Download or read book La Rincorsa written by Stephen T. Savage and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cultural Landscape Report for Saint Gaudens National Historic Site written by Marion Pressley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bad Boys written by Connie Furnari and published by Concita Furnari. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Art of Objects written by Luca Cottini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Objects is a cultural history of early Italian industrialism, set against the political, social, and intellectual background of post-unification Italy, and a cutting-edge investigation of the formation of Italy's industrial culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Providing a close examination of several objects of mass consumption, including watches, photographs, bicycles, gramophones, cigarettes, and toys, author Luca Cottini explores the transformation of these objects from commercial items into aesthetic and philosophical icons. By focusing on the cultural significance of these objects as they enter the market and appear in contemporary works of art and literature, The Art of Objects outlines a comprehensive view of the age between the unification of Italy and Fascism, encompassing production and consumption, aesthetics and entrepreneurship, industry and the humanistic tradition. The observation of the slow formation of new languages, practices, and experiences around these objects also provides valuable insight into the creative laboratory of Italy's early industrial culture. By reconstructing the origins of the Italian culture of design, the book ultimately investigates Italy's critical reception of industrialism, the nation's so-called "imperfect" modernization, and its ongoing quest for an original way to modernity.
Download or read book The Peasants Bible written by Dario Fo and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Short Stories in Italian written by Nick Roberts and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Political Economy of Contemporary Italy written by Nicolò Giangrande and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Le pergamene di Ankor written by Diego Collaveri and published by Sogno Edizioni. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification written by Gianni Toniolo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Il disegno L architettura del moderno Dalla rivoluzione industriale a oggi Per il triennio written by Emilio Morasso and published by Bruno Mondadori. This book was released on 2003 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manuale Di Lettura Per Lo Studio Pratico Dei Vari Generi Di Componimenti Letterari written by Alcibiade Vecoli (comp) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneers of Industrial Organization written by H. W. de Jong and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . this collection should be viewed as a pioneering effort. . . this book would most likely serve as a useful quick reference source for students of industrial economics. It can also serve as a valuable point of departure for those who wish to study intellectual developments in a major field in more detail. John Howard Brown, Journal of the History of Economic Thought This work will be indispensable for anyone who undertakes serious scholarly research in industrial organization. With its knowledgeable authors and editors, this book offers us valuable materials, about the work of writers long forgotten and others inadequately recognized, that can contribute much to understanding in the field. William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field s growing research as well as the past, present and future debates in Europe and America over several centuries. This landmark book includes authoritative entries on all the major figures in both Europe and North America. Pioneers of Industrial Organization also reveals how public policies such as antitrust and regulation and deregulation since the 1970s can promote, or impede economic results and progress. Readers will find the intellectual pioneers, the theories and policies, and the debates, in all their variety herein. Some pioneers have been free-market advocates, others have been more protective of popular values, but all have strained to make the economic engine promote more wealth, progress and fairness. This book presents the people, ideas and debates with careful neutrality, and also with clear, concise writing. For all those interested in modern economic progress and its problems, this book provides deep insight as well as great personal colour. It will be an essential source of reference for students, researchers and professors of economics, as well as those concerned with the historical foundations or the conceptual and thematic developments in industrial organization.
Download or read book A Century of Italian American Economics written by Valentina Sgro and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a historical analysis of the link between Italian American migration in the 20th century and the investigation of the minutes of the Board of Directors and the financial statements of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, this book provides a privileged observation point for the study of the economic relations between Italy and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Showing that the Chamber played a fundamental role in highlighting the changes of Italian economy and society, and in strengthening the cooperation between the two countries, it retraces a long-lasting tradition of trade and business, and depicts a solid and enduring relationship between Italy and the United States.
Download or read book Resources Production and Structural Dynamics written by Mauro L. Baranzini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists since the First Industrial Revolution have been interested in the links between economic growth and resources, often pointing to resource scarcities as a hindrance to growth. Offering a counter perspective, this volume highlights the positive role that scarcities can play in inducing technical progress and economic growth. It outlines a structural framework for the political economy of scarcity and rents, and offers a novel way of organizing the evidence concerning the role of resources in industrial growth. This book proposes a major shift in the treatment of scarcity issues by focusing on bottlenecks and opportunities arising within the production system, and will appeal to economists and policy makers interested in the role of resources as triggers of structural change.
Download or read book Family Firms and Local Roots written by Stefano Amato and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to studying family firms as a particular type of business strongly embedded in the territories in which they are located. Featuring an in-depth analysis of original research, the book employs both theoretical and empirical approaches to explore family firms and their relationships with their home territories. The book shows that family firms have unique bonds with their local areas, and these bonds profoundly shape their decision-making and outcomes. The book addresses two research questions, namely, how the connections between family firms and their home territories originate and develop, and how they influence firms’ economic performance and their corporate social responsibility initiatives. Uniquely, it seeks to develop an integrated framework that brings together family firms, local contexts, and places while also presenting new empirical evidence of relevance to scholars, managers, and policymakers alike. In addition, the book responds to the need for a greater understanding of what anchors entrepreneurial families to their home territories and the conditioning effect of local roots on such firms’ behavior.
