Eco, Umberto.
Summary: In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Summary: "In these essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth such subjects as perception, the relationship between language and experience, and iconism that he only touched on in A Theory of Semiotics. Forgoing a formal, systematic treatment, Eco engages in a series of explorations based on common sense, from which flow an abundance of illustrative fables, often with animals as protagonists. Among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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Summary: A 17th Century Italian knight recounts his adventures during a siege in the Thirty Years' War and afterwards in naval espionage against the British. In between, he describes the salons of Paris, lessons in fencing and reasons of state, and gives his thoughts on writing love letters and on blasphemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1995
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Summary: When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, he loses all sense of who he is, but retains memories of all the books, poems, songs and movies he has ever experienced. To reclaim his identity, he retreats to the family home and rummaged through the old letters, photographs and mementos stored in the attic. Yambo's mind swirls with thoughts, and he struggles to retrieve the one memory that may be most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: Collects short essays from the author that reflect on the changing modern world, touching on such topics as popular culture, politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989
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Summary: In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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Summary: The highly anticipated, controversial novel, sold in more than forty countries Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Eco, Umberto
Summary: In 1992 Milan, Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book, His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1994
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Summary: "Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. How to Write a Thesis is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid "thesis neurosis" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015
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Summary: 19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons, Italina priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From teh unification...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: 19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons, Italina priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From teh unification...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ECOEco, Umberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 085.1 ECOLippincott, Kristen
Contents: Times / by Umberto Eco -- From observation to record : astronomy in prehistory and the early civilizations / by John North -- Principles and uses of calendars / by Silke Ackermann -- Mesoamerican and Andean timekeeping and calendars / by Anthony Aveni -- Time and space in Islam / by David A. King -- Cyclical and linear concepts of time in China / by Michael Loewe -- Cycles, seasons and stages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merrell Holberton 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 529 LIPSummary: Investigating the deaths of two monks, a visiting brother discovers a secret library containing rare books considered lost to the world and dangerous to the Catholic faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004