2nd Ed. — Collins, 2020. All the practice you need for a top score in the Cambridge English A2 Key qualification. With the realistic test papers and helpful advice in Collins Practice Tests for A2 Key (KET), you will feel confident and fully prepared for what to expect on the day of the test. It contains: 8 complete practice tests, fully updated for the revised 2020 exam...
2nd edition. — Glasgow: Collins, 2020. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0008367493. All the practice you need for a top score in the Cambridge English A2 Key qualification. This book will help you to prepare for the Cambridge Assessment English A2 Key exam. The exam is also known as the KET exam. The exam was updated for 2020 and this book was written for the new exam. This book will be useful...
2nd Ed. — Collins, 2020. All the practice you need for a top score in the Cambridge English B1 Preliminary qualification. With the realistic test papers and helpful advice in Collins Practice Tests for B1 Preliminary (PET), you will feel confident and fully prepared for what to expect on the day of the test. It contains: 8 complete practice tests, fully updated for the revised...
2nd Ed. — Collins, 2020. — 184 p. All the practice you need for a top score in the Cambridge English B1 Preliminary qualification. With the realistic test papers and helpful advice in Collins Practice Tests for B1 Preliminary (PET), you will feel confident and fully prepared for what to expect on the day of the test. It contains: 8 complete practice tests, fully updated for the...
Element, 2000. — 166 p. Erich von Däniken's monumental Chariots of the Gods changed the way generations have looked at mythology, ancient history and the possibility of advanced beings from other worlds visiting Earth. Now he tackles the history of Greece and again challenges our beliefs about how our civilisation arose. Using painstaking archaeological research and evidence...
Tantor, 1997. — 193 p. Nazca, once only an isolated settlement in the midst of the Peruvian desert, is today the meeting place for archaeologists from around the world. From here you can fly over the celebrated Nazca pampa and appreciate the massive scale of the extraordinary markings on the surrounding landscape. Some of these lines are over twenty kilometers long! Drawing on...
Putnam, 1984. — 217 p. The author analyzes evidence, from sites throughout the world, of extraterrestrial presence on Earth to discover clues to the design and strategy of these ailen "gods".
G.P Putnam's Sons, 1982. — 267 p. A spaceport in the Andes! A computer chart in Egyptian ruins! Primitive sculptures of figures wearing space suits! Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods stunned the world with the archaeological discovery that alien beings once colonized earth. Now, in Pathways to the Gods, von Däniken reveals the story of his travels following the trail of...
Berkeley, 1981. — 256 p. Were human beings created by powers from outer space? Did extraterrestrial giants build the megaliths of Malta and the menhirs of Brittany? Was the Ark of the Covenant a machine built by the astronaut gods? In Signs of the Gods? Erich von Däniken travels far and wide around the globe to study the many strange phenomena that all point to one...
Delacorte Press, 1974. — 285 p. What's the ""new look"" in extraterrestrial communication? Well, von Daniken trades in his chariot for interstellar thought-transference by means of flashes from ""the gods""--those travelers who have been lighting up intelligence stations around the universe. They're responsible for Homo sapiens' discovery of miraculous images of the double...
Corgi Childrens, 1981. — 224 p. Research findings are presented to support the author's theories and speculations about the validity of extraterrestrial intelligence.
G. P. Putnam's, 1973. — 210 p. Erich von Däniken's The Gold of the Gods unveils new evidence of an intergalactic "battle of the gods" whose losers retreated to, and settled, Earth. He explores a vast, mysterious underworld of Ecuador---caves filled with gold and writings in solid gold that go back to the time of the Great Flood, bolstering von Däniken's theory of a prehistoric...
Bantam Books, 1972. — 180 p. Gods From Outer Space is another fascinating examination of a part of our history that has been badly neglected. It will be eagerly read and discussed by the millions of people who enjoyed Erich von Daniken's first international bestseller, Chariots of the Gods?
Random House, 1981. — 192 p. The groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. Immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance, Chariots of the Gods endures as proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other worlds. Here, Erich von Däniken examines ancient ruins, lost cities,...
Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1983. — 252 p. The Bergers are neoconservative sociologists in good standing who, as ex-liberals and adepts of intellectual politics, know just what ""the war over the family"" is all about; their defense of the ""father-mother-child"" bourgeois family may not win any converts, but it's ideologically assured and (as always with the Bergers) fiercely,...
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1985. — 58 p. Foreword. William J. Baroody, Jr. Speaking to the Third World. Peter L. Berger. Underdevelopment Revisited. Peter L. Berger. Democracy and Human Rights. Michael Novak. Human Rights and Institutions. Utopian Revolution versus Realistic Revolution. Confusions about Democracy. Lessons for Catholic Social...
Penguin Books, 1991. — 249 p. Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construction" into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological subdicipline that, since Max...
Doubleday, 1969. — 229 p. This absorbing and original examination brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs--that it is the "sacred canopy" which every human society builds over its world to give it meaning. In this book, Berger expands on theories of knowledge that he first explored (with Thomas Luckmann) in The Social Construction of...
