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By Umberto Eco (introduced by)
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9781590175880 | Ill edition (New York Review of Books, October 9, 2012), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years. From a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel, The Prague Cemetery—every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn't have one, must invent it; to the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels (and in the process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and medieval world)...read more
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9780547640976 | Houghton Mifflin, September 4, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years.

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Product Description: Después de Obra abierta, en la que estudiaba los lenguajes experimentales del arte contemporáneo, y de Apocalípticos e integrados, donde abordaba las técnicas y los temas de la comunicación de masas, Umberto Eco analiza aquí las fronteras de la semiótica...read more
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9788499892542 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, November 2, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Después de Obra abierta, en la que estudiaba los lenguajes experimentales del arte contemporáneo, y de Apocalípticos e integrados, donde abordaba las técnicas y los temas de la comunicación de masas, Umberto Eco analiza aquí las fronteras de la semiótica.

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Product Description: In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid and the scandalous come from? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco’s encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from and shun in everyday life is what we’re most attracted to subliminally...read more
By Umberto Eco (editor)
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9780847837236 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 18, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts.

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In a companion volume to his History of Beauty, the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others, complemented by quotations by celebrated writers and thinkers. 40,000 first printing.
By Umberto Eco (editor) and Alastair McEwen (trans)
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9780847829866 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 30, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In a companion volume to his History of Beauty, the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others, complemented by quotations by celebrated writers and thinkers.

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9788499892719 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, October 13, 2011), cover price $33.95

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Product Description: En este libro el gran intelectual, Umberto Eco, cuenta cómo se acercó a la ficción siendo ya un autor reconocido como gran ensayista, cómo prepara cada una de sus novelas antes de ponerse a escribir, cómo crea sus personajes y la realidad que los rodea...read more
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9788426419422 | Italian edition edition (Lumen Editorial, September 1, 2011), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: En este libro el gran intelectual, Umberto Eco, cuenta cómo se acercó a la ficción siendo ya un autor reconocido como gran ensayista, cómo prepara cada una de sus novelas antes de ponerse a escribir, cómo crea sus personajes y la realidad que los rodea.

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Product Description: Gathered here are all the texts written by Nobel Laureate in his blog until the date of his last entry on February 13th, 2010, where he defended the work of Judge Garzón. Committed, controversial, sententious, provocative, and spirited, Saramago never stopped intervening in public matters, and expressing his opinions, he remained true to his ideas...read more
By Umberto Eco (foreword by) and Jose Saramago
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9786071109323 | Italian edition edition (Santillana USA Pub Co Inc, May 30, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Gathered here are all the texts written by Nobel Laureate in his blog until the date of his last entry on February 13th, 2010, where he defended the work of Judge Garzón.

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Product Description: Apasionante trama y admirable reconstrucción de una época especialmente conflictiva, la del siglo XVI.
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9780307882776 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo Mexico, May 24, 2011), cover price $14.95 | also contains El nombre de la rosa / The name of the rose | About this edition: Apasionante trama y admirable reconstrucción de una época especialmente conflictiva, la del siglo XVI.

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Product Description: Apasionante trama y admirable reconstrucción de una época especialmente conflictiva, la del siglo XVI.
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9780307882776 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo Mexico, May 24, 2011), cover price $14.95 | also contains El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Rose | About this edition: Apasionante trama y admirable reconstrucción de una época especialmente conflictiva, la del siglo XVI.

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Product Description: Una extraordinaria novela que abarca desde los inicios del siglo XIX hasta los primeros años del siglo XX. Marzo, 1897. París. Un hombre de sesenta y siete años escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitación abarrotada de muebles: he aquí al capitán Simonini, un piamontés afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedicó al noble arte de crear documentos falsos...read more
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9788426418685 | Italian edition edition (Lumen Editorial, November 26, 2010), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Estamos en marzo de 1897, en París, espiando desde las primeras páginas de esta magnífica novela a un hombre de sesenta y siete años que escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitación abarrotada de muebles: he aquí al capitán Simonini, un piamontés afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedica al noble arte de crear documentos falsos.

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9780307745118 | Italian edition edition (Vintage Books, May 3, 2011), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Una extraordinaria novela que abarca desde los inicios del siglo XIX hasta los primeros años del siglo XX.

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Product Description: A remarkable 19th-century account of Constantinople that expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation, and entertaining historical information Edmondo de Amicis's brilliant look into an integral facet of world history begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author's ship approaches it through the harbor...read more
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9781847491589 | Revised edition (Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A remarkable 19th-century account of Constantinople that expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation, and entertaining historical information Edmondo de Amicis's brilliant look into an integral facet of world history begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author's ship approaches it through the harbor.
9781843911180 | Italian edition edition (Hesperus Pr, September 30, 2005), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This is the first translation into English of one of the most evocative accounts of exotic cities by one of the most loved Italian authors - a triumph of travel literature.

