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Fashion Narrative and Translation
Fashion Narrative and Translation: Is Vanity Fair? combines comparative literature, fashion, and translation studies in their interactional roles. The integrated approach provides an innovative blended approach to comparative literature studies benefiting from growing fields of fashion and translation. Within the descriptive frame of fashion concepts and themes, the research furthers the analysis of multiple translations (English and Romance languages) to costume design in film adaptations, from page to screen. The eight chapters of the book are thematically structured raising crucial issues about language and literature in verbal and visual representation and questioning the translatability of the fashion lexicon and lexicography.
Good Italy, Bad Italy
Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of credibility as it struggles to deal with huge public debts and anemic levels of economic growth. Young people are emigrating in droves, frustrated at the lack of opportunity, while older people stubbornly cling to their rights and privileges, fearful of an uncertain future. In this lively, up-to-the-minute book, Bill Emmott explains how Italy sank to this low point, how Italians feel about it, and what can be done to return the country to more prosperous and more democratic times. With the aid of numerous personal interviews, Emmott analyzes "Bad Italy"—the land of disgraced Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an inadequate justice system, an economy dominated by special interests and continuing corruption—against its contrasting foil "Good Italy," the home of enthusiastic entrepreneurs, truth-seeking journalists, and countless citizens determined to end mafia domination for good.
Women Dressing Women
This beautifully illustrated book explores the considerable impact of fashions created by and for women by tracing a historical and conceptual lineage of female designers—from unidentified dressmakers in eighteenth-century France to contemporary makers who are leading the direction of fashion today. Stunning new photographs of exceptional garments from the unparalleled collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute complement insightful essays that consider notions of anonymity, visibility, agency, and absence/omission, highlighting celebrated designers and forgotten histories alike to reveal women’s impact on the field of fashion. The publication includes garments from French houses such as Vionnet, Schiaparelli, and Mad Carpentier to American makers like Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designers such as Rei Kawakubo, Iris van Herpen, Simone Rocha, and Anifa Mvuemba. Situating the works within a larger social context, this overdue look at female-led design is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of fashion.
Freewheelin' in Rome
Bob Dylan in Italia ha suonato spesso e volentieri a partire dal 1984, quando al termine della stagione delle contestazioni e delle molotov ai concerti scese nell’Arena di Verona per due date. All’epoca, però, i “dylanologi” fecero notare che quella di Verona non doveva essere considerata la sua prima trasferta italiana, bensì la seconda: Dylan, secondo una storia che da tempo circolava negli ambienti del folk (ma di cui qualcuno dubitava) era venuto a Roma all’inizio degli anni Sessanta, una sera si era presentato al Folkstudio e (forse) aveva pure suonato qualche canzone. Qualcuno si diceva certo che era stato anche a Perugia, dove studiava la sua fidanzata dell’epoca Suze Ro...
Site Reliability Engineering
In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world.
Venice's Secret Service
Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy, contesting that early-modern Venice was home of the world's first centrally-organized state intelligence service, setting a framework that has been instrumental in the creation of modern intelligence.
Expedition into the Nanoworld
The story of microscopy over the years is one of wonder, revelation, and even love. What better words could there be to describe the amazing things that we have been able to see, learn and accomplish thanks to the progress made in this field? A love story between a pieace of glass and the rainbow with an original soundtrack mad of poetry and music. From Galilei’s initial foray into basic optical microscopy, including the Camillo Golgi and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia lessons, to such later developments as time-resolved microscopy, multi-photon microscopy and three-dimensional microscopy to innovations such as optical nanoscopy, bioimaging and super resolution imaging, the book seeks to take...
Apollo 20. La Rivelazione
Sin dall'aprile 2007 un utente di YouTube chiamato "retiredafb" (pi tardi divenuto utente di revver.com) sta sconcertando il pubblico con i suoi video e commenti. Un altro utente di YouTube - "moonwalker1966delta" - sta facendo lo stesso sin dal gennaio 2008, in qualit di dichiarato Comandante di Apollo 19. "retiredafb" asserisce d'essere William Rutledge, gi un civile pilota collaudatore impiegato dall'Aeronautica Militare degli Stati Uniti (l'USAF) prima di prendere parte all'Apollo 20 nel ruolo di Comandante, nell'agosto 1976. Apollo 20 ed Apollo 19 sarebbero state due segretissime missioni spaziali militari congiunte, USA-URSS, che avrebbero avuto come obbiettivo un allunaggio sul lato lontano della Luna, per investigare alcune anomalie lunari. L'opinione dell'Autore (che ha intervistato entrambi i dichiarati astronauti) che questa storia - nonostante alcune sue contraddizioni, inganni e dati fuorvianti - contenga alcuni nuclei di verit . SECONDA RISTAMPA
Philosophers of the Renaissance
Philosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century.
