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LIVING AND WINNING WITH DIABETES
Orione Constellation
by Davide Roso

ISBN 88-7418-156-6
Pages 172
Euro 10,00
Collection Orione Constellation 9

“Living and winning with diabetes”, is a book that everybody should read. Because this is a book written by a diabetic for everybody, especially for those that do not know diabetes and have prejudices. But this is also a book for diabetics who have to face this illness with serenity and determination.

There are several books on diabetes written by specialists, but few of them written by diabetics, by those people that live this experience. Davide's book is one of these. It is important for diabetics to read how one of them lives and faces his own situation, but it is even more important for doctors to read how diabetics feel their “trouble.”
This is not only a book on diabetes, first of all it is a hymn to life, a laude to man that in our pragmatic times , humanistically speaking, goes back to the centre of the cosmos.
Dr. Francis Calcaterra

One day Davide said that he wanted to write a book on diabetes; he asked my help: he wanted to meet and get to know other boys that like him shared the same illness.
It seemed to me a magnificent idea, but it was not easy to find boys and adults that talked of their own experiences.
After some time this sincere book was born. It is real, interesting and sometimes ironic.

Dr. Marina Miola

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CHRISTIANITY AND GNOSTICISM
Orione Constellation
by Guido Pagliarino

ISBN 88 – 7418 – 177 – 9
Pages 138
Euro 8,00
Collection Orione Constellation 13

In the 1st century AD, the apostles of a crucified Jew called Jesus the Anointed one, who is the Messiah from the Hebrew and the Christ from the Greek, report that he has risen again in body and soul, and that means that he is not only a man, but also a divinity. The apostles are not elitist, they affirm that thanks to Christ, all human beings can have the eternal Life, that their material and psychic body will be transformed, rising again, in glory and spirit, like Jesus did: on the condition that they follow his example of love and trust him. They try to spread the magnificent news of Resurrection everywhere; but a lot of Jews and Romans do not like this and the apostles are killed in horrible ways. The pre existing Gnosticism, a doctrine deriving from Greek philosophy and theosophy and from promises of redemption of oriental, Jewish, Egyptians, mystical-astrological-magic religions, always curious about novelties, is interested in Christianity and many gnostics convert themselves: they say that true Christianity is theirs and that the resurrection of the body is not possible; moreover they keep on insisting, that only the believers can enter heaven. From that time the diatribes will never stop between Gnostics and Christians.
But…are the latter really like that? According to some researchers, Real Christianity is derived from Gnosticism.

“2000 years of challenge” is the third author’s book in a trilogy on Christianity, including “Jesus, born in 6 a.c., crucified in 30 – An historical approach to Christianity” (1997) and his “Eternal Life, essay on the immortality between God and man” (1998), works published in 2003 by Prospettiva editrice. The trilogy is for both Christians and believers of other religions and atheists.

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A PLACE TO WRITE
by Luca Lorenzetti

ISBN 88-87926-90-5
Pages 136
Euro 10,33

A book that examines in depth writing thanks to great authors.

The practice of writing remains for a lot of people a unfathomable and mysterious process; especially in Italy, where people are not used to have any confrontation. Despite this, creative writing today is a spreading phenomenon that is influencing in decisive way. A place to write is not a book on the creative writing process, but about creative writing. A book for those who approach for the first time this matter, but also for those who wonder: How can I teach writing?

The book contains interesting interviews on writing with Alessandro Baricco , Annalisa Bruni , Raffaele Crovi , Marcello Fois , Carlo Lucarelli , Dacia Maraini , Lidia Ravera, Giuseppe Pontiggia.

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INTIFADA
Contemporary Arabic poetry
Flowers
Edited by Mohammed Lamsuni

Anthology of the most important contemporary Arabic poets.

ISBN 88-7418-125-6
Pages 150
Collection Flowers 4
Euro 8,00

This anthology is proposed to introduce intifada poetry, the protagonists of a revolution of how to understand poetry in the Arabic world.
Intifada poetry has forced the Arabs to reconsider what they meant by poetry, to amplify the sense of the word, that corresponds to a great thematic freedom and to an irregular metric scheme or none.

