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A gripping, noir-style novel set in a small, provincial town in Italy. The story unfolds across two pivotal moments in time — 1997 and 2017 — and explores the brutal consequences of secrets, guilt, and the desire for redemption. Through sharp characterization and a compelling depiction of rural Italy, Avonto delivers a hard‑hitting story about the nature of guilt and the faint hope of atonement.

“Denis Bergamini non si è suicidato, l’ha ammazzato la sua ex fidanzata”. Da 36 anni gli agguerriti familiari del calciatore, i media, gli ultras del Cosenza, l’opinione pubblica, e ora anche un tribunale, accusano Isabella Internò di essere una feroce assassina. Questo intricato legal podcast, in cui Internò parla per la prima volta, mette in fila false ricostruzioni, forzature scientifiche e anche millanterie di tanti testimoni del processo che cambiano versione nel tempo. Per arrivare a una conclusione: Isabella Internò è rimasta incastrata nella morsa infernale della giustizia...

Pré lancamentos de musicas ineditas desde o som sertanejo ao gospel

Dalle steppe dell’Ucraina al Sacco di Roma, hanno segnato la storia d’Europa, rappresentando per l’Impero una grande minaccia e un’opportunità di rinnovamento. Nel suo nuovo libro, Marco Cappelli racconta l’avventurosa e affascinante storia dei Visigoti, un popolo uscito dalle brume del nord, scacciato dalle sue case dalla violenza degli Unni e costretto a migrare nell'Impero romano. Siamo abituati a leggere la storia dalla parte di Roma; qui per la prima volta il punto di vista è quello del popolo barbaro: dei suoi costumi, delle sue leggende, della sua cultura.

Saxophone players unite! It’s time to get really bloody good at the saxophone, just five minutes at a time. Join Dr Emma Di Marco, Australian saxophonist and music educator, for a daily five minute saxophone lesson where she shares the best tips, tricks, ideas, and practice strategies to make you the best saxophone player you can be. Episodes drop twice a week on Mondays and Fridays. What can you expect from an episode? Emma will share her insights into a new topic or pain point for saxophonists leaving you with strategies you can put IMMEDIATELY into your own musical practice. These ...

Mussolini ha fatto anche cose buone? No! ... però da lui sono partiti una serie di sfortunati eventi che hanno dato vita al fenomeno dei paparazzi. Tra droga, alcohol, omicidi, musica jazz, Federico Fellini e Andy Warhol, la storia della nostra volpe di via veneto si fa spazio in una magica cornice romana di metà '900. Questa è la storia grottesca di tutto quello che ha dato vita al fenomeno dei Paparazzi, che ancora oggi fa disperare i personaggi famosi di tutto il mondo.

The idea of a distinctive Messiah, with a specific role, was not definitively established across all the Jewish movements of the Second Temple era. Some groups expected multiple messiahs, and some did not expect one at all. Our focus is on the topic of the Messiah and how different groups understood this office. We can draw some understanding regarding an expectation of a Messiah. The Messiah is generally understood to be a person who at the end of history or the present world order will bring salvation to Israel.

Three events transpired in 1492 in the Iberian Peninsula, which had tremendous ramifications for years to come. The first was the conquest of Granada, i.e., the last Muslim stronghold, by Castilian and Aragonese forces. The victory ended eight hundred years of Islam-ic rule. The conquest of Granada eventually also led to the conversions of many Muslims to Christianity, the phenomenon of Crypto-Islam, and the eventual expulsion of the descendants of these converts in 1609.

El día D se acerca. Todavía no se sabe dónde ni cuándo, pero los alemanes están convencidos de que será pronto. Felicity Clariet, Flick, es una de las agentes más valiosas de la unidad encargada de las operaciones de sabotaje que opera en el norte de Francia. A Flick le consta que el éxito del desembarco aliado depende de que las líneas de comunicación con Berlín no funcionen.

El anciano filósofo Pitágoras es uno de los personajes con más poder político de su época. Está a punto de nombrar un sucesor entre sus grandes maestros cuando en su comunidad se inicia una serie de asesinatos. Cada muerte tiene lugar de un modo más desconcertante e imprevisible, reflejando tras ellas una mente oscura y poderosa que parece superar a la del mismísimo Pitágoras. La enigmática Ariadna y el investigador egipcio Akenón tratarán de identificar al asesino a la vez que resuelven sus propios sentimientos.

Cartago, siglo VI a. C.: Ariadna, hija de Pitágoras, recibe un pergamino con una noticia que encarna la peor de sus pesadillas. El mensaje incluye un pentáculo invertido, el símbolo que encierra la esencia del mal. De inmediato se desata una vertiginosa espiral asesina tras la que se adivina una mente poderosa y despiadada. España, Actualidad: Elena, Daniel e Irina investigan los límites del cerebro y la posibilidad de incrementar su capacidad.

Throughout a long career as a special and foreign correspondent for major Italian publications and the state-owned broadcaster RAI, Marco Lupis has been up close and personal with many of the people who have shaped the world as we know it. In this book, Lupis recalls the most important interviews of his career, not only with brave men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting injustice and abuse of power, but also with some of the biggest names of the modern era.

El asesinato de Sócrates recrea magistralmente la época más extraordinaria de nuestra historia. Madres que luchan por sus hijos, amores imposibles y soldados tratando de sobrevivir se entrelazan de un modo fascinante con los gobernantes, artistas y pensadores que convirtieron Grecia en la cuna de nuestra civi-lización.

Il vangelo di San Marco Evangelista, secondo la versione CEI.

Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day at work, Tedesco unearths the secrets in the ice - from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to the fantastically weird microorganisms. Tedesco weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape and more.

Time Series Forecasting in Python teaches you to build powerful predictive models from time-based data. Every model you create is relevant, useful, and easy to implement with Python. You’ll explore interesting real-world datasets like Google’s daily stock price and economic data for the USA, quickly progressing from the basics to developing large-scale models that use deep learning tools like TensorFlow.

UNLEASH YOUR TRANSFORMATION is an empowering book for business leaders. Change is the new norm as organizations need to stay ahead in an ever-faster-changing world. However, changing the status quo is hard and challenging. So how do you succeed? Unleash Your Transformation offers a unique holistic and pragmatic approach–The Transformational Flywheel–to make change at scale happen.

We are slaves of our mind and actions. Decide to change it, initiate yourself in stoic thinking. Do you wonder how those people with so many misfortunes and obstacles keep smiling? Do you want to be able to master your emotions? Do you want to be really strong? Stoicism gives you the tools to lead an invincible life, to be undefeated in any situation and to get closer to perfection. And get closer to perfection and mastery of yourself in the face of criticism, deception, infidelity, rejection, death...in everything you will remain impassive.

Many years ago, in a lecture on the creation of the Mishnah, the Orthodox Jewish historian, Rabbi Berel Wein discussed the rise of early Christianity as a historical and theological backdrop. He mentioned that this era is of particular importance to Jews because of the complicated and tragic relationship between Jews and Christians over the centuries. He referred to Joseph Klausner, the famed Jewish professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who in the earlier part of the 20th century, had authored several works on early Christianity from a Jewish standpoint.

Serious developers know that code can always be improved. With each iteration, you make optimizations - small and large - that can have a huge impact on your application’s speed, size, resilience, and maintainability. In Seriously Good Software: Code That Works, Survives, and Wins, author, teacher, and Java expert Marco Faella teaches you techniques for writing better code. You’ll start with a simple application and follow it through seven careful refactorings, each designed to explore another dimension of quality.