La storia del Capitano Rankstrail era cominciata in una notte di fuoco e di vento. Dal buio erano arrivati gli Orchi, e le urla delle donne erano salite fino al cielo. Rankstrail è uno dei tanti figli nati dalle violenze sulle frontiere. Sua madre aveva
Un'ombra cupa, una terribile minaccia si stende sul Mondo degli Uomini: gli Orchi, che si abbattono come cavallette sulle città, radendole al suolo e trucidandone gli abitanti. Il Capitano Rankstrail della cavalleria leggera di Daligar vede il dolore spa
Gli ultimi incantesimi è una storia di Regine. Una storia di Guerriere. Il loro destino non è scolpito su un muro, ma scandito da una filastrocca che, dai passi di una bambina a quelli di un'altra, attraversa i secoli. Tra tutte le regine la più disper
Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic
The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu and his research associates show that few cultural
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz, a name that has become synonymous with evil. Here the utopian twentieth-century dream of employing science and technology to improve and protect human life was inverted from the latter part of the 19
Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, radically altered our view of the human mind by exploring our hidden drives, as is shown here in his groundbreaking writings on love and desire.
"To have an extraordinary life, Lucette believes, one must have an extraordinary name. Horrified by the pedestrian names her husband chooses for their unborn child (Tanguy if it's a boy, Joelle if it's a girl), Lucette does the only honorable thing to sav
