EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Marco Ferreri

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberto Curti
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2024-07-17
  • ISBN : 1476682496
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Marco Ferreri written by Roberto Curti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's boldest auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actors of the time (Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Carroll Baker, Roberto Benigni, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert and others), and directed internationally acclaimed films. His filmography includes The Conjugal Bed (1963), The Ape Woman (1964), Dillinger Is Dead (1969), the scandalous La Grande Bouffe (1973), the absurdist western Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974), The Last Woman (1976), Bye Bye Monkey (1978) and the Charles Bukowski adaptation Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981). Ferreri's cinema dealt in highly original ways with contemporary issues: the crisis of marriage, relationships between sexes, consumerism, and political disillusionment. His films were controversial and confronted censorship issues, leading to Ferreri's fame as a master provocateur. This book examines Marco Ferreri's life and career, placing his work within the social and political context of postwar Italian culture, politics, and cinema. It includes a detailed production history and critical analysis of his films, with never-before-seen bits of information recovered from Italian ministerial archives and in-depth discussion of the director's unfilmed projects.

Book Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th 17th Centuries

Download or read book Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th 17th Centuries written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua’s State Archives. It consists of contributions on Moscato and the intellectual world in Mantua during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Book Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

Download or read book Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience written by Esther Eidinow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter examines a particular historical problem arising from an ancient religious activity and the contributions range across a wide variety of both ancient contexts and sources, exploring and integrating literary, epigraphic, visual and archaeological evidence. In order to avoid a simple polarity between physical aspects (ritual) and mental aspects (belief) of religion, the contributors draw on theories of cognition as embodied, emergent, enactive and extended, accepting the complexity, multimodality and multicausality of human life. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the chapters open up new questions around and develop new insights into the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of ancient religions.

Book Building Markets for Knowledge Resources

Download or read book Building Markets for Knowledge Resources written by Maria Rosaria Della Peruta and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peruta examines emerging pervasive models of innovation and how their nature, effects, and origins are characterized.

Book Empires and Gods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jörg Rüpke
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2024-02-19
  • ISBN : 311134200X
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Empires and Gods written by Jörg Rüpke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments. These interactions moved from accommodation and toleration, to cooptation, control, or suppression; from aligning with a single religion to celebrating religious diversity or even inventing a new transcendent civic religion; and from lavish patronage to indifference. The volume's contributors investigate these dynamics in major Eurasian empires--from those that functioned in a relatively tolerant religious landscape (Ashokan India, early China, Hellenistic, and Roman empires) to those that allied with a single proselytizing or non-proselytizing creed (Sassanian Iran, Christian and Islamic empires), to those that tried to accommodate different creeds through "pay for pray" policies (Tang China, the Mongols), exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices.

Book Ibss  Anthropology  1996

    Book Details:
  • Author : Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780415160803
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Ibss Anthropology 1996 written by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an unrivelled overview of intellectual development in anthropology.

Book Invisible Enlighteners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Federica Francesconi
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-06-04
  • ISBN : 0812299620
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Invisible Enlighteners written by Federica Francesconi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the Este Duchy, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her protagonists are men and women who stood out within their communities but who, despite their cultural and economic prominence, were ghettoized after 1638. Their sociocultural transformation and eventual legal and political integration evolved through a complex dialogue between their Italian and Jewish identities, and without the traumatic ruptures or dramatic divides that led to the assimilation and conversion of many Jews elsewhere in Europe. In Modena, male and female Jewish identities were contoured by both cultural developments internal to the community and engagement with the broader society. The study of Lurianic and Cordoverian Kabbalah, liturgical and nondevotional Hebrew poetry, and Sabbateanism existed alongside interactions with Jesuits, converts, and inquisitors. If Modenese Jewish merchants were absent from the public discourse of the Estes, their businesses lives were nevertheless located at the very geographical and economic center of the city. They lived in an environment that gave rise to unique forms of Renaissance culture, early modern female agency, and Enlightenment practice. New Jewish ways of performing gender emerged in the seventeenth century, giving rise to what could be called an entrepreneurial female community devoted to assisting, employing, and socializing in the ghetto. Indeed, the ghetto leadership prepared both Jewish men and women for the political and legal emancipation they would eventually obtain under Napoleon. It was the cultured Modenese merchants who combined active participation in the political struggle for Italian Jewish emancipation with the creation of a special form of the Enlightenment embedded in scholarly and French-oriented lay culture that emerged within the European context.

Book Isabella d Este and Francesco Gonzaga

Download or read book Isabella d Este and Francesco Gonzaga written by Sarah D.P. Cockram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram shows their relationship in an entirely new light. The book draws on (and presents) a large amount of unpublished archival material, including almost unprecedented surviving correspondence between and around these Renaissance princely rulers. Using these sources, Cockram shows Isabella and Francesco's strategic teamwork in action, illuminating tactics of collaboration and dissimulation. She also reveals behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity; court procedures; sexual politics and seduction; gift-giving and network-building; rivalries, intrigues and assassinations. Several epistolary themes emerge: insights into the couple's communication practices and double-dealing, their use of intermediaries, and attention to security matters. This book's analysis of Isabella's co-rule with her husband, supported by other members of the Gonzaga dynasty, sees her sometimes in the role of subordinate partner, sometimes guiding the couple's actions. It shows how, despite appearances at times, the couple shared common diplomatic policy as well as human, material, and cultural resources; joint administration; and the exercise of authority and justice. Thus emerges a three-dimensional picture of the mechanisms of power and power sharing in the age of Machiavelli.

