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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.

In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections that lead him to Studio 54.

“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday...

La tragedia che ha colpito Genova il 14 agosto 2018, nel racconto di 6 articoli di Repubblica: Genova, il ground zero dell'Italia, di Ezio Mauro; Crollo causato dai tiranti, l'allarme già un anno fa, di Marco Lignana e Marco Preve; Il Paese malato che ha bisogno di sicurezza, di Sergio Rizzo; Cinquant'anni di allarmi inascoltati, di Alessandro Cassinis; Allarme per 300 ponti e gallerie, di Paolo Griseri; Quelle fragilità mai rilevate, di Luca Pagni.