On Beauty, Eco Umberto

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Chronicles of a Liquid Society
ISBN: 1784705209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784705206
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Описание: Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants. In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose explores everything from unbridled individualism to mobile phones. 'He brilliantly exposes all that is absurd and paradoxical in contemporary behaviour.

Eco's irony is disarming, his cleverness dazzling' Guardian'Eco has left us an intelligent, intriguing, and often hilariously incisive set of observations on contemporary follies and changing mores' Publisher's Weekly

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: The Prague Cemetery
ISBN: 0099555980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099555988
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Описание: Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, lay just one man?

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Search for the Perfect Language, The
ISBN: 0006863787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006863786
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an investigation into the history of this idea.

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: On literature
ISBN: 0099453940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099453949
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world`s leading writers.

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Five Moral Pieces
ISBN: 0099276968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099276968
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today`s world.

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Serendipities
ISBN: 0753808781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753808788
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Foucault`s pendulum
ISBN: 0099287153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287155
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Описание: They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: How to Travel With a Salmon
ISBN: 0099428636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099428633
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Описание: Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with all his customary wit and brilliance through the complexities of the modern world.

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Kant and the Platypus
ISBN: 009927695X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099276951
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Описание: Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow an abundance of `stories` or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a clear critique of Kant, Heidegger and Peirce.

Автор: Eco Umberto
Название: Island of the Day Before
ISBN: 0749396660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749396664
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Описание: 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 mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before.