Filippo: 332 books

Bologna, 2014: la mostra "Il mito della Golden Age", che espone, tra gli altri, il celeberrimo dipinto di Vermeer La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla, è nel suo pieno svolgimento. Grazie a un'incredibile serie di circostanze favorevoli, Martino, meccanico spiantato dedito ai furti di cerchioni,...

This paper reviews and analyzes how Morocco overcame the economic and financial crisis it confronted at the beginning of the 1980s. It highlights the challenges that still confront the Moroccan economy and the lessons that can be drawn from Morocco's adjustment experience.

Fuggito da Bologna per dimenticare una dolorosa verità, Andrea vive a Roma con Maddy, nascondendo al mondo intero il segreto inconfessabile che lo tormenta. Dieci anni dopo, in un'interminabile notte di agosto, il suo destino sembra riaffiorare: sull'autostrada che lo conduce in villeggiatura, una...

Il testo descrive le diverse fasi in cui Tommaso Marinetti elabora il tattilismo, esperimento in cui progetta il linguaggio di una nuova sensibilità. Con fortune alterne la nuova forma di espressione, capace di trasmettere contenuti e passioni in modo immediato, si propone di guarire lo spettatore...

The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post-war the army, focusing on the Alpine...

The Italian army, unlike those of the British and French, did not use tanks in combat during World War I and, by November 1918, only one training unit equipped with French Schneider and Renault tanks had been formed. Consequently, during the 1920s the Italian army had just one single tank type in...

Several factors delayed and greatly hampered the development of an Italian medium tank during World War II. The first was the strategic stance of the country, focussed on a war against neighbouring countries such as France and Yugoslavia, and ill-prepared for a war in the Western Desert. Since these...

HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch,...

This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international levels, and by creating work that distanced itself...

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics. The author considers the ethical responsibility of the postcolonial intellectual, enhancing our...

This book presents an introduction to the representation theory of wreath products of finite groups and harmonic analysis on the corresponding homogeneous spaces. The reader will find a detailed description of the theory of induced representations and Clifford theory, focusing on a general formulation...

I rapporti tra insegnante e allievo sono un terreno sotto il quale corrono fiumi carsici di messaggi affettivi inconsci. Il volume, esplorando i codici affettivi materno e paterno che si esprimono nella funzione docente, propone metodologie per l’elaborazione del burnout e la risoluzione dei conflitti educativi che generano impasse.

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained argument in favour of a new (social contract) version of the meaning of social justice. In setting out this...

In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections...