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Martini Maria Cristina | MMC Edizioni
MMC EDIZIONI is a publishing house based in Rome.Born in 2001 as a generalist, along the time it has specialized almost exclusively in non-fiction, dedicated in particular (but not only) to the city of Rome.The main series, called "A walk with history" offers an alternative vision of the city through the historical reconnaissance and analysis of some of its urban furnishings that are not taken into consideration such as small fountains, clocks, inscriptions, sacred shrines, plaques. This series stands out for a particular graphic style and for the abundance of photographs, specially made for these books.Other series on Rome are instead dedicated to in-depth studies on specific historical and customs themes, or on the mysterious aspects of the city that also reveal its dark side.In the MMC catalogue are other non-fiction books on topics such as Music, Interculture, Anthropology and a series of stories for children encouraging solidarity, non-violence and respect for the environment
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Foucault in Kalifornien
Wie der große Philosoph im Death Valley LSD nahm - eine wahre Geschichte
by Wade, Simeon / Übersetzer: Hanekamp, Tino
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Workers and revolution in Serbia
by Martin Upchurch, Darko Marinkovic
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PhysiotherapyAugust 2014The Concise Book of Trigger Points, 3e
by Simeon Niel-Asher
Provides a sound background to the physiology of trigger points and methods of treatment. Includes a self-help section and up-to-date research on trigger points. Each major skeletal muscle is identified and the physiological implications of the trigger points and techniques for treatment are discussed.
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December 2016Arcan Venice
The Curious, the Eros, the Fantastic, the Occult
by Claudio Dell'Orso
The evocation of the devil by the courtesan Veronica Franco with the King of France. The spy initiation of Mata Hari a few days after the Great War. The black diary of Edgar Allan Poe found by Baron Corvo. The head that screams in Lista dei Bari. The Stargate at San Simeon Grando. The young Stalin on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The strange kidnapping of the Japanese ambassador. The extravagances of the Marquise Luisa Casati-Press. The deposits of human bones in the lagoon islands. The mysterious rockfall in Campo San Boldo. The haunted houses and ufological sightings... the Venice of the unusual, magical city par excellence, told with the usual irony by Claudio Dell'Orso.
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Travel & TransportJuly 2016Puglia
Tra Cielo e Mare - Between sea and sky
by William Dello Russo, Giovanni Simeone, Johanna Huber
The seafaring heart of the Puglia sends its beat like a tom tom from port to port. And it is a heart made up of small and lively fishing villages that stretch out into the Adriatic and are embraced by it, of whitewashed whitewashed villages, of worn and shiny stone streets. And each one smells of salt and fish. The beach is near the house, the sea almost at home. At dawn, the light imbues the perfect geometric interlocking of houses, churches and castles overlooking the water and illuminates the fishermen who set sail on colorful boats.
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January 2021Immanuel
A Graphic Illustrated Story of the Life of Jesus
by Jonathan Chong
Extrect from the Preface: It has always been my desire to tell and illustrate the Life of Jesus Christ in comic book format ever since I accepted Him as my Savior in my high school years. I read His life and ministry in the four gospels and came to believe that He is indeed the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father but through Him. I want to proclaim this truth to all people. My desire in this book is to tell the wonderful life of Christ as true to the gospels as possible and with fun and lively illustrations. Most of the wordings in this book are taken directly from the gospels of the NET Bible. I only added extra text to help the flow of the story. I also used Johnston M. Cheney’s book, The Life of Christ in Stereo, as a guide to chronicle the life of Christ in the four gospels. One of the great advantages of a comic book is that its visual pictures and images can be understood by any race and age anywhere in the world. With proper translations, these comic book stories can reach many people in many different cultures and countries. My hope and prayer is that this comic book of the life of Christ will be read and enjoyed by children and adults in many parts of the world, and many will come to believe that Jesus is the Christ-Messiah indeed.
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FictionNovember 2015Sombras tras los cristales
by Mario J. Les
Late in the summer of 2002, Alex Astrain and Maialen Galdeano, beset by circumstance, decide to get married, reuniting some of their loved ones in a hilarious ceremony marked by an unjustifiable absence. After the wedding, the bride and groom and their closest friends, Fran Dalmau and Lynette Kosgei, depart for their honeymoon trip to the southern cone of Africa, while Simeon and David, the millionaire veteran patrons of their audiovisual society, will take advantage to visit the former Flossenbürg concentration camp in search of answers about Eyal Bérkowitz. There they will bear witness of the confidences of the Krauss brothers, a couple of survivors of the Nazi horror, who long, behind the barbed wire of Flossenbürg, for the last hopes of finding a family treasure that disappeared in November 1938, during the ill-fated Night of the Broken Glass. Together with the Krauss we will live the bitterness and pain of a nightmarish childhood, but we will also witness their fortitude and their desires, in an ambitious staging full of sensitivity and mystery in large doses, where history and fiction meet in a plot of unappealable addictive effects. * * * Avanzado el verano de 2002, Alex Astrain y Maialen Galdeano, acuciados por las circunstancias, deciden casarse, reuniendo a algunos de sus seres queridos en una ceremonia hilarante y marcada por una injustificable ausencia. Tras la boda, los novios y sus amigos más íntimos, Fran Dalmau y Lynette Kosgei, emprenden viaje de luna de miel hacia el cono sur de África, en tanto que Simeón y David, los veteranos millonarios mecenas de su sociedad audiovisual, aprovecharán la semana entrante para visitar el antiguo campo de concentración de Flossenbürg en busca de respuestas sobre Eyal Bérkowitz. Allí serán testigos de las confidencias de los hermanos Krauss, una pareja de supervivientes del horror nazi que alimenta entre las alambradas de Flossenbürg las últimas esperanzas de encontrar un tesoro familiar desaparecido en noviembre de 1938, durante la infausta Noche de Los Cristales Rotos. Viviremos junto a los Krauss la amargura y el dolor de una infancia de pesadilla, pero también seremos testigos de su entereza y de sus anhelos, en una ambiciosa puesta en escena que supura sensibilidad y misterio en grandes dosis, y en la que personajes históricos y ficticios se dan cita en una trama de inapelables efectos adictivos.
