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Cuba: the Truth, the Lies, and the Cover-Ups

By: Dr. Julio Antonio del Mármol

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Cuba: the Truth, the Lies, and the Cover-Ups

By: Dr. Julio Antonio del Mármol

In this volume, the reader is transported back to 1960, where newly minted master spy Julio Antonio del Marmol begins his career by stealing the briefcase of Che Guevara from inside the provincial military headquarters of the Rebel Army in Pinar del Rio. This action propels him into a new, more dangerous sphere of operation as a spy as he works his way into the inner circles of the most paranoid mind of the leaders of the Cuban revolution, Che Guevarawho seeks to groom the young man as his own protg KGB agent! The story details seemingly unbelievable and undoubtedly controversial events surrounding the blueprints to create communist revolutions, spread corruption, and commit assassinations too outrageous to be fiction. The author tells the story not merely as a narratorhe was an active participant in these events as part of the first steps in his life as a thirteen-year-old spy as he retrieved important documents for his friends in his intelligence network. Only when they reviewed the data did he realize the sheer magnitude of what he had accomplished as he exposed what really lay behind Cuba: the truth, the lies, and the cover-ups.

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1490773169

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Elements, Principles and Corpuscles

A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

By: Antonio Clericuzio

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Elements, Principles and Corpuscles

A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

By: Antonio Clericuzio

In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401594643

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9789401594646

Waves and Stability in Continuous Media - Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Wascom 2009

By: Antonio Maria Greco,Salvatore Rionero,Tommaso Ruggeri

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Waves and Stability in Continuous Media - Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Wascom 2009

By: Antonio Maria Greco,Salvatore Rionero,Tommaso Ruggeri

This book contains recent contributions in the field of waves propagation and stability in continuous media. The volume is the sixth in a series published by World Scientific since 1999.

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World Scientific

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9814317411

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9789814317412

Massacres of the Italian Risorgimento

By: Antonio Ciano

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Massacres of the Italian Risorgimento

By: Antonio Ciano

Pontelandolfo, Casalduni, the Sannio, Campobasso but also Turin: innumerable massacres against defenseless populations perpetrated by the Savoyard army and Garibaldi’s troops during the Risorgimento. In this fundamental volume, Antonio Ciano accompanies the reader on a journey of memory that, challenging official Italian historiography, traces the main massacres of the Risorgimento.

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Ali Ribelli Edizioni

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8833460878

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9788833460871

Congenital Heart Defects

Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery Volume 2 Less Common Defects

By: Antonio F. Corno

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Congenital Heart Defects

Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery Volume 2 Less Common Defects

By: Antonio F. Corno

-Numerous illustrations help the reader visualize the anatomy and key operative steps -Written in an accessible, easy-to-read format that allows the reader to understand the steps for the surgical procedure -Comprehensively cover all the material necessary to make competent decisions on treatment -Each chapter is dedicated to one single malformation allowing the reader to fully understand that malformation before moving on

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Springer Science & Business Media

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379851934X

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9783798519343

Congenital Heart Defects. Decision Making for Surgery

Volume 3: CT-Scan and MRI

By: Antonio F. Corno,Pierluigi Festa

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Congenital Heart Defects. Decision Making for Surgery

Volume 3: CT-Scan and MRI

By: Antonio F. Corno,Pierluigi Festa

The diagnosis and management of congenital heart defects has rapidly evolved over the decades. This book presents the role that cardiac CT and MRI may play in the management of congenital heart defects.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3798517193

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9783798517196

Hershey

Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams

By: Michael D'Antonio

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Hershey

Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams

By: Michael D'Antonio

D'Antonio pens the first full biography of one of the most successful and unusual business titans of the 20th century--Milton Hershey--and a startling history of how his commanding fortune shaped a unique utopian legacy.

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Simon and Schuster

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074326410X

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9780743264105

Michelangelo

A Tormented Life

By: Antonio Forcellino

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Michelangelo

A Tormented Life

By: Antonio Forcellino

This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple threads of Michelangelo’s life and times with a brilliant analysis of his greatest works. The author retraces Michelangelo’s journey from Rome to Florence, explores his changing religious views and examines the complicated politics of patronage in Renaissance Italy. The psychological portrait of Michelangelo is constantly foregrounded, depicting with great conviction a tormented man, solitary and avaricious, burdened with repressed homosexuality and a surplus of creative enthusiasm. Michelangelo’s acts of self-representation and his pivotal role in constructing his own myth are compellingly unveiled. Antonio Forcellino is one of the world’s leading authorities on Michelangelo and an expert art historian and restorer. He has been involved in the restoration of numerous masterpieces, including Michelangelo’s Moses. He combines his firsthand knowledge of Michelangelo’s work with a lively literary style to draw the reader into the very heart of Michelangelo’s genius.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509539972

