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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Friday 21 May 2021
Wednesday 17 June 2020
LIVE IN A SHORT TIME - The Second Life Book Club with Draxtor
or live on you tube at
- h 9 pm italian time
- 12 am Second Life time
( that I believe is the
pacific coast USA time)
with author LL McKinney.
or on you tube in Second Life (LOL)
Tuesday 9 June 2020
Second Life Book Club Island - video
music by RZRS
CETACEAN
thanks to https://icons8.com/
I’m here at Draxtor's Second Life Book Club Island, while tomorrow show is trying to get rid of a lot of technical issues.
I’m admiring Draxtor’s T-shirt and I decided to show it to you.
I believe that you can follow the program directly here and on facebook
Thursday 21 May 2020
WHAT WOULD MAKKOX READ?
Ho appena dato il mio sostegno a Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future su @Kickstarter https://t.co/Qpl1MQHIMx
— makkox (@makkox) May 20, 2020
Wednesday 20 May 2020
Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life (Kawasaki)
"Cover your ass when you're bending the rules."
— Guy Kawasaki (@GuyKawasaki) March 30, 2019
Find out which rules I bent in #wiseguy!
https://t.co/sDYXrrgVPn pic.twitter.com/xDGtpaE3br
Wednesday 8 April 2020
Friday 27 March 2020
POJANA E I SUOI FRATELLI di @Pennacchiiiii
I think Andrea is a monster. I read his texts, the other characters he created beyond the pojana. I saw him perform with stage energy that dishevels you. I've often wondered but where was this monster hidden? It would make a book for us. Mo is there. Daje @Pennacchiiiii
credo che andrea sia un mostro. ho letto i suoi testi, gli altri personaggi che ha creato oltre il pojana. l'ho visto performare con un'energia da palco che ti spettina. spesso mi sono chiesto ma dov'era nascosto sto mostro? Sarebbe da farci un libro.— makkox (@makkox) March 27, 2020
Mo c'è. Daje @Pennacchiiiii https://t.co/KXCn4N2Vm0 pic.twitter.com/eiY1nNbVvn
POJANA E I SUOI FRATELLI— People (@peoplepubit) March 27, 2020
di @Pennacchiiiii
Da oggi disponibile in ebook:@Bookrep https://t.co/5KA1kkqTVL@AmazonIT https://t.co/6pN9kx3y16@kobo https://t.co/seXnAwRhnj@AppleBooks https://t.co/pCTVlOE54Y pic.twitter.com/FLrQlAAMFD
Tuesday 17 March 2020
waiting out of time - my flying bookshop - video and music
music by Lobo Loco
waiting out of time
and by Unicorn Heads
Serial Dream Rock
I bought a bookshop with MODIFY permission and I modified it...this is the original (many thanks to KnoWorks and Enigma.Genesis):
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Bookshop-Kit-by-KnoWorks/14570933
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Bookshop-Kit-by-KnoWorks/14570933
"[08:46] Enigma Genesis: (Saved Tue Mar 17 08:20:47 2020)Beautiful, beautiful! :) Thank you so much for that. Its always interesting to see where and how the products i sell are used, but I rarely find out unless I happen across one in SL! Again, thank you for taking the time to post this to me, and what you have done with the product really is lovely :D"
Friday 13 March 2020
In developing a strategy
In developing a strategy it is important to be able to see things that are still distant as if they were close and to have a detached vision of the things that, however, are closer (Myamoto Musashi).
Nell’elaborare una strategia è importante riuscire a vedere le cose che sono ancora distanti come se fossero vicine ed avere una visione distaccata delle cose che, invece, sono più prossime (Myamoto Musashi).— Gianrico Carofiglio (@GianricoCarof) March 10, 2020
Friday 28 February 2020
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Thursday 13 February 2020
The wedding of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso
The wedding of Cadmus and Harmony was the last occasion on which the gods of Olympus sat down with the men for a feast. What happened before then, for immemorial years, and after that, for a few generations, forms the immense tree of Greek myth.
In the Wedding of Cadmus and Harmony a breath of wind returns to move the branches of that tree. As an ancient writer wrote, «these things never happened, but they are always». Telling the, intertwining them down to the smallest detail, imposes some questions, which are also «always»: why did the gods of Olympus take on a human figure, and why that figure? Why are their stories so scandalous, and mysterious? What is a simulacrum? Why was the age of heroes short, convulsive and unrepeatable? What is Zeus threatened by?
Maybe the myth is a narrative that can only be understood by narrating. Perhaps the most immediate way to think of the myth is to tell its fairy tales again. A thin, clean light, here invests them all and shows them in their multiple connections, like a vast and very light network that is resting on the world.
https://www.adelphi.it/libro/9788845918926
Lara Fiorani University College London Roberto Calasso - Deconstructing mythology A reading of Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia . PDF
Monday 10 February 2020
1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free https://t.co/yDsgowa9Jm via @openculture
— ŠàRwáRi (@rwa_ri) February 9, 2020
Thursday 30 January 2020
The e-Book Imagined in 1935 https://t.co/PFCw8Xorhx pic.twitter.com/XnpGC825Zw— Open Culture (@openculture) January 30, 2020
Watch as steel is bent to make a roller bender.— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) January 30, 2020
Via: Instagram / Daniel de Bruin#engineering pic.twitter.com/w3xRI13ALk
This nifty DIY screwdriver keychain can handle four kinds of the screw.#engineering pic.twitter.com/fz9mOeBihu— Interesting Engineering (@IntEngineering) January 30, 2020
"May the Force be with you!"— Eyes On Cinema (@RealEOC) January 30, 2020
Sir Alec Guinness on Late Night with David Letterman, 1986 pic.twitter.com/mMEAVmMDuZ
Polar Shift: by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
60 years ago, a Hungarian scientist discovered how to artificially trigger a polar shift, but time has forgotten his work - until now. Austin, Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team must find out who has access to this powerful technology before the Earth is made to pay.
Wednesday 15 January 2020
Marco travaglio - Interview Book (read 39.945 times) CLAUDIO SABELLI FIORETTI
12 May 2008
Marco travaglio - Interview Book (read 39.945 times)
CLAUDIO SABELLI FIORETTI: In a little while' he can boast of having rounded the buoy of the two million copies sold. In the almost total silence of the Italian press. For television, until recently it was a ghost. For Italians no. Italians always flocked wherever Marco travaglio presented his books. An editorial phenomenon.
In the United States they would have already dedicated the cover of «Time» and «Newsweek». In Italy the weekly magazines and magazines of newspapers ignore it. Only thanks to Michele Santoro is back on TV. And some timid apparition now happens also in the newspapers more than anything else when you want to drag him into the controversies. Marco, is the period of silence and absence coming to an end?
MARCO TRAVAGLIO: I still boast the least number of reviews among the authors in the ranking.
Is the ostracism continuing?
Only two or three newspapers speak of my books. Perhaps they feel obliged. They are the ones I collaborate with. «Espresso», «Repubblica», «Unità». Nor always. I have never seen a review of my books on «Press» or «Messenger». The vast majority of Italian newspapers ignore me.
And you suffer from it.
I don’t care. Reviews are useless. But when I think that there are books that sell three copies and have the review of the great daily…
But why is that?
There is always this idea that if someone talks about my books they risk something. As happened to Luttazzi.
But in the pages of the charts you can not ignore…
And we would miss it. They should distort the charts. But in the small pieces that comment the charts is overlooked. I’m in the top ten, maybe I’m in the lead, but we’re talking about the guy who climbed the 29th. But I’m not complaining. That’s fine.
Is this political censorship?
No. I simply believe that it is antipathy or envy. Or that I do not belong to corporate mafias. To appear on the cultural pages of newspapers it is more important to be friends with the head of service than to sell 100,000 copies.
And you have no friends.
I have not been in Continuous Struggle, nor in Worker Power, nor in Communion and Liberation.
You miss the lobby.
I have never been enrolled to anything. Maybe someone could do it for captatio benevolentiae. But what can I give him in return? I don’t count for anything.
Your friends are very few, the ones you don’t speak ill of are even less. On television, those you like are counted on the fingers of a hand: guzzanti, Luttazzi, Santoro…
But no, even those who are not engaged but do their job like the Ventura, Mike bongiorno, Pippo baudo, chiambretti…
But no one invites you…
It’s quicker to say those who invited me in the years when it was forbidden to invite me. Two or three-times mannoni a Primo Piano, two or three times Gad Lerner…
You were also invited Ferrara…
I was up on Gad Lerner. So much so that when he left and the divers arrived first and then Luca Sofri and then Ritanna Armeni completely ignored me. Even when someone insulted me. When Cossiga told me of the «right-wing fascist» in my absence, Ferrara commented: «Now you forces us to invite Travaglio so that you can reply». And then, of course, never heard from again.
Anyone else invite you?
Funari in Odeon, Daniele Vimercati and Davide Parenzo in telelombardia. Then, when the Berlusca wall fell, I was invited by Ventura and Fabio Fazio.
Vespa?
Are you kidding me?
