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In 1970s Italy, after the decline of the Spaghetti Western, crime films became the most popular, profitable and controversial genre. In a country plagued with violence, political tensions and armed struggle, these films managed to capture the anxiety and anger of the times in their tales of tough...

The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar and lesser-known filmmakers. While their artistry was often plagued with production setbacks, their works—influenced by poetry, playwriting, advertising, literature, comics and a nonconformist, sometimes...

Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.

Grandangolo Filosofia è una collana di moderne monografie scritte da autorevoli docenti universitari e pensata per avvicinare il grande pubblico alle tematiche e alle figure cruciali della cultura filosofica. Libri chiari e concisi ma completi dedicati ai filosofi che hanno gettato le basi del nostro...

Belle donne e auto di lusso, intercettazioni telefoniche e cacce al ladro, tra la riviera di Portofino e la Costa azzurra, Semolino, Kukident e Maalox entrano in azione Sono stati congedati per raggiunti limiti di età, ma hanno ancora ben più di una cartuccia da sparare. Così, l'ex sostituto...

What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...

Il primo manuale che recepisce le indicazioni e gli orientamenti della nuova riforma scolastica mediante l’utilizzo della metodologia originale dell’animazione psicopedagica di Rosaura Giovannetti. Uno strumento fondamentale per insegnanti, operatori dell’educazione e dell’animazione, ma anche...

El criador de gorilas es una recopilación de 15 cuentos que el autor escribió por encargo. En ellos se cuentan historias del mundo africano gracias a distintas leyendas y mitos .

The Americas face many security challenges, including drug trafficking, organized crime, guerrilla movements, terrorism, and environmental challenges. Experts have long debated whether some countries in the region can be classified as failed states. While various states in the Americas have been labeled...

This biography of Macchiavelli is widely regarded as Ridolfi’s masterpiece and is based on much material drawn from private and public archives. It presents a fresh interpretation of Macchiavelli’s career and writings and here, for example the dating of the composition of such famous works as...

Bolivian Labor Immigrants' Experiences in Argentina examines the projects, trajectories, and everyday lives of Bolivian immigrants. It gathers research results of specialists who have studied the various ways in which these immigrants participate in certain labor markets in different urban and rural...

Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has...

In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and...

This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. The authors argue that the Cold War shaped and fueled...