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050 00 PN6044 |b.R5313 2002
130 0  Ricerca delle radici. |lEnglish.
245 14 The search for roots : |ba personal anthology / |cPrimo Levi ; translated and with an introduction by Peter Forbes.
264  1 Chicago : |bIvan R. Dee, |c2002.
300    xvi, 233 pages ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    "Originally published in Italian as La ricerca delle radici by Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1981"--T.p. verso.
500    "This translation originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2001"--T.p. verso.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
505 0  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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
655  0 Anthologies.
700 1  Levi, Primo, |d1919-1987.
700 1  Forbes, Peter, |d1947-
994    E0 |bLHM
852 0   |bstacks |hPN6044 |i.R5313 2002