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Product Description: A groundbreaking history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars—and the momentous discovery that finally allows the full story to be told.Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars...read more
By Gregory Conti (trans), Umberto Eco (foreword by) and Barbara Frale
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9781559708890 | Arcade Pub, January 12, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence.

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9781611450194 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, May 1, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A groundbreaking history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars—and the momentous discovery that finally allows the full story to be told.

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Product Description: Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction...read more
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9780674058699 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 25, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty.

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By Umberto Eco (foreword by)
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9781617030345 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 2010, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Participando de características propias de la novela gótica, la crónica medieval, la novela policiaca, el relato ideológico en clave, y la alegoría narrativa, El nombre de la rosa ofrece distintos puntos de interés: primero una trama apasionante y constelada de golpes de efecto, que narra las actividades detectivescas de Guillermo de Baskerville para esclarecer los crímenes de una abadía benedictina; segundo, la reconstrucción portentosa de una época especialmente conflictiva, reconstrucción que no se para en lo exterior, sino que se centra en las formas de pensar y sentir del siglo XIV; y tercero, el modo en que Umberto Eco el teórico, Umberto Eco el ensayista, ha construido su primera novela, escrita -nos dice- por haber descubierto, en edad madura "aquello" sobre lo cual no se puede teorizar, aquello que hay que narrar...read more
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9788426418807 | Italian edition edition (Lumen Editorial, November 26, 2010), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Participando de características propias de la novela gótica, la crónica medieval, la novela policiaca, el relato ideológico en clave, y la alegoría narrativa, El nombre de la rosa ofrece distintos puntos de interés: primero una trama apasionante y constelada de golpes de efecto, que narra las actividades detectivescas de Guillermo de Baskerville para esclarecer los crímenes de una abadía benedictina; segundo, la reconstrucción portentosa de una época especialmente conflictiva, reconstrucción que no se para en lo exterior, sino que se centra en las formas de pensar y sentir del siglo XIV; y tercero, el modo en que Umberto Eco el teórico, Umberto Eco el ensayista, ha construido su primera novela, escrita -nos dice- por haber descubierto, en edad madura "aquello" sobre lo cual no se puede teorizar, aquello que hay que narrar.

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9788499087016 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, November 19, 2010), cover price $36.95

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Product Description: Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture...read more
By Umberto Eco (editor) and Alastair McEwen (trans)
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9780847826469 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 31, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A study of the idea of beauty explores the ever-changing concept of beauty from the ancient Greeks to today.

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9780847835300 | Reprint edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, September 21, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004.

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Product Description: Umberto Eco regresa a la Edad Media con una fascinante historia donde se confunden y entremezclan hazañas prodigiosas e inverosímiles, propias de los libros de caballerías, con andanzas y viajes a países remotos y escenarios desconocidos, un vasto fresco narrativo en el que se conjugan elementos de la novela histórica con otros propios del relato de intriga, de aventuras o del género policíaco...read more
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9788483462027, titled "Baudolino: Null" | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, April 2, 2010), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Umberto Eco regresa a la Edad Media con una fascinante historia donde se confunden y entremezclan hazañas prodigiosas e inverosímiles, propias de los libros de caballerías, con andanzas y viajes a países remotos y escenarios desconocidos, un vasto fresco narrativo en el que se conjugan elementos de la novela histórica con otros propios del relato de intriga, de aventuras o del género policíaco.

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9788426417435 | Ill tra edition (Lumen Editorial, November 30, 2009), cover price $53.95

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Product Description: Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and collecting...read more
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9780847832965 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 17, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists.

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9789685958868 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, February 28, 2009), cover price $20.95

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Product Description: The first illustrated book by one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, History of Beauty presents an intriguing journey into the wonderful realm of aesthetics, exploring the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from ancient Greece to today with abundant examples...read more
By Umberto Eco (editor) and Alastair McEwen (trans)
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9780847831760 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 9, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The first illustrated book by one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, History of Beauty presents an intriguing journey into the wonderful realm of aesthetics, exploring the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from ancient Greece to today with abundant examples.

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Product Description: The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this series of provocative, passionate, and witty essays, Umberto Eco examines a wide range of phenomena, from Harry Potter, the Tower of Babel, talk shows, and the Enlightenment to The Da Vinci Code/ What led us, he asks, into this age of hot wars and media populism, and how was it sold to us as progress?In Turning Back the Clock, the bestselling author and respected scholar turns his famous intellect toward events both local and global to look at where our troubled world is headed...read more
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9780151013517 | Houghton Mifflin, November 12, 2007, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In a timely compilation of essays, the semiotics professor and author of The Name of the Rose looks at the modern world and what brought us here, covering such topics as racism, the European Union, the Middle East, rhetoric, technology, September 11, TV ads, Harry Potter, intelligent design, fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, and other hot-button topics.

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9780156034210 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 22, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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