The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer
By: Meryle Secrest
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Pinocchio
By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi
3.85
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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"Hunger is the best cook."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
3. Illegale Kriege: Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren.Eine Chronik von Kuba bis Syrien
By: Daniele Ganser
4.12
Format: 204 pages,
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4. Everything Is Illuminated
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
3.43
Format: 375 pages,
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5. Q
By: Shaun Whiteside , Wu Ming , Luther Blissett
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
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7. Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
By: John Cleese
3.88
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is … read more
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"Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time."-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
" But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly importan…"-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
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By: Francesca Giannone
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Salento, giugno 1934. A Lizzanello, un paesino di poche migliaia di anime, una corriera si ferma ne… read more
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By: Silvia Avallone
4.25
Format: 368 pages, ebook
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10. Oliva Denaro
By: Viola Ardone
4.41
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11. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
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12. California. La fine del sogno
By: Francesco Costa
4.13
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Tasmania
By: Paolo Giordano
3.43
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14. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
By: Kashmir Hill
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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15. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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16. Alma
By: Federica Manzon
3.76
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Tre giorni dura il ritorno a Trieste di Alma, che dalla città è fuggita per rifarsi una vita lontan… read more
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17. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
By: John Lisle
3.89
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18. Chiedi bene e ti sarà dato. Le domande che ti cambiano lo sguardo, la mente, la vita
By: Paolo Borzacchiello
3.80
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
La vita, a volte, cambia anche solo cambiando le domande che poniamo a noi stessi. Passare da: "Per… read more
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19. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
By: Reed Hastings
4.28
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
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20. Profondo come il mare, leggero come il cielo: Un viaggio dentro se stessi per trovare la serenità
By: Gianluca Gotto
4.49
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin
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3.83
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22. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
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3.64
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23. Questa è l'America: Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro
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4.21
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24. The Lehman Trilogy
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4.25
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3.76
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27. La ragazza di Gladio (Italian Edition)
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4.10
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28. The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer
By: Meryle Secrest
3.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4.14
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. P101. Quando l'Italia inventò il personal computer (Italian Edition)
By: Pier Giorgio Perotto
4.18
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