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Questo Prontuario intende fornire ai docenti di religione cattolica uno
strumento di lavoro essenziale contenente la normativa riguardante
questa disciplina inserita "con pari dignità" tra le altre discipline.
Il formato alfabetico consente una facile lettura e individuazione delle
tematiche. Tutti i riferimenti normativi contengono un richiamo
ipertestuale, per una maggior e veloce consultazione.
Gabriele Mondelli è un semplice ragazzo di diciassette anni e proprio
come tanti suoi coetanei si destreggia tra: scuola, studio, rapporto con
la famiglia, gli amici e... sentimenti contrastanti. Che diventeranno
evidenti quando farà la conoscenza di Daniel Lucchesi; affascinante
ragazzo di buona famiglia dal carattere protettivo e romantico. Fra di
loro si instaurerà una passione travolgente che con il tempo diverrà
indissolubile, arrivando a sfociare in un amore quasi proibito.
This collectable boxed set edition includes all three books in N. K. Jemisin's incredible NYT bestselling and three-time Hugo award-winning Broken Earth Trilogy.
This complete collection would be a great gift for any occasion and includes The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky.
This is the way the world ends for the last time. . .
A
season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across
the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the
sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.
It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This
is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the
power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
An extraordinary biography. A gallery of astonishing work. The legacy of a madman.
Philadelphia,
the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and
horse-drawn carriages—and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer
Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at
Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an
unconventional hypothesis: What if the world’s most celebrated
mythological beasts—mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—were in fact the
evolutionary ancestors of humankind?
The Resurrectionist offers
two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of
Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his
medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious
disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black’s magnum
opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray’s Anatomy for
mythological beasts—dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus—all rendered in
meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at
these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things.
Security
consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage
unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a
taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a
reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By
taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a
series of events that quickly spin beyond her control.
Soon, Jane
and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of
the true scope of the peril. Is the only way to safety to follow in
Silvina’s footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks
answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out―for her and
possibly for the world.
Hummingbird Salamander is Jeff
VanderMeer at his brilliant, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions
about climate change, identity, and the world we live in into a tightly
plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy.
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive national bestselling debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.
Angrboda’s story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A
punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the
future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees
into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a
man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him
transforms into a deep and abiding love.
Their union produces
three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who Angrboda is keen
to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odin’s all-seeing
eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns
that her blissful life—and possibly all of existence—is in danger.
With help from the fierce huntress Skadi, with whom she shares a
growing bond, Angrboda must choose whether she’ll accept the fate that
she’s foreseen for her beloved family...or rise to remake their future.
From the most ancient of tales this novel forges a story of love, loss,
and hope for the modern age.
In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories,
President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s
immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of
our nation.
The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions
today, as it has throughout much of American history. But what gets
lost in the debates about policy are the stories of immigrants
themselves, the people who are drawn to America by its promise of
economic opportunity and political and religious freedom—and who
strengthen our nation in countless ways.
In the tradition of Portraits of Courage, President Bush’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Out of Many, One brings
together forty-three full-color portraits of men and women who have
immigrated to the United States, alongside stirring stories of the
unique ways all of them are pursuing the American Dream. Featuring men
and women from thirty-five countries and nearly every region of the
world, Out of Many, One shows how hard work, strong values,
dreams, and determination know no borders or boundaries and how
immigrants embody values that are often viewed as distinctly American:
optimism and gratitude, a willingness to strive and to risk, a deep
sense of patriotism, and a spirit of self-reliance that runs deep in our
immigrant heritage. In these pages, we meet a North Korean refugee
fighting for human rights, a Dallas-based CEO who crossed the Rio Grande
from Mexico at age seventeen, and a NASA engineer who as a girl in
Nigeria dreamed of coming to America, along with notable figures from
business, the military, sports, and entertainment. President Bush
captures their faces and stories in striking detail, bringing depth to
our understanding of who immigrants are, the challenges they face on
their paths to citizenship, and the lessons they can teach us about our
country’s character.
As the stories unfold in this vibrant book,
readers will gain a better appreciation for the humanity behind one of
our most pressing policy issues and the countless ways in which America,
through its tradition of welcoming newcomers, has been strengthened by
those who have come here in search of a better life.
In Irma Venter’s follow-up to the electric Hard Rain, Ranna Abramson returns home to the lion’s den to resurrect a long-dead past and save the man she loves.
Ranna Abramson wants to disappear.
But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa.
Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her—the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect in three murders. To the press, she’s the Black Widow serial killer.
Despite her instinct to stay away, Ranna makes the journey. But the key to finding Alex lies in her painful past. And to uncover it, she’ll need to unravel a web of secrets tied to a long-forgotten crime.
Even if she finds Alex before it’s too late, Ranna must answer for past sins…or risk losing him forever.
Christi Caldwell, USA Today bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, invites you to join London’s most scandalous society in a witty romance of love, rebellion, and second chances.
Widowed Lady Sylvia Elton is out to save young ladies from the terrible fate of love and marriage. Her former husband has retained his reputation as an honorable and loving man in death, but Sylvia has privately mourned his lies and infidelity. Joined by two equally scorned and cast-off friends, Sylvia establishes the Mismatch Society. With each new liberated member, the scandalous circle wreaks havoc on the romantic prospects of London’s frustrated male peerage. But nothing prepares Sylvia for the Viscount St. John, a familiar face and her most formidable challenger.
Clayton Kearsley, the Viscount St. John, can’t allow these wantons to dismantle the Marriage Mart. Until he discovers the ringleader is his old friend’s widow, a fine woman for whom he’s carried a torch since the day they met. Thinking himself undeserving of a diamond like her, he introduced her to his best friend—a decision he now regrets deeply, knowing of the hurt she carries in secret.
Now he is positioned to match wits with this woman, who is determined to save young ladies from future heartbreak. And despite his misgivings, Clayton is entertaining fantasies that he could end their battle with a kiss. If only he had the courage to tell her how he feels—or the hope that she’d ever again let down her guard.
This meeting of the Mismatch Society is called to order…
An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.
What family secrets are behind two disappearances? Seattle detective Tracy Crosswhite is determined to uncover the truth in the latest installment of New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s heart-stopping series.
Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD’s cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects.
While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl’s disappearance, Tracy is brought into an active investigation with former partner Kinsington Rowe. A young woman has vanished on an isolated jogging trail in North Seattle. Divided between two critical cases, Tracy has little to go on except the treacherous deceptions behind a broken marriage—and now, the secrets hiding behind the closed doors of a deceptively quiet middle-class neighborhood.
To find two missing persons, Tracy will have to follow more than clues, which are both long cold and unsettlingly fresh. Given her own traumatic past, Tracy must also follow her instincts—to whatever dark and dangerous places they may lead.
La «questione regionale», aperta lungo l’intero corso della storia
italiana unitaria, si è posta dapprima come istanza per l’introduzione
delle Regioni nella struttura dello Stato fino alla Costituzione
repubblicana del 1948, poi come attuazione dell’ordinamento regionale,
che si sarebbe avviata per le Regioni a statuto ordinario, ventidue anni
dopo, con l’elezione dei consigli regionali nel 1970.
Nell’ambito
della questione regionale italiana la specificità della questione
regionale molisana si è segnalata per aver rappresentato dalle origini
negli anni Venti del secolo scorso e fino alla Costituente un «caso»; e
più tardi, dopo il riconoscimento del Molise come Regione per
separazione dagli Abruzzi nel 1963, un «problema», per il venir meno
della sua vitalità economica e della sua coesione sociale di cui è
emblematico, con altri fondamentali indicatori, il progressivo vistoso
calo demografico a 302 mila residenti all’inizio del 2020.
Di qui il
coinvolgimento della Regione a statuto ordinario più «piccola e vuota»
nelle varie ipotesi discusse in questi ultimi anni per una diversa
configurazione regionale italiana incentrata su nuove entità di area
vasta. Con l’ampia introduzione che li sostiene, gli articoli che si
ripropongono in Appendice documentano una lunga attenzione alla
questione regionale molisana fino alle più marcate criticità del
presente nel quadro ancora complesso e travagliato del regionalismo
italiano.
"Il lavoro ha avuto origine da un progetto, finanziato dalla Regione
Molise, per la raccolta dei dati erpetologici nel territorio di
competenza. Un impegno pluriennale, coordinato con efficacia dal WWF
regionale con l'ausilio di esperti erpetologi, molti dei quali iscritti
alla Societas Herpetologica Italica, sodalizio scientifico che vanta una
attiva sezione Abruzzo-Molise, e con la preziosa collaborazione di
numerosi volontari che hanno fornito dati già in loro possesso e hanno
percorso il territorio alla ricerca di nuove segnalazioni. Il risultato è
consistito nella costituzione di una cospicua banca dati, preziosa
quando si tratta di programmare interventi nel territorio e nella logica
della difesa del bene prezioso della biodiversità. Mancava il passo
successivo: la pubblicazione di un Atlante che desse contezza della
reale presenza delle varie specie di anfibi e rettili sino a oggi
censiti nel territorio molisano. Mancava perché una simile impresa
richiede anche un impegno economico che, in tempi non facili per la
finanza pubblica, non è stato possibile ottenere dagli enti locali.."
Kieu Bich Hau è nata nel 1972 nella provincia di Hung Yen, in Vietnam. Vice capo degli Affari Esteri dell’Associazione degli Scrittori del Vietnam. Direttrice editoriale di Vietnam Textile - Garment - Fashion Magazine. Ex vicedirettrice di Intellectual Magazine. Ora vive ad Hanoi, in Vietnam. E’ autrice di numerose pubblicazioni apprezzate a livello internazionale e vincitrice di prestigiosi premi letterari. “Sono versi che l’autrice dedica all’uomo che ama, lontano perché vive in un altro continente, ma la cui presenza è da lei avvertita grazie al ricordo dei momenti trascorsi insieme, momenti che la poesia fa rivivere in modo intenso, da cui emergono i vari e spesso contrastanti stati d’animo che accompagnano inevitabilmente l’amore, sentimento dalle molteplici sfaccettature” (Laura Garavaglia)
In copertina: Painting by Artist Hoang A
Sang
Ciottolino, un piccolo pezzo di roccia che si staccò dalla sua mamma
montagna, iniziò il suo viaggio tuffandosi in un grande fiume: cambiò il
suo aspetto e incontrò la sua amica acqua. Ciottolino, insieme ai suoi
amici ciottoli, terminò questo viaggio completando il mosaico più famoso
del mondo.
Ogni leader rende felice un’azienda a modo suo, tutti i mediomanager si somigliano nel mandarle in disgrazia.
Un
agevole manuale sulle più efficaci tecniche di gestione delle risorse
umane contrapposte, con un pizzico d’ironia, a racconti emblematici sui
metodi usati dai manager mediocri per ridurle a casi umani.
Queste
brevi storie, basate su fatti reali, spiegano ai lavoratori come
riconoscere i mediomanager, sentirsi meno soli e impotenti, difendersi
da loro e non farsi inghiottire dalla mediocrità dilagante.
I
manager vedono quali errori evitare per essere davvero leader, tirare
fuori il meglio dai collaboratori e portare l’impresa al successo,
attraverso la selezione del personale e lo sviluppo dei talenti,
passando per motivazione, formazione, valutazione e aumento della
produttività, gestione delle crisi, trasparenza, gioco di squadra e la
più proficua e coinvolgente direzione aziendale.
Gli imprenditori e i
professionisti HR trovano nuovi spunti per gestire il personale e
impedire che i mediomanager facciano danni ai talenti e all’impresa,
anche grazie all’originale approccio della piramide rovesciata e degli
ingranaggi che fanno da volano per l’innovazione e la crescita.
Per
tutti una guida pratica per navigare verso l’eccellenza e schivare gli
squali che comandano negli abissi aziendali, fingono entusiasmo coi
superiori per ogni cambiamento o tecnica di leadership, ma in realtà li
boicottano annientando i talenti e la creatività.
Nessuna impresa si
salva perché i mediomanager si replicano come virus, forse per invidia,
di sicuro per non perdere il potere garantito dalla mediocrità in cui
sguazzano.
Una raccolta di 7 itinerari scelti nella mecca modenese della mtb:
Fanano con il suo tesoro storico culturale e le sue straordinarie
ricchezze naturali. La guida si presenta pratica e di facile
consultazione per la gestione logistica, lo scaricamento delle tracce e
la descrizione tappa per tappa dell'itinerario. Ampia e dettagliata la
parte legata alla scoperta del territorio con curiosità sorprendenti e
approfondimenti culturali. La guida è rivolta al biker esperto con buone
capacità di uso dei sistemi di navigazione, e abilità nell'affrontare
percorsi tecnici con passaggi su roccia, tornanti stretti e tratti
ripidi.
Un'indagine nella storia, nei luoghi, tra i personaggi dell'ultima
grande dinastia reale alla ricerca dell'Elisabetta segreta. Quando
Elisabetta salì al trono, nel 1952, Truman governava gli Usa e Stalin
guidava l'Urss. Sette decenni più tardi, dopo la fine dell'Impero
britannico, il crollo del comunismo, diverse tragedie collettive e da
ultimo perfino la peggiore pandemia da un secolo in qua, lei è ancora al
suo posto, anacronistica nei suoi completi pastello come nella sua
rigida etichetta, impassibile di fronte alle tempeste e agli scandali
che si sono accumulati nella vita della famiglia reale: dai vari divorzi
alla morte di Diana, dai sex affair del principe Andrea alla ribellione
di Harry e Meghan. Se gli avvenimenti sollevano più di un interrogativo
sulla sopravvivenza della Corona, è innegabile però che la regina, dopo
aver consacrato la sua lunga vita alla monarchia, sia ormai
universalmente il simbolo del suo Paese. A lei, che ben pochi possono
vantarsi di conoscere, Antonio Caprarica ha dedicato un'indagine
penetrante e documentatissima, seguendone la storia fin dalla nascita e
dal ribaltamento della linea dinastica che le regalerà la corona dopo
l'abdicazione di Edoardo VIII, le cui simpatie naziste preoccupavano gli
ambienti politici non meno del suo legame con la divorziata Wallis
Simpson. In ciascuna delle tappe il giornalista, il maggiore esperto
italiano della Casa Reale, va alla ricerca dell'Elisabetta segreta, dei
sentimenti, dei sogni, dei tormenti nascosti dietro la maschera offerta
ai sudditi e ai media nelle situazioni ufficiali. Un'occasione per
ripercorrere i momenti più significativi di un regno punteggiato di
record e per avvicinare, attraverso un racconto appassionante, una donna
straordinaria che, qualunque sarà la sorte della dinastia, sarà regina.
Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel!
Finalist 2021 Hugo Award for Best Series!
Mary Robinette Kowal continues her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Lady Astronaut series, following The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.
The
Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the
Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation
is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The
IAC’s goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it
becomes uninhabitable is being threatened.
Elma York is on her
way to Mars, but the Moon colony is still being established. Her friend
and fellow Lady Astronaut Nicole Wargin is thrilled to be one of those
pioneer settlers, using her considerable flight and political skills to
keep the program on track. But she is less happy that her husband, the
Governor of Kansas, is considering a run for President.
Harrow the Ninth, an Amazon pick for Best SFF of 2020 and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth,
turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the
wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.
“Lesbian
necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles
vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!” —Charles Stross on Gideon the Ninth
“Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth
“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth
She answered the Emperor's call.
She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.
In victory, her world has turned to ash.
After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth,
a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem.
Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the
galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus,
last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to
fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must
perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath — but her health is
failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening
to betray her.
Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's
Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a
murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is
somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe
be better off?
THE LOCKED TOMB TRILOGY
BOOK 1: Gideon the Ninth
BOOK 2: Harrow the Ninth
BOOK 3: Alecto the Ninth
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A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!
A 2021 Nebula Award Finalist!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.
An Amazon's Best of the Year So Far Pick
Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | Book Riot | Polygon
"I caught myself rereading my favorite parts... and I can’t recommend it enough." ― New York Times
You
know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people,
and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done
right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go
home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine
programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.
Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.
―
I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
When
Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured
and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance,
Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.
Drastic action it is, then.