To me he said: «The only place to encounter labor is the tribunal».
We met already in court. He sued me and I’lost.
What did you write?
It was a piece about him and his wife, an officer of the Ros who had discovered among the first the corruption of some Roman judges, had investigated some trials that had done Mrs Vespa and followed some movements of the couple. So they sued and lost.
Vespa, unlike you, presents his books in all possible television and radio broadcasts…
I’ve also seen it in Linea Verde, in the middle of a meadow, with Del Noce. They took the book of Vespa to pasture. Enzo biagi for the occasion spoke of «arms stolen from agriculture». I’ve also seen it at elisir, wonderful, with mirabella. It was an episode dedicated to liver pain or maybe prostate. Vespa is brave. I wouldn’t be able to go talk about one of my books in a bowel show.
Would you go to Marzullo?
No. I don’t like to talk about my own business and private affairs. And then I would laugh at the question whether dreams help to live better.
What about Anna La Rosa?
She’s always been quite affectionate to me, except she’s kind to everyone, but I don’t like the kind of show she does, this cupcake parlor. From Vespa I would go to blow up everything, talking about Andreotti and maybe even his wife, Iannini. Blowing up Anna La Rosa is not worth it, it would be a residual drama.
Would you go to the Bignardi?
The bignardi I don’t like. I don’t say that interview bad. I don’t like the character. When they kicked Luttazzi out of work because he had attacked Ferrara, she was able to say that Luttazzi was right and he was right la7 and that Ferrara was right too. Typical of people in love with power. They never manage to be tranchant. They always tie all the threads. I can’t stand them.
Were you better off with Prodi or Berlusconi?
With Berlusconi there is always a general climate of regime. But the climate of regime continued with Prodi. Hitting three or four has served to educate many.Today the censorship goes on with the autopilot. self-censorship. There is no need for Bulgarian diktats. They have all become obedient. They are afraid of their shadow.
It was said: «If the centre-left Travaglio wins, he remains unemployed»…
But no. But it doesn’t take a great intelligence to predict what happens in Italian politics. I had fully anticipated what those left-wing people would do, and indeed they did. I had the mathematical certainty that none of the problems I deal with would be solved.
But at «Unità» you had difficult moments. Antonio padellaro told me that sometimes you caused him problems…
To Furio Colombo more.
What’s the final balance?
I have never had a difficult life at «Unity». It was they, Furio and Antonio, who had a very difficult life because of me. Much more than Claudio Rinaldi, who had the broadest shoulders, when he made me write about the «Espresso». He had many difficulties even indro montanelli, though he had very wide shoulders. montanelli was even summoned by Lambs for my sake.
Did Montagnelli report to Agnelli?
He didn’t go, of course. Federico Orlando sent us. Cesare romiti and Gianni Agnelli told him that I no longer had to deal with the Fiat trial. They also told him that they knew about the difficulties of the hillbillies with Berlusconi and that they would be happy to help him if he was forced to leave.
What about hillbillies?
He said: «Trouble continues to write quietly about Fiat». I must say, in fairness, that very elegantly Agnelli did not react to this. In short, he did not take away his greeting. montanelli was unique.
Follows in all bookstores (aliberti ed., 15 Euro)
https://interviste.sabellifioretti.it/?p=847
https://csflibri.wordpress.com/il-rompiballe/
Saturday 11 January 2020
Pliny the Elder - Naturalis Historia (Natural History)
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field....
...The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a work by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover all ancient knowledge. The work's subject area is thus not limited to what is today understood by natural history; Pliny himself defines his scope as "the natural world, or life".[2] It is encyclopedic in scope, but its structure is not like that of a modern encyclopedia. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published. He published the first 10 books in AD 77, but had not made a final revision of the remainder at the time of his death during the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. The rest was published posthumously by Pliny's nephew, Pliny the Younger.
The work is divided into 37 books, organised into ten volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, painting, and precious stones.
Pliny's Natural History became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly works as a result of its breadth of subject matter, its referencing of original authors, and its index.
The work is divided into 37 books, organised into ten volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, painting, and precious stones.
Pliny's Natural History became a model for later encyclopedias and scholarly works as a result of its breadth of subject matter, its referencing of original authors, and its index.
Sunday 5 January 2020
The Music, Books & Films Liberated into the Public Domain in 2020.— Open Culture (@openculture) January 4, 2020
Rhapsody in Blue, The Magic Mountain, Sherlock, Jr., and More https://t.co/2VO67iO5UK pic.twitter.com/3F4iT7RywS
Monday 23 December 2019
Wednesday 18 December 2019
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