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  • The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    by Jason Pine ...
    Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into goldMeth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Art of Making Do in Naples

    by Jason Pine ...
    “In Naples, there are more singers than there are unemployed people.” These words echo through the neomelodica music scene, a vast undocumented economy animated by wedding singers, pirate TV, and tens of thousands of fans throughout southern Italy and beyond. In a city with chronic unemployment, this setting has attracted hundreds of aspiring singers trying to make a living—or even a fortune. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    by Jason Pine ...
    Narrated by Jason Pine ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into goldMeth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Delirious Naples

    A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

    by Erri de Luca, Joseph Rescigno, Andrea Baldi, Simona Frasca, Joseph Connors, Fred Gardaphe, Valerio Caprara, Salvatore Napolitano, Simone Marchesi, Gioia Timpanelli, Gregory Pell, Theresa Aiello, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Nick Napoli, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Sant'Elia, Patrizia La Trecchia, B. Amore, Gabriella Romani, John Domini, Robert Zweig, Francesco Durante, Jason Pine, Terrence Ward, Ilaria Marchesi, Rose DeAngelis ...
    This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Leonardo's Lost Princess

    One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci

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    How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective storyIn late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci—an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost ... Read more

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  • Murder Made in Italy

    Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

    by Ellen Nerenberg ...
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  • Leonardo da Vinci

    An Untraceable Life

    by Stephen J. Campbell ...
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  • Italian Crime Fiction

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    Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in ... Read more

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  • Drawn and Dangerous

    Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s

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    Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of comics intended for adults.Blurring the lines between high art and popular consumption, artists of the ... Read more

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