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The satisfaction of having achieved my aims
"The story of my life is simple. So simple and moving like the ones of any other Italian immigrant. But the great desire and will to outdo oneself is what makes the difference between one and other, and I feel I have the satisfaction of having achieved my aims. Neither because I have had some public recognition nor because I got over my fellows, but because I overcame myself. I will feel actually satisfied if I can make people understand that I overcame myself because this is how I feel like every morning and every night. And I still go on trying to do so day after day" (Miguel Bornaschella). "I met Miguel twenty years ago and he has always been good at re-telling anecdotes and stories. Most...
La soddisfazione di avercela fatta
"La mia storia d'immigrante è una delle tante, così semplice e delicata come qualsiasi altra storia di immigrante italiano. Ma con così tanta grinta e volontà di superare se stessi che è ciò che finisce per distinguere gli uni dagli altri e, soprattutto, con la soddisfazione di avercela fatta. Non cerco riconoscimento pubblico, tantomeno voglio superare o confrontarmi con i miei simili, è la soddisfazione di aver superato me stesso. Potró ritenermi soddisfatto se posso mettere in chiaro che ho superato me stesso perché è questa la sensazione che ho ogni mattina ed ogni sera e continuo a provarci giorno dopo giorno" (Michele Bornaschella). "La vita aveva in serbo per me la fiducia d...
La satisfacción de haberlo logrado
"Mi historia es otra historia más, tan sencilla y delicada como la de cualquier otro inmigrante italiano. Pero con tantas ansias de superación que es lo que termina por diferenciar a unos de otros y con la satisfacción de haberlo logrado. No por el reconocimiento público, ni por la superación al semejante, sino por la superación a sí mismo. Me daré por satisfecho si puedo dejar en claro que me he superado porque así lo siento cada mañana y cada noche y sigo intentando hacerlo día a día" (Miguel Bornaschella). "La vida me tenía reservada su confianza para llevar a cabo este relato. No solo eso, sino la oportunidad para repreguntar, el espacio necesario que me ha dado para poder inmiscuirme en sus sentimientos y poder conocer no solo lo necesario sino todo lo que la curiosidad demandaba para completar el panorama. Gracias a unas y otras he podido situar ante mis ojos una historia tan emocionante que no creo que la pluma tenga la habilidad de detallar con la fidelidad necesaria" (Alberto Miramontes).
De León, a Tejano Family History
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, 2004 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005 La familia de León was one of the foundation stones on which Texas was built. Martín de León and his wife Patricia de la Garza left a comfortable life in Mexico for the hardships and uncertainties of the Texas frontier in 1801. Together, they established family ranches in South Texas and, in 1824, the town of Victoria and the de León colony on the Guadalupe River (along with Stephen F. Austin's colony, the only completely successful colonization effort in Texas). They and their descendents survived and prospered under four governments, as the society in which they lived evolved from autocratic to republ...
The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism was first published by Basil Blackwell of Oxford in 1987. A paperback edition appeared two years later, while in the following five years it was reprinted four times. However although the intervening years have seen the appearance of Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Chinese editions, no copies have been available in English since 1998. This Alcuin Academic edition has therefore been published in order to fill this gap, and more specifically to meet the needs of those academics and students who have contacted me over the past six or seven years in search of an English-language version of the book. Naturally I have considered writing a revised edition (which indeed some critics, as well as a few friends, have suggested is long overdue). -- Amazon.com.
Where the World Ended
Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religion.
The Overspent American
An in-depth look at the corruption of the “American Dream,” the follow-up to the the Overworked American examines the consumer lives of Americans and the pitfalls of “keeping up with the Joneses.” Schor explains how and why the purchases of others in our social and professional communities can put pressure on us to spend more than we can afford to, how television viewing can undermine our ability to save, and why even households with good incomes have taken on so much debt for so many products they don't need and often don't even want.
The Unmaking of Soviet Life
The Unmaking of Soviet Life brings together ten essays from award-winning author Caroline Humphrey. Humphrey explores such topics as the mafia, barter, bribery, and the new shamanism, locating them in the experiences of a wide range of subjects.
Post-Growth Living
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how can we create a movement capable of confronting it head-on? In Post-Growth Living, philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that is capable of collective happiness not in consumption but by creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.
Working in East Germany
Working in East Germany explores economic tendencies, political relationships and social situations that combined to create a specific socio-political habitat in East Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. Conditions were peculiar to say the least, especially if compared to Western standards. Nevertheless, the majority of the population perceived their lives as part of a 'socialist normality' that most East Germans adjusted to successfully. This book writes the people back into the history of East Germany.
