Primavera 1983, Palermo. Il Maresciallo Michele Ghirardi indaga sulle infiltrazioni mafiose nell'edilizia, seguendo le tracce del denaro sporco. Quarant'anni dopo, suo figlio Massimo, Maggiore dei Carabinieri esperto in crimini economico-finanziari, riprende quella stessa lotta. Una task force speciale indaga su un'imponente operazione immobiliare finanziata con fondi europei. Tra corruzione politica e alleanze pericolose, il nemico si rivela più vicino e subdolo del previsto. Un intreccio di giustizia, memoria e verità che attraversa due generazioni, mettendo alla prova ogni certezza.

In the twilight of life, Silas Marner has only his loom and his gold.…

Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence.

A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn portrait of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.

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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?

John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every day on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.

Johann Sebastian Bach è uno dei compositori più enigmatici e complessi della storia della musica. Come è possibile che un uomo apparentemente cosi normale, opaco e, in alcune occasioni, estremamente irascibile, sia stato capace di comporre un'opera tanto sublime? Gardiner fin da giovanissimo ha eseguito e studiato l'opera di Bach e oggi è uno dei suoi più rinomati interpreti. I frutti della sua lunga esperienza come direttore si distillano in questo libro, che pur radicandosi negli studi più recenti riesce a smarcarsene, per farci comprendere e apprezzare non solo alcune delle più importanti composizioni bachiane - approfondendo in quale clima culturale nacquero, la loro struttura e le impressioni che producevano sugli ascoltatori - ma anche tutto quanto è possibile oggi sapere sull'uomo che le scrisse. I pochi frammenti biografici, l'analisi della musica e l'osservazione dei casi nei quali la personalità di Bach sembra infiltrarsi tra le note della partitura vengono messi in relazione, con l'obiettivo di offrire al lettore un'idea reale e concreta di ciò che poteva significare per Bach fare musica; per cercare fin dove è possibile di condividerne esperienze e sensazioni, e di mettere in rilievo alcuni tratti della sua personalità intimamente sovversiva.

• Create a dynasty of unselfishness.
• Manage energy, not people.
• Eat obstacles for breakfast.
• Act like an “unleader.”

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. The demands of his professional life as writer and editor became more complex and exacting. The celebrated but financially pressed periodical he had been editing since 1922—The Criterion: A Literary Review—switched between being a quarterly and a monthly; in addition to writing numerous essays and editorials, lectures, reviews, introductions and prefaces, his letters show Eliot involving himself wholeheartedly in the business of his new career as a publisher.

This correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the stages of Eliot's personal and artistic transformation during these crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and the forging of his public reputation.

Volume One: 1898–1922 presents some 1,400 letters encompassing the years of Eliot's childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, by which time the poet had settled in England, married his first wife, and published The Waste Land. Since the first publication of this volume in 1988, many new materials from British and American sources have come to light. More than two hundred of these newly discovered letters are now included, filling crucial gaps in the record and shedding new light on Eliot's activities in London during and after the First World War.

Volume Two: 1923–1925 covers the early years of Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, publication of The Hollow Men, and his developing thought about poetry and poetics. The volume offers 1,400 letters, charting Eliot's journey toward conversion to the Anglican faith, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher and his appointment as director of the new publishing house Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and various correspondence of this volume testifies to Eliot's growing influence as cultural commentator and editor.

Volume One: 1898–1922 presents some 1,400 letters encompassing the years of Eliot's childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, by which time the poet had settled in England, married his first wife, and published The Waste Land. Since the first publication of this volume in 1988, many new materials from British and American sources have come to light. More than two hundred of these newly discovered letters are now included, filling crucial gaps in the record and shedding new light on Eliot's activities in London during and after the First World War.

Volume Two: 1923–1925 covers the early years of Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, publication of The Hollow Men, and his developing thought about poetry and poetics. The volume offers 1,400 letters, charting Eliot's journey toward conversion to the Anglican faith, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher and his appointment as director of the new publishing house Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and various correspondence in this volume testifies to Eliot's growing influence as cultural commentator and editor.

A fifth installment in a classic World War II history series covers the six major engagements in waters surrounding Guadalcanal, from the Solomon Islands campaign to the courageous actions of Edson's Raiders at the Battle of the Bloody Ridge and the Battle of Tassafaronga. Reprint.

This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound's Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are manyof the “stale creampuffs” (as Pound called them) of the 1949 edition. Instead,new emphasis has been laid on the interpenetration of original compositionand translation within Pound's career. New features of this edition include thecomplete “Homage to Sextus Propertius” in its original lineation, early translations from Cavalcanti, Heine, and the troubadours, as well as late translationsof Sophocles, and the Confucian Odes.

As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of journalsin England, America, France, and Italy. This new edition takes account of thiscomplex publishing history by giving the poems in the chronological order oftheir original magazine publication. We can observe Pound as he first emergesonto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford's English Review andHarriet Monroe's Chicago-based Poetry, and then as an agent provocateur forthe avant-garde Little Review, Blast, and The Dial.

Unlike all previous selections, this volume provides annotation to all theearly poems as well as a running commentary on the later Cantos — indispensable to any reader wanting to follow Pound on his epic odyssey through ancientChina, medieval Provence, the Italian Renaissance, the early American Republic, and the darkness of the twentieth century. The editor, Richard Sieburth,provides a chronology of Pound's life, a new preface, and an informative afterword, “Selecting Pound.” Also included in the appendix are T. S. Eliot's and JohnBerryman's original introductions to Pound's Selected Poems.

Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges' highly influential work--written in the 1930s and ‘40s--that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as  “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges' work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”

WHY DO COMPETENT ARMIES FAIL?

? Why did the American-led coalition in Iraq fail to wage a classic counter-insurgency campaign for so long after the fall of Baghdad?

? Why was the sophisticated Israeli intelligence service so thoroughly surprised by the onslaught of combined Arab armies during the Yom Kippur War of 1973?

? How did a dozen German U-boats manage to humiliate the U.S. Navy for nine months in 1942 -- sinking an average of 650,000 tons of shipping monthly?

? What made the 1915 British-led invasion of Gallipoli one of the bloodiest catastrophes of the First World War?

Since it was first published in 1990, Military Misfortunes has become the classic analysis of the unexpected catastrophes that befall competent militaries. Now with a new Afterword discussing America's missteps in Iraq, Somalia, and the War on Terror, Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch's gripping battlefield narratives and groundbreaking explanations of the hidden factors that undermine armies are brought thoroughly up to date. As recent events prove, Military Misfortunes will be required reading for as long as armies go to war.

Designed for the amateur naturalist, this guide describes 90 hikes chosen because they lead to some of Oregon's rocky wonders. Along with the geologic description, directions to the site, a description of the trail, and details such as the topographic and geologic maps for the area, level of difficulty, precautions, and other sensible information are provided for each hike. New to the second edition are appendices with hikes listed by rock age and a succinct guide to rock identification. B&w photos are included with each hike and for the identification guide. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Eliot Tracts collects for the first time a series of 11 documents published in London between 1643 and 1671 that describe missionary work by the British among the Indians in New England. Written by John Eliot, Thomas Shepard, and other intellectual and political leaders among the colonists, these tracts constitute the most detailed and sustained record of missionary activity by the English in the New World in the first century of settlement. They are also one of our richest sources of ethnographic information about the Indians of Southern New England in the 17th century as recorded by the British settlers. In addition to the tracts, the volume contains two letters written by John Eliot that argue for the millennialist significance of the missionary work and so situate the missionaries' project within one of the most important theological debates of the time.