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Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance
This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies. The effectiveness of counterterrorism measures is hard to assess, especially since the social impact of terrorist attacks is a fundamental and complex issue. This book focuses on the impact of counterterrorist measures by introducing the concept of the performative power of counterterrorism: the extent to which governments mobilize public and political support - thereby sometimes even unwittingly assisting terrorists in creating social drama. The concept is applied to counterterrorism in the Netherlands, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and t...
A Lover's Discourse
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their future together. Playing with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.
Once Upon a Time in the East
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. It's a strange beginning. A Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China- censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home. Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all- how to love when you've never been shown how.
Storie ciniche
«Deve essere un mio difetto, ma i peccati altrui non mi scandalizzano – sempre che non mi riguardino personalmente». La leggendaria sprezzatura di Maugham pervade tutti i racconti di questa raccolta, popolata di personaggi tanto più veri in quanto tratti dalla sua vita multiforme di medico, scrittore, drammaturgo e agente segreto. Il nostro insaziabile viaggiatore spazia da una bettola di Vladivostok al bel mondo della Costa Azzurra, e il suo occhio spietato mette a nudo con sublime cattiveria, o anche con dissimulata compassione, intime tragedie e abissali fallimenti di un pittoresco campionario umano: impostori di lungo corso, madri efferate, coniugi assassini – tutti in balìa della casualità della vita e della cecità delle passioni. Come Elizabeth, «una giocatrice d'azzardo, una scialacquatrice e una donna lasciva»; o come Morton che, tornato in Inghilterra, si sentiva più solo che nella giungla. E segreti ben custoditi, acrobatici patti e rischiosi tradimenti concordati ci apriranno un mondo in cui nulla obbedisce a una rassicurante prevedibilità.
Lucifer Over London
London, a city of constant transition, transaction, translation. London does not exist; London is a language without a place and it is the aphasic city; it's the mother of all languages. Lucifer Over London is a new anthology nine narrative essays written by a host of international prize-winning authors including Chloe Aridjis, Viola di Grado, Xiaolu Guo, Joanna Walsh and Zinovy Zinik. First published in Italy by Humboldt Books, Lucifer Over London is now appearing in English for the first time. This is a version of London as seen from the immigrants of recent migrations, of deportations to come, from those who create London even as they contradict it.
Viceversa 8
»Berlin - mein Ding«: Ursula Fricker, Christoph Geiser, Roman Graf, Silvio Huonder, Thomas Hürlimann, Stefanie Sourlier und Matthias Zschokke erzählen. »Berlin - zu Gast«: Robert Walser, den es vor hundert Jahren schon nach Berlin zog, gilt eine Hommage; der Lausanner Fotograf Pierre-Yves Massot zeigt seine Berlin-Impressionen. »Berlin - Inédit«: Frisch aus Berlin kommen die unveröffentlichten Texte des rätoromanischen Autors Leo Tuor, der Westschweizerin Dominique de Rivaz, des Tessiners Pietro Montorfani und der Walliserin Christine Pfammatter. Porträts: Der in Paris lebende Jurassier Bernard Comment spricht über seine verschiedenen Aktivitäten als Schriftsteller, Übersetzer...
Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage
After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. The coincidence of productions at La Scala (Milan) and Covent Garden (London) in the same month (September 2008) of two different operas signals a new stage in the recovery of these extraordinary works, confined until now to special venues committed to 'early music'-opera festivals, conservatory, and university productions. The works of the composer who is credited with having invented the genre of opera as we know it are finally enjoying a renaissance. A new edition of Cavalli's twenty-eight operas is in preparation, and the composer and his works are...
