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The Me You Stole
Being overweight isn't a crime--it's just something shameful, Andrea's mother is quick to remind her. But that's to be expected in a world where technology and magic makes body goals and perfection attainable. ***** Andrea's mother has high hopes for a male heir to lead their household. Andrea must find a husband--and fast. Without a perfect body, however, there are few prospects. For Andrea, on the verge of being disowned, the inability to control something as simple as her weight further exemplifies her other failings. She heralds from the noble class, lovers of tech who frown upon mingling with the servant magic wielders. But with only one year to secure the title of the estate, Andrea ha...
Andrea Delfin și alte nuvele
Andrea Delfin este plasată în Republica venețiană a jumătății secolului al XVIII-lea. Protagonistul este un fost nobil dat mort și care, sub o identitate falsă de notar, revine după mulți ani într-o Veneție tiranică, pentru a răsturna, de unul singur, orânduirea coruptă și criminală. Bănuita conjurație este alcătuită dintr-un singur om, „un Wilhelm Tell italian“, un justițiar motivat de ură, fără scrupule, care folosește împotriva tribunalului inchizitorial propriile arme ale spionajului și conspirației, stârnind, la rându-i, teroare. Scris cu eleganță și cu fidelitate față de aerul și peisajul politic al epocii, cu o atmosferă viu colorată și narat alert, cu bune momente de suspans, acest thriller politic de secol al XVIII-lea vorbește, în fond, tot despre amăgirea revoltei împotriva destinului istoric, răzbunarea dovedindu-se, și aici, o tactică cu două tăișuri. Eșecul vine ca un fel de pedeapsă de sine pentru cel care, orbit de ură, luptă împotriva crimei ucigând.
Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters
This book brings together a total of six papers in an interdisciplinary way at the border of natural disasters and cultural heritage. There is a need for studying and documenting cultural heritage in Arctic landscapes, as these are the most affected by climate change. Remote sensing represents a powerful tool in the monitoring, management and safeguarding of cultural heritage. Sites included in the UNESCO World Heritage List should receive more attention from both geoscientists and social scientists. Urbanization has a short- and long-lasting effect on the conservation of cultural heritage.
Master of the House
Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia's political hierarchy of the 1930s--the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party--and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin's rise. Khlevniuk's unparalleled research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers many new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov's murder, the implementation of the Great Terror, and much more. The author analyzes Stalin's mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding, unmatched in texture and depth, of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history.
Apollo and Vulcan
Guido Guerzoni presents the results of fifteen years of research into one of the more hotly debated topics among historians of art and of economics: the history of art markets. Dedicating equal attention to current thought in the fields of economics, economic history, and art history, Guerzoni offers a broad and far-reaching analysis of the Italian scene, highlighting the existence of different forms of commercial interchange and diverse kinds of art markets. In doing so he ranges beyond painting and sculpture, to examine as well the economic drivers behind architecture, decorative and sumptuary arts, and performing or ephemeral events. Organized by thematic areas (the ethics and psychology of consumption, an analysis of the demand, labor markets, services, prices, laws) that cover a large chronological period (from the 15th through the 17th century), various geographical areas, and several institution typologies, this book offers an exhaustive and up-to-date study of an increasingly fascinating topic.
