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Product Description: To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, thought it was crucial to republican social and political renewal--but that first it needed to be renewed itself...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9780691154497 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check.

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9781400835034 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 4, 2010, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: From a bestselling Italian author comes a sharply observed new mystery set in the seedy underworld of 1970s MilanGiorgio Faletti’s first thriller, I Kill, took Europe by storm, selling over five million copies. The Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading newspaper, crowned him “the greatest Italian writer...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9780374231408 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 17, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: From a bestselling Italian author comes a sharply observed new mystery set in the seedy underworld of 1970s MilanGiorgio Faletti’s first thriller, I Kill, took Europe by storm, selling over five million copies.

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Product Description: On the front line in World War I, six soldiers face a suicide mission.   A classic of Italian literature, Fear is often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front. At a hot mountain outpost during World War I, Lieutenant Alfani wishes something would break the tedium of the day...read more
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9781612191218 | Melville Pub House, July 10, 2012, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: On the front line in World War I, six soldiers face a suicide mission.

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Product Description: A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of ItalyAnna and Francesca are on the brink of everything: high school, adulthood, and the edge of ambition in their provincial town...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9780670023585 | Viking Pr, June 14, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of ItalyAnna and Francesca are on the brink of everything: high school, adulthood, and the edge of ambition in their provincial town.

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Product Description: Law is a specific form of social regulation that is distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and is endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. The invention of law, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome...read more
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9780674047334 | Belknap Pr, January 2, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Law is a specific form of social regulation that is distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and is endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality.

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Product Description: A fable for children and adults: a story of life, death, and terrorism—in the grand tradition of Exupéry’s The Little PrinceWhen we first meet 93-year-old millionaire Baron Lamberto, he has been diagnosed with 24 life-threatening ailments—one for each of the 24 banks he owns...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781935554615 | Melville Pub House, December 6, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A fable for children and adults: a story of life, death, and terrorism—in the grand tradition of Exupéry’s The Little PrinceWhen we first meet 93-year-old millionaire Baron Lamberto, he has been diagnosed with 24 life-threatening ailments—one for each of the 24 banks he owns.

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Product Description: Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9780691151823 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 19, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince.

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Product Description: Born on the streets and born singing, Tony Pagoda has had his day. But what a day it was!He had fame, money, women, and talent. He spent his golden years entertaining a flourishing and garishly happy Italy. His success stretched over borders and across the seas...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781609450526 | Europa Editions Inc, September 27, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Born on the streets and born singing, Tony Pagoda has had his day.

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Product Description: "Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no idea how his life was about to change...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9780143119579 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, April 26, 2011), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller.

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Product Description: A unique look at the life Miuccia Prada—one of the world’s most revered, and reserved, fashion designers—this biography details the meteoric rise of the brand that forever changed the face of the fashion industry. This biography shows a sophisticated Milanese woman with a history as an active feminist and details her involvement in the Prada brand—a company no longer considered simply a fashion industry leader, but the symbol of a conceptual style that has brought aesthetic standards under scrutiny, and created new trends that have become a lifestyle...read more
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9788860737236 | Independent Pub Group, November 1, 2010, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A unique look at the life Miuccia Prada—one of the world’s most revered, and reserved, fashion designers—this biography details the meteoric rise of the brand that forever changed the face of the fashion industry.

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Product Description: I'm never coming back to my home town.A major Italian author’s tale of growing up with Italy’s most brutal criminal enterprise, the Camorra. This striking novella is based on first-hand research of the Camorra, an Italian organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781933633800 | Original edition (Melville Pub House, November 10, 2009), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: I'm never coming back to my home town.

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Product Description: Poisonville is a noir thriller par excellence?there?s murder, moral ambiguity, and a protagonist less than heroic. In this #1 bestselling noir novel, however, the killer is not an individual but an entire system. The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy?s richest region, is undergoing dramatic change...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781933372914 | Europa Editions Inc, September 29, 2009, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poisonville is a noir thriller par excellence?

