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This book contains the contributions presented at the
international workshop "The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: an
interdisciplinary approach" held in Ascona, Switzerland in November
2004. Experts from several disciplines outline a conceptual
framework for modeling and forecasting the dynamics of both
growth-limited cities and megacities. Coverage reflects the various
interdependencies between structural and social development.
This collection of essays gives a critical overview of Italian
American literary and cultural studies. The essays deal with
notions and/or characteristics of Italian American literature and
culture in a general sense, essays devoted to specific writers, and
essays on filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma,
and Martin Scorsese, who have interpreted Italian American culture
in their works.
This book contains the contributions presented at the
international workshop "The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: an
interdisciplinary approach" held in Ascona, Switzerland in November
2004. Experts from several disciplines outline a conceptual
framework for modeling and forecasting the dynamics of both
growth-limited cities and megacities. Coverage reflects the various
interdependencies between structural and social development.
A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be
divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another.
Alice and Mattia also move on their own axes, alone with their
personal tragedies. As a child Alice's overbearing father drove her
first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she
meets Mattia she recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to
Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his
mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when
he returned, she was nowhere to be found. These two irreversible
episodes mark Alice and Mattia's lives for ever, and as they grow
into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But
then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister
forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface. A meditation on
loneliness and love, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we
ever truly be whole when we're in love with another?
'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about
where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here'
Evening Standard 'Taking a breather from bewildering statistics and
terrible tales of contagion to read Giordano's book was a jolt of
brevity and simplicity... It takes concepts that have been dancing
away in our minds, just out of reach, and lines them up neatly' The
Times 'Potent and original' Sunday Times 'In one short hour, in the
midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of
hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author
of East West Street and The Rat Line The Covid-19 pandemic is the
most significant health emergency of our time. Writing from Italy
in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how
disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it matters how it
impacts us how we must react Expanding his focus to include other
forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake news and
xenophobia - Giordano shows us not just how the coronavirus crisis
got so bad so quickly, but also how we can work together to create
change. Paolo Giordano is a physicist and the author of four
bestselling novels. His article 'The Mathematics of Contagion' -
published in Italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency -
was shared more than 4 million times and helped shift public
opinion in the early stages of the epidemic.
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Heaven and Earth (Paperback)
Paolo Giordano; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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'A devastating marvel of a novel' Sunday Telegraph 'A highly
enjoyable novel... Giordano is especially good on the textures,
smells, heat and colours of the Italian south. These stay long in
the mind, as does the way he writes about the obsessiveness of
love, the way it dominates and distorts and the self-delusions and
fantasies it gives rise to' TLS 'If you're pining for an Italian
break, then this might be the remedy: Heaven And Earth is rooted so
deep in idyllic Puglia that you can almost feel the red soil under
your sandals' Daily Mail 'Raw and evocative: a breathtaking and
poignant creation that will leave you itching under the skin'
Herald 'A stunning achievement' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By
Your Name 'Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who
feel like old friends' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Less 'The perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the
handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White Every
summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia,
down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat,
centuries-old olive groves and taciturn, proud people. There Teresa
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading
her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks. Everything changes the
summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door:
Nicola, Tommaso and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of
her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa
almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate
and seemingly unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no
summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is
resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a
twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern -
the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group - commits
a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of
the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours
in the shadow of the olive trees. PRAISE FOR PAOLO GIORDANO
'Mesmerizing... Giordano works with piercing subtlety' New York
Times 'Elegant and fiercely intelligent' Elle 'Elegiac, tender and
mournful' Wall Street Journal
A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire,
youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international
bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers "Perfect,
moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old
friends." -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an
electrifying presence in contemporary fiction." -Andre Aciman,
author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me Every summer Teresa
follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the
heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-old
olive groves and families who have lived there for generations. She
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sunstruck stupor, reading her
grandmother's paperbacks. Everything changes the summer she meets
the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso and
Bern-the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like
brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time,
the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly
unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly
endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is resentment
underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind
of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern-the enigmatic,
restless gravitational center of the group-commits a brutal act of
revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will
be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow
of the olive trees. An unforgettable story of enduring love, the
bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven
and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of
unveiling the depths of the human soul, who has now given us the
old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose
ourselves.
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Heaven and Earth (Paperback)
Paolo Giordano; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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'A devastating marvel of a novel' Sunday Telegraph 'A highly
enjoyable novel... Giordano is especially good on the textures,
smells, heat and colours of the Italian south. These stay long in
the mind, as does the way he writes about the obsessiveness of
love, the way it dominates and distorts and the self-delusions and
fantasies it gives rise to' TLS 'If you're pining for an Italian
break, then this might be the remedy: Heaven And Earth is rooted so
deep in idyllic Puglia that you can almost feel the red soil under
your sandals' Daily Mail 'Raw and evocative: a breathtaking and
poignant creation that will leave you itching under the skin'
Herald 'A stunning achievement' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By
Your Name 'Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who
feel like old friends' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Less 'The perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the
handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White Every
summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia,
down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat,
centuries-old olive groves and taciturn, proud people. There Teresa
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading
her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks. Everything changes the
summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door:
Nicola, Tommaso and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of
her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa
almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate
and seemingly unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no
summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is
resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a
twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern -
the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group - commits
a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of
the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours
in the shadow of the olive trees. PRAISE FOR PAOLO GIORDANO
'Mesmerizing... Giordano works with piercing subtlety' New York
Times 'Elegant and fiercely intelligent' Elle 'Elegiac, tender and
mournful' Wall Street Journal
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