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9781509539970

Brotherhood of Corruption

A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling

By: Juan Antonio Juarez

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Brotherhood of Corruption

A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling

By: Juan Antonio Juarez

A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city's police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer because he wants to make a difference in gang-infested neighborhoods; but, as this book reveals, he ends up a corrupt member of the most powerful gang of all—the Chicago police force. Juarez shares the horrific indiscretions he witnessed during his seven years of service, from the sexually predatory officer, X, who routinely stops beautiful women for made-up traffic offenses and flirts with domestic violence victims, to sadistic Locallo, known on the streets as Locoman, who routinely stops gang members and beats them senseless. Working as a narcotics officer, Juarez begins to join his fellow officers in crossing the line between cop and criminal, as he takes advantage of his position and also becomes a participant in a system of racial profiling legitimized by the war on drugs. Ultimately, as Juarez discusses, his conscience gets the better of him and he tries to reform, only to be brought down by his own excesses. From the perspective of an insider, he tells of widespread abuses of power, random acts of brutality, and the code of silence that keeps law enforcers untouchable.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613741413

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9781613741412

Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias (Venice, 6–8 October 1995)

By: Antonio Raviele

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Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias (Venice, 6–8 October 1995)

By: Antonio Raviele

The subject of cardiac arrhythmias is of practical relevance. Various arrhythmias are found in different clinical situations, such as premature complexes in healthy individuals, supraventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White snydrome, atrioventricular block, and ventricular fibrillation in cardiopathic conditions, especially in patients with ischemic disease. Topics of major interest are discussed in this volume: malignant ventricular arrhythmias, sudden death, automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillators, syncope, current indications for pacing therapy, radiofrequency catheter ablation, flutter, and atrial fibrillation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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8847022231

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9788847022232

Mundunur: A Mountain Village Under the Spell of South Italy

By: Michele Antonio Di Marco

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Mundunur: A Mountain Village Under the Spell of South Italy

By: Michele Antonio Di Marco

Montenero Val Cocchiara is usually referred to simply as Montenero, or Mundunur in the local dialect. Montenero is a typical mountain village on the border of the Abruzzo and Molise regions, but it is more than that. Its history was tinted by contacts with numerous powerful groups over many centuries. The village and its people prove to be unique, but they also are highly embued with elements common to all in South Italy. Of course it is the hope of the author that anyone with roots in South Italy will benefit from reading this book. However, his much greater aspiration is that others will equally enjoy the story of Montenero as a metaphor of their own ancestral village or town, regardless of country or even see the village as a microcosm of the world where the forces of history and culture forge the character of people.

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Via Media Publishing

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189376558X

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Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II

Genesis and Genius

By: Christoph Luitpold Frommel,Claudia Echinger-Maurach,Antonio Forcellino,Maria Forcellino

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Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II

Genesis and Genius

By: Christoph Luitpold Frommel,Claudia Echinger-Maurach,Antonio Forcellino,Maria Forcellino

In 1505, Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. Repeated failures to complete the monument were characterized by Condivi, Michelangelo’s authorized biographer, as “the tragedy of the tomb.” This definitive book thoroughly documents the art of the tomb and each stage of its complicated evolution. Authored by Christoph Luitpold Frommel, who also acted as the lead consultant on the recent restoration campaign, this volume offers new post-restoration photography that reveals the beauty of the tomb overall, its individual statues, and its myriad details. This book traces Michelangelo’s stylistic development; documents the dialogue between the artist and his great friend and exacting patron Pope Julius II; unravels the complicated relationship between the master and his assistants, who executed large parts of the design; and sheds new light on the importance of Neo-Platonism in Michelangelo’s thinking. A rich trove of documents in the original Latin and archaic Italian relates the story through letters, contracts, and other records covering Michelangelo’s travels, purchase of the marble, and concerns that arose as work progressed. The book also catalogues fifteen sculptures designed for the tomb and more than eighty related drawings, as well as an extensive and up-to-date bibliography.

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Getty Publications

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1606065033

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9781606065037

The Pollaiuolo Brothers

The Arts of Florence and Rome

By: Alison Wright,Antonio Pollaiolo

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The Pollaiuolo Brothers

The Arts of Florence and Rome

By: Alison Wright,Antonio Pollaiolo

Painters, draftsmen, goldsmiths, sculptors, and designers, the Pollaiuolo brothers of fifteenth-century Florence produced some of the most beautiful works of the Italian Renaissance.

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Yale University Press

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0300106254

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9780300106251

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

By: Antonio Ciano

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Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

By: Antonio Ciano

Data in hand, this volume offers an accurate analysis of the economic situation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from its establishment to its dissolution by the Savoyard army. A must-read for anyone who wants to deepen the historical context in which the economy of the Bourbon kingdom developed, and the numerous economic and industrial achievements it managed to achieve before its annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.