Book Transnational Organized Crime

Download or read book Transnational Organized Crime written by MargaretE. Beare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of influential articles traces our evolving understanding of transnational organized crime - paradigm shifts - from the 'alien conspiracy' focused research to the more nuanced focused scholarship on 'markets' and 'networks', culminating in a focus on 'enablers' of transnational crimes and evaluations of 'harm' from transnational crimes. The selected essays and articles reflect the way in which politics, economics and social factors have impacted on scholarly thinking and the introduction also highlights the many authors and professionals who have been influential in this field. This volume is an essentialone-stop resource for lecturers and students interested in all aspects of transnational organized crime.

Book Transnational Environmental Crime

Download or read book Transnational Environmental Crime written by Rob White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this volume illustrate the growing interest in and importance of crime that is both environmental and transnational in nature. The topics covered range from pollution and waste to biodiversity and wildlife crimes, and from the violation of human rights associated with the exploitation of natural resources through to the criminogenic implications of climate change. The collection provides insight into the nature and dynamics of this type of crime and examines in detail who is harmed and what can be done about it. Differential victimisation and contemporary developments in environmental law enforcement are also considered. Collectively, these essays lay the foundations for a criminology that is forward looking, global in its purview, and that deals with the key environmental issues of the present age.

Book I primi gesuiti

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W. O'Malley
  • Publisher : Vita e Pensiero
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9788834325117
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book I primi gesuiti written by John W. O'Malley and published by Vita e Pensiero. This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remarks on Professor Rossetti s  Disquisizioni Sullo Spirito Antipapale

Download or read book Remarks on Professor Rossetti s Disquisizioni Sullo Spirito Antipapale written by Arthur Henry Hallam and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 2002

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2011-07-11
  • ISBN : 3110932989
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book 2002 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Book English Tagalog  Carmen Garcia   Enhanced Edition

Download or read book English Tagalog Carmen Garcia Enhanced Edition written by Alfonso Borello and published by Villaggio Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Tagalog aka Filipino and practice new words you won't forget with the Tagalog Vocabulary Builder: English/Tagalog/Filipino - Carmen Garcia - Enhanced Edition No more boring drills that make you yawn and funny outdated gibberish which make everyone laugh. Learn through stories; the most effective method to increase your vocabulary in Tagalog/English and any other language. Who can benefit from this program? You are English-speaking, you're not fluent or simply just starting out and you wish to understand Tagalog. You speak Tagalog, you do not speak English but you want to increase your English vocabulary. The story is in English, and level One of this edition includes 300 Tagalog words. What's new and effective with this program? The story is dramatic enough to increase retention. The 300 words are included right before the English equivalent and they are typed in Italic; there's no need to hover on the word, so that you can grasp the meaning right away within the contest, naturally.

Book Guevara

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfonso Borello
  • Publisher : Alfonso Borello
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1301324728
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Guevara written by Alfonso Borello and published by Alfonso Borello. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bolivian authorities wanted to cut his head off and send it to Cuba to verify his identity, or just to send a message; after an exhaustive debate, they amputated his hands at the wrist instead and shipped them in a very special container to La Paz, Bolivia; his body was injected with a heavy dose of formalin for preservation, it lay on the autopsy room which was no valhalla; just a squalid room of a school with a military-type stretcher next to a stone sink, perhaps a laundry tub. On October 12th the package arrives and the inspectors of the Argentinian police compare the fingerprints with the ones smudged on Guevara's journals―they match. The hands of the comandante suddenly disappeared and Fidel Castro wants answers; he actually does not believe that his compaňero is dead; the truth was kept secret for over forty years, because the three Argentinian were not authorized to speak. Immediately after the autopsy, the pictures of the cadaver riddled with bullets are published by every newspaper around the globe; the eyes of the comandante are wide open, as they are fixating the sky, his expression is dramatic, his body is statuary, he doesn't look dead at all, just deep in his thoughts, contemplating his next revolution.

Book Layers of Interpretation

Download or read book Layers of Interpretation written by Alfonso Borello and published by Villaggio Publishing Ltd. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young reader biographies: Nilola Tesla, Pope John XXIII, Enrnesto Guevara, Antonio Gramsci. Few individuals have the affinity to make history without even trying. Some feel a sense of responsibility, some have a deep desire to make things better for the less fortunate, others have obscure motives. Leaders must study historical events, to make better decisions for the people they serve, and to avoid unwanted consequences; there's no reason to make the same mistakes twice.

Book English Tagalog  Kamatayan Sa Lookout Mountain   Enhanced Edition

Download or read book English Tagalog Kamatayan Sa Lookout Mountain Enhanced Edition written by Alfonso Borello and published by Villaggio Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocabulary Builder: English/Tagalog - Kamatayan Sa Lookout Mountain - Enhanced Edition. Who can benefit from this program? You are English-speaking, you're not fluent or simply just starting out and you wish to understand Tagalog. You speak Tagalog, you do not speak English but you want to increase your English vocabulary. The story is in English, and level One of this edition includes more than 300 Tagalog words. What's new and effective with this program? The story is dramatic enough to increase retention. The 300 words are included right before the English equivalent and they are typed in Italic; there's no need to hover on the word, so that you can grasp the meaning right away within the contest, naturally. SYNOPSIS: Olga, a law student living with her parents, meets Gail at a photo shoot of her younger sister Nadia, who's dreaming on becoming a super model. Gail is a make up artist; she lives with her boyfriend Guy, who works for an iron gate company. After a welding accident, Guy is rushed to the hospital; luckily he recovers, but he loses both eyes. Gail falls in love with Olga and she's no longer interested in Guy. During a trip to the mountains, Guy is brutally murdered. Nadia is lodging with friends in a cabin nearby and witnesses the murder. Gail becomes aware of the inconvenient witness and asks Olga to get rid of her sister.