FROM PHILOSOPHY TO ARCHAEOLOGY TO ASTRONOMY
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To make clear the meaning of our lives

«Liberalism and Democracy» by Norberto Bobbio
ISBN 88-7647-114-6  pp.160, Euro 10,00
A basic essay for understanding the true meaning of liberalism and democracy by a famous italian professor in political philosophy. A book for all the readers - young ones too - interested in knowing.
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«Letter to a friend of the Middle Earth» by Franco Manni
ISBN 978-88-7647-126-1 pp.352, Euro 15.00
A personal guide of Philosophical Ethics on the basis of the thought by Aristotele, Freud, Croce and J.R.R. Tolkien. The Middle Earth of the title means the Everyday Life where anyone is in the middle between good and ill.
The author was a pupil of Norberto Bobbio who read and appeciated his works as he explains on an introductory note. The translation rights of this very readeble and teaching essay are available in Any Language.
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«Good night among the stars» by Piero Bianucci
ISBN 88-86792-94-8  pp.352, Euro 15,50
"A Diary of Astronomy" in 366 small chapters, one for each day (for the 29th of february too) for going around the stars, full of news od discveries, anecdots, curiosities and many deep thinkings. A new way for telling science.
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«My Little Haven» by Piero Bianucci
ISBN 88-86792-44-1  pp.336, Euro 20,00
"Chamber astronomy for serene nights", says the subtitle. A specialist on astronomy led us into the cosmos to get its deepest meaning. Science, astronomy and philosophy written for everybody. An unusual and fascinating journey that will make us aware of our own limitations.
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«Heavens and Stars» by A. Tarabochia Canavero
ISBN 88-86792-20-4 pp.504 illustrated Euro 25,31
A search for harmony among philosophers, poets, men of letters and artists. Augustine, Aristotle, Marsilio Ficino, Hegel, Kant, Plato... The author, an indefatigable researcher, is professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Catholic University of Brescia and one of the leading European authorities on Marsilio Ficino. Through her many amusing letters to one of her colleagues in the United States, Alessandra Tarabochia Canavero take us in a fascinating trip from the Florence of Lorenzo de’ Medici to the London of Elisabeth I and Shakespeare. During this fascinating trip with Ficino himself as a spiritual guide coming from the moonbeams, she tells us how to find ourselves and to “discover” the meaning of life with the eyes of those who pushed back the boundaries of human knowledge.
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«The Ghilgamesh poems» by Claudio Saporetti
ISBN 88-86792-26-3 pp.192 Euro 15,50
The last and the most exhaustive Italian translation with comments of the ancient Sumerian poems found in the Assurbanipal’s Palace (7th century BC) at Niniveh. The first one coming out from the original twelve tables in cuneiform inscription. Claudio Saporetti, who is professor of Assyriology at the University of Pisa in Italy, has also published a second volume containing a collection of essays on the Ghilgamesh poems.
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«Born from the Stars» by Piero Bianucci
ISBN 88-86792-11-5 pp.240, illustrated, Euro 13,42
A scientific and yet witty, highly readable essay for everybody. In a trip across the cosmos you’ll learn everything about the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, galaxies, comets... And also how our life started from the stars.
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