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        May 1986

        Gesammelte Werke in zeitlicher Folge

        Band VII. 1976–1985

        by Max Frisch, Walter Schmitz, Hans Mayer, Johann S. Koch

        Wir hoffen. Rede zur Verleihung des Friedenspreises des deutschen Buchhandels 1976. Haben wir eine demokratische Öffentlichkeit?. Rede vor dem Parteitag der Sozialdemokratischen Partei der Schweiz 1976. Vorwort zu: Lew Kopelew, »Verbietet die Verbote!«. (1976). Rede vor den Delegierten des SPD-Parteitages. Hamburg 1977. >Zum Terrorrismus. Bei der Entführung Aldo Moros< (1978). Laudatio auf Alfred Andersch. (1979). Als Gulliver die Schweiz besuchte. (1979). Die politische Repression. Vortrag anläßlich des 35. Verbandstages des VPOD in Interlaken 1979. Laudatio auf Peter Bichsel. (1981). Rede zum Tod von Peter Noll. (1982). Mein Verleger. (1984). Rede an junge Ärztinnen und Ärzte. (1984). TRIPTYCHON. Drei szenische Bilder (1976/79). DER MENSCH ERSCHEINT IM HOLOZÄN. Eine Erzählung (1972/79). BLAUBART. Eine Erzählung (1981/82). Biographie: Ein Spiel. Neue Fassung 1984.

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        January 1995

        Tschechow in Sondrio

        Reisen nach Moskau und anderswohin

        by Buzzi, Aldo / Übersetzt von Krieger, Karin

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        Agriculture & related industries
        June 2013

        Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops

        by Jose Romeno Faleiro, Alvaro Castañeda Vildózola, Robert A Haack, Crebio Avila, Jose Roberto Parra, Mark S Hoddle, Alberto Urbaneja, Ana E Diaz Montilla, Juli Gould, Andrea Birke, Aldo Malavasi, V J Satarkar, Raymond J Gagne, Juliet Goldsmith, J. Ramon Castillo Valiente, Jose Carlos Rodrigues, Cal Welbourn, Denise Navia, Amy Roda, Mark P Culik, J M Alvarez, Takumasa Kondo, Gregory A Evans, Kenneth B Storey, Michael K Hennessey, David W Bartels, Anne S Roy, Ana Isabel Gonzalez, Greg Hodges. Edited by Jorge E Peña.

        Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe. Potentially threatened regions need to be prepared to prevent new pests from becoming established. Therefore, information on pest identity, host range, geographical distribution, biology, tools for detection and identification are all essential to researchers and regulatory personnel. This book focuses on the most recent invasive pests of agricultural crops in temperate subtropical and tropical areas and on potential invaders, discussing their spread, biology and control.

      • Fiction
        May 2018

        Diario de un olvidista (Diary of a forgetful person)

        by Paolo Pagliai

        Diary of a Forgetful Man shows us 1978, the year in which the Italian Red Brigades kidnapped the Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro. Those were fateful days for the Italian nation: Pope Paul VI implored, the UN and countless other actors were on tenterhooks as letters from Aldo Moro and communiqués from the Brigades appeared. The country was discussing the end, the means. And there were other underlying questions: what is the intimacy of the debate? Are the actions premeditated, do they govern themselves? Can a movement be transformed, who transforms it? These are, precisely, the latent questions here. This novel, based on Moro's letters, creates a post-revolutionary (perhaps Mexican) reality to pose the transformation of a utopia. The moral crossroads of those who defend or attack it are probably the same.

      • History
        July 2020

        The End of the Past

        Ancient Rome and the Modern West

        by Aldo Schiavone

        This searching interpretation of past and present addresses fundamental questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did ancient culture, once so strong and rich, come to an end? Was it destroyed by weaknesses inherent in its nature? Or were mistakes made that could have been avoided—was there a point at which Greco-Roman society took a wrong turn? And in what ways is modern society different? Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry. Also crucial are aspects of the ancient mentality: disdain for manual work, a preference for transcending (rather than transforming) nature, a basic belief in the permanence of limits. Schiavone’s lively and provocative examination of the ancient world, “the eternal theater of history and power,” offers a stimulating opportunity to view modern society in light of the experience of antiquity.

      • Society & culture: general
        May 2020

        Progress

        by Aldo Schiavone

        The twentieth century saw a faster and more radical transformation of the material and cultural conditions of life than any previous century in the history of the human species. It was also the first century that saw huge masses of women and men in every part of the planet become protagonists of their own destiny. But it was also the century which, particularly in its last two decades – with an increasing tendency, transmitted with even greater force to the following century – saw the crumbling of the idea that human history had a meaning and a direction, and that it had a general tendency to improve from generation to generation. That is to say, it destroyed the idea of progress, hitherto a banner of modernity (the ancient world had never conceived of anything similar, being imprisoned in a closed and limited representation of time and historicity). And this at the very time when it should have been celebrating its triumph. How was it possible for this to happen? What lies behind this seeming paradox? And what does it tell us about the difficulty of the period through which we are passing? What future does it suggest? This book tries to answer these questions by standing at the crossroads between different disciplines, in a perspective of the social history of ideas: philosophy, science, politics, anthropology, material culture. But it is also intended as a modest suggestion that may help us rediscover a sense of our history – one that is not linearly optimistic or providentialistic, but still conscious of the extraordinary potential of the human species, at this point in its development.

      • Religious buildings
        July 2019

        LINA BO BARDI COLLECTION

        by Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz

        This collection presents six of the most remarkable architectural projects by Lina Bo Bardi: Glass House, São Paulo Art Museum (MASP), Sesc Pompeia Factory, Oficina Theater (all in São Paulo), Unhão Manor (Bahia) and Espírito Santo do Cerrado Church (Minas Gerais). Besides texts by the editor Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz, this work features contributions by researchers and professionals who worked with Lina. The six volumes also contain writings by Bardi and a rich iconographic material composed of drawings, building plans and photographs. São Paulo Art Museum | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and Aldo van Eyck | 64 pages Sesc Pompeia Factory | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi, Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz and Cecília Rodrigues dos Santos | 64 pages Oficina Theater | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi, Edson Elito and José Celso Martinez Corrêa | 48 pages Glass House | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz | 48 pages Espírito Santo do Cerrado Church | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and Edmar de Almeida | 48 pages Solar do Unhão | with texts by Lina Bo Bardi and André Vainer | 48 pages

      • April 2016

        Dos Aldos

        by Guerra, Pablo; Díaz, Henry

        Gold Medal of the 11th International Manga Award. A neurobotany laboratory in the middle of the desert is the setting where a strange love triangle begins. The experiment carried out there will confront the identity of the characters in this story, launching them on a journey charged with nudism and betrayal. Pablo Guerra, an expert in comics and graphic novels, makes Dos Aldos an absurd and unconventional science fiction story. Guerra takes advantage of the possibilities offered by the creation of a futuristic world to reflect on the way humans relate to each other and what role science plays in these relationships. Added to the audacity of this story is cartoonist Henry Díaz's extraordinary interpretation of a world in which a plant can duplicate a human being.

      • History
        January 2017

        Pontius Pilate

        Deciphering a Memory

        by Aldo Schiavone

        The biography of Pontius Pilate is the crucial dramatic point of intersection between Christian memory as preserved in the Gospels, Jewish history and Roman imperial history. It includes an episode of unparalleled importance in the history of the West – the death of Jesus. Pilate is the only historical figure whom Christian tradition records as having had a long dialogue with Jesus. He appears to have uttered and listened to words, made and witnessed gestures, that have accompanied us for two thousand years. Who was he really? A despot? An accomplice? A bungler? Why do the Gospels flood his figure in a light that blurs its outlines, making all his features ambiguous and elusive? What are they trying to hide? The book approaches the theme as if for the first time. It does not ignore the huge mass of previous studies, but filters and reworks them in a reconstruction that sets out simply to describe and explain what might have happened. In so doing, however, it offers a surprising solution to an enigma.

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