Umberto Eco is the author of five best-selling novels and numerous collections of essays. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and lives in Italy.
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Umberto Eco: Serendipities
Best-selling author Umberto Eco’s latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the ‚linguistics of the lunatic, ‚ stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinar …
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€18.99
William Weaver: Culinary Ephemera
This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper …
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€32.99
James M. Gere & William Weaver: Matrix Analysis Framed Structures
Matrix analysis of structures is a vital subject to every structural analyst, whether working in aero-astro, civil, or mechanical engineering. It provides a comprehensive approach to the analysis of …
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€162.20
Italo Calvino: Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino’s enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated …
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Italo Calvino: Under the Jaguar Sun
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able …
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Italo Calvino: Difficult Loves
The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review). …
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€22.46
Italo Calvino: Complete Cosmicomics
The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s …
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€3.75
Umberto Eco: Baudolino
A self-confessed liar spins a fascinating tale of his life in this “comic and brilliantly baffling” historical novel by the author of The Name of the Rose (The Guardian, UK). …
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€2.48
Umberto Eco: Travels in Hyperreality
A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of …
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Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail – each with a woman’s name… In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai …
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Italo Calvino: Mr Palomar
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; ‚it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek …
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Italo Calvino: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer’s …
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Italo Calvino: Marcovaldo
Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with …
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Italo Calvino: Difficult Loves and Other Stories
A spectacular display of this key European writer’s early work This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates …
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Umberto Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some …
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Umberto Eco: Island of the Day Before
The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the …
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Umberto Eco: Faith in Fakes
Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, …
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€9.49
Umberto Eco: Name of the Rose
An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Mdicis Etranger awards, this enthralling medieval murder mystery "explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well …
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Italo Calvino: Last Comes the Raven
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving.Calvino’s war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio …
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