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2025 |
![]() ![]() Author: Bryant Chris Publisher: Neri Pozza L'ultima, drammatica vicenda di condanna a morte per sodomia nella 'civilissima' Inghilterra del 1835. James Pratt e John Smith vennero sorpresi in atteggiamento intimo in un locale dove si erano appartati. Spiati da una fessura che si apriva sul tetto, vennero denunciati, arrestati e a lungo detenuti prima di essere processati e condannati alla pena capitale. Nonostante le molte proteste e le prese di posizione a favore di un gesto di clemenza, i due furono impiccati per «reato contro la natura». Il processo fu una farsa, senza alcun rispetto per la loro sfera privata, senza un avvocato difensore. La vicenda riassume in modo drammatico le contraddizioni dell'Inghilterra di metà Ottocento, perché la loro esecuzione ebbe luogo proprio mentre la società britannica andava incontro a grandi cambiamenti. Sono anni di svolta nella vita sociale del Regno Unito: il governo pose fine alla schiavitù, bonificò i quartieri malfamati delle grandi città, regolò il lavoro minorile, aprì alle associazioni operaie, riconobbe il matrimonio civile e riformò il Codice penale, derubricando quasi duecento reati considerati capitali. Si aprì addirittura un dibattito sulla liceità della pena di morte e vi furono centinaia di condannati graziati. Con Pratt e Smith, tuttavia, la giustizia e l'opinione pubblica rimasero inflessibili: il boia tornò in attività dopo due anni e il loro trasferimento al patibolo venne accompagnato da urla e gesti di scherno. Attraverso una accurata ricerca d'archivio, Bryant offre un appassionante quadro della vita degli ultimi due giustiziati per sodomia, che diviene an € 23,00
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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Bryant Steve, Murrin Chris (EDT), Idris Yusuf (CON), Aguilera Juanma (CON) Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment Inc € 13,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Chris Bryant Publisher: JOHN WILEY € 35,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Chris Bryant Publisher: BLACK SWAN € 12,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Bryant Christopher (EDT) Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc € 223,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Bryant Steve, Canales Ismael (ILT), Elmer Emily (ILT), Murrin Chris (EDT) Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment Inc € 13,40
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Murrin Chris (EDT), Bryant Steve (EDT) Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment Inc € 13,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Chris Bryant Publisher: DOUBLEDAY € 29,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Balan Yener M.D., Murrell Karen M.D., Lentz Christopher Bryant Publisher: Productivity Pr € 164,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Balan Yener M.D. (EDT), Murrell Karen M.D. (EDT), Lentz Christopher Bryant (EDT) Publisher: Productivity Pr € 88,20
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ennis Garth, McCrea John (ILT), Snejbjerg Peter (ILT), Alexander Chris (ILT), Bryant Rick (ILT) Publisher: Dc Comics Etrigan the Demon's violent and funny adventures continue in this collection, featuring never-before-reprinted issues of Preacher creator Garth Ennis's run on The Demon. Witness the birth of the ever-rhyming Etrigan's son. Then, see as The Demon and Jason Blood trick Captain Scumm into selling something he can never get back. And don't miss tons of appearances by Hitman! Collects The Demon #49-58. € 19,10
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: Chris Bryant Publisher: BLACK SWAN € 15,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Richardson Bryant Paul (DRT), Roche Sean (PRD), Schafer John J. (PRD), Christian Broadcasting Network (COR) Publisher: Charisma House € 10,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Bryant Steve, Murrin Chris (EDT) Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment Inc In the knuckle-dusting style of classic pulp adventure comes Athena Voltaire, the beautiful globetrotting aviatrix who takes on Nazis, secret societies, zombies, and unspeakable occult creatures! From sunken galleons to haunted mountain-top lairs to hidden jungle temples, our heroine faces peril at every turn as she races to save the world. This whopping tome rescripts and remasters Athena's adventures from the long-running, Eisner-nominated comic by Steve Bryant, including over fifty pages of brand new material, as well as pin-us, concept art, and process sketches. € 17,90
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Chris Bryant Publisher: DOUBLEDAY € 28,40
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Blakely Arch Frederick (EDT), Lainhart Ann Smith (EDT), Stephens Winston Bryant Jr. (EDT), Walker Christopher (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 31,60
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1911 |
![]() ![]() Author: Blakey Arch Fredric (EDT), Lainhart Ann Smith (EDT), Stephens Winston Bryant Jr. (EDT), Walker Christopher (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 40,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Bryant John, Sangwin Chris Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the same fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day--it's challenging, hands-on, and fun. John Bryant and Chris Sangwin illustrate how physical models are created from abstract mathematical ones. Using elementary geometry and trigonometry, they guide readers through paper-and-pencil reconstructions of mathematical problems and show them how to construct actual physical models themselves--directions included. It's an effective and entertaining way to explain how applied mathematics and engineering work together to solve problems, everything from keeping a piston aligned in its cylinder to ensuring that automotive driveshafts rotate smoothly. Intriguingly, checking the roundness of a manufactured object is trickier than one might think. When does the width of a saw blade affect an engineer's calculations--or, for that matter, the width of a physical line? When does a measurement need to be exact and when will an approximation suffice? Bryant and Sangwin tackle questions like these and enliven their discussions with many fascinating highlights from engineering history. Generously illustrated, How Round Is Your Circle? reveals some of the hidden complexities in everyday things. € 25,90
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Williams Daniel E. (EDT), Brown Christina Riley (EDT), Bryant Salita S. (EDT), Bynum Dixon (EDT), Childress Boyd (EDT) Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with 'godless savages,' the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens. € 19,30
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1998 |
![]() ![]() Author: Chris Bryant Publisher: DOUBLEDAY € 17,60
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