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“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.” 
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

READING IS FREEDOM

 

AWESOME NON-FICTION - SAGGISTICA

 

  • ADORNO, THEODOR - Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Radical Thinkers)

  • ADORNO, THEODOR - Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)

  • ADORNO, THEODOR - The Stars Down to Earth 

  • ADORNO, THEODOR - Aesthetic Theory (Theory and History of Literature)

  • ALFANO MIGLIETTI, FRANCESCA - Identità mutanti

  • ANZIEU, DIDIER - L’io pelle

  • ANZIEU, DIDIER - The Skin-Ego: A New Translation by Naomi Segal (The History of Psychoanalysis Series)

  • ANZIEU, DIDIER - A Skin for Thought: Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - Guida all'impero per gente comune

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - Quando arrivano le cavallette

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - The End of Imagination

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Rovine e miserie

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Non luoghi - Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies)

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Someone's Trying to Find You (The French List)

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

  • AUGÈ, MARC - An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses)

  • AUGÈ, MARC - La guerra dei sogni. Esercizi di Etno-Fiction. - The War of Dreams: Studies in Ethno Fiction (Anthropology, Culture, and Society) 

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Il Senso degli Altri - A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology 

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Un Etnologo nel metrò -In The Metro

  • AUGÈ, MARC - Un altro mondo è possibile (Italian Edition)

  • BARICCO, ALESSANDRO - The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutation of Culture

  • BARICCO, ALESSANDRO - Novecento: Un monologo (Italian Edition)

  • BARTHES, ROLAND - Il sistema della moda

  • BARTHES, ROLAND - Miti d'oggi (Contemporary Mythology)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Liquid life (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Liquid Love (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Liquid fear (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Liquid modernity (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Wasted lives (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Liquid Times. Living in an Age of Uncertainty (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Consuming life (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Thinking Sociologically (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Contemporaneamente insieme - The Individualized Society (Must. Awesome book)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Culture in a Liquid Modern World 2011 (Must)

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Society Under Siege 

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Globalization: The Human Consequence

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Collateral Damage: Social Inequality in a Global Age

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Identity

  • BAUMAN, ZYGMUND - Strangers at our door

  • BENJAMIN, WALTER - Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

  • BENJAMIN, WALTER - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  • BENJAMIN, WALTER - One-Way Street

  • BENJAMIN, WALTER - Angelus Novus

  • BLUMENBERG, HANS - Elaborazione del Mito - Work on Myth

  • BLUMENBERG, HANS - Care Crosses the River (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) 

  • BOAS, FRANZ - L'uomo Primitivo - Primitive Man 

  • BOATTO, A. - Narciso infranto. L’autoritratto moderno da Goya a Warhol.

  • BRAGAGLIA, A.G. - Le maschere italiane, Colombo Roma

  • CAMPHAUSEN, R.C. Return of the tribal, a celebration of body adornment 

  • CAPRA, FRITJOF - The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

  • CAPRA, FRITJOF - The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

  • CAPRA, FRITJOF - The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture

  • CAPRA, FRITJOF - Uncommon Wisdom

  • CAPRA, FRITJOF - The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

  • CARTER, RITA - Mapping the Mind

  • CASSIRER, E. - Filosofia delle forme simboliche - Philosophy of symbolic shapes (Study of Archetipical Thinking)

  • CASTIGLIONI, A. -  Venere nera

  • CRANE, EVA - The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting

  • CURLETTO, SILVIO - La norma e il suo rovescio: Coppie di opposti nel mondo religioso antico (Nuova atlantide) (Italian Edition)

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - Neurobiology of Human Values

  • DAMASIO, ANTONIO - Neurobiology of Decision-Making

  • DA VINCI, LEONARDO - Trattato della Pittura

  • DIAMOND, JARED - Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies 

  • ECO, UMBERTO -  Sugli specchi e altri saggii

  • FAETA, F. - Le figure inquiete

  • FERRARI, S. a.c.d - Autoritratto, psicologia e dintorni

  • FLORENSKJI, PAVEL - Le porte regali.  Saggio sull’icona

  • FLORENSKJI, PAVEL - La prospettiva rovesciata ed altri scritti sull'arte

  • FLORENSKJI, PAVEL - Il significato dell'idealismo

  • FREUD, SIGMUND -  Totem e tabu’

  • FREUD, SIGMUND - L'interpretazione dei sogni - Dream Psychology 

  • FROMM, ERIC - To have or to be?

