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  • Measuring Wellbeing

    A History of Italian Living Standards

    by Giovanni Vecchi ...
    In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world. In Measuring Wellbeing, Giovanni Vecchi provides an innovative analysis of this change by drawing on family accounts that provide engaging insights into life and are the "micro" data that create the foundations for the "macro" picture of variations and ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

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    by Tobias Jones ...
    One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: ... Read more

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  • Blood Brotherhoods

    A History of Italy's Three Mafias

    by John Dickie ...
    MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta, which has now risen to become the most powerful mob group active today.Since they emerged, the mafias have all corrupted ... Read more

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  • Venice Observed

    by Mary McCarthy ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group takes readers on a captivating journey to one of the world's most celebrated cities.Mary McCarthy brings her novelist's unerring eye to a book that blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create a living portrait of "the world's loveliest city."Like a painter capturing the city's essence on canvas, McCarthy uses words to create ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

    Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles

    by Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem, Taner Osman ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • International Money and Finance

    by Michael Melvin ...
    Its high-level perspective on the global economy differentiates this introduction to international finance from other textbooks. Melvin and Norrbin provide essential information for those who seek employment in multinational industries, while competitors focus on standard economic tools and financial management skills. Readers learn how to reach their own conclusions about trends and new ... Read more

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  • Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome

    by Donald G. Kyle ...
    The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Post-War Italian Cinema

    American Intervention, Vatican Interests

    by Daniela Treveri Gennari ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film industry and their links to the Vatican. This analysis evaluates how the Italian production and distribution ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • India

    The Emerging Giant

    by Arvind Panagariya ...
    India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no comprehensive account of India's remarkable growth or the role policy has played in fueling this expansion. India: The Emerging Giant fills this gap, shedding light on one of the most successful experiments in economic development in modern history. Why did ... Read more

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  • Emerging Nodes in the Global Economy: Frankfurt and Tel Aviv Compared

    Edited by D. Felsenstein, E.W. Schamp, A. Shachar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Cities form one of the principal arenas in which globalization processes are manifest. Much of the interest in the urban outcomes of globalization is focused on a limited number of iconic 'global' or 'world' cities. Most places however will never attain that status. They are more likely to play limited and specialized roles in a world economy increasingly dominated by flows. Emerging Nodes in a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Age of Lincoln and Cavour

    Comparative Perspectives on 19th-Century American and Italian Nation-Building

    by Enrico Dal Lago ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories. ... Read more

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  • The Normans in European history

    by Charles Homer Haskins ...
    Now the history of Normandy reflects this twofold impression of the traveller: it faces toward England and the sea, but it belongs to France and the land. Open to the outer world by the great valley of the Seine and the bays and inlets of its long coast-line, Normandy was never drawn to the sea in the same degree as its neighbor Brittany, nor isolated in any such measure from the life of the ... Read more

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