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  • Separate Rooms

    **“A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart. I want everyone to read it; I want to press it into people’s hands. Surely one of the best novels I’ve ever read.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is LostA LitHub and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book • An Observer Pride Month ReadSoon to be a major film adaptation by Luca ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Systems View of Life

    A Unifying Vision

    Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and ... Read more

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  • Petrolio

    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Notorious writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final novel—visionary, phenomenally strange, and unfinished at the time of his brutal murder—tells a fragmentary and characteristically provocative story of an oil executive split between the desire to dominate and the desire to be dominated.Seventeen years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brutal death, his sprawling, unfinished magnum opus was ... Read more

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  • The Long Road of Sand

    Summer 1959. Pier Paolo Pasolini, driving a Fiat Millecento, travelled along the Italian coastline, to carry out La lunga strada di sabbia [The Long Road of Sand]: a wide report commissioned by the magazine Successo on Italy between tradition and transformation, middle-class holidays and remains of a difficult post-war period. After forty years, the photographer Philippe Séclier has travelled ... Read more

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  • Mind and Life

    Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

    Series series Columbia Series in Science and Religion
    Scientists, philosophers and Buddhist scholars discuss the nature of reality in a book that goes inside a Mind and Life Institute conference.For over a decade, members of the Mind and Life Institute have gathered to discuss questions that are both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and ... Read more

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  • Small Steps to Big Changes

    A Workbook

    by Pier Pagano ...
    Small Steps To Big Changes, a companion book to No One Can Tell You Who You Are Except You, is an interactive workbook of essays and related exercises designed to help each of us connect to personal happiness by uncovering our authentic selves. In order to shift blockages or encumbrances in one's life and create change, old patterns need to be revisited and discarded. It is a guided and serious ... Read more

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  • No One Can Tell You Who You Are Except You

    A Simple Guide To Knowing Your True Self

    by Pier Pagano ...
    No One Can Tell You Who You Are Except You A Simple Guide To Knowing Your True Self Your guide to repattern the blueprint you were born with and create the life you deserve. Pier Pagano's practical book of essays and exercises will inspire, motivate and teach you how to use your own powerful tools to make peace with your past and embrace your present and future possibilities. Learn how the traits ... Read more

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  • Boys Alive

    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors.Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first work of fiction and it remains his best known. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini's move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and ... Read more

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  • The Divine Mimesis

    Translated by Thomas E. Peterson ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Century
    In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cracked House

    Steven Wakefield and his family recently moved to the suburbs, and they have been enjoying their life there. All was fine until one night an earthquake shook them. But the night outside the house was quiet, and their neighbors felt nothing. How could the earthquake be localized to a single house?Days passed and things seemed to return to normal when another earthquake cracked the house. It took ... Read more

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  • Stories from the City of God

    Sketches and Chronicles of Rome

    Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome.In a portrait of the city at once poignant and intimate, we find artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, marginalization ... Read more

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  • The Calm Flashes of the Mind: A Novel

    The mechanism in which asignificant images arise (those images that suddenly appear in one’s mind, with no direct connection to the present moment) is the field being researched by Marcel, a neuroscience researcher and staunch rationalist who lives and works in a Zurich, influenced by Jungian psychology.This is where he meets Anna, a musician, with whom he finally appears to have a vibrant and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus