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Education & Reference
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, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have... See More
Historical Fiction
The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants. In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose explores everything from unbridled individualism... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our... See More
Self-Help & Counselling
The wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose -- now published in English for the first time. Learn the art of the thesis from a giant of Italian... See More
Essays & Correspondence
'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper... See More
Education & Reference
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader -- his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding... See More
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, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make... See More
Historical Fiction
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... See More
Nonfiction
"... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and... See More
Essays & Correspondence
'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious... See More
Historical Fiction
Religious & Inspirational Fiction
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. 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... See More
Literary Fiction
Número Cero, la nueva novela de Umberto Eco, nos descubre la cara oscura del periodismo y la manera en que nuestra realidad está en manos de quienes construyen las noticias «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los... See More
Science & Maths
Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and... See More
Historical Fiction
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate... See More
Education & Reference
How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death... See More
Essays & Correspondence
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto... See More
Essays & Correspondence
Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's leading writers. From musings on Ptolemy... See More
History & Criticism
The final collection from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship... See More
History & CriticismNesta edição de Peixe-elétrico: Dossiê Terror Três ensaios abrem a Peixe-elétrico #04 formando um complexo mosaico sobre um tema central deste início de século XXI: o terrorismo. Radicado na França, especialista na... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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, making... See More
Essays & Correspondence
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A... See More
Contemporary Fiction
Trois piliers de la maison d'édition Garamond, Belbo, Diotallevi et Casaubon, jouant avec leur intelligence, trouvent les bons indices d'un complot, lequel, né au moment de la suppression de l'ordre des Templiers par... See More
eBooks in Foreign Languages
La novela emblemática de Umberto Eco. Una trama apasionante. Una admirable reconstrucción del conflictivo siglo XIV «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces... See More
eBooks in Foreign LanguagesIn continuità con i seminari organizzati sui docenti che hanno dato prestigio alla Prima Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano (oggi Facoltà di Architettura e Società) nella seconda metà del '900 - Franca... See More