Results for "Mari, Michele"

At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spendshis summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in hisgrandfather's library. The greatest mystery he's ever encountered, however, doe... Read More about Verdigris

New Yorker, "The Best Books of 2023" Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raised on c... Read More about You, Bleeding Childhood

This edited collection develops a gendered lens for genocide prevention by uncovering socially constructed gender roles which are crucial for the onset, form and prevention of genocide and mass atrocities. This volume draws on contemporary feminist theory, concepts of masculinity, critical discussio... Read More about A Gendered Lens for Genocide Prevention (Rethinking Political Violence)

John Edward McCarville, fondly called Jack is the second child of an Irish Catholic family of eight, growing up on a farm in Moorland, Iowa. Frail and stricken with asthma he traveled to Arizona alone at the age of 17 years for his respiratory health. He set his goals on becoming a doctor and attend... Read More about American Doctor: Aviation Medical Examiner (AME)

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF'... Read More about Dr M. Lorthiois. de l'Automutilation: Mutilations Et Suicides Étranges (Sciences)

Nurse Laura said it is time, and walked Al toward the operating room, I stood next to Tommy and Jessica, and stared. Al stopped and turned around in front of two large metal doors that would swing open into the operating room. I blinked as she looked back at us and through my blur of tears, I saw a ... Read More about An Angel with Blue Hair: A Story of Bone Marrow Donation