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Product Description: It is 1938 and fascist Italy has imposed its infamous race laws. A young Jewish professor entertains a tormented passion for the beautiful and enigmatic Sonia. She is everything that he is not: the privileged daughter of a family that is wealthy, prominent, and above all, gentile...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781933372938 | Europa Editions Inc, August 25, 2009, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: It is 1938 and fascist Italy has imposed its infamous race laws.

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By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781933372945 | Europa Editions Inc, August 25, 2009, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones—iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition...read more
By Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9780231131346 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones—iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence.

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9781933372662 | Europa Editions Inc, February 24, 2009, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and “native,” liberally illustrated with interpretations of the foreigners drawn from a range of sources...read more
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9780674018709 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 15, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy.

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9780674030336 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy.

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Organized thematically into such categories as 'Femme Fatales' or 'The Traitor Next Door,' a collection of spy biographies portrays the lives and careers of masters of espionage from around the world, with profiles of Mata Hari, Christopher Marlowe, Graham Greene, Aldrich Aimes, Robert Hansson, and many others. Original. 15,000 first printing.
By Peter Earnest (foreword by), Steven Guarnaccia (illustrator) and Antony Shugaar
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9780792253167 | Natl Geographic Society, May 2, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Organized thematically into such categories as 'Femme Fatales' or 'The Traitor Next Door,' a collection of spy biographies portrays the lives and careers of masters of espionage from around the world, with profiles of Mata Hari, Christopher Marlowe, Graham Greene, Aldrich Aimes, Robert Hansson, and many others.

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9781435288393 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $23.95

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Product Description: In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread throughout Italy, filling an ideological void after the rout of Caporetto and diverting attention from a hapless ruling class...read more
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9780674028241 | Italian edition edition (Harvard Univ Pr, May 30, 2008), cover price $54.50 | About this edition: In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread throughout Italy, filling an ideological void after the rout of Caporetto and diverting attention from a hapless ruling class.

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Product Description: Italy's foremost satirist recounts the adventures of Timeskipper, a young man endowed with a rare gift: the ability to see into the future. A tale in which innocence and imagination defy corruption and conformity, in which the eccentricities and innocence of yesteryear come face-to-face with the moral aridity of today's money-obsessed society, Timeskipper is one of Stefano Benni's most touching and enduring creations...read more
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9781933372440 | Europa Editions Inc, April 1, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Italy's foremost satirist recounts the adventures of Timeskipper, a young man endowed with a rare gift: the ability to see into the future.

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Product Description: With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India, including his interview with Pandit Nehru, his tour of a tent city at a political convention, and his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party...read more
By Anita Desai (foreword by), Carlo Levi and Antony Shugaar (trans)
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9781843914402 | Hesperus Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India, including his interview with Pandit Nehru, his tour of a tent city at a political convention, and his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party.

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Product Description: The US debut of one of Italy's great contemporary storytellers: The photographer Hans Heumann travels to southern Italy in search of the light that has long attracted artists. There he meets Giorgio Bellusci, who dreams of rebuilding the south's most famous inn...read more
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9781933372402 | Europa Editions Inc, December 26, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The US debut of one of Italy's great contemporary storytellers: The photographer Hans Heumann travels to southern Italy in search of the light that has long attracted artists.

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Tells the story of a man falsely accused of a crime in Italy who flees to the French underworld before traveling to a Mexico besieged by guerrilla warfare.
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9781933372259 | Europa Editions Inc, April 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of a man falsely accused of a crime in Italy who flees to the French underworld before traveling to a Mexico besieged by guerrilla warfare.

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Fourteen-year-old Margherita tries to break her family's new love of modern technology and high-tech excesses and go back to their simpler, more frugal ways.
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9781933372204 | Europa Editions Inc, November 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old Margherita tries to break her family's new love of modern technology and high-tech excesses and go back to their simpler, more frugal ways.

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Product Description: In the sixteenth century the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other countries...read more
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9780892368464 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, September 5, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the sixteenth century the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other countries.

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