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Formed by settlers in search of a new future in the early 1870s, what is now known as Dell Rapids has had its share of historical significance through the years. From the 1888 Valentine’s Day fire that devastated the town’s Main Street to the 1934 bank robbery perpetrated by the FBI’s “Public Enemy...
Among the American avant-garde of the early twentieth century, Floyd Dell played a distinctive role. A boy from the Midwest who rose to influence in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and in the heyday of Greenwich Village radicalism, he became a celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses),...
From the National Book Award longlisted author of Night Watch, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction” (Stephen King). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money...
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On the banks of the Eel River, amongst Northern California’s towering redwood forests, lie the towns of Scotia and Rio Dell. Their histories inseparably intertwined, these two towns formed a larger community supporting the needs of local settlers and industry. Scotia, constructed by the Pacific...
After their teacher takes the ‘Super Sleuths’ and their classmates to the nearby dells as a stimulus for a creative writing project, the Sleuths become intrigued by something Ms Salmon told them. Something about a mysterious plume of smoke rising from the dells at midnight on Halloween and what it...
Myths in every culture explain our origins, the earths creation, gods and monsters, demons, the afterlife and the underworld. This book gathers together themes and stories from every culture, showing how myths share many common patterns, and how the human imagination is expressed in all its...
Monsters have preoccupied mankind from the earliest times: even cave art includes animal-human monsters. This book explores monsters down the ages and throughout the world. It provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of the human mind, lit up by flashes of wild and unearthly inspiration.
Attraverso foto spettacolari e un testo di facile comprensione Il ronzio delle api racconta la storia di questo insetto partendo da una prospettiva diversa.Jürgen Tautz, attraverso le scoperte più recenti, molto delle quali frutto del suo gruppo di lavoro, ci offre la possibilità di venire a...
What were the origins of commedia dell’arte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over time and as it spread from Italy? How did its relationship to the ruling ideology of the day change during the Enlightenment? What is its legacy today?These are just some of the questions addressed in this...
German composer Christopher Dell’s ingenious appropriation of the concert as artistic formThis publication documents Berlin-based composer and curator Christopher Dell’s The Working Concert, a series of performative installations that aim to reimagine the concert—including publication, public...
L’autografia dell’“eta minore” dei principi italiani tra Quattro e Cinquecento e un tema all’incrocio di molti ambiti di ricerca: la storia dei linguaggi politici, la storia culturale, la storia dell’educazione e delle pratiche formative, la storia dell’infanzia, la paleografia e la diplomatica,...
Contro l’idea di un’economia atemporale iscritta nella natura degli uomini, il volume esplora la costruzione sociale dei valori economici a partire dal significato assunto dal rapporto fra possesso dei beni e ruolo delle persone nei diversi contesti storici. L’intersezione di questi due piani e...
La dissertazione si concentra su due brani antropologici di Paolo, quelli in cui egli tratta della lotta interiore dell’uomo, cioe Gal 5,16 e Rm 7,14-25. Particolare interesse e dedicato ai due versetti che contengono la sequenza “ non volere …. fare” (Gal 5,17b e Rm 7,16), dove si trova il...
Il presente libro trae origine dal corso interdisciplinare tenutosi nell’anno accademico 1976/1977. L’interesse attuale per la filosofia della scienza faceva presto pensare ad una pubblicazione di queste lezioni tenute in occasione del corso. Sembra molto importante dare un’idea concreta della...
More than four million visitors travel each year to the Wisconsin Dells, making it the most economically significant tourist destination in the state. After the first non-Native settlers arrived in the late 1830s, photographers began capturing images of the region. H. H. Bennett marketed his iconic...
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A guidebook to trekking the Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA) from the Nufenen Pass on the Swiss border to Ventimiglia on the Mediterranean coast. Covering 809km (503 miles), this often overlooked long-distance trek through the western Italian Alps takes around 2 months to hike and is suitable for...
Die “deutsche” Einrichtung Santa Maria dell’Anima in Rom z�hlt neben dem Campo Santo Teutonico zu den zentralen Anlaufstellen f�r Pilger aus dem nordalpinen Raum respektive dem Heiligen R�mischen Reich. Die Gr�ndung geht auf eine Stiftung in der zweiten H�lfte des 14. Jahrhunderts zur�ck. 1399...