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MAFIA eBook Series

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  • MAFIA- VOL 3. THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNDERWORLD OR MALAVITA

    by Caterina Bartoldi ...
    Series Book 3 - MAFIA
    Caterina Bartoldi lived several years in Sicily, she has become a Mafia specialist. In this fascinating book, she takes us from Sicily to the United States and in many other countries, she tells us about this part of History, which is very often confidential, mysterious and difficult to understand. She describes the secret structures, the symbols, the ways to communicate and functions of Cosa ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

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  • Italian Hours

    by Henry James ...
    Essays inspired by travel and residence in Italy. According to Wikipedia: "Henry James, (1843 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Legacies of Violence

    History, Society, and the State in Sardinia

    by Antonio Sorge ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    The inhabitants of highland Sardinia proudly declare a long history of resistance to outside authority. Many even celebrate the belief that “not even the Roman Empire reached this far.” Yet, since the late nineteenth century, the Italian government has pacified and integrated the mountain districts of the island into the state, often through the use of force.In Legacies of Violence, Antonio Sorge ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Italian Risorgimento

    by M. Clark ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Unification of Italy in the nineteenth century was the unlikely result of a lengthy and complex process of Italian revival (Risorgimento). Few Italians supported Unification and the new rulers of Italy were unable to resolve their disputes with the Catholic Church, the local power-holders in the South and the peasantry. In this fascinating account, Martin Clark examines these problems and ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Unpolitical

    On the Radical Critique of Political Reason

    by Massimo Cacciari ...
    Translated by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • The Book of Coincidences

    by Patricia Borlenghi ...
    The book will appeal to readers interested in publishing, politics and the author’s Italian background. It describes the important stages of her life; various events; the celebrities she’s encountered and coincidences discovered, along with her thoughts on various current issues. It also touches on her love of words and numbers. ... Read more

    $9.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Medicean Succession

    Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici’s Florence

    by Gregory Murry ...
    Series Book 14 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD

  • Embroidered Stories

    Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora

    Edited by Edvige Giunta, Joseph Sciorra ...
    For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Gypsies in Germany and Italy, 1861-1914

    Lives Outside the Law

    by J. Illuzzi ...
    Series series History (R0)
    By the early 20th century, Gypsies in Germany and Italy were pushed outside the national community and subjected to the arbitrary whims of executive authorities. This book offers an account of these exclusionary policies and their links to the rise of nationalism, liberalism, and the modern bureaucratic state. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia

    by Michela Martignoni, Elena Martignoni, Lori Hetherington ...
    Rodrigo Borgia is destined to become Pope Alexander VI, one of the most powerful and corrupt men of the 15th century, but what of his youth?Called to Rome with his brother at seventeen, the hot-blooded Spaniard seeks lessons in love from noblewomen and prostitutes, and wealth and power through collusion with cardinals, prelates, and the Roman nobility. He is driven, self-possessed, and carnal to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy

    by Margarita Gleba ...
    Series Book 4 - Ancient Textiles
    Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages until the Roman expansion (1000-400 BCE), and sheds light on both the process of technological development and ... Read more

    $34.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enter Mussolini (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    Observations and Adventures of an Anti-Fascist

    by Emilio Lussu ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism
    Emilio Lussu was an Italian MP and Professor of Political Economy, who was imprisoned because of his opposition to Mussolini. In 1929 he escaped with two fellow prisoners from the island of Lipari. Enter Mussolini combines an account of Mussolini’s rise to power and a critique of the Italian fascist movement that was influential at a time when many observers were still sympathetic to fascism, at ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD