Umberto Eco

Baudolino

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099422396

Eco returns to the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, provocative, beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention. It is April, 1204, and Constantinople...more details
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BAUDOLINO

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...more details
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Cinque Scritti Morali

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9788845231247

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Confessions of a Young Novelist

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780674058699

Eco published his first novel, "The Name of the Rose," in 1980, when he was nearly 50. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late 70s...more details
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Faith In Fakes: Travels In Hyp

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780749396282

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Five Moral Pieces

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...more details
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FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM

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...more details
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History of Beauty and on Ugliness Boxed Set: Boxed Set Edition

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780847831760

The first illustrated book by one of the world's most acclaimed authors, History of Beauty presents an intriguing journey into the wonderful realm of aesthetics...more details
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History of Beauty

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780847835300

Now in paperback, Umberto Eco's groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco...more details
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How To Travel With A Salmon

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099428633

In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon...more details
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Incontro

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781550710632

"It is impossible to think about the present or the future of universities without taking into account the fact that universities live in a world dominated by mass media." - U Eco. Eco wrote this short essay when he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in letters by Laurentian University (Canada). The essay appears in English...more details
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Interpretacin y sobreinterpretacin

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780521476492

Umberto Eco, autor de novelas de exito e importante teirico literario, funde en este libro esos dos papeles en un provocador debate en torno al controvertido tema de la interpretaciin literaria. Los limites de la interpretaciin - lo que se puede afirmar que significa realmente un texto - es una cuestiin que interesa doblemente a un semiitico...more details
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Island Of The Day Before, The

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780749396664

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Island Of The Day Before,The

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780436202704

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Kant And The Platypus

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099276951

How we know that a cat is a cat is a nice philosophical poser, and has been since the time of Plato. Why we should all agree on calling the animal a cat is equally interesting...more details
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780156011594

How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here...more details
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Libraries:Candida Hofer

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...more details
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Mouse or Rat

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...more details
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Mouse or Rat?

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780297830016

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Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana, The

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)...more details
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Mysterious Flame, The

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...more details
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Name Of The Rose (Vintage Classics), The

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099466031

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars...more details
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Name Of The Rose, The

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...more details
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On Beauty - A History of a Western Idea

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780857050205

Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom about the nature of beauty itself....more details
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On Beauty

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...more details
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On Literature

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...more details
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On Literature

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099453949

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce...more details
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On Ugliness

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780847829866

In the mold of his acclaimed "History of Beauty," renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco's "On Ugliness" is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts...more details
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On Ugliness

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...more details
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On Ugliness

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780847837236

In the mold of his acclaimed @lt;i@gt;History of Beauty@lt;/i@gt;, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco's @lt;i@gt;On Ugliness@lt;/i@gt; is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts...more details
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On Ugliness

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780857051622

Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom on the nature of ugliness by one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers....more details
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Reading Eco

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780253211163

"[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being Eco and being with Eco." -- The Comparatist

Umberto Eco is...more details
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780253203984

"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature... this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory...more details
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Serendipities

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...more details
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Serendipities

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780156007511

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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780674810518

In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert...more details
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780674810501

In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert...more details
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Talking of Joyce

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781900621137

Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, has long been interested in the works of Joyce. Eco's essay, as does Santoro-Brienza's...more details
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The Limits of Interpretation

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780253208699

"Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes.... Read this brilliant, enjoyable...more details
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780436205897

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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099541486

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this title presents a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, as well as a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars...more details
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099497035

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this work is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars...more details
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The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780547844206

Release Date: 04 September 2012
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The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781445020594

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The Prague Cemetery

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The Prague Cemetery

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The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099555971

Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service...more details
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The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780547577531

The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries"" Nineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious...more details
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The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781446468289

Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons...more details
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The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781846554919

Nineteenth-century Europe from Turin to Prague to Paris abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service...more details
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The Role of the Reader

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780253203182

..". not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -- The Review of Metaphysics

..". essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -- Library Journal

In this erudite and imaginative book...more details
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The Search for the Perfect Language

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780006863786

The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers...more details
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The Vertigo of Lists: An Illustrated Essay

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780847832965

Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements...more details
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This is Not the End of the Book - A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9780099552451

These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. This book presents conversations in which Jean-Claude Carriere and Umberto Eco discuss everything from how to define the first book to what is happening to knowledge now that infinite amounts of digital information is available....more details
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This is Not the End of the Book - A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781446468203

Takes the form of a long conversation in which Carriere and Eco discusses from what can be defined as the first book to what is happening to knowledge now that infinite amounts of information are available at the click of a mouse....more details
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This is Not the End of the Book - A Conversation Curated by Jean-Phillippe De Tonnac

Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781846554513

These days it is almost impossible to get away from discussions of whether the 'book' will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles appear daily on the subject...more details
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Turning Back the Clock

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...more details
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Turning Back the Clock

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...more details
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

Umberto Eco;Hugh Bredin

ISBN:9780300093049

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science...more details
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Baudolino

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780156029063

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...more details
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Baudolino

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780151006908

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...more details
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Belief or Non-Belief

Umberto Eco & Cardinal Maria Martini

ISBN:9780826480996

In this stimulating dialogue, often adversarial but always amicable, these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day.

One is the prince of the Church...more details
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Belief or Nonbelief?

Umberto Eco;Minna Martini Carlo MariaProctor

ISBN:9781559704977

They stand on opposite ends of the spectrum: one is the world-famous author of The Name of the Rose and a self-declared secularist; the other is a senior member of the Catholic Church (often mentioned as a possible successor to the pope). In this amicable but adversarial exchange of letters and ideas...more details
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Experiences in Translation

Umberto Eco;Alastair McEwen

ISBN:9780802096142

In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages...more details
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Five Moral Pieces

Umberto Eco;Alastair McEwen

ISBN:9780156013253

Embracing the web of multiculturalism 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...more details
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Five Moral Pieces

Umberto Eco;Eco

ISBN:9780151004461

Embracing the web of multiculturalism 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...more details
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Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780156032971

Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled--a point located in Paris...more details
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Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco;Theodore Stack RichardBikel

ISBN:9781559273596

One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully-groomed mustache, wears maroon socks, and who once served in the Foreign Legion...more details
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Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780151327652

A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo...more details
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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780156001250

In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon...more details
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Interpretation and Overinterpretation

Umberto Eco;Jonathan Collini StefanCuller

ISBN:9780521425544

The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and frequently hilarious discussion ranges from Dante to The Name of the Rose...more details
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays

Umberto Eco;Alastair EcoMcEwen

ISBN:9780151004478

How do we know that a cat is a cat? Why do we agree on calling the beast a cat? Interesting questions, but an even more intriguing question lies at the heart of all modern philosophy-how much of our perception of things depends on our cognitive ability and how much on linguistic resources? At this point semiotics becomes inextricably linked to epistemology...more details
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Libraries

Candida Hofer;Umberto Eco

ISBN:9783829601863

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Meaning and Mental Representation

Umberto Eco;Marco Violi PatriziaSantambrogio

ISBN:9780253204967

..". an excellent collection... " -- Journal of Language & Social Psychology

An important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language....more details
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Misreadings

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9781417706532

Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde...more details

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Misreadings

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780156607520

Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde...more details
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Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9781417706112

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths...more details

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On Literature

Umberto Eco;Martin McLaughlin

ISBN:9780156032391

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce...more details
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On Literature

Umberto Eco;Martin McLaughlin

ISBN:9780151008124

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce...more details
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On the Medieval Theory of Signs

Umberto Eco;Shona Marmo CostantinoKelly

ISBN:9789027232939

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Search for Perfect Language

Umberto Eco;James EcoFentress

ISBN:9780631205104

The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers...more details
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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780231111348

Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars...more details
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Shadow of Reason: The Idea of the Sacred in European Identity

Umberto Eco;Romano Eccher DaniloProdi

ISBN:9788881582884

Inspired by a work by Evard Munch, Shadow of Reason presents over 100 works by the leading protagonists of modern contemporary art, from Edvard Munch to Rachel Whiteread...more details
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The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas

Umberto Eco;Umberto Bredin HughEco

ISBN:9780674006768

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness...more details
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The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780156030373

After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis...more details
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The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780151001514

In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessel's mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his era's obsession with science and navigation...more details
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Umberto Eco;Geoffrey Brock

ISBN:9780156030434

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read...more details
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Umberto Eco;Geoffrey Brock

ISBN:9781419343896

Yambo, a sixtyish rare book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory--he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read...more details
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Umberto Eco;Geoffrey Brock

ISBN:9780151011407

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read...more details
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco;David Weaver William JrLodge

ISBN:9780307264893

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A spectacular best seller and now a classic, "The Name of the Rose "catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist...more details
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco;Theodore Bikel

ISBN:9781559273619

The international bestseller A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy.
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy...more details
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780156001311

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths...more details
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The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco;William Weaver

ISBN:9780151446476

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths...more details
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The Open Work

Umberto Eco;Umberto Cancogni AnnaEco

ISBN:9780674639768

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the...more details
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The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce

Umberto Eco;Thomas A Sebeok

ISBN:9780253204875

..". fascinating throughout.... the book is recreative in the highest sense." -- Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic

"A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection...more details
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The Templars: The Secret History Revealed

Barbara Frale;Umberto Eco

ISBN:9781559708890

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Travels in HyperReality

Umberto Eco;William Radziewicz JohnWeaver

ISBN:9780156913218

Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide...more details
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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism

Umberto Eco;Alastair McEwen

ISBN:9780151013517

The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi...more details
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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism

Umberto Eco;Alastair McEwen

ISBN:9780156034210

The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi...more details
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Conversations About the End of Time

Eco Umberto Et Al

ISBN:9780713993639

How has the Western Christian world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is meant by the end of the world...more details
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Infinity of Lists

Eco Umberto

ISBN:9781906694821

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Name Of The Rose, The

Eco Umberto

ISBN:9780749397050

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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Post-Italianate Edition

Robert Merton;Denis Eco UmbertoDonoghue

ISBN:9780226520865

With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's "Tristram Shandy...more details
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Plot -Lib

Will Eisner;Umberto Bronner Stephen EEco

ISBN:9781417781355

A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" ("New York Times"). "The ultimate illustration of how absurdly comical and cancerous 'The Protocols' has been to mankind."--Thane Rosenbaum...more details

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Prague Cemetery, The

Eco Umberto

ISBN:9781846554926

Nineteenth-century Europe from Turin to Prague to Paris abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service...more details
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The Story of Time

Kristen Lippincott;E H Eco UmbertoGombrich

ISBN:9781858940724

Written by an outstanding international cast of authors, this is a monumental publication to mark the millennium....more details
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Theory of Semiotics

Eco Umberto

ISBN:9780253202178

..". the greatest contribution to semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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