Marta: