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6 reviews
Giorgio Locatelli

Ecco, 2007

Rare gem of a cookbook
I'm a cook who studied and worked in Italy. Therefore, I can tell you it is very difficult to find a cookbook that conveys the emotion, passion and devotion the Italians have for their cuisine(s), even in Italy. Therefore, the arrival of Giorgio Locatelli's book on American shores is an event to be celebrated. Chef Giorgio does a fantastic job describing ingredients and recipes and includes ...

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

12 reviews
Giorgio Agamben

Stanford University Press, 1998

Homo Sacer is a must read.
Agamben's best known work lives up to the hype. One of the most powerful aspects of this book is its shocking predictions about the world to come. Published many years before the initiation of the war on terror, Agamben signals the beginning the of a style of governance built on permanent exception. He insists that the extermination of the Jewx by the Nazis was not simply a horrible enigma that ...

The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

3 reviews
Giorgio Agamben

Stanford University Press, 2005

Don't be misled...
By theory types who don't know anything about philology -- it would be a shame if you didn't read so great a book because of uninformed, hasty criticism. (I refer to the review "Another Book on Paul".) 'Christos' isn't a transliteration but a direct translation of the Hebrew 'Messiah.' 'Dunameis' is a technical term of Aristotle's philosophy (Metaphysics Theta) and the distinction between ...

Walt Disney Treasures - Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special (Walt Disney Treasures)

5 reviews
Don Rosa, Carl Barks, ...

Gemstone Publishing, 2008

Everyman's Rich Man
If Mickey Mouse embodies the Horatio Alger myth in animated cartoons, then Uncle Scrooge McDuck fulfills something of the same role in comic books, with a slight twist: McDuck is what becomes of the Alger character when he makes his fortune. While Mickey became the trademark, and some would say the "lure," of the Disney empire, Uncle Scrooge became the delight of Disney comic book readers, his ...

State of Exception

8 reviews
Giorgio Agamben

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

The Liberalism of Fear, Contintental Style
In Agamben's new book, State of Exception, a sequel to Homo Sacer, he draws explicitly upon lectures he has delivered in New York and elsewhere in the years since 9/11, repeating the central themes of his past work and transposing it to a different key. Here, rather than speaking of "the camp," he argues that "the state of exception" is a primal form of modern government. Agamben has long argued, ...

Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering

17 reviews
Giorgio Rizzoni

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2005

Errata
As of 6/9/2008, the publisher's errata page can be found on the McGraw-Hill Education site at: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072962984/information_center_view0/errata.html It is a shame that a textbook in its 5th edition can be so full of mistakes.

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

1 review
Giorgio Rizzoni

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2008

best fundamentals text
This is the most intuitive and well organized text on the subject i have ever reviewed. The online resources that accompany this book are well worth the price alone. I found that this edition is much more comprehenive and uptodate than any previous edition. I am glad to see that Mc Graw Hill has added so much work to keep up with developments in science.

The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)

20 reviews
Giorgio Vasari

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Works and lives of great masters by their contemporary
"Do you admire a beautiful tower resounding with sacred sound? By my design this tower also reached for the stars. But I am Giotto, why cite such deeds? My name alone is worth a lengthy ode." [From the Live of Giotto di Bondone] Classic masterpiece containing selection of lives of famous Italian masters of art, written by their (almost) conterporary. This work is tedious and difficult to ...

Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style

21 reviews
Richard Torregrossa

Bulfinch, 2006

THIS WORLD NEEDS CARY GRANT NOW!!!!!!!!
THIS IS AN AMAZING LOOK AT MR. GRANT. THIS RANKS UP WITH RICHARD SCHICKLES BOOK CARY GRANT , A CELEBRATION.I LOVE GRANT AND HAVE ALL HIS MOVIES AND MOST BOOKS ON HIM EXCEPT THE SCHLOCK LIES.HIS ACTING AND COMEDIC TAKES ARE BEYOND EVEN CHAPLIN OR KEATON AND IN SITUATION COMEDY HE WAS PEERLESS.I WAS LUCKY TO BE IN THE AUDIENCE FOR "AN EVENING WITH CARY GRANT" IN STAMFORD ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE HE ...

The Coming Community (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol 1)

4 reviews
Giorgio Agamben

University of Minnesota Press, 1993

Gateway
Less an argument and more a constellation or mosaic of insights, formulas, and enigmas, The Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben is both a courageous delineation of political crisis and an intervention in thought that is both beautiful and cheerfully destructive. That is, this mosaic (inspired, I think, more by the early Heidegger of Sein und Zeit and also Walter Benjamin's Ursprung des ...

Vespa: 1946-2006: 60 Years of the Vespa

2 reviews
Giorgio Sarti

Motorbooks, 2006

Ahhh Vespa
This is really a fun book. Its got pretty pictures, its got info, and it has a description of pretty much every Vespa ever made. I didn't say all Vespas, but pretty much all as collectors we have drooled over. The book describes the legacy of Vespa all the way up to the GT60. Everything from airplanes, to Apé, to outboard motors as well. It even has advertising throughout the ages, which ...

A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati

5 reviews
Luciana Frassati

Ignatius Press, 2001

A good book about a great man
Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925) may not have seemed like your typical saint. He smoked cigars, liked hanging out with friends, loved the outdoors--especially mountain climbing, he came from a wealthy family, and engaged in political activism. In other words, he was not unlike many university students today. What made him different? He totally gave himself to Christ. Before he went climbing or ...

Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive

3 reviews
Giorgio Agamben

Zone Books, 2002

Haunting, Captivating, Unspeakable
I read this book after having read Agamben's big book "Homo Sacer." I found the analysis of bare life (homo sacer) in that book to be so fascinating that I picked up "Remnants," to see where else Agamben might go. This book is some of the most compelling theory I have read to date. The book has three major categories of analysis: the witness, the musselman (literally, the muslim), and shame. Each ...

Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers)
Giorgio Agamben

Verso, 2007

Agamben's profound and radical meditation on language and philosophy.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

10 reviews
Giorgio Bassani

Everyman's Library, 2005

haunting love story
This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about discovering one's three rich heritages (Italian and Jewish and literary). And it is a story about a boy becoming a writer. There must be thousands such coming-of-age stories; thousands of stories about that first (and naturally unrequited) love; and, since most of the people who write these stories are authors there are even a few ...

Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964: Nothing Is More Abstract Than Reality

Skira, 2008

This volume showcases 116 masterpieces arranged into the four major themes that characterize Giorgio Morandi’s work: self portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and flowers. The collection represents all the various expressive techniques used by Morandi over the years, including paint, etching, drawing and watercolor.The volume is the catalog of an outstanding exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum in New York and by the Museo ...

Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth

36 reviews
Giorgio De Santillana, Hertha Von Dechend

David R Godine, 1992

"A Ring of Noble Metal"
Like so many of the readers of this fascinating book, Hamlet's Mill, it is a work that I have read several times, learning much with each reading. When first published in 1969, it was reviewed by the late MIT Professor Emeritus, Philip Morrison, who was reknown as a distinguished theoretical astrophysicist and interpreter of science for the general public. He wrote " "The book is polemic, even ...

Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, ...
Giorgio Vasari

Dover Publications, 2005

Vasari's colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italian art trace the flowering of the Renaissance across three centuries. This single-volume edition of selections from Vasari's immense work profiles 8 of the book's most noteworthy artists and includes an introduction, notes, and glossary; and woodcut portraits of each artist by Vasari himself.

Graphic Classics Volume 4: H. P. Lovecraft - 2nd Edition (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels)) (Graphic ...

8 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, Rod Lott, ...

Eureka Productions, 2007

A 'must' for the legions of Lovecraft fans
H.P. Lovecraft was a reclusive and idiosyncratic New England writer whose horror fantasy stories were to influence generations of authors down to the present day. Now seven of his macabre tales have been illustrated by a series of skilled artists into the newly revised and enlarged second edition of the fourteen volume of the increasingly impressive Graphic Classics series from Eureka ...

The Open: Man and Animal

2 reviews
Giorgio Agamben

Stanford University Press, 2003

erudition as art as thought as action
A magisterial meditation on the question of the "human" -- used as an adjective. This short book is Agamben's 'Duino Elegies': thalassically poetic and swirling with thought that hovers, indifferent to the gravity of common sense. The title refers to Heidegger's term for the possibility of Dasein but Agamben is not doing a pro-Heidegger critique here. The Italian is thinking against the German: ...

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