Francesco Francesco: 1846 books

How the Chinese look at themselves, the world, and the challenges of the future. Where is China, What is China: Where are the traditional pigtails of the old mandarins, the Mao’s bicycles and his suits? Where are the large families with the many concubines? The stuff that made China for centuries...

Un manoscritto ritrovato fa riemergere, dal passato, la storia di Costanza Caterina Fieschi, nobildonna che si “firma” con lo stigma )F( . C’è un enigma da risolvere, ma quale? Due donne di nome Laura, la prima prostituta e l’altra architetto, vivono vite parallele. Tutti i protagonisti sono,...

Il libro si prefigge di fornire notizie al cittadino, ed in forma tecnica anche agli avvocati ed ai giudici, di come si svolge un processo per danni da allagamento, o anche da incendio, innanzi ad uno degli otto tribunali regionali italiani delle acque pubbliche, mediante una legge di procedura che...

Spiazzante, ironica, sincera, una storia vera che commuove, diverte e fa riflettere  “Sì, ora ve lo dico, ma promettetemi che andrete avanti a leggere. Non fate scherzi. L’ho saputo da poco pure io, me l’ha detto mia mamma, perché è capitato, ma com’è andata lo leggerete più avanti....

In una Londra famelica, Giovanni Carrera è in procinto di diventare partner di una grande società di consulenza quando viene raggiunto dalla notizia della morte di Roberto Kovac, suo migliore amico.Ritorna a Milano per il funerale e qui, nella cassetta della posta del suo vecchio appartamento, trova...

«Una spolverata di cinismo, un pizzico abbondante di perfidia, una macinata di comicità sfumata al nero». È quanto scrive Santo Piazzese pensando a Recami, e descrive idealmente la commedia umana tratteggiata dallo scrittore fiorentino in questa raccolta di racconti, vero e proprio catalogo di caratteri esemplari, specchio deformante e disvelatore dell’indole nazionale.

Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security. Based on extensive, original ethnographic research, this book examines the situation...

Could policies aimed at preventing radicalisation in Europe end up undermining the very social cohesion they aim to preserve? Since the mid-2000s, a growing number of European governments have broadened the scope of counter-terrorism, making it an issue that needs to be tackled by society as a whole....

This monograph collects and critically reviews the main results obtained by the scientific community in gyroscope technologies research field. It describes architectures, design techniques and fabrication technology of angular rate sensors proposed in literature. MEMS, MOEMS, optical and mechanical...

This book explores how British Romantic poetry—the writing, reading, and critical reception of it—reinforced British nationalism in the 19th century, ripening the political processes of nationhood that began with the first Act of Union in 1707. Using archival research on literary collections,...

The essay investigates the controversial relations between the Italian communist party, the Italian left, the Polish communist reformers, trade unions, Church, human rights activists and Solidarity, during the turbulent Polish political crisis of 1980-82, and their consequences, through unpublished...

By writing what he called a “secret book” taking the shape of a conversation between himself and St Augustine Petrarch aimed to compose a cathartic text which would alleviate his spiritual crisis and help him make further inroads towards knowledge and fulfilment.At once an intimate repository of...

Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues...

Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get...