDonald, Martin Oliver, Lottie Stride, Tracey Turner ...
    Illustrated by Simon Ecob, Katy Jackson, Stuart Taylor, David Shephard ...
    When everyone around you is panicking, it's time to take control and be everyone's hero. Survive! explains all the skills you'll need to get through even the toughest day. Entries include: how to survive a tornado; how to build an igloo; how to carry someone to safety; how to read a compass; how to survive a snakebite; how to survive an avalanche; how to repair a spacecraft; how to make your own ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • In the Closet of the Vatican

    Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy; THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    by Frederic Martel ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    The New York Times Bestseller'[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption' - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four years' authoritative research, including extensive interviews with those in power.The celibacy of priests, the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Invention of Sicily

    A Mediterranean History

    by Jamie Mackay ...
    Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture.A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Padre Pio

    Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age

    by Sergio Luzzatto ...
    Translated by Frederika Randall ...
    Winner of the Cundill History PrizeThe first historical appraisal of the astonishing life and times of a controversial twentieth-century saint.Padre Pio is one of the world's most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His tomb is the most visited Catholic shrine anywhere, drawing more devotees than Lourdes. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Garibaldi

    by Lucy Riall ...
    Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories

    by R. J. B. Bosworth ...

    $25.19 USD

  • Cities of Strangers

    Making Lives in Medieval Europe

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Donkey and the Boat

    Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    by Hannah Marcus ...
    "Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes." — Times Higher EducationForbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fortunes of the Courtier

    The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

    by Peter Burke ...
    This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD