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Mar.10.2011
Pearl Caldwell wakes up in New Orleans, anxious to see the final days of the World's Fair, when she finds her companion, J.D. Bath, has taken everything, including her credit cards and money. She is stranded.
Six weeks later, Pearl is in the French Quarter celebrating her job with her friends...
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Sep.04.2010
Dall'espropriazione delle terre degli indiani d'America al colonialismo in Africa e in America Latina fino alla guerra in Iraq, combattuta dagli USA in nome della democrazia, e all'espansione delle multinazionali, gli autori, entrambi studiosi di fama internazionale, analizzano il concetto di...
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Oct.07.2008
"Plunder" examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones.
Challenges traditionally...
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Jan.11.2008
She's beautiful," writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. "I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers."
The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer of the novel...
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Dec.17.2007
T.Coraghessan Boyle’s first novel, Water Music is a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining tale of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and...
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