Europa Compass - Böcker

[It] will move you across the globe and back in time. - Library Journal Europa Compass series new format and covers For the readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes (Re)discover the timeless beauty of ancient literature The classics never exhaust ...

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The city-states of fifteenth-century Italy exerted unprecedented cultural influence on Europe and the Mediterranean and acted as a bulwark against the imperial and bellicose designs of the empires that surrounded them. Acclaimed French historian, ...

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What if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich? Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany's most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that bu...

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A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity.Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast.Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize One of t...

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THE MYTHS SURROUNDING THE WORLDS FAVOURITE DISH, DEBUNKED Did Marco Polo bring pasta back from China, or is that a myth? How did the Neapolitan macharoni turn into the ubiquitous spaghetti? Is it even an Italian dish? Hundreds of shapes and thousa...

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Highly regarded philosopher and psychoanalyst, Massimo Recalcati has penned a gripping, erudite meditation on suffering, doubt, betrayal, and the potential for renewal that dwells in our most painful moments. For Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in th...

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Key Selling Points: Arguably the world's most well known architect, this is Piano's first book co-written with his son, and is intended for a general rather that specialist audience A combination of literary travel log, father-son story, philosoph...

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From one of Italy's most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christianity's most complex--and most misunderstood--figures: Mary Magdalene Jesus' favorite and most devoted disciple? A prostitute shunned from her comm...

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Translation of: Il mito delle origini. Breve storia degli spaghetti al pomodoro.

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WINNER OF THE 2021 BABELIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life, from France's most prominent female rabbi and ...

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"From one of Italy's most renowned philosophers and psychoanalysts, an urgent and stirring reflection on violence, morality, and our relationship with the Other. What lies at the foundation of human history and life in a society? According to...

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It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age.Virginia Woolf Discover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what cant be said in any other, and thrillingly relevan...

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October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the retreat from Russia, a page of history that has bec...

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As the Gospels tell us, after the Last Supper Jesus retreats to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him. The kiss, give...

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"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt...

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The impact of the digital world and its algorithms on human beings and society We read all sorts of things about AI, as the promise of a future happiness or as a threat capable of putting an end to humanity. While we cannot be "for" or &...

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Rediscover the crucial roles held by women within the heart of Christianity. Favourite disciple, influential woman, true believer and follower of Jesus: how do we see Mary Magdalene today? Witness to Jesus crucifixion and his burial, the first to ...

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Lucid, compelling, enlightening Marcolongo is todays Montaigne.Andr Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."The Guardian Marcolongo uses the secrets of the Ancient Gr...

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An urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality. Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questionsfor Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?La Stampa What lies at the foundation of human history and life in a society...

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In this moving and engaging book by one of Frances few female rabbis and leader of the countrys Liberal Jewish Movement, Delphine Horvilleur recounts eleven stories of loss, mourning, and consolation, collected during years spent caring for the dy...

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What if the rules of modern management were written during the Third Reich? SS Commander Reinhard Hhn was one of Nazi Germanys most brilliant legal minds, an archetype of the fervid technocrats that built the Third Reich. Gone into hiding after 19...

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"A feast for the mind." PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "A contemporary voice with the ease of Natalia Ginzburg's or Irene Nemirovsky's." GUADALUPE NETTEL, author of Still Born "Nuanced, deeply rich, and a joy to read.&q...

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In 490 BCE the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary 26 mile run to deliver to the people of Athens news of their citys victory over the Persians. Each year, all over the world, thousands of athletes and millions of enthusia...

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One day in late spring, Andrea Marcolongo walks into an outdoor store in Paris to buy a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. Her destination, not a forest or mountain peak, but the deserted halls of one of the most famous museums in the wor...

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Both an autobiography and a feminist manifesto about how we understand romantic love today, and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in ...

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The inspiring story of how one of Europe's most original and compelling classicist learned to run--and live--like a Greek Much has changed since the day in 490 BCE when the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary run and deliv...

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From France's leading Jewish intellectual, an intimate yet universal meditation on October 7, its legacy, and the way forward Devastated by the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Delphine Horvilleur sees her world shatter. As a rabb...

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