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Personable, good looking, and a whiz at physics, graduate student Allan Diffenduffer "Duff" Bogan has a bright future ahead of him. But while staying at the home of an invalid widow in Florida, Duff makes a discovery that freezes his blood: a cache of uranium hidden in the locked closet of a fellow guest. The FBI is initially skeptical, but Duff knows all too well what his findings portend.

Crispin the mosaicist wants to concentrate on his art. Rustem of Kerakek, a physician, is also on his own journey of self-discovery. But no man may withdraw from society that easily, and both men soon find themselves drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. Lord of Emperors is the sequel to Sailing to Sarantium.

Gli antieroi di questo romanzo ci permettono di recuperare, attraverso la narrativa, la memoria di un periodo della nostra storia che, per quanto recente, continua a rimanere sullo sfondo a causa di quel meditato ed efficace depistaggio mediatico che impedisce a questo Paese di condividere una storia e di "usarla" politicamente. Massimo Carlotto. Nell'Italia degli anni Novanta ci sono la Storia con la S maiuscola e la storia con la s minuscola. Della prima si occupa Antonio Castellani, giornalista incompiuto e affetto dalla sindrome di Cassandra.

On the first day, she met her match. Then she killed 16 men. Tossed into the gladiator arena, the delicate girl in the fancy pink dress should have been the first to die. Leyli had other plans. Surviving was at the top of her list. Revenge was a close second.

In this concluding volume of Neal Stephenson’s epic work, “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe must escape the noose of Jack Ketch; the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz comes to a head; and Daniel Waterhouse pursues his dream to build the Logic Mill

After China announced a space mission to place its own flag next to the one US astronauts planted during the Apollo 11 mission, few people bat an eyelid. Shortly after this statement, Charlie Stephens, an 81-year-old former filmmaker, is murdered. The incident is made to look like an accident, but why?

康有为、杨度、刘师培、周作人、冯友兰，这五位历史人物，他们在乱世面前，在无路可走或“歧路纷出”面前，陷入了极度的精神困境……康有為、楊度、劉師培、周作人、馮友蘭，這五位歷史人物，他們在亂世面前，在無路可走或「歧路紛出」面前，陷入了極度的精神困境……

Las trompetas de la guerra han sido silenciadas. Los aliados celebran la victoria sobre una Alemania aplastada. Entretanto, Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética se disputan los territorios como botines de guerra, pero no todo es lo que parece: desde los confines del nuevo mundo la sombra del terror amenaza con extenderse de nuevo.