Trattasi della prima traduzione in italiano del romanzo di George Sand "Les maîtres mosaïstes". Un dissidio tra due famiglie di mosaicisti che si contendono lavori e guadagni nella Venezia del cinquecento diventa sempre più violento e distruttivo per entrambi. Gli Zuccato sono più creativi e raffinati, i Bianchini meno bravi ma più intriganti. Dopo aver rischiato la prigione e l'esilio la famiglia Zuccato riesce a far prevalere i suoi diritti e la superiorità del suo lavoro. Il tutto in una magnifica Venezia descritta meravigliosamente da Sand con luci ed ombre, pregi e difetti della società del tempo.

Semplicità e buoni sentimenti fanno da sfondo a questo breve romanzo campestre ambientato in una campagna nel centro della Francia. Germain, giovane agricoltore, vedovo e con tre figli da mantenere, vive in casa con i genitori della sua defunta moglie. Un giorno suo suocero lo convince a risposarsi con una giovane vedova che vive in un villaggio vicino. Germain, anche se a malincuore, decide di mettersi in viaggio, portando con sé la sedicenne Marie, figlia della sua vicina di casa, che ha trovato lavoro presso una fattoria sulla strada. Il viaggio si rivelerà pieno di insidie e disavventure, ma avvicinerà i due giovani e li farà innamorare.

Cleft Lip and Palate Management: A Comprehensive Atlas—with more than 850 photographs and illustrations—provides the latest concepts about the surgical/orthodontic interrelation in cleft lip and palate treatment. Dr. Bennun and his team detail the diagnostic techniques to determine the best treatment protocols for optimal results and decreased chance of retreatment.

The first part explains the principles of cleft and palate treatment, including the role of tissue engineering in craniofacial surgery. Part 2 details the aspects of primary surgical reconstruction, Part 3 discusses orthodontic treatments of cleft lip and palate, including a chapter on adult treatment, and Part 4 covers how to improve results in interdisciplinary treatment. Case presentations include results of treatment after 20-year follow up visits. Ideal for oral and maxillofacial surgeons, pediatric plastic surgeons, orthodontists, pediatric dentists, and residents in these specialties.

“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.”

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.

After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.

Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.


From the Hardcover edition.

Originally published as by the actor George Sanders, this domestic mystery by science fiction author Leigh Brackett is the story of a rich heel who comes back to get even with those who thought they had left him for dead.

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Change is inevitable. Managing change is a choice.

Authored by three esteemed leaders in the field of student affairs, Making Change Happen in Student Affairs: Challenges and Strategies for Professionals is a thought-provoking and pragmatic guide to the increasingly complex challenges and expectations that administrators face from both students and the public. Whether it's pressure to provide better programs and services with fewer resources, or difficulties grappling with economic challenges and technological change, the book teaches how to become an effective leader and skillful strategist in order to respond to a rapidly changing landscape.

Readers will learn to change their thinking about how they approach challenges by reframing their purpose, role, and function as leaders. Each chapter includes specific concepts and tools that can be used to tackle the most complex campus issues and develop effective plans of action. You'll learn how to:

• Manage financial resources and supervise staff effectively
• Advocate for specific students while still recognizing diversity and maintaining service to all
• Adapt to institutional culture, ethics, values, and changes in leadership
• Use technology as a tool to affect change on campus

By applying shared foundations, ethical principles, a rich knowledge base, and experience, student affairs professionals can develop powerful strategies to confront and resolve vexing problems. With extensive examples and case studies that covera wide array of issues, this book is an essential read for those looking to make a real difference in the lives of their students and the health of their institutions.

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Romanzo storico che narra le vicende di un'umile contadina intrecciate alle vicissitudini politiche della Rivoluzione francese, Nanon adotta lo sguardo ingenuo ed entusiasta di una bambina avida di sapere, che si affaccia alla vita facendo leva sui primi rudimenti di conoscenza urgentemente reclamati, riuscendo così ad appropriarsi del suo destino grazie all'istruzione. Parallelamente alla sorte della protagonista, si snoda il sofferto percorso di instaurazione della prima Repubblica, afflitta da sospetti tradimenti e viltà che scatenano la spietata repressione giacobina, un evento di cui il romanzo offre una vibrante testimonianza per voce dei suoi personaggi. Giunta ormai alla fine della sua parabola letteraria improntata a un convinto impegno umanitario, George Sand non smette di sperare, nel travagliato Ottocento ancora segnato da profondi divari sociali e moti rivoluzionari, in un mondo finalmente giusto e fraterno, ispirato agli ideali del 1789 e dove soprusi e violenze non trovino più cittadinanza.

With a complete, approachable presentation, CRITICAL THINKING: THE ART OF ARGUMENT, 2nd Edition, is an accessible yet rigorous introduction to critical thinking. The text emphasizes immediate application of critical-thinking skills to everyday life. The relevance of these skills is shown throughout by highlighting the advantages of basing decisions on a thoughtful understanding of arguments and presenting the overarching commonalities across arguments. With its conversational writing style and carefully selected examples, the book employs a consistent and unified treatment of logical form and an innovative semiformal method of standardizing arguments that illustrates the concept of logical form while maintaining a visible connection to ordinary speech. Without sacrificing accuracy or detail, the authors have clearly presented the material with appropriate study tools and exercises that emphasize application rather than memorization.

Un'oscura credenza vuole che due fratelli gemelli non possano vivere insieme senza danneggiarsi a vicenda, e che spesso solo la morte di uno dei due possa garantire all'altro di crescere bene. Così, quando nella famiglia Barbeau nascono i gemelli Landry e Sylvinet, la levatrice non esita a mettere in guardia i genitori: occorrerà impedire che i due fratelli passino troppo tempo insieme, per far sì che non si affezionino troppo l'uno all'altro. Ma il consiglio viene accantonato e i gemelli diventano inseparabili e pressoché identici. Anni dopo il padre decide che Landry, il più forte e maturo dei due, dovrà andare servizio presso la tenuta dei Caillaud. Landry si rassegna all'idea di dover partire da casa. Sylvinet, il più fragile, non riesce tuttavia ad accettare che le loro vite debbano prendere strade diverse. Il suo affetto per Landry è così morboso che, quando il fratello si invaghisce della piccola Fadette, una ragazzina del borgo della Cosse, Sylvinet è divorato dalla gelosia. La Fadette è una piccola vagabonda che gli abitanti del borgo giudicano con un po' di disprezzo e un po' di timore, soprattutto per via di quelle voci che corrono sul conto della nonna, una guaritrice le cui pratiche sono viste come un incrocio di sapere e stregoneria. La ragazza, invece, ha un carattere mite e generoso: non avendo nulla, si accontenta di poco per essere felice e rispetta tutte le creature, soprattutto quelle che considera brutte come lei. Introduzione di Daria Galateria.

?Christology was the central doctrine articulated by the early councils, and it remains the subject of vigorous theological investigation today. The doctrine of Christ is a field of broad ecumenical convergence, inviting theologians from all denominational settings to fruitful collaborative exploration. In the contemporary setting, it is especially crucial for theologians to investigate the scriptural witness afresh, to retrieve classical criteria and categories from the tradition, and to consider the generative pressure of soteriology for Christology proper. The first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference sought to make a positive contribution to contemporary dogmatics in intentional engagement with the Christian tradition. Christology, Ancient and Modern brings together conference proceedings, surveying the field and articulating the sources, norms, and criteria for constructive theological work in Christology.

The book offers a challenging reading of the legacy of C. G. Jung, who produced fascinating insights into the psyche but did not provide a theoretical framework for clinical work. Thus, clinicians are faced with both the richness and lacunae of Jung’s legacy and how to work with it.

