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The Violet Hour

The Violet Hour

Richard Montanari

A winner' Nelson DeMille 'With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy' Crime Time Magazine
Kiss of Evil

Kiss of Evil

Richard Montanari

A winner' Nelson DeMille 'With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy' Crime Time Magazine
The Echo Man: (Byrne & Balzano 5)

The Echo Man: (Byrne & Balzano 5)

Richard Montanari

A winner' Nelson DeMille 'With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy' Crime Time Magazine
Broken Angels: (Byrne & Balzano 3)

Broken Angels: (Byrne & Balzano 3)

Richard Montanari

A winner' Nelson DeMille 'With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy' Crime Time Magazine
The Rosary Girls: (Byrne & Balzano 1)

The Rosary Girls: (Byrne & Balzano 1)

Richard Montanari

A winner' Nelson DeMille 'With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy' Crime Time Magazine
Play Dead: (Byrne & Balzano 4)

Play Dead: (Byrne & Balzano 4)

Richard Montanari

A winner' Nelson DeMille 'With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy' Crime Time Magazine
The Doll Maker

The Doll Maker

Richard Montanari

Mr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite.
Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories About Food and Culture

Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories About Food and Culture

Massimo Montanari

Focusing on the selection, preparation, and mythology of food, Montanari shows that cooking not only is a decisive part of our cultural heritage but also communicates essential information about our material and intellectual well-being.
I racconti della tavola

I racconti della tavola

Massimo Montanari

Il cibo è in sé un patrimonio di intrecci, un narratore straordinario: Massimo Montanari, studioso di primo piano di storia dell'alimentazione, ne sfrutta in queste belle pagine ogni potenzialità narrativa.
Shutter Man

Shutter Man

Richard Montanari

Face your fears in the latest terrifying novel by the hugely acclaimed, bestselling master of the psychopath thriller.
Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb

Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb

Massimo Montanari

Intrigued by this proverb, which has endured since the Middle Ages, Massimo Montanari launches an adventurous history of its origins and utility.
The Stolen Ones

The Stolen Ones

Richard Montanari

But this is just the beginning of a trail of evil that will lead Byrne and Balzano back to the hospital, to a missing girl and to a horror they could never have imagined . . .
Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table

Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table

Massimo Montanari

In his new, must-read history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastesÑboth culinary and culturalÑfrom raw materials to market and their reflections in todayÕs food trends.
CONCUR 2005 - Concurrency Theory: 16th International ...

CONCUR 2005 - Concurrency Theory: 16th International ...

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Roberto Bruni and Ugo Montanari. Zero-safe nets: Comparing the collective and individual token approaches. Information and Computation, 156(1–2), 2000. Roberto Bruni, Cosimo Laneve, and Ugo Montanari. Orchestrating transactions in  ...
The Killing Room

The Killing Room

Richard Montanari

Packed with ingenious twists and relentless excitement, The Killing Room is a novel of blistering thrills and heart-stopping suspense. 'The thing is, Detective...if you believe in God, you've got to believe in the Devil.'
The Skin Gods: (Byrne & Balzano 2)

The Skin Gods: (Byrne & Balzano 2)

Richard Montanari

'How about Stephanie Chandler?' 'No. I can't say I know her, either.' Jessica took out a nine-by-twelve envelope, extracted a photograph, pushed it along the counter. It was an enlargement of the photograph from Stephanie Chandler's desk at ...
Names of the Dead:

Names of the Dead:

Katia Lief

Not only is the worst yet to come, but her husband's death may not have been an accident after all. Praise for Katia Lief's Novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." -Richard Montanari "Brilliant.
The Orchid Grower: a short story

The Orchid Grower: a short story

Katia Lief

Derringer Award nomination, 2016 Praise for Katia Lief's crime fiction: "Nail-biting suspense." (Richard Montanari) "Mesmerizing." (Lisa Gardner) "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." (Donna Anders) "Suspense at a high level." ...
The Culture of Food

The Culture of Food

Massimo Montanari

This book is about the history of food in Europe and the part it has played in the evolution of the European cultures over two millennia.
Il formaggio con le pere: La storia in un proverbio

Il formaggio con le pere: La storia in un proverbio

Massimo Montanari

L'idea di un libro dedicato a un proverbio può sembrare eccentrica.
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Food is Culture

Food is Culture

Massimo Montanari

Entertaining and surprising, Food Is Culture is a fascinating look at how food is the ultimate embodiment of our continuing attempts to tame, transform, and reinterpret nature.
Concurrency, Graphs and Models: Essays Dedicated to Ugo ...

Concurrency, Graphs and Models: Essays Dedicated to Ugo ...

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This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Ugo Montanari on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 43 papers that examine the research areas to which he has contributed, from logic programming to software engineering, as well as ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or, Food and the Nation

Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or, Food and the Nation

Massimo Montanari

Another entertaining and surprising food history by the scholar who has come to define the discipline, this volume draws readers into the far-flung story of how regional cuisine came to shape a collective Italian identity.

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