The title of the anthology does not refer to any of the Arabic political and military circumstances. “Intifada “stands for shaking and its linguistic root is intafada, that is to be shaken, to be dusted, to shake oneself off. The theme of these works, like in the whole modern Arabic poetry, is this shaking, is this renewal of each structure of the language that tends to be resistant to every modification.

From this book Roberto Benigni has drawn a poem for his next film.

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FRAME
Territori
by Angela Di Curzio

ISBN 88-87926-68-9
Pages. 132
Euro 10,32
Collection Territori 1

An essay that introduces the greatest artists of the world through the study of their frames.

The frame for many painters is a way to propose their own consideration of the picture, of the place of exhibition, of the role of the artist, of the public, of the society, of the world. Through a subdivision in chapters, the text discovers which frame was used by other painters, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, impressionists like Degas, Whistler, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Seurat; the exponents of the Viennese Secession like Franz von Stuck and Gustav Klimt, or contemporary painters like Mondrian, Balla, Segal, Van Doesburg, Magritte, Dalì, Duchamp, Picabia, Picasso, Braque, Buren, De Maria, Long. The author also considers two other essential aspects connected to the theme of the frame, that is the philosophical aspect and the handicraft one. She examines both how the frame is a philosophical matter developed by some thinkers like George Rimmel and Ortega y Gasset, and how it is also an object of study and work for artisans. To introduce this last aspect she lists the main styles of the frame in the different historical periods and, moreover explains the techniques for the production and the maintenance of the wooden frames. The book in its originality shows various curious photographic images that offer a complete vision of canvas and frame (a rarity that cannot be found in the majority of books of history of art). This volume is the first publication which proposes the theme of the frame as pertinent subject to the world of history of art and for philosophy and craftsmanship.

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LIFE, DEATH AND MIRACLES OF ST. GENNARO
Almanacco
by Bruno Reino

ISBN -7418-207-4
Euro 10,00
Pages 142
Collection Almanacco 3

The complete story of the most venerated Neapolitan saint, but also the most discussed in the world.

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THE ETERNAL LIFE
Orion Costellation
by Guido Pagliarino

ISBN 88-7418-106-X
Pages 132
Euro 10,00
Collection Orione Constellation 1

Theological study.

Maybe, in the future, the Church will re-formulate, on the same essence of faith, the words of the Creed and the catechism, underlining even more endless God-joy and clarifying that He wants us happy in Heaven, but also on earth: daily happiness whose realisation depends on us, loving each other, contributing to the construction of the mythical Eden. Everybody is seeking joy; but today so many think to find it in possession, in physical pleasure, in dominating, and stressing themselves and (sometimes because all these they die??). In this essay, that is not catechism but a hymn to happiness in the respect for believers of other religions, the author tries to make some aspects of Christianity clear: a work that will probably surprise many of you.

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JESUS BORN IN 6 B.C. CRUCIFIED IN 30
Orion Costellation
by Guido Pagliarino

ISBN 88-7418-072-1
Pages 156
Euro 8,00
Collection Orione Constellation 7

Theological study.

“Assertion like these are read and heard: “Jesus? A myth like Osiris!” “Jesus was only a good rabbi”, “Jesus was a quack: it was Paul who invented Christianity.” “Without Plato there would have been no Christianity”, “The historical Jesus is not the Christ of the faith”, “The New Testament dates back to the II or the III century: It does not have the value of document”, " Christianity was founded on the 10 Commandments”, “What an ignorance! The Comet star on the hut of the Nativity would have destroyed the world!”, “Surely the Buddhism doesn't have the naivety of Christianity”, “Confucius said first not to hurt other people if we don't want to be hurt!”, “All the religions are alike". In this historical approach to Christianity, Guido Paglierino rationally replies back to those observations, with a new approach for most Christians.”

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COMPULSORY LAW IN ANCIENT ROME
Orion Costellation
by Mario Tocci

ISBN 88-87926-99-9
Pag. 60
Euro 7,75
Collection Orion Costellation 2

A Juridical essay

As the title suggests, this text is about the contractual and semicontractual figures, as well as on those criminal and semicriminal, contemplated by the ancient Roman legal system. In the text there are some original Latin inscriptions. At the end of the book there is an appendix on ancient Greek compulsory law.

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THE LAW OF MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN IN ANCIENT ROME
by Mario Tocci

ISBN 88-7418-107-8
Pages 132
Euro 9,00

A Juridical essay

This essay is on the law of marriage and children in ancient Rome and in the ancient East Mediterranean countries and contains ample and motivated comparisons in relation with the Institutes treated with the norms of the contemporary Italian legal system.

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ANDREI BELYJ
Orion Costellation
edited by Ferruccio Martinetto

ISBN 88-7418-144-2
Pages 90
Euro 7,00
Collection Orion Costellation 5

Andrej Belyj is one of the most interesting and less known characters of the Russian literary panorama.

He embodies all the devastating contradictions of a country like Russia, that feels its responsibility to conduct the world to a new way of living, changing the social and personal destiny of its people and tracing important steps in the path of history.
He is so fearfully human, selfish, traitor and unreliable…
The memoirs of the Cvetaeva and the Odoevceva, so full of sincerity and admiration for this extraordinary misunderstood and fleeing genius, are essential to penetrate the mystery of the poet.

Ferruccio Martinetto, was born in Turin the 7th August 1968, graduated in 1995 in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Turin. In the same year he won a scholarship financed by the Turin Town Hall thanks to the translations of the Russian poets of the Silver century and was recognised among the best 15 young poets of Turin and province. In 1997 he published for Paoline Editions the translation L. N. Tolstoj’s “Master and servant.” In the same year he participated in the translation of L. Tolstoj’s essay “Walk in the light as long as there is light.” From 1995 up today he has published translations of Majakovskij, Gumilev, Saltykov-Scedrin, Severianin and other poets of the Russian Silver century, on magazines like “The Majakovskij”, “Slavia”, “The story”, “Astolfo.” In 2003 he published, for the Florentine publisher “Clinamen”, the translation of the Cloud in pants by Majakovskij and, for the publisher “Prospettiva”, an essay on Andrei Belyj.

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BRAZIL AT WAR
Territori
by Andrea Giannasi

ISBN 88-7418-284-8
Pages 186
Euro 10,00*
Collection Territori 5

An unique and rare essay about an unknown story of the Second World war.

This book is about the use of Brazilian soldiers during the campaign of Italy between 1944 and 1945.

Brazil, after declaring war to the countries of the Axis, sent to Italy, pushed by the United States of America, a contingent of twenty five thousand soldiers. The Força Expedicionaria Brasileira fought in Tuscany in September 1944 occupying Camaiore and the Valley of Serchio, and freed the buttress of Castelnuovo, Garfagnana, and liberated in October of the same year, Barga and Gallicano.
The following month the Brazilians garrisoned the front of Porretta Terme. In this sector the FEB suffered a hard defeat of Mountain Castle, managing however in the spring of 1945 to break the line of the front and contributing with the Allied forces to unite again Italy.

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THE LOSS OF ALLIED AND JAPANESE SHIPS IN THE PACIFIC
Orion Costellation
by Gabriele Pavan

ISBN 88-7418-176-0
Pag. 220
Euro 12,00
Collection Orion Costellation 12

The remaking of all the ships (from aircraft to small motor torpedoes) that were lost by the Americans and the Japanese during the war in the Pacific (1941-1945)

For many readers the war in the Pacific is the theatre of major events, like the attack on Pearl Harbour or the Battle of Midway .
Actually during those long years there were a lot of clashes from both sides and many vessels were destroyed.
The fate of many of these was mysterious, or the information was not complete.
This essay tries to investigate about these little known facts dealing with the last information on every vessel to explain what really happened.

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ROGER GARAUDY
Orion Costellation
by Massimo Maugliani

ISBN 88-7418-119-1
Pages 86
Euro 12,00
Collection Orion Costellation 12

A study on the most debated contemporary French philosopher, member of the French communist party (later expelled).

"Garaudy's study corresponds, to the dawn of the new century and the new millennium, to the demand of the current society to rediscover the sense and the importance of assuming pluralism (in our way of describing what the world is like, in the ways of prescribing how it should be and how to change it) not only as a fact but also as a value, in the attempt to propose at least a sketch of a human society different and better, overcoming together the dangers that threaten entire humanity..."

