Maurizio: 532 books

The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a “great moderation” and the view that capitalism had overcome its systemic tendencies to crisis. The subsequent failure of contemporary social formations to address the causes of the crisis gives renewed impetus to better analysis...

This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by the robust finding that while...

Chi si occupa di Trading online sa quanto il mondo degli investimenti possa essere stressante. A meno che... non sia un software a fare il lavoro in automatico al posto tuo. Nonostante la grande crisi finanziaria del 2008 abbia allontanato molti operatori dalla finanza operativa, allo stato...

Tutto in un anno. Lui e lei si incontrano casualmente. Al principio lui ama lei, ma lei ama l'altro. Poi lei ama lui, ma lui ama l'altra. Infine lui ama lei e lei ama lui, ma quanta fatica per vivere felici e contenti. La "solita" storia d'amore, raccontata da un "insolito" narratore....

Il commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi possiede un dono che è allo stesso tempo una condanna: fin da bambino vede i morti nel loro ultimo istante di vita e ne sente il dolore del distacco. Non può fare a meno di scrutare un’immagine - come un fotogramma di un film la cui pellicola si è inceppata...

Il bello di un regalo è la sorpresa, e in ogni sorpresa può nascondersi un segreto, un mistero, e, perché no, anche un delitto. I nostri eroi ritornano. Dopo averli visti all’opera la notte del 25 dicembre nella festa familiare per eccellenza, li abbiamo seguiti per il capodanno, tra un botto...

Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out...

This is Naples as you’ve never seen it before. A chaotic, shadowy city full of ominous echoes and dark alleyways where each inhabitant seems too absorbed by his or her own problems to give a damn about anybody else. And that is exactly what makes it possible for a cold, methodical killer to commit...

Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated...

A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as "The Chinaman," starts to investigate.   De Giovanni is one of the most dexterous and successful writers of crime fiction currently working...

Book Three of the Commissario Ricciardi Series Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police...

In this fourth installment of the internationally successful Commissario Ricciardi series, the Commissario is investigating the death of Matteo, one of the many street urchins who live hand-to-mouth in the dark alleys of 1930s Naples. While at first the death seems provoked by natural causes, it quickly...

Book 3 in de Giovanni’s bestselling “Bastards of Pizzofalcone” series is set in contemporary Naples during season of cold winds, political hijinks, and murder. A heinous, double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and the rest of the...

Het schokkende verhaal van de man die gedwongen werd de oorlogsmisdaden van de nazi's vast te leggen Iedereen kent de foto’s van de gevangenen in Auschwitz en die van de slachtoffers van Mengeles wetenschappelijke onderzoeken. Maar wíe nam die foto’s? Een SS’er? Mengele zelf? Wilhelm...