Gli Stanislaski 2Chiamarsi Stanislaski e appartenere a quella prestigiosa famiglia di origine russa è motivo di orgoglio ma comporta regole precise da rispettare.Mikhail Stanislaski è un uomo che non conosce paura. Affronta i problemi di petto e nel suo vocabolario non esiste la parola sconfitta. Si infiamma facilmente, ma non dimentica mai la propria posizione, e il suo carisma gli permette di conquistare ogni donna. Ora il suo obiettivo è ...

Something evil lurks beneath the palace.A phantasm from a darker past makes its presence known to Khae Wys, Queen of the Elves.Braving the perils of a haunted tower, the queen seeks the counsel of the mysterious Fae, for only they can predict what is to come. A future that doesn't bode well for her only living child.In a desperate attempt to save the heir to the Willow Throne, Princess Ouderling is exiled to the only place capable of protecting her....

Une nouvelle édition de l'un des titres phares de la collection " Pavillons Poche ", le chef-d'œuvre de Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Le Maître et Marguerite, qui voit ici sa traduction de Claude Ligny augmentée d'un appareil critique et d'une introduction de la spécialiste de la littérature russe Marianne Gourg.Pour retrouver l'homme qu'elle aime, un écrivain maudit, Marguerite accepte de livrer son âme au diable. Version contemporaine du mythe de Faust, transposé à...

Neurosurgical Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Part B, Volume 267 in the Progress in Brain Research serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as the Neurosurgical Management of Tourette Syndrome, Stereotactic Surgeries for Opioid Addiction: Patient Selection and Results, Psychiatric Disorders as Indication for Surgical Management of Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy, Surgery of Autism: Is it Possible?, Psychogenic Pai...

Valentina Hine and Robert Leach’s new translation of Masquerade brings out all the searing tensions and dangerous actions of the society which Lermontov depicts, and conveys the performative perils which threaten the innocent when life is seen as a masquerade.

Neurosurgical Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Part A, Volume 266, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume covering interesting chapters, including Pathophysiology and Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders, Neuroimaging of Psychiatric Disorders, History of Psychosurgery, Ethics of Psychosurgery, Medicolegal Aspects and Regulatory Issues of Psychosurgery, Psychiatric Mimics of Neurosurgical Disorders, Seizur...

Where amazing happens, dove accade l’incredibile. È uno degli slogan più vincenti della NBA, perché la massima competizione cestistica mondiale è davvero un “campionato dei sogni”, una sfida tra supereroi dove si può assistere dal vivo alla nascita di leggende, terreno fertile per un’epica contemporanea che parte dallo sport e spesso ne valica i confini. A proposito di leggende, eccone qui una buona trentina, una per ogni franchigia attuale. Il criterio per selezionarle è stato semplice: b...

Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using corpora in these fields. Giving special attention to parallel corpora, which are collections of texts in two or more languages, and demonstrating the potential benefits for multilingual corpus linguistics research to both translators and researchers, this book:explores the different types of parallel corpora available, and shows how to use basic a...

Kiev, décembre 1918. Sur fond de guerre civile russe, Boulgakov raconte la fin de l'Ukraine tsariste à travers la destinée de la famille Tourbine, inspirée de sa propre famille. Si la mort sévit partout, chez les Tourbine, autour de la table familiale où éclatent la blancheur de la nappe et le chatoiement de la porcelaine, le temps est suspendu. Jusqu'à ce que les troupes ukrainiennes, dirigées par Simon Petlioura, déferlent sur Kiev. Plongés dans la tourmente, tous les hommes de la famill...

These are notes from a graduate student course on algebraic topology and K-theory given by Daniel Quillen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1979-1980. He had just received the Fields Medal for his work on these topics among others and was funny and playful with a confident humility from the start. These are not meant to be polished lecture notes, rather, things are presented as did Quillen reflected in the hand-written notes, resisting any temptation to change or add nota...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of...