15/08/14 | Reviews
Galileo Galilei: Dialogue of the highest systems
Copernicus placed the Earth around the Sun and the Sun at the center of the then known solar system; Tolomeo instead, ...
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02/08/14 | Reviews
Nicola Amato: Information security
What are we talking about in the book? The topics of the book are mainly taken from the lectures given at the University ...
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20/07/14 | Reviews
Emil Ludwig: Schliemann
Mecklenburg of the 1800 gave birth to this extraordinary man. The legends of the village of Ankershagen ...
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08/07/14 | Reviews
Bram Stoker: Dracula
A few weeks ago, while I was wandering around the shelves of my personal bookstore, I found the book ...
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14/06/14 | Reviews
Michele L. Straniero: The Cardinal of Richelieu
So a few days ago, while choosing in my library the book that would have accompanied me for a week, ...
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06/06/14 | Reviews
Martin Gilbert: Winston Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill has always fascinated me and the desire to know him better led me to read ...
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27/05/14 | Reviews
"Soldiers of Peace"
A book published by the "Guida" publishing house where the Cilento journalist reports stories of love and hope ...
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22/05/14 | Reviews
Xenophon: Ciropedia, or "On the education of Ciro"
In one of his many treaties he speaks to us about the education and business of Cyrus, son of Cambyses (king of ...
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18/05/14 | Reviews
E. Cantarano and L. Carini: History of Medicine and Assistance for Health Professions
Sometimes these essays are too heavy to read but not in this case. The authors, Enzo Cantarano and Luisa Carini, ...
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14/05/14 | Reviews
Ernest Hemingway: For those who ring the bell
Born in the 1899 near Chicago. In the 1918 he volunteered in the ambulance services for the American Red ...
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04/05/14 | Reviews
Stefan Zweig: Magellan
From him and his trip to the Indies passing from the West we know thanks to a Vicentine, Antonio Pigafetta, a knight of ...
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24/04/14 | Reviews
Stefan Zweig: Amerigo, the story of a historical error
In this way Stefan Zweig closes his essay on the story of the attribution of the name "America" to the new continent ...
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09/04/14 | Reviews
Aldous Huxley: The New World and Back to the New World
Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey in England and died in Los Angeles in the 1963. The new world is ...
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03/04/14 | Reviews
Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruele
He knows Greek and Latin and in 1525, when the Sorbonne forbids the study of Greek to prevent them from being ...
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25/03/14 | Reviews
Claudio Rendina: The popes, history and secrets
I read the first volume of the history of the papacy, from St. Peter's (30-67 AD) to Gregory IX (1227-1241 AD) and I must say ...
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13/03/14 | Reviews
Lao Petrilli - Vincenzo Sinapi: UFOs, Italian dossiers
The work - underlines the author - was carried out according to journalistic fees and without looking for imaginative conclusions ....
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06/03/14 | Reviews
Norbert Wiener: Introduction to cybernetics
In fact, Turing referred to him as one of the main proponents of information science and ...
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02/03/14 | Reviews
Giuseppe Flavio: Jewish Antiquities
A historian of our day perhaps would not approve of this behavior but, one could say, the end justifies the ...
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18/02/14 | Reviews
Norberto Bobbio: Democracy and Secret
The 23 November 1980 Norberto Bobbio published an article in the press in which he explained what democracy was, ...
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13/02/14 | Reviews
Norberto Bobbio: Elements of politics
One of the greatest scholars of the field in Italy was Norberto Bobbio, professor of Philosophy of Law and of ...
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Faces and U-turns. Ukraine between Holiness and Prostitution
From the Book of Sirach Sir 27,5-8 (NV) [gr. 27,4-7] When a sieve is shaken, the refuse remains; so when a man argues, the defects are revealed. The potter's vessels are tested by the...
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Letter to Difesa Online: "Save the Navy!"
Dear Director, We kindly ask you to publish this letter, which is as open as it is heartfelt and truthful, concerning the need to “save” the Navy from a situation...
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