Doubleday / Anchor, 1969. — 103 p. Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural. A sociologist’s look at the continuing importance of religion and the supernatural in the modern world, “cleverly expounded [and] enhanced by wit” (Kirkus Reviews). Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the...
Wiley Blackwell, 2004. — 187 p. Does God exist? What was so special about Jesus? How can one be Christian in a pluralistic society? These are among the fundamental questions addressed by leading religious and cultural commentator, Peter Berger, in this engaging exploration of faith in modern times. The book is structured around key phrases from the Apostles' Creed, which the...
Anchor, 1974. — 266 p. Pyramids of Sacrifice is an essay on the human dimensions of development. It views development not from the perspective of world history or of ideological combat, but through its impact on the individuals whose lives are transformed by social, economic, and political change. This perspective makes Berger sensitive to human problems which are too...
Doubleday, 1961. — 238 p. What an actor does on the stage is conditioned by the role he is playing. In the same way, what most people do and think and what they think they can and cannot do: their picture of the world is determined by the limitations of the role they play, whether it be that of an advertising man, an Episcopalian minister, a high school teacher, a suburban...
Doubleday, 1961. — 189 p. Christian commitment and the religious establishment in America. Organized religion offers a symbolic integration of the varied elements of American society; it infuses political institutions with religious symbolism; and by way of personal adjustment it provides social adjustment and psychological integration.
Routledge, 1986. — 255 p. Peter Berger is one of the pre-eminent sociologists of the twentieth century. His highly creative and controversial writing has made a distinct impact not only in sociology but in such disciplines as political science, public policy, history, religious studies, and theology. Making Sense of Modern Times shows how Peter Berger struggles with the...
Harper Collins, 2009. — 208 p. Sociologists Berger (The Social Construction of Reality) and Zijderveld (The Abstract Society) inveigh against the dogma of isms that replace humor with certainty and thoughtfulness with blind action. Between the extremes of fundamentalism and moral relativism sits the doubter, perched on liberal democracy, which the authors describe as a...
Random House, 1973. — 258 p. Peter Berger, with or without coauthors, never disappoints. In The Homeless Mind, first published in 1974, Berger, Berger, and Kellner seek to explain the social nature of the processes of modernization and the hegemony of ideas and ways of thinking that constitute the modern outlook. They are especially interested in the character of human...
Anchor Press, 1979. — 220 p. Early in the book, he makes the major point: "In premodern situations there is a world of religious certainty, occasionally ruptured by heretical deviations. By contrast, the modern situation is a world or religious uncertainty, occasionally staved off by more or less precarious constructions of religious affirmation... For premodern man, heresy is...
Free Press, 1992. — 218 p. A guide to balancing faith with secular commitments offers a lifetime of personal and professional reflections on the theme of faith in the age of credulity, arguing that faith requires a constant will.
Basic Books, 1979. — 233 p. Concerns the growing problems the modernity brings including marriage, psychoanalysis, the secularization of religion, corruption of pornography, and more.
BasicBooks, 1986. — 262 p. A renowned sociologist explains why capitalism is the most successful economic mechanism ever devised for improving material standards of large numbers of people.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. — 254 p. Another excellent book by Dr. Watson (Also known as The Biology of Death). Very readable and accessible for those without a scientific background. An interesting discussion of our psychological and social attitudes toward death as well as past traditional and modern accounts of how the point of death is decided (despite modern technology...
Kingfisher, 1997. — 80 p. A distinguished naturalist describes growing up in Africa during the 1940s, discussing his grandmother's farm and his adventures in the African bush with his best friend, Jabula, a Zulu chief.
William Morrow & Co, 1987. — 178 p. Prowling the edges of science with insight and sensitivity, Lyall Watson maintains that there is a truth to be found behind every seemingly impossible legend. The best-selling author of Supernature and Gifts of Unknown Things, Watson takes us on a journey through prehistoric burial sites on the beaches of South Africa, ancient ritual iron...
Hutchinson, 1981. — 302 p. A robust, attractively designed volume of 302 p. that goes through all the cetacean species thought valid by the author at the time of writing. It saw at least three reprintings, the first edition being hardback with a dustjacket, the 1985 and 1988 editions being softbacks. The book is arranged taxonomically and groups the cetaceans together by...
E.P. Dutton & Company, 1982. — 241 p. Narrates how a lone Englishman survived unarmed in the African jungle and was instructed in the secrets of a witch doctor.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. — 272 p. As a child in South Africa, spending summers exploring the wild with his boyhood friends, Lyall Watson came face to face with his first elephant. This "entertaining and enchanting" work (Washington Post Book World) chronicles how Watson's fascination grew into a lifelong quest to understand the nature and behavior of this impressive...
HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995. — 318 p. At a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss such dark behavior as "human nature." People need to know why such atrocities and horrors take place, and the usual moral, religious, political and philosophical explanations...
Feltrinelli, 2002. Se si fugge di notte da Villa Bacilla sulle ali di una diavolessa sexy, sorvolando Tristala assieme a tre equipaggi che si spostano contemporaneamente, può accadere di visitare gli otto mondi alterei della mappa nootica. Capita così di conoscere la terra primordiale di Ermete Trismegisto, Protoplas; i mari incantati di Capitan Guepière a Posidon; i cinquanta...
Feltrinelli Editore, 1990. È l'anno 2156: da una Parigi sotterranea e da un mondo ghiacciato dalle guerre nucleari, parte un'incredibile corsa spaziale, verso una nuova terra più vivibile. Contro la Proteo Tien, la scassatissima astronave sineuropea, e il suo ancor più scassato equipaggio, scendono in campo due colossali imperi: l'Impero militare samurai, con una miniastronave...
Feltrinelli Traveller, 2003. Lo incontriamo da ragazzino mentre "scarpagna" verso le Bisacconi (le scuole elementari del paese). Sono gli anni '50 e mentre ruba in una vigna un grappolo di schizzozibibbo, Lupetto, così lo chiamano, vede un uomo alto, con una barba immensa e un vecchio cane. È una divinità pagana, sporca come un letamaio, che gli regala una facoltà meravigliosa:...
Feltrinelli Editore, 2013. Quali sono le ventisette azioni dell'uomo civile? Lo scoprirete a Montelfo, il paese più magico e fantastico del mondo. In un romanzo di sfrenata comicità, Stefano Benni monta un grande circo di creature indimenticabili: il Nonno Stregone, Ispido Manidoro, Trincone Carogna, Sofronia e Rasputin, Archimede detto Archivio, Frida Fon, lo gnomo Kinotto, il...
Feltrinelli Editore, 2006. Margherita Dolcevita è una ragazzina allegra, intelligente e appena sovrappeso, con un cuore che di tanto in tanto perde un colpo. Vive con la famiglia fra città e campagna. Un giorno, davanti alla sua casa, spunta, come un fungo, un cubo di vetro nero circondato da un asettico giardino sintetico e da una palizzata di siepi. Sono arrivati i signori...
Feltrinelli, 1996. Venti racconti tragicomici sull'Italia di oggi: i mostri degli anni passati, i mostri contemporanei, e soprattutto i mostri che potrebbero invaderci domani, e che forse possiamo ancora combattere.
Otto monologhi al femminile. Una suora assatanata, una donna ansiosa e una donna in carriera, una vecchia bisbetica e una vecchia sognante, una giovane irrequieta, un'adolescente crudele e una donna-lupo. Un continuum di irose contumelie, invettive, spasmi amorosi, bamboleggiamenti, sproloqui, pomposo sentenziare, ammiccanti confidenze, vaneggiamenti sessuali, sussurri...
Un cane troppo fedele che torna sempre come un boomerang dal padrone che lo vuole abbandonare; un potentissimo manager pronto a tutto pur di riunire i Beatles per un concerto; un terzino fantasioso e romantico su uno spelacchiato campo di periferia; un arrogante e irredimibile uomo d'affari; un frate che sceglie il silenzio per sentirsi più vicino a Dio ma viene vinto dalla...
Avete mai sognato di partecipare al Campionato Mondiale di pallastrada, organizzato dal Grande Bastardo, protettore degli orfani di tutto il mondo? Memorino, Lucifero e Alì sì, molte volte, e per realizzare il loro sogno architettano una fuga dall'orfanotrofio dei Celestini. Subito don Biffero, il priore Zopilote, don Bracco e il giornalista Fimicoli, in coppia con il fotografo...
Tutto può accadere nel bar sotto il mare. Un bar in cui tutti vorremmo capitare, una notte, per ascoltare i racconti del barista, dell'uomo col cappello, dell'uomo con la gardenia, della sirena, del marinaio, dell'uomo invisibile, della vamp e degli altri misteriosi avventori. Sompazzo, il paese più bugiardo del mondo - Gaspard Ouralphe, il più grande cuoco di Francia - Il...
Feltrinelli, 2012. Martin è un maturo professore e poeta che si è ritirato a vivere ai margini di un bosco: è una nuova stagione della vita, vissuta con consapevolezza e arricchita dai ricordi e dalle conversazioni che Martin intrattiene con il cane Ombra e con molti altri animali bizzarri e filosofi. In questa solitudine coltiva la sua passione di studioso per la poesia...
Feltrinelli Editore, 1989. "Comici spaventati guerrieri" è una "recherche" metropolitana che si dilata coralmente come un blues ritmando spostamenti e appostamenti, separazioni e incontri, agguati e fughe, colpi di kung-fu e spari, amori improvvisi e improvvise amicizie, dialoghi, monologhi, visioni e sogni. Sulle sue note ilari aleggia l'atmosfera acre della città e l'infinita...
Stefano Benni sfida il racconto di genere e apre la porta dell'orrore. Lo fa con ironia, lo fa attingendo al grottesco, lo fa tuffandosi nel comico, lo fa tastando l'angoscia, lo fa, in omaggio ai suoi maestri, rammentandoci di cosa è fatta la paura. E finisce con il consegnarci una galleria di memorabili mostri. E allora ecco gli adolescenti senza prospettiva o speranza, ecco...