800001 | A Long Finish (Aurelio Zen, #6) | Michael Dibdin | 0375404295 | 3.78 | 1998 | 25 | 8 | Pantheon | 5:216 | 4:460 | 3:302 | 2:48 | 1:17 | total:1043 | 4 | nan | 261 | After a riotous and heroic stint in Naples, Zen is back in Rome, meeting with a world-famous film director at the instruction of his superiors. In the privacy of a remarkably well stocked wine cellar, the director - whose influence clearly reaches beyond the entertainment industry - convinces Zen to… | 4 |
800002 | Blood Rain (Aurelio Zen, #7) | Michael Dibdin | 0375708308 | 3.75 | 2001 | 8 | 5 | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard | 5:202 | 4:457 | 3:286 | 2:61 | 1:18 | total:1024 | 4 | nan | 288 | Aurelio Zen—cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement—has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been known to flow like wine, and the distinction between th… | 4 |
800003 | Sizilianisches Finale (Aurelio Zen, #7) | Michael Dibdin | 3442450888 | 3.75 | 2001 | 1 | 12 | Goldmann | 5:202 | 4:457 | 3:286 | 2:61 | 1:18 | total:1024 | | ger | 320 | Nachdem er seinen letzten Fall zwischen den sanften Hügeln und üppigen Weinbergen des Piemont lösen durfte, erhält Aurelio Zen nun den Auftrag, vor dem er sich immer gefürchtet hat: Er muss nach Sizilien, wo er auf Geheiß des Innenministeriums die Arbeit der erst kürzlich ins Leben gerufenen Anti-Ma… | |
800006 | New Television, Globalisation, and the East Asian Cultural Imagination | Anthony Y. H. Fung | 9622098207 | 4 | 2007 | 1 | 2 | Hong Kong University Press | 5:0 | 4:1 | 3:0 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:1 | | nan | 228 | Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with media industry analysis, Keane, Fung and Moran give a groundbreaking account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively redeveloped a… | |
800007 | Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages | Jean Gimpel | 0140045147 | 3.89 | 1977 | 17 | 11 | Penguin Books | 5:54 | 4:106 | 3:47 | 2:14 | 1:1 | total:222 | 25 | nan | 288 | nan | 25 |
800008 | Medieval Identity Machines | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen | 0816640025 | 4.13 | 2003 | 9 | 5 | Univ Of Minnesota Press | 5:9 | 4:3 | 3:0 | 2:2 | 1:1 | total:15 | | nan | 368 | In Medieval Identity Machines, Jeffrey J. Cohen examines the messiness, permeability, and perversity of medieval bodies, arguing that human identity always exceeds the limits of the flesh. Combining critical theory with a rigorous reading of medieval texts, Cohen asks if the category "human" isn't t… | |
800012 | Dead Lagoon (Aurelio Zen, #4) | Michael Dibdin | 0679753117 | 3.89 | 1996 | 3 | 1 | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard | 5:496 | 4:807 | 3:482 | 2:87 | 1:19 | total:1891 | 136 | eng | 320 | Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in <i>Dead Lagoon</i>, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's… | 136 |
800013 | And Then You Die (Aurelio Zen, #8) | Michael Dibdin | 0375421882 | 3.74 | 2002 | 21 | 5 | Pantheon | 5:177 | 4:395 | 3:272 | 2:45 | 1:18 | total:907 | 4 | nan | 192 | After months in the hospital healing from wounds sustained in a car bomb attack in Sicily, Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol, presumed dead, is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast. Biding his time until he's summoned to the States to testify in an imminent anti-M… | 4 |
800014 | Ethics and the Built Environment | Warwick Fox | 0415238781 | 4.33 | 2000 | 15 | 12 | Routledge | 5:2 | 4:0 | 3:1 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:3 | 1 | nan | 256 | Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general 'natural' environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. <em>Ethics and the Built Environment</em> responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of buil… | 1 |
800015 | A Theory of General Ethics: Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment | Warwick Fox | 0262562197 | 4 | 2006 | 22 | 9 | MIT Press | 5:0 | 4:1 | 3:0 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:1 | | nan | 392 | With <i>A Theory of General Ethics</i> Warwick Fox both defines the field of General Ethics and offers the first example of a truly general ethics. Specifically, he develops a single, integrated approach to ethics that encompasses the realms of interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environmen… | |