| Description |
xiv, 233 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The just man oppressed by injustice: the book of Job, Bible -- A man of no account: Homer, new coasts and Poseidon's son, The Odyssey -- Why are animals beautiful?: Charles Darwin, The Origin of species -- To see atoms: Sir William Bragg, Concerning the nature of things -- The pact with the mammoths: Joseph-Henri Rosny aîné, La Querre du feu -- The hobbies: Giuseppe Parini, The Day -- A deadly nip: Carlo Porta, Olter desgrazzi de Giovannin Bongee -- Dystopia: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's travels -- A testing time: Joseph Conrad, Youth -- The words of the father: Ludwig Gattermann, Laboratory methods of organic chemistry -- Better to write of laughter than tears: François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel -- A different way of saying "I": Thomas Mann, The Tales of Jacob -- The romance of technology: Roger Vercel, Tug-boat -- The dark well of the human spirit: Herman Melville, Moby Dick -- Survivors in the Sahara: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, sand and stars -- The curious merchant: Marco Polo, The Travels -- The poet-researcher: Lucretius, On the nature of the universe -- The Jew on horseback: Isaac Babel, Collected stories -- An irrepressible quibbler: Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad stories -- Pity hidden beneath laughter: Giuseppe Belli, The Sonnets -- Why we are not happy: Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of happiness -- We are the aliens: Fredic Brown, Sentry -- The measure of all things: ASTM D 1382-55 T, American Society for Testing Materials -- Urchin death: Stefano D'Arrigo, Horcynus Orca -- TV according to Leonardo: Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the future: An enquiry into the limits of the possible -- Before and after the crime: T.S. Eliot, Murder in the cathedral -- Death fugue: Paul Celan, Poems of Paul Celan -- Tönle the winterer: Mario Rigoni Stern, Storia di tönle -- Trying to understand: Hermann Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz -- We are alone: Kip S. Thorne, The Search for black holes. |
| Subject |
Anthologies.
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| Added Author |
Levi, Primo, 1919-1987.
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Forbes, Peter, 1947-
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| ISBN |
1566634458: $24.95 |
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