La Rincorsa


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In this intriguing, espionage thriller, a California detective works to solve the murder of a suspected war criminal who may also be connected to an art heist. In the fall of 1985, San Jose Police Detective Martin Gilmore is gravely wounded in a gun battle while protecting Frederick Lang, a university instructor recently accused of being a Nazi war criminal. During the encounter, Lang is brutally murdered, along with another police officer. During his recuperation, Gilmore discovers that the double homicide is linked to Lang's role in a clandestine art heist committed in war-torn Europe more than forty years earlier. Gilmore soon finds himself tracking down the killers, as well as the art collection. The intelligence community is watching every move he makes, as are members of the Tesia Foundation, an organization dedicated to the apprehension of war criminals. As events unfold, Gilmore's mysterious experiences in the Vietnam War return to haunt him, complicating his revenge-driven investigation even further. But Gilmore's macabre nightmares and other subtle clues could be enough to help him solve Lang's murder.





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Short Stories in Italian


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This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating insight into Italian culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.







The Peasants Bible


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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive wit and unusual linguistic experimentation into a comedy of complete originality. The Peasants' Bible is a collection of five monologues drawn from Italian folklore but filtered through Fo's delightfully singular lens-for example, an Adam and Eve who are passionately entwined like peas in a pod; a race between two classes of men struggling for power that resembles the legend of the Hare and the Tortoise-to form a Bible of the common man. In The Story of the Tiger, we find a Fourth Army soldier injured fighting Chiang Kai-shek's army, saved from starvation by being suckled by an enormous tiger, who then comes back to defeat Kai-shek by using model tigers in combat. Together the pieces are an extraordinary addition to Fo's body of work.




Bad Boys


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Raccolta di tre romanzi già pubblicati, che hanno come protagonisti i BAD BOYS. CHEER Pamela, costretta a trasferirsi per seguire il padre medico dopo il divorzio, si iscrive all’ultimo anno del Crown High a Malibu e già dal primo giorno viene emarginata. Il potere è in mano alle cheerleader, comandate dalla arrogante Kristin e agli atleti della squadra di basket, gli Angels. Pam conosce Charlie, il capitano e campione della squadra, il sogno irraggiungibile di ogni studentessa del Crown High che rimane subito colpito da lei. Grazie a un incredibile scherzo del destino, Pam diventa una cheerleader e la sua vita cambia totalmente, da un giorno all’altro. Tutti vogliono Pamela Berkley, la sua fama cresce a dismisura, finché non capisce cosa c’è dietro quel mondo patinato d’oro. SWEET WHISPERS Per una sciocca scommessa fatta con le amiche, Megan si mette con il suo migliore amico, Martin, per vivere la sua prima esperienza amorosa. Ma alla fine dell’estate, con l’inizio della scuola tutto cambia quando conosce il nuovo ragazzo della sua migliore amica, Tyson, che si è appena trasferito in città. Tyson è diverso da qualsiasi ragazzo Megan abbia mai incontrato e comincia a fare strage di cuori. Tatuato, occhi verdi e penetranti, sfrontato. Megan capisce che è solo Tyson l’unico ragazzo con cui potrebbe vivere una travolgente storia d’amore e fra i due scoppia la passione, che terranno segreta a tutti. WINTER SNOW L’amicizia tra Amabel e Christopher è speciale, e dura fin dal primo anno di liceo. Lei è la determinata e ambiziosa figlia di due pittori hippy, lui un affascinante playboy, membro della ricchissima famiglia Foster, una delle più antiche di Boston. Il loro legame non cambia dopo il diploma, al Boston State College, così decidono di lavorare assieme anche al giornale dell’università. L’arrivo di Jerome, un nuovo compagno di corso, confonde Amabel, perché comincia a corteggiarla, il quale chiede consiglio a Chris. Fingendosi un ammiratore sconosciuto, Chris comincia a corteggiare on line Amabel, liberando i sentimenti che ha sempre ignorato di provare. Storia d’amore ispirata a Cyrano de Bergerac.




The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification


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This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economies. It will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive, quantitative "new economic history" of Italy. The handbook offers an interpretation of the main successes and failures of the Italian economy at a macro level, the research--conducted by a large international team of scholars --contains entirely new quantitative results and interpretations, spanning the entire 150-year period since the unification of Italy, on a large number of issues. By providing a comprehensive view of the successes and failures of Italian firms, workers, and policy makers in responding to the challenges of the international business cycle, the book crucially shapes relevant questions on the reasons for the current unsatisfactory response of the Italian economy to the ongoing "second globalization." Most chapters of the handbook are co-authored by both an Italian and a foreign scholar.




Political Economy of Contemporary Italy


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Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches, Political Economy of Contemporary Italy: The Economic Crisis and State Intervention explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis. The central thesis of the book is that from the early 1990s Italy experienced a constant reduction of both private and public investment which, combined with increasing labour precariousness and wage moderation, contributed to the decline of both labour productivity and economic growth. It is argued that lack of industrial policies amplified the problem of the poor macroeconomic performance, since Italian firms – small-sized and non-innovating – were incapable of staying competitive on the global scene. Net exports did not compensate for the decline of public spending, private investment and consumption. It is also shown that, in these respects, Italy presents an interesting case study with wider ramifications for it was involved in the global process of intensifying the neoliberal agenda but at a faster rate than other OECD countries. The book concludes with a call for an alternative economic policy in order to promote innovation, reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the recent history of the European economy, Italian studies and the history of economic thought.




Le pergamene di Ankor


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Nell'era della dittatura del feroce Xalatron l’ultima speranza dei ribelli è l’avvento di un leggendario guerriero, profetizzato dalle pergamene ritrovate sul sacro monte Ankor. Per annientarne questo credo, il tiranno invia la figliastra Maril, un’orfana che ha cresciuto nel sangue per farne un invincibile combattente senz’anima, conosciuto come la morte dagli occhi di ghiaccio. Dovrà raggiungere in incognito lo sperduto monastero di Tinien, fonte del culto, per scoprirne i segreti e distruggerlo. Nel viaggio però la ragazza incontrerà qualcuno capace di incrinare la gelida crudeltà che l’avvolge, fino a far riaffiorare il suo vero io; ma è davvero il compiersi della misteriosa profezia o un oscuro piano ordito dalla nera mano dello spietato patrigno?




Evolution of Italian Enterprises in the 20th Century


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During the first two-thirds of the 20th century the themes of sectorial structure and compared performance prevail in Italian economic historiography. In contrast, in the last part of the century attention is focused on the behavior of single economic actors and their micro-economic strategies. This book intends to act as a bridge between the two approaches, and reconstructs the secular journey of Italian industrial enterprise through an original study.