  • FROMM, ERIC - The Art of Being

  • FROMM, ERIC - The Art of Loving

  • FROMM, ERIC - Escape from Freedom

  • FROMM, ERIC - Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

  • FROMM, ERIC - I cosiddetti sani. La patologia della normalità - The Sane Society 

  • FROMM, ERIC - Anatomia della distruttivitá umana - The Anatomy of Human Desctructiveness 

  • GATTO TROCCHI, CECILIA - Le muse in azione: Ricerche di antropologia dell'arte (Antropologia culturale e sociale)

  • GATTO TROCCHI, CECILIA - La fiaba italiana di magia

  • GATTO TROCCHI, CECILIA - Le sette in Italia

  • GATTO TROCCHI, CECILIA - La sorgente di Mnemosine: Memoria, cultura, racconto (Biblioteca di cultura) (Italian Edition)

  • GATTO TROCCHI, CECILIA - Etnie, miti, culture (Biblioteca di cultura) (Italian Edition)

  • GEERTZ, CLIFFORD - Interpretazione di culture -  The Interpretation of Cultures 

  • GEERTZ, CLIFFORD - Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics

  • GEERTZ, CLIFFORD - Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics)

  • GEERTZ, CLIFFORD - Math, Symbol, and Culture

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - L'uso delle Immagini - The Use of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication 

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - NORM AND FORM; Studies in the Aet of the Renaissance

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art 

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - Art and Illusion

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - The Heritage of Apelles

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - A Little History of the World

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - The Story of Art

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance

  • GOMBRICH, ERNST H. - The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

  • HAMILTON, EDITH - Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - A Blue Fire

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Senex & Puer 

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Pan and the Nightmare

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Anima: Anatomy of a Personified Notion

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - The Soul's Code

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Alchemical Psychology

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Archetypal Psychology

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - The Alchemy of Psychology

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Fragments

  • HILLMAN, JAMES - Insearch: Psychology and Religion

  • HOFSTADTER, DOUGLAS R. - Gödel, Escher, Bach: Eterna Ghirlanda Brillante

  • HOFSTADTER, DOUGLAS R. - I am a strange loop 

  • KAHNEMAN, DANIEL - Thinking fast and slow

  • KAHNEMAN, DANIEL - Choices, Values, and Frames

  • KANDINSKY, WASSILY, Lo spirituale nell'arte - Concerning the Spiritual in Art

  • KIRK, G.S. - Il Mito - The Myth 

  • KRIS, E. KURZ, O. - La leggenda dell’artista 

  • KRITSKY, GENE - The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt

  • LAYTON, R. - Antropologia  dell’arte 

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - Structural Anthropology

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - The elementary Structures of Kingship

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - Il pensiero selvaggio - The Savage Mind

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - Honey to ashes 

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - Myth and Meaning

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - The Way of the Masks

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - The Origin of Table Manners

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - The other face of the moon

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - Il Crudo e il Cotto - The Raw and the Cooked  

  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE - The Story of Lynx

  • LOMBROSO C. - L’uomo delinquente

  • MARRA, C. - Fotografia e pittura nel Novecento

  • McKENNA, TERENCE - Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

  • MORRIS DESMOND - Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures

  • MUNARI, BRUNO - Fantasia 

  • OLENDER, M. - Le lingue del paradiso. Ariani e Semiti. Una coppia provvidenziale.

  • OMERO - Odissea

  • PAPARONI, D. - Il corpo parlante dell’arte

  • PERNOUD, R. - La donna al tempo delle cattedrali

  • PERROT, P. - Il sopra e il sotto della borghesia

  • PINDARO - Olimpiche

  • PLATONE - La Repubblica

  • POLI, FRANCESCO - Il sistema dell'arte contemporanea

  • PROPP, VLADIMIR - Morphology of the Folktale

  • PROPP, VLADIMIR - Theory and History of Folklore (Theory and History of Literature)

  • RANDALL, H. POLHEMUS, T. - The customized body, Serpent’s Tail

  • RANSOM,  HILDA - The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore

  • REATO, D. Le maschere veneziane

  • ROVERSI, P. - Alla ricerca dei cosmetici perduti

  • ROVERSI, P. - Alla ricerca della cosmesi dei primitivi

  • RUBIN, A. - Marks of civilisation, Arnold Rubin editore, New York

  • SACKS, OLIVER - The mind's eye

  • SACKS, OLIVER - Musicophilia

  • SACKS, OLIVER - Uncle Tungsten

  • SACKS, OLIVER - The man who mistook his wife for a hat

  • SACKS, OLIVER - Awakenings

  • SACKS, OLIVER - Hallucinations

  • SACKS, OLIVER - Migraine

  • SACKS, OLIVER - Seeing voices

  • SACKS, OLIVER - The island of Colorblind

  • SACKS, OLIVER - A leg to stand on

  • SACKS, OLIVER - An Anthropologist on Mars

  • SONTAG, SUSAN - Davanti al dolore degli altri - Regarding the Pain of Others

  • SONTAG, SUSAN - On Photography

  • SONTAG, SUSAN - Against Interpretation and Other Essays

  • SONTAG, SUSAN - At the Same Time

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Imaginary Homelands 

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Est, Ovest - East, West

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Step across this line 

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Joseph Anton: A Memoir

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - The Wizard of Oz 

  • RUSKIN, JOHN - Economia politica dell'arte

  • RUSKIN, JOHN - The Seven Lamps of Architecture

  • RUSKIN, JOHN - The Stones Of Venice

  • RUSKIN, JOHN - Sesame and Lilies

  • SCHNEIDER, NORBERT - The art of the portrait: Masterpieces of European portrait-painting, 1420-1670

  • SORESI, ENZO - Il cervello anarchico

  • STUCCHI, L. VERDONE, M. - Le Maschere Italiane. The Italian Masks.

  • TAYLOR, SKYE ANN LOUISE - A Monk in the Bee Hive: A Short Discourse on Bees, Monks and Sacred Geometry

  • TERZANI, TIZIANO - A Fortune-Teller Told Me (MUST. Do you believe in storytellers??)

  • TERZANI, TIZIANO - The End Is My Beginning

  • TERZANI, TIZIANO - Letters Against the War

  • TERZANI, TIZIANO - One More Ride On The Merry Go Round (Must)

  • VALCARENGHI, MARINA - L'aggressività femminile

  • VAN GENNEP, ARNOLD - I Riti di Passaggio - The Rites of Passage

  • VAN GENNEP, ARNOLD - The Semi-Scholars

  • VERGINE, LEA - Ininterotti transiti

  • VERGINE, LEA - Body art e storie simili, Il corpo come linguaggio. 

 

 

AWESOME FICTIONS/POETRY- NARRATIVA/POESIA

 

  • ABBOTT, EDWIN A. - Flatlandia

  • ALBINATI & TIMI - Tuttalpiù muoio

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - The God of Small Things

  • ARUNDHATI, ROY - The Cost of Living

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Cocaine nights

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Millennium People

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Crash

  • BALLARD, J.G. - La Mostra delle Atrocità - The Atrocity Exhibition

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Miracles of Life

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Concrete Island

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Extreme Metaphors

  • BALLARD, J.G. - The Crystal World

  • BALLARD, J.G. - The Drought

  • BALLARD, J.G. - The Unlimited Dream Company (Paladin Books)

  • BALLARD, J.G. - A User’s Guide to the Millennium

  • BALLARD, J.G. - Super-Cannes

  • BALLARD, J.G. - The Kindness of Women

  • BLAKE, WILLIAM - The marriage of Heaven and Hell 

  • BLAKE, WILLIAM - Songs of Innocence and Experience 

  • BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO - The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)

  • BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO - Asleep in the Sun (New York Review Books Classics)

  • BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO - Where There's Love, There's Hate (Neversink)

  • BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO - A Russian Doll & Other Stories

  • BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO - Un viaggio inatteso

  • BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO - Diario della Guerra al Maiale - Diary of the War of the Pig

  • BIRMINGHAM, JOHN - He died with a falafel in his hands

  • BRADBURY, RAY - Io canto il corpo elettrico

  • BRADBURY, RAY - Fahrenheit 451 

  • BRADBURY, RAY - The Martian Chronicles 

  • BRADBURY, RAY - The Illustrated Man

  • BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD - 102 zen stories

  • BULGAKOV, MICHAIL A. - Cuore di cane - Heart of a dog

  • BULGAKOV, MICHAIL A. - Maestro e Margherita

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - The Naked lunch

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - The Cat Inside

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - Interzone

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - Speed and Kentucky Ham

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - The Soft Machine

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - My Education

  • BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - The Finger

  • CALVINO, ITALO - If on a winter's night a traveler

  • CALVINO, ITALO - Cosmicomics. Collection of short stories 

  • CALVINO, ITALO - Our Ancestors trilogy

  • CALVINO, ITALO - Le città invisibili - Invisible cities

  • CHATWIN, BRUCE - Utz

  • CHATWIN, BRUCE - Le vie dei canti - The Songline

  • CHATWIN, BRUCE - In Patagonia 

  • CHATWIN, BRUCE - Figures in a Landscape: People and Places

  • CHATWIN, BRUCE - What Am I Doing Here? 

  • COELHO, PAULO - The Alchemist 

  • COELHO, PAULO - The Pilgrimage 

  • COELHO, PAULO - Veronika Decides to Die

  • COELHO, PAULO - Eleven Minutes

  • COETZEE, J.M. - Shame

  • DESAI, KIRAN - The Inheritance of Loss: Life & Death In Karachi

  • DICK, PHILIP K. - In terra ostile - In Milton Lumky Territory

  • DICK, PHILIP K. - Confessioni di un artista di merda - Confessions of a Crap Artist. 

  • DICK, PHILIP K. - Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche? - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 

  • DICK, PHILIP K. - Scorrete lacrime, disse il poliziotto - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

  • FAETI, ANTONIO - Il ventre del comunista

  • FAETI, ANTONIO - Sul limitare

  • FANTE, JOHN - Chiedi alla polvere - Ask the dust

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - How to Rule the World

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - The Thought Gang

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - Good To Be God

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - Sotto il culo della rana. Under the frog

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - Viaggio al termine di una stanza - Voyage to the End of the Room

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - Crushed Mexican Spiders

  • FISCHER, TIBOR - I Like Being Killed: Stories

  • GINSBERG, ALLEN - Urlo e Kaddish

  • GOGOL, NIKOLAJ - Dead souls

  • HESSE, HERMANN - Siddhartha 

  • HESSE, HERMANN - Narcissus and Goldmund - Narciso e Boccadoro

  • HOLLINGHURST, ALAN - The Line of Beauty

  • ISHIGURO, KAZUO - The Remains of the Day

  • JODOROWSKY, ALEJANDRO - Psychomagic 

  • JODOROWSKY, ALEJANDRO - Black Friday  

  • JOYCE, JAMES - Dubliners

  • JOYCE, JAMES - Ulysses

  • JOYCE, JAMES - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • KERET, ETGAR - Pizzeria Kamikaze (brilliant book)

  • KERET, ETGAR - Suddenly a knock on the door 

  • KERET, ETGAR - Pipelines

  • KERET, ETGAR - Dad Runs Away with the Circus

  • KEROUAC, JACK - On the Road 

  • KEROUAC, JACK - The Dharma Bums

  • KEROUAC, JACK - The Subterraneans 

  • LAPIERRE DOMINIQUE - Honeymoon around the world

  • MAJAKOVSKIJ - Lettere d'amore a Lili Brik - Love letters for Lili Brik

  • MAZZANTINI, MARGARET - Non ti muovere

  • MISSIROLI, MARCO - Bianco

  • MISSIROLI, MARCO - Il senso dell'elefante

  • MISSIROLI, MARCO - Atti osceni in  luogo privato

  • MISTRY, ROHINTON - A perfect balance

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Invisible monsters

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Lullaby

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Soffocare - Choke

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Diary 

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey 

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread 

  • PALAHNIUK, CHUCK - Adjustment Day 

  • REY ROSA, RODRIGO - Il tempo concesso

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Midnight's children (My favourite story ever)

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Fury

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - The ground beneath her feet 

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - The Moro's last sight

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - The Satanic Verses

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - L'incantatrice di Firenze - The Enchantress of Florence

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Shalimar the Clown

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Shame

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Grimus

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Luka and the Fire of Life

  • RUSHDIE, SALMAN - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

  • SETH, VIKRAM - Due vite

  • SMITH, ZADIE - White Teeth

  • SMITH, ZADIE - Feel Free

  • SWARUP, VIKAS - 12 Questions

  • THORNTON, TIM - L'eroe alternativo - The alternative hero

  • TOLKIEN, J.R.R. - The Hobbit

  • TOLKIEN, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings

  • VEGA, SUZANNE - Solitude standing

  • VONNEGUT, KURT - Slaughterhouse - Five

  • VONNEGUT, KURT - We are what we pretend to be
  • VONNEGUT, KURT - The Sirens of Titan
  • VONNEGUT, KURT - Mother Night
  • VONNEGUT, KURT - A Man Without a Country
  • WELSH, IRVINE - Porno

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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