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Legion of the Occult
Unstoppable and lethal, they move across the battlefields like ghosts. They are the soldiers of the Legio Occulta. Nola, Roman Italy, 19 August 14 A.D. History does not acknowledge them, but the Roman Empire knows the debt they owe to this secret legion. Trained not to fight but to read and interpret the messages of the gods, they pave the way for Roman swords, intervening when earthly weapons must give way to the power of the transcendent. With the Legio Occulta, no battle is impossible. Clad in snow-white armour and tunics as black as night, they are seers, fortune-tellers, necromancers and haruspies selected when they were children from arenas, slave markets and burning villages. Led by a general who speaks only in sign language, their motto is Vigiles in tenebris: watchers of the night. Iron blades clash with magic. Rome will never be the same. Praise for Roberto Genovesi: 'Roberto Genovesi is the Italian master of historical fantasy' ANDREA FREDIANI. 'A very original, wide-ranging novel full of characters, full of descriptions and narrative inventions' IL GIORNALE. 'A compelling historical novel with splashes of fantasy' IL SOLE 24 ORE.
Challenges and Opportunities in Agrometeorology
The global food security and sustainable agriculture are the key challenges before the scientific community in the present era of enhanced climate variability, rapidly rising population and dwindling resources. No part of the world is immune from meteorological extremes of one sort or another posing threat to the food security. Agrometeorology has to make most efficient use of the opportunities available in achieving the objectives of enhancing productivity and maintenance of sustainability. Increased awareness and technological advancement have provided opportunities to develop efficient agrometeorological services that can help cope with risks. These include improvements in weather forecasting, better understanding of the monsoon variability and crop-weather relationships, advances in operational agrometeorology and agrometeorological information systems, adaptation strategies to climate change and improved risk evaluation and management. This book based on an International Workshop held in New Delhi, India should be of interest to all organizations and agencies interested in agrometeorological applications.
Video Games Around the World
Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents. Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and culture across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offer...
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The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory 2001
Charts the emerging world awareness of environmental issues. Provides an A-Z glossary of key terms, a comprehensive directory, an extensive bibliography, detailed maps and a Who's Who.
Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination
The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence – from war to slavery, rape and murder – in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from ...
Medici ~ Ascendancy
Florence, 1429 Giovanni de' Medici is dead. A lifetime of shrewd investment, strategic alliance and sly manipulation saw Giovanni climb from mere money-lender to the top echelon of Florentine society. But success has left a slew of bitter enemies in his wake – and there are whispers his untimely demise wasn't accidental. Florence is a nest of vipers, and with the Medici family's wealth in the hands of Giovanni's untested sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, there are those who feel that now is the time to strike, to destroy the upstarts and seize their holdings. First in an award-winning, bestselling quartet charting ten generations of rise to power. Praise for Matteo Strukul: 'Strukul has a brilliant style and a rare imagination' TIM WILLOCKS 'One of the most important new voices in Italian crime fiction' JOE R. LANSDALE
Il compagno di banco
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L'ultimo teorema (Urania)
Un uomo non potrà mai volare nello spazio, dicevano i saccenti. Negli stessi anni, e per lo stesso motivo, decretarono che un'astronave non potesse atterrare in Italia. Invece l'astronave Ares atterrò, "prima nave di linea regolare tra i pianeti", e cambiò tutto. Era quella del n. 1 dei "Romanzi di Urania", scesa su di noi il 10 ottobre 1952. Oggi, a sessant'anni di distanza e quasi 1600 numeri dopo, l'ultimo romanzo di Arthur Clarke - scritto in collaborazione con Frederik Pohl - viene a festeggiare degnamente il nostro anniversario. E se qualcuno si chiedesse: "Ma che teorema mi hai fatto?", gli risponderemmo che si tratta del celebre teorema di Fermat, e che un giovane matematico dello Sri Lanka è il primo ad averne scoperto la dimostrazione originale. Mentre ai danni della Terra, strisciante e insidiosa, si prepara l'invasione aliena...
