Matteo Colombo Books

Focusing on the reactions of ordinary Arab-speaking social media users to Islamic State propaganda, this book shifts the narrative from the typical analysis of IS's targeting strategies. It provides a detailed examination of the Arabic discourse surrounding IS from its peak in October 2014 to the fall of Raqqa in September 2017. Analyzing approximately 29 million Arabic tweets, the authors highlight recurring themes and key events, offering insights into the evolving political landscape and the dynamics of online conversations between IS and its adversaries.

This Element supports the Computational Theory of Mind by its contribution to solving the mind-body problem, its ability to explain mental phenomena, and the success of computational modelling and artificial intelligence.

With music pulsing on every page, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.

As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before.'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of thi

Il libro è un insieme di storie dai soggetti e dalle ambientazioni piùdiverse: si passa dai ricordi di un setter irlandese in fuga alle meditazioniumoristiche e agrodolci sul suicidio e sull'amicizia. In realtà il librocostituisce un'avventura narrativa organicamente strutturata che fotografa daipiù diversi punti di osservazione quella ineludibile domanda, quella ricercaora affannosa ora giocosa di qualcosa al di fuori di noi, di un senso, di unadirezione: la fame che abbiamo, che è al centro delle nostre vite. DaveEggers, autore di "L'opera struggente di un formidabile genio" e di"Conoscerete la nostra velocità", è anche il creatore di una innovativarivista letteraria, "McSweeney's".