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Preserving Knowledge
and Promoting Reading

Preserving Knowledge
and Promoting Reading

The first Pirelli library was set up in 1928, when a subscription library with 800 books was made available to personnel who were members of the Dopolavoro Aziende Pirelli, the workers’ club. It was one of the first examples of a company promoting reading and the start of long tradition that Pirelli has continued to this day with company libraries in the Headquarters at Milano Bicocca, in the factory in Bollate and in the Industrial Centre in ​​Settimo Torinese. But there is more, for the company has also been collecting scientific texts for over a century, and these now form part of the Scientific and Technical Library at the Pirelli Foundation. The panorama of Pirelli libraries ends with the Pirelli Foundation Library, which has books ranging from the history of the company to corporate communication.

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Why? 100 philosophers’ stories for curious children
Socrates, Hypatia,, Kant, Voltaire and 96 more of their colleagues will accompany readers through a complex question: what is philosophy? A hundred stories that make the experiences and ideologies of the greatest thinkers of yesterday accessible even to youngest readers through the words of the philosophers of today. Each chapter...
will present children with a small challenge and will have them ponder on themes such as the relationship between humankind and nature, love, faith and much more. "Why?" is the main question that children ask their parents and adults, questions ranging from the most bizarre to the most serious and deep – or even embarrassing – ones. As per its title Perché? 100 storie di filosofi per ragazzi curiosi is conceived to make philosophy understandable, tangible and stimulating even for today's children, who are increasingly more curious and aware, and don't settle for evasive or ready-made answers but like to think for themselves. From Thales to Aristotle, from Avicenna to Kant, from Husserl to Eco, and so on, young readers will tackle life's biggest questions by following the reasoning of the greatest philosophers – women philosophers, too, as despite what we learned, several women made key contributions to this discipline. The simple style adopted to narrate the lives and thoughts of these great figures makes it easy to turn this into a family activity that will engage children and teenagers, giving them the chance to find those much longed-for answers and look at life's many “trivialities” or difficulties with different eyes. Not only: every story includes a small puzzle, to stimulate reasoning and reflection – just what good philosophers would do.  

Perché? 100 storie di filosofi per ragazzi curiosi (Why? 100 philosophers' stories for curious children)
by Umberto Galimberti, Irene Merlini e Maria Luisa Petruccelli
Feltrinelli Kids, 2019

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Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence on 29 June 1929 and died in the same city on 15 September 2006. The first woman journalist in Italy to be sent to the war front as special correspondent, Oriana Fallaci was one of the most important figures in Italian journalism, also thanks...
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence on 29 June 1929 and died in the same city on 15 September 2006. The first woman journalist in Italy to be sent to the war front as special correspondent, Oriana Fallaci was one of the most important figures in Italian journalism, also thanks to her notable interviews with prominent personalities such as Giulio Andreotti, Yassir Arafat, Gaddafi, Khomeini, Henry Kissinger, Ariel Sharon, collected in the volume Intervista con la storia (Interview with history). Amongst her novels we should mention Un uomo (A man),Lettera a un bambino mai nato (Letter to a child never born), Penelope alla guerra (Penelope at war) and Insciallah (Inshallah).

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