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Christian life & practiceAugust 2014Walking Backwards to Christmas
An Advent journey from light to darkness
by Stephen Cottrell
Though the Christmas story is well known, most of us have learnt it from school nativity plays and carols. On the whole, this familiar version is more concerned with light than darkness. The backwards approach taken here allows the movement to be in the opposite direction, enabling us to get under the skin of a complex narrative. We begin by seeing through the eyes of Anna, the prophetess; followed by Rachel, who weeps for her children; King Herod; Casper, a wise men; David, a shepherd; Martha, the (so-named) innkeeper's wife; Joseph; Elizabeth; Mary; Isaiah and, finally, Moses. Each imaginative reflection is prefaced by a Bible reading and followed by a prayer.
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March 2020Dobrudja
German Settlers between the Danube and the Black Sea
by Josef Sallanz
The historical region between the Danube delta and the mountainous landscape Ludogorie today is structured as a result of the demarcation of 1940 which divided the region into the North Dobrudja in Romania and the South Dobrudja in Bulgaria. Since ancient times, people have roamed the steppes at the Black Sea towards the south and left a mixture of languages, denominations and everyday culture. From the 7th century BC Greek sailors founded trading colonies on the coast such as Tomis, the present day Constanta, Romanian Constanţa. After 500 years under Ottoman rule in the middle of the 19th century the first Germans came from Bessarabia, bordering the Danube to the north, from the governorate Kherson, from Poland, Volhynia, Galicia and the Caucasus. Reasons were land scarcity, loss of privileges and a intensified russification policy. Today in the Dobrudja live Tatars, Bulgarians, Turks, Lipovans, Ukrainians, Greeks, Germans and Roma next to more than ninety percent Romanians. The historian Josef Sallanz shows which cultural traditions still today shape the region.
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August 2013Carmen, a Gypsy Geography
by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history
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I TELL YOU THE BIBLE
by LODOVICA CIMA
e Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, Moses and thht from Egypt, David and Goliath, the wisdom of Solomon, the birth of Jesus, the parables and miracles of the Gospels, the Lord’s Prayer... an accurate and masterfully narrated selection of 60 among the most beautiful stories of the Old and New Testaments, signed by Lodovica Cima.
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Christian prayerAugust 2015
Barefoot Ways
Praying Through Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
by Stephen Cherry
A sequence of beautifully crafted prayer-meditations for daily reading from Advent through to Candlemas. By the author of the hugely successful Barefoot Disciple (2010) and Barefoot Prayers (2013) Especially helpful for people with a heavy workload - whether lay or ordained From the Introduction: 'Barefoot Ways offers the reader a poetic, prayerful meditation for every day of December and January. It connects with the spiritual themes of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany and takes the reader from the first days of a new Christian year to the feast of Candlemas on February 2nd. These three great Christian seasons are divided into thematic areas, each of which is given a brief introduction...'The distance from Advent to Candlemas is considerable, and there are many ways across its fearful and fascinating terrain. I offer here some 'barefoot' ways - by which I mean ways that are both down to earth and yet full of spiritual aspiration and hope...'
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FictionOctober 2020And the Crows Took Their Eyes
by Vicki Lane
In bitterly divided western North Carolina, Confederate troops execute thirteen men and boys suspected of Unionism. The Shelton Laurel Massacre, as it came to be known, is a microcosm of the horrors of civil war—neighbor against neighbor and violence at one’s own front door. Told by those who lived it—the colonel’s wife, a helpless witness; the jealous second-in-command who gives the fatal order; the canny mountain woman who cares only for her people and her land; the conscript, a haunted man seeking redemption; and the mute girl, whose folk magic yields an unexpected result—these voices offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of five people tangled in history’s web, caught up together in love and hate.
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War & combat fictionMay 2014Hook Up
A Novel of Fort Bragg
by William P. Singley
It was an Army between wars. Korea was a fresh memory for some soldiers and Vietnam was only an insignificant blip on the military radar. It was an Army in which reluctant draftees mixed with aimless volunteers looking for adventure and ways to test or confirm their manhood. In those days and in that Army, “hook-up” was a jump command for paratroopers rather than a romantic liaison. Hook Up: A Novel of Fort Bragg takes us inside that Army and introduces fascinating characters who are struggling to become paratroopers and survive in a starch-stiff U.S. Army airborne regiment based at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Side-by-side in that demanding trek are officers like Lieutenant Sy Margolin, a potential nebbish who instead becomes a strong leader, and enlisted men like Privates Willie Patterson and Scott Breslin, who challenge authority every step of the way to winning their paratrooper wings. In Hook Up we get a close-up, very personal, and fascinating look at an Army that no longer exists—an Army populated with soldiers who have either learned hard life lessons or are about to learn them in a crucible where failure can land you in the stockade or in the morgue. From the rigors of barracks life to the raucous off-post adventures to the thrilling jump sequences, Hook Up is a fast-paced, thrilling story of military excellence pursued and human innocence lost.