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Ali Ribelli Edizioni

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8833460851

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9788833460857

The History of Painting in Italy, Volume VI (of 6)

Volume 6

By: Antonio Lanzi Luigi

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The History of Painting in Italy, Volume VI (of 6)

Volume 6

By: Antonio Lanzi Luigi

Reproduction of the original: The History of Painting in Italy, Volume VI (of 6) by Antonio Lanzi Luigi

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752433140

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9783752433142

One Country Under Blood

By: Antonio Ciano

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One Country Under Blood

By: Antonio Ciano

“One Country under Blood” debunks the myth of a happy unification of Italy. What was made to pass as a struggle for independence, was truly an invasion perpetrated by the House of Savoy and its masonic affiliates with the connivance of the Mafia and Camorra cartels. After the annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the riches of southern Italy were transferred to banks in the north to fuel the industrial development of Lombardy and Piedmont. Disfranchised and impoverished, millions of southern "Italians" had no other choice but to turn into outlaws or leave their ancestral homeland and immigrate to the United States, Australia and Southern America in search of a new beginning.

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Ali Ribelli Edizioni

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8833460843

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9788833460840

The Hagiographer and the Avatar

The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi

By: Antonio Rigopoulos

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The Hagiographer and the Avatar

The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi

By: Antonio Rigopoulos

In this biographical study, Antonio Rigopoulos explores the fundamental role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement: in this case, the postsectarian, cosmopolitan community of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba. The guru's hagiographer, Narayan Kasturi, was already a distinguished litterateur by the time he first met Sathya Sai Baba in 1948. The two lived together at the guru's hermitage more or less continuously from 1954 up until Kasturi's death, in 1987. Despite Kasturi's influential hagiography, Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, little scholarly attention has been paid to the hagiographer himself and his importance to the movement. In detailing Kasturi's relationship to Sathya Sai Baba, Rigopoulos emphasizes that the hagiographer's work was not subordinate to the guru's definition of himself. Rather, his discourses with the holy man had a reciprocal and reinforcing influence, resulting in the construction of a unified canon. Furthermore, Kasturi's ability to perform a variety of functions as a hagiographer successfully mediated the relationship between the guru and his followers. Drawing on years of research on the movement as well as interviews with Kasturi himself, this book deepens our understanding of this important pan-Indian figure and his charismatic religious movement.

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State University of New York Press

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1438482302

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9781438482309

Flower of the Desert

Giacomo Leopardi's Poetic Ontology

By: Antonio Negri

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Flower of the Desert

Giacomo Leopardi's Poetic Ontology

By: Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri, one of Italy's most influential and controversial contemporary philosophers, offers in this book a radical new interpretation of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. For Negri, Leopardi is not the bitter, idealistic individualist of conventional literary history, but rather a profoundly materialist thinker who sees human solidarity as the only possible solution to the catastrophes of history and politics. Negri traces Leopardi's resistance to the transcendental idealism of Kant and Hegel, with its emphasis on reason's power to resolve real antagonisms into abstract syntheses, and his gradual development of a sophisticated poetic materialism focused on the constructive power of the imagination and its "true illusions." Like Nietzsche (who admired him), Leopardi provides an alternative to modernity within modernity, expressing a force of rupture and recomposition—a uniquely Italian one—that is as relevant now as it was in the nineteenth century, and which connects to the theory of Empire as the political constitution of the present that Negri has elaborated in collaboration with Michael Hardt.

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State University of New York Press

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1438458487

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9781438458489

A History of Law in Europe

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

By: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa

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A History of Law in Europe

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

By: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa

With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legislative models, doctrines and customs within Europe included English common law and has been extensive from the early middle ages to the present time. In this seminal work which spans from the fifth to the twentieth century, Antonio Padoa-Schioppa explores how law was brought to life in the six main phases of European legal history. By analysing a selection of the institutions of private and public law which are most representative of each phase and of each country, he also sheds light on the common features throughout the history of European legal culture. Translated in English for the first time, this new edition has been revised to include the recent developments of the European Union and the legal-historical works of the last decade.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316851761

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9781316851760

The Deadly Deals

By: Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol

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The Deadly Deals

By: Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol

As he continues to unravel Che Guevaras master plan involving the president of the United States, the young spy has to avoid more traps set for him by Fidel Castros sinister head of the dreaded G-2. He meets Ches Amazon unit, a group dancers at the Tropicana who, in reality, are highly trained assassins. There he meets Ches handlers with the KGB and, much to his astonishment, discovers that Che is playing a deadly game with the Soviet Union by dealing with the communists in China behind the USSRs back. To delve deeper into this aspect of the Argentines machinations, he accepts an invitation from Tanya, the leader of the Amazons, for a slight vacation. There he meets and befriends the crazed, illegitimate daughter of Che.

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1490781080

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