This challenge is taken up by distinguished post-Jungian thinkers from Britain, Europe and the US who, in fertile contact with psychoanalysis, reassess Jung’s work and propose new tools for clinical practice. By looking anew at concepts such as maternal containment, affect, ego formation and ego strength, infantile loss, envy and friendship they find ways of working that integrate Jung’s thought with Post-Jungian developments and a psychoanalytic approach.

In this little-known novella published in the last year of her life, Sand takes the timeless theme of a younger woman in love with an older man to create a romance with a feminist twist. Her vivacious heroine is both the author's ideal of female emancipation and a subtle attack on that other Marianne, the French Republic's convention-bound Muse.

An exciting opportunity for one last glimpse of Sand's genius, Marianne offers the reader a chance to rediscover one of the world's outstanding writers.

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A rediscovered masterwork from famed Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage tracks the lifelong entanglement of a man and two women haunted by class differences and misdirected longings.

Peter and Ilonka are a wealthy couple whose outwardly perfect marriage is undone by secrets. The insecure Ilonka believes she can never be elegant and refined enough for her husband, while Peter has long been tormented by his forbidden love for Judit, a peasant and servant in his childhood home. What Judit longs for most, however, is freedom from the constraints of the society that has ensnared all three in a vortex of love and loss. Set against the backdrop of Hungary between the wars, in a world on the verge of dramatic change, this exquisite novel offers further posthumous evidence of Marai's brilliance.

Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes
 

Nuvola Bianca, Pioggia che Cammina, l'erculeo Piccolo Lupo, lo stregone Piedi con Vesciche, le loro squaw e i loro bambini. Tutti della tribù degli Iowa. E che cosa ci fanno, uomini e donne delle praterie nella Ville Lumière del 1845? Li ha portati lì un impresario. Si concedono alla curiosità della borghesia parigina che, pagando un biglietto di 2 franchi, si accalca per guardarli mentre si esibiscono in danze della guerra, rivivono le battaglie, la cattura dei nemici, il rito dello scalpo. George Sand (1804-1876), pseudonimo maschile di una delle più raffinate scrittrici francesi, va ad assistere allo spettacolo e aggiunge all'esperienza una serie di colloqui con i capi indiani. Ne trae ispirazione per due lettere a un amico, che Endemunde riporta oggi alla luce oggi con il titolo Pellerossa a Parigi. Un diario struggente sui "selvaggi", trattati come saltimbanchi di mondi lontani.

The book examines a wide range of issues that characterize the current IT based innovation trends in organisations. It contains a collection of research papers focusing on themes of growing interest in the field of Information System, Organization Studies, and Management. The book offers a multi-disciplinary view on Information Systems aiming to disseminate academic knowledge. It might be particularly relevant to IT practitioners such as information systems managers, business managers and IT consultants. The volume is divided into XIV sections, each one focusing on a specific theme. A preface written by Joey George, president of the Association for Information Systems opens the text. The content of each section is based on a selection of the best papers (original double blind peer reviewed contributions) presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of AIS, which has been held in Naples, Italy, on October 2010.

A rediscovered masterwork from the famed Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage is in fact a startling exploration of a triangle of entanglement.

A wealthy couple in bourgeois society, Peter and Ilonka appear to enjoy a fine union. Their home is tastefully decorated; their clothes are well tailored; they move in important circles. And yet, to hypersensitive Ilonka, her choice in décor is never good enough, and her looks are never fair enough to fully win the love of her husband, who has carried with him a secret that has long tormented him: Peter is in love with Judit, a peasant and servant in his childhood home. For Judit, however, even Peter's affection cannot transcend that which she loves most—the prospect of her own freedom and a future without the constraints of the society that has ensnared all three in a vortex of love and loss.

Set against the backdrop of Hungary between the wars, Portraits of a Marriage offers further “posthumous evidence of [Márai's] neglected brilliance” (Chicago Tribune) and his exquisite, acutely observed evocations of sacrifice and longing.

Pensieri sull'arte del pittore francese che, dopo la stagione 'fauve', dette vita con Picasso all'avventura cubista, così dirompente nella storia dell'arte del Novecento.