Wu Ming Libri

1794. Parigi ha solo notti senza luna. Marat, Robespierre e Saint- Just sono morti, ma c'è chi giura di averli visti all'ospedale di Bicêtre. Un uomo in maschera si aggira sui tetti: è l'Ammazzaincredibili, eroe dei quartieri popolari, difensore della plebe rivoluzionaria, ieri temuta e oggi umiliata, schiacciata da un nuovo potere. Dicono che sia un italiano. Orde di uomini bizzarri riempiono le strade, scritte enigmatiche compaiono sui muri e una forza invisibile condiziona i destini, in città e nei remoti boschi dell'Alvernia. Qualcuno la chiama "fluido", qualcun altro Volontà. Guarda, figliolo: un giorno tutta questa controrivoluzione sarà tua. Ma è meglio cominciare dall'inizio. Anzi: dal giorno in cui Luigi Capeto incontrò Madama Ghigliottina. -- From publisher's website

Al nuovo appuntamento con i lettori, Crimini raccoglie le storie originali e inedite di alcuni tra i maggiori narratori italiani. Spaziando dal Piemonte di Giorgio Faletti al Nord-Est di Carlotto, al Sud di Carofiglio e De Silva, dalla Genova del contrabbando di Giampaolo Simi alla Matera al centro dell'industria del porno di Sandrone Dazieri, undici scrittori mettono a nudo l'Italia dei nostri giorni, esplorandone i lati più oscuri e l'anima profonda: l'Italia che è sotto i nostri occhi, quella che non fa nulla per nascondersi, l'Italia delle scorciatoie e dei suoi miti corrotti, quella dell'arricchimento individuale e quella del disprezzo del lavoro. Gli scrittori osservano, e raccontano tutto.

An historical epic of exodus and return, torn loyalties and desperate battles that spans the Atlantic, from the forests of America's northeast to the underworld of eighteenth-century London.

When a fire rips through the Venetian Arsenal in 1569, the enigmatic Emanuele De Zante, spy-catcher and secret agent, is betrayed by his lover, imprisoned, and accused of treason. Given the chance to escape, he embarks on a trans-European odyssey that will test his loyalty and force him to question even his own identity. Through a series of deadly political games leading all the way to the Sultan’s palace in Constantinople, De Zante and his companions spiral headfirst toward a conflict in which the great empires of the Republic of Venice and the Ottomans threaten the very foundations of civilization.

In Hollywood, some members of Her Majesty's Secret Service have a dangerous mission for the supremely elegant actor Cary Grant. And in Bologna, Pierre Capponi, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father, one that will end up taking him half-way around the world.

Three thirty-year-old friends reunite in Beijing after nearly 10 years apart. They used to be free-wheeling rock-and-rollers without a care in the world, but now, after tasting their own variation of freedom in new China, they are tormented by how unforgiving and unglamorous life had become. Nothing at all like the fame and fortune they dreamed about as kids. After comparing stories of disappointment over beers, they are reminded of how much youth they've lost when a group of kids torments them into a brawl. Re-energized by the encounter, they decide to reform the band and this time take over the world. But reality gets in the way when one of them finds out his family is going to be evicted along with their whole neighborhood due to shady government zoning. Putting their dreams aside to fight for their rightful property, they find themselves in a violent uprising pitting neighborhood residents against police and bulldozers... And when the heat gets turned up high enough, fuses are bound to be lit... A story of youthful dreams clashing with the reality of adulthood, set against the backdrop of modern China.

"A collection of works by celebrated Chinese artist Lu Ming, who is widely recognized as the leading representative of Chinese realist comics. Few artists are as complete as Lu Ming. Known for his hyper-realistic comics and his universe inspired by both medieval (Chinese and European) and music (he is also a professional guitarist and drummer), this collection is a look at his paintings, advertising illustrations (for which he won a Palme d'or at the Cannes Lion festival in 2008), storyboard and conceptual design work for feature films (including the legendary Tsui Hark's Flying Sabers), and his sculptures (including the monumental "Desert Grade" presented at the Burning Man festival in Nevada)."-- Amazon

Building bridges between Asian and Western philosophies, Kuang-ming Wu provides a novel approach to the "self-other" issue, casting it in terms of togetherness. On the "Logic" of Togetherness is a natural sequel to On Chinese Body Thinking (Brill, 1997). It is an essay on a cultural hermeneutics of togetherness, and of the homo-ecological community of differences, cultural and otherwise. "Togetherness" is the concrete primal "that" by which we explain and analyze concrete things and an intrinsic interactive principle of integrity, growth, reflection, and behavior. In five sections, this book describes cultural, personal, argumentative, religious and philosophical situations of togetherness, thus providing an imaginative examination of its varieties.

Tamika sa ocitne na rozhraní dvoch svetov. Jedným z nich je kolónia Európanov, v ktorej sa narodila a vyrastala pod dohľadom svojho staršieho brata. Jej život sa zmení po tom, čo sa vďaka svojmu talentu ocitne za hranicami neznámej Číny, ktorá sa delí na štát Liao a štát Song. V kolónii viedlabezstarostný život, zatiaľ čo v Číne musela bojovať, aby zachránila seba a svojho brata. Na tejto životnej ceste, kde zažila krutosť a chamtivosť ľudí, o to väčšmi pocíti silu priateľstva a lásky. Spoločne so svojimi priateľmi hľadajú spravodlivosť pre obyčajných ľudí oboch štátov.