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Curious and Modern Inventions
'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.
Private Lives in Renaissance Venice
"As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Narratives of Dependency
Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology
Andrea Schiavone
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Five Rings and One Star
Andrea Schiavon tells the extraordinary story of Israeli race-walker Shaul Ladany, who not only survived the Munich massacre in 1972, but also the the darkest period in twentieth century history, having been interred as a child the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. This is an astonishing, touching and epic biography.
L'Italia dei sindaci. Il Paese raccontato da chi lo amministra
La rabbia verso la politica sta segnando un distacco sempre più netto tra cittadini e potere. Il politico è visto come un "nemico", è considerato la causa del malessere. Ma c'è un'eccezione, una figura con cui avere una comunione di intenti: il sindaco. I "primi cittadini" sono, o dovrebbero essere, il lato umano della politica. Marco Giacosa è andato a incontrarli, facendo una scelta che fosse uno spaccato dell'Italia. Sono stati selezionati undici comuni grandi e piccoli, con sindaci di entrambi i sessi, di diversi schieramenti e in carica da tempi differenti. Con loro si è parlato di lavoro, economia, tagli, territorio, educazione, viabilità, ma anche ideali, futuro, progetti e nuove speranze. Ogni dialogo racconta cosa vuol dire oggi in Italia fare politica sul territorio, tra umanità, delusioni e successi, in un rapporto spesso complicato con lo Stato centrale. Chiude il libro un'intervista a Piero Fassino, sindaco di Torino e presidente dell'Anci (Associazione nazionale comuni italiani), il "sindaco dei sindaci".