Massimo Maugliani was born in Tivoli (RM).
He graduated in History of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Studies "Rome 3" in Rome. In collaboration, he ran an activity of research on the theme "The experience of the villages of workers in Italy” in Political Philosophy.

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THE SIMPSONS
Orion Costellation
by Manuela Marziali

ISBN 88-7418-162-0
Pages 178
Euro 12,00
Collection Orion Costellation 16

A interesting essay that through the most famous cartoon in America introduces all the fears, the anguish, the weakness, but also the qualities of the American people.

The Simpson family like Matt Groening, its creator, has never seen it.
We are able through the Simpsons' eyes to reveal America, so much dreamt, beloved, but also hated by many of us.

"The Simpsons and the American cultural tradition“ is a book that tells the story of a cartoon and of a country that we have never known.
Thanks to this family from Springfield we can meet for the first time a new side of America, perhaps, that America that we have always wished to see.

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OH MY GOD! THE TURKS!
Territori
by Gilberto Favale

ISBN 88-7418-243-0
Pages 138
Euro 10,00
Collection Orion Costellation 2

An essay, proposed by an officer of the Italian Army specialized in international affairs, who discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the integration of Turkey in Europe.

The Council of Europe, the 19th of May 2003 has published the decision on the principles, on the priorities, on the objectives and conditions of the partnership for the adhesion of Turkey to the European Union.
The problems to be resolved are the respect of the human rights and the minorities, the role of the soldiers inside the country, an economy of competitive market.
Now the decision on the integration is up to the Turks?
But do they share the same European roots?
Can liberalizing thought prevail in the European cultural identity? Which Europe are we creating?
Is Turkey a great strategic opportunity or a "Trojan horse" that will bring unknown problems to Europe?

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NON FICTION LIVING AND WINNING WITH DIABETES Orione Constellation by Davide Roso ISBN 88-7418-156-6 Pages 172 Euro 10,00 Collection Orione Constellation 9 “Living and winning with diabetes”, is a book that everybody should read. Because this is a book written by a diabetic for everybody, especially for those that do not know diabetes and have prejudices. But this is also a book for diabetics who have to face this illness with serenity and determination. There are several books on diabetes written by specialists, but few of them written by diabetics, by those people that live this experience. Davide's book is one of these. It is important for diabetics to read how one of them lives and faces his own situation, but it is even more important for doctors to read how diabetics feel their “trouble.” This is not only a book on diabetes, first of all it is a hymn to life, a laude to man that in our pragmatic times , humanistically speaking, goes back to the centre of the cosmos. Dr. Francis Calcaterra One day Davide said that he wanted to write a book on diabetes; he asked my help: he wanted to meet and get to know other boys that like him shared the same illness. It seemed to me a magnificent idea, but it was not easy to find boys and adults that talked of their own experiences. After some time this sincere book was born. It is real, interesting and sometimes ironic. Dr. Marina Miola ______________________________________________________________________ CHRISTIANITY AND GNOSTICISM Orione Constellation by Guido Pagliarino ISBN 88 – 7418 – 177 – 9 Pages 138 Euro 8,00 Collection Orione Constellation 13 In the 1st century AD, the apostles of a crucified Jew called Jesus the Anointed one, who is the Messiah from the Hebrew and the Christ from the Greek, report that he has risen again in body and soul, and that means that he is not only a man, but also a divinity. The apostles are not elitist, they affirm that thanks to Christ, all human beings can have the eternal Life, that their material and psychic body will be transformed, rising again, in glory and spirit, like Jesus did: on the condition that they follow his example of love and trust him. They try to spread the magnificent news of Resurrection everywhere; but a lot of Jews and Romans do not like this and the apostles are killed in horrible ways. The pre existing Gnosticism, a doctrine deriving from Greek philosophy and theosophy and from promises of redemption of oriental, Jewish, Egyptians, mystical-astrological-magic religions, always curious about novelties, is interested in Christianity and many gnostics convert themselves: they say that true Christianity is theirs and that the resurrection of the body is not possible; moreover they keep on insisting, that only the believers can enter heaven. From that time the diatribes will never stop between Gnostics and Christians. But…are the latter really like that? According to some researchers, Real Christianity is derived from Gnosticism. “2000 years of challenge” is the third author’s book in a trilogy on Christianity, including “Jesus, born in 6 a.c., crucified in 30 – An historical approach to Christianity” (1997) and his “Eternal Life, essay on the immortality between God and man” (1998), works published in 2003 by Prospettiva editrice. The trilogy is for both Christians and believers of other religions and atheists. ______________________________________________________________________ A PLACE TO WRITE by Luca Lorenzetti ISBN 88-87926-90-5 Pages 136 Euro 10,33 A book that examines in depth writing thanks to great authors. The practice of writing remains for a lot of people a unfathomable and mysterious process; especially in Italy, where people are not used to have any confrontation. Despite this, creative writing today is a spreading phenomenon that is influencing in decisive way. A place to write is not a book on the creative writing process, but about creative writing. A book for those who approach for the first time this matter, but also for those who wonder: How can I teach writing? The book contains interesting interviews on writing with Alessandro Baricco , Annalisa Bruni , Raffaele Crovi , Marcello Fois , Carlo Lucarelli , Dacia Maraini , Lidia Ravera, Giuseppe Pontiggia. ______________________________________________________________________ INTIFADA Contemporary Arabic poetry Flowers Edited by Mohammed Lamsuni Anthology of the most important contemporary Arabic poets. ISBN 88-7418-125-6 Pages 150 Collection Flowers 4 Euro 8,00 This anthology is proposed to introduce intifada poetry, the protagonists of a revolution of how to understand poetry in the Arabic world. Intifada poetry has forced the Arabs to reconsider what they meant by poetry, to amplify the sense of the word, that corresponds to a great thematic freedom and to an irregular metric scheme or none. The title of the anthology does not refer to any of the Arabic political and military circumstances. “Intifada “stands for shaking and its linguistic root is intafada, that is to be shaken, to be dusted, to shake oneself off. The theme of these works, like in the whole modern Arabic poetry, is this shaking, is this renewal of each structure of the language that tends to be resistant to every modification. From this book Roberto Benigni has drawn a poem for his next film. ______________________________________________________________________ FRAME Territori by Angela Di Curzio ISBN 88-87926-68-9 Pages. 132 Euro 10,32 Collection Territori 1 An essay that introduces the greatest artists of the world through the study of their frames. The frame for many painters is a way to propose their own consideration of the picture, of the place of exhibition, of the role of the artist, of the public, of the society, of the world. Through a subdivision in chapters, the text discovers which frame was used by other painters, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, impressionists like Degas, Whistler, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Seurat; the exponents of the Viennese Secession like Franz von Stuck and Gustav Klimt, or contemporary painters like Mondrian, Balla, Segal, Van Doesburg, Magritte, Dalì, Duchamp, Picabia, Picasso, Braque, Buren, De Maria, Long. The author also considers two other essential aspects connected to the theme of the frame, that is the philosophical aspect and the handicraft one. She examines both how the frame is a philosophical matter developed by some thinkers like George Rimmel and Ortega y Gasset, and how it is also an object of study and work for artisans. To introduce this last aspect she lists the main styles of the frame in the different historical periods and, moreover explains the techniques for the production and the maintenance of the wooden frames. The book in its originality shows various curious photographic images that offer a complete vision of canvas and frame (a rarity that cannot be found in the majority of books of history of art). This volume is the first publication which proposes the theme of the frame as pertinent subject to the world of history of art and for philosophy and craftsmanship. ______________________________________________________________________ LIFE, DEATH AND MIRACLES OF ST. GENNARO Almanacco by Bruno Reino ISBN -7418-207-4 Euro 10,00 Pages 142 Collection Almanacco 3 The complete story of the most venerated Neapolitan saint, but also the most discussed in the world. ______________________________________________________________________ THE ETERNAL LIFE Orion Costellation by Guido Pagliarino ISBN 88-7418-106-X Pages 132 Euro 10,00 Collection Orione Constellation 1 Theological study. Maybe, in the future, the Church will re-formulate, on the same essence of faith, the words of the Creed and the catechism, underlining even more endless God-joy and clarifying that He wants us happy in Heaven, but also on earth: daily happiness whose realisation depends on us, loving each other, contributing to the construction of the mythical Eden. Everybody is seeking joy; but today so many think to find it in possession, in physical pleasure, in dominating, and stressing themselves and (sometimes because all these they die??). In this essay, that is not catechism but a hymn to happiness in the respect for believers of other religions, the author tries to make some aspects of Christianity clear: a work that will probably surprise many of you. ______________________________________________________________________ JESUS BORN IN 6 B.C. CRUCIFIED IN 30 Orion Costellation by Guido Pagliarino ISBN 88-7418-072-1 Pages 156 Euro 8,00 Collection Orione Constellation 7 Theological study. “Assertion like these are read and heard: “Jesus? A myth like Osiris!” “Jesus was only a good rabbi”, “Jesus was a quack: it was Paul who invented Christianity.” “Without Plato there would have been no Christianity”, “The historical Jesus is not the Christ of the faith”, “The New Testament dates back to the II or the III century: It does not have the value of document”, " Christianity was founded on the 10 Commandments”, “What an ignorance! The Comet star on the hut of the Nativity would have destroyed the world!”, “Surely the Buddhism doesn't have the naivety of Christianity”, “Confucius said first not to hurt other people if we don't want to be hurt!”, “All the religions are alike". In this historical approach to Christianity, Guido Paglierino rationally replies back to those observations, with a new approach for most Christians.” ______________________________________________________________________________ COMPULSORY LAW IN ANCIENT ROME Orion Costellation by Mario Tocci ISBN 88-87926-99-9 Pag. 60 Euro 7,75 Collection Orion Costellation 2 A Juridical essay As the title suggests, this text is about the contractual and semicontractual figures, as well as on those criminal and semicriminal, contemplated by the ancient Roman legal system. In the text there are some original Latin inscriptions. At the end of the book there is an appendix on ancient Greek compulsory law. ___________________________________________________________________ THE LAW OF MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN IN ANCIENT ROME by Mario Tocci ISBN 88-7418-107-8 Pages 132 Euro 9,00 A Juridical essay This essay is on the law of marriage and children in ancient Rome and in the ancient East Mediterranean countries and contains ample and motivated comparisons in relation with the Institutes treated with the norms of the contemporary Italian legal system. ______________________________________________________________________ ANDREI BELYJ Orion Costellation edited by Ferruccio Martinetto ISBN 88-7418-144-2 Pages 90 Euro 7,00 Collection Orion Costellation 5 Andrej Belyj is one of the most interesting and less known characters of the Russian literary panorama. He embodies all the devastating contradictions of a country like Russia, that feels its responsibility to conduct the world to a new way of living, changing the social and personal destiny of its people and tracing important steps in the path of history. He is so fearfully human, selfish, traitor and unreliable… The memoirs of the Cvetaeva and the Odoevceva, so full of sincerity and admiration for this extraordinary misunderstood and fleeing genius, are essential to penetrate the mystery of the poet. Ferruccio Martinetto, was born in Turin the 7th August 1968, graduated in 1995 in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Turin. In the same year he won a scholarship financed by the Turin Town Hall thanks to the translations of the Russian poets of the Silver century and was recognised among the best 15 young poets of Turin and province. In 1997 he published for Paoline Editions the translation L. N. Tolstoj’s “Master and servant.” In the same year he participated in the translation of L. Tolstoj’s essay “Walk in the light as long as there is light.” From 1995 up today he has published translations of Majakovskij, Gumilev, Saltykov-Scedrin, Severianin and other poets of the Russian Silver century, on magazines like “The Majakovskij”, “Slavia”, “The story”, “Astolfo.” In 2003 he published, for the Florentine publisher “Clinamen”, the translation of the Cloud in pants by Majakovskij and, for the publisher “Prospettiva”, an essay on Andrei Belyj. ______________________________________________________________________ BRAZIL AT WAR Territori by Andrea Giannasi ISBN 88-7418-284-8 Pages 186 Euro 10,00* Collection Territori 5 An unique and rare essay about an unknown story of the Second World war. This book is about the use of Brazilian soldiers during the campaign of Italy between 1944 and 1945. Brazil, after declaring war to the countries of the Axis, sent to Italy, pushed by the United States of America, a contingent of twenty five thousand soldiers. The Força Expedicionaria Brasileira fought in Tuscany in September 1944 occupying Camaiore and the Valley of Serchio, and freed the buttress of Castelnuovo, Garfagnana, and liberated in October of the same year, Barga and Gallicano. The following month the Brazilians garrisoned the front of Porretta Terme. In this sector the FEB suffered a hard defeat of Mountain Castle, managing however in the spring of 1945 to break the line of the front and contributing with the Allied forces to unite again Italy. ______________________________________________________________________ THE LOSS OF ALLIED AND JAPANESE SHIPS IN THE PACIFIC Orion Costellation by Gabriele Pavan ISBN 88-7418-176-0 Pag. 220 Euro 12,00 Collection Orion Costellation 12 The remaking of all the ships (from aircraft to small motor torpedoes) that were lost by the Americans and the Japanese during the war in the Pacific (1941-1945) For many readers the war in the Pacific is the theatre of major events, like the attack on Pearl Harbour or the Battle of Midway . Actually during those long years there were a lot of clashes from both sides and many vessels were destroyed. The fate of many of these was mysterious, or the information was not complete. This essay tries to investigate about these little known facts dealing with the last information on every vessel to explain what really happened. ______________________________________________________________________ ROGER GARAUDY Orion Costellation by Massimo Maugliani ISBN 88-7418-119-1 Pages 86 Euro 12,00 Collection Orion Costellation 12 A study on the most debated contemporary French philosopher, member of the French communist party (later expelled). "Garaudy's study corresponds, to the dawn of the new century and the new millennium, to the demand of the current society to rediscover the sense and the importance of assuming pluralism (in our way of describing what the world is like, in the ways of prescribing how it should be and how to change it) not only as a fact but also as a value, in the attempt to propose at least a sketch of a human society different and better, overcoming together the dangers that threaten entire humanity..." Massimo Maugliani was born in Tivoli (RM). He graduated in History of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Studies "Rome 3" in Rome. In collaboration, he ran an activity of research on the theme "The experience of the villages of workers in Italy” in Political Philosophy. ______________________________________________________________________ THE SIMPSONS Orion Costellation by Manuela Marziali ISBN 88-7418-162-0 Pages 178 Euro 12,00 Collection Orion Costellation 16 A interesting essay that through the most famous cartoon in America introduces all the fears, the anguish, the weakness, but also the qualities of the American people. The Simpson family like Matt Groening, its creator, has never seen it. We are able through the Simpsons' eyes to reveal America, so much dreamt, beloved, but also hated by many of us. "The Simpsons and the American cultural tradition“ is a book that tells the story of a cartoon and of a country that we have never known. Thanks to this family from Springfield we can meet for the first time a new side of America, perhaps, that America that we have always wished to see. ______________________________________________________________________ OH MY GOD! THE TURKS! Territori by Gilberto Favale ISBN 88-7418-243-0 Pages 138 Euro 10,00 Collection Orion Costellation 2 An essay, proposed by an officer of the Italian Army specialized in international affairs, who discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the integration of Turkey in Europe. The Council of Europe, the 19th of May 2003 has published the decision on the principles, on the priorities, on the objectives and conditions of the partnership for the adhesion of Turkey to the European Union. The problems to be resolved are the respect of the human rights and the minorities, the role of the soldiers inside the country, an economy of competitive market. Now the decision on the integration is up to the Turks? But do they share the same European roots? Can liberalizing thought prevail in the European cultural identity? Which Europe are we creating? Is Turkey a great strategic opportunity or a "Trojan horse" that will bring unknown problems to Europe? Main office : Civitavecchia, Via Terme di Traiano, 25 (00053 - Rome). Telephone number: 00 39 0766 23598. E-mail: segreteria@prospettivaeditrice.it Web site: www.prospettivaeditrice.it Ai sensi dell'articolo 13 D.Lgs. 30 giugno 2003, n. 196, (recante il "Codice in materia di trattamento dei dati personali") si informa che il trattamento dei dati personali, anche sensibili, è svolto ai fini dell'invio di materiale informativo concernente i prodotti e i servizi forniti compresi gli adempimenti contabili e fiscali, nonché al fine di informare, promuovere e pubblicizzare, anche a mezzo della posta elettronica, prodotti e servizi. 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