Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780436276033
Eco returns to the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, provocative, beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April, 1204, and Constantinople...
Format:Hardback
USD $45.22
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099422396
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion...
Format:Paperback
USD $16.13
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099276968
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...
Format:Paperback
USD $15.48
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099287155
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries...
Format:Paperback
USD $16.13
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780500543146
Nobody photographs the splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge as beautifully as Candida Hofer. This superbly produced volume contains Hofer's famously ascetic images of the Escorial in Spain...
Format:Hardback Pages:272
USD $87.28
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780753817988
'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but...
Format:Paperback Pages:208
USD $16.16
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099481379
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read)...
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USD $16.13
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780436205637
Yambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a Dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife...
Format:Hardback
USD $40.70
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099466031
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths...
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USD $16.13
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9781857152999
Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his investigations. Eco's celebrated story combines elements of detective fiction...
Format:Hardback
USD $22.63
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780436205170
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style...
Format:Hardback
USD $61.42
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780436210174
The last three pieces deal with the road that leads from Cervantes via Swift to Borges' Library of Babel, then an essay on Eco's own anxiety about Borges' influence on him...
Format:Hardback
USD $35.53
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9781846551222
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, "On Beauty". Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty...
Format:Hardback
USD $61.42
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780753808788
SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco's words...
Format:Paperback Pages:176
USD $14.86
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9781846550355
"Turning Back the Clock" is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit...
Format:Hardback
USD $35.56
Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099503682
After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected...
Format:Paperback Pages:384
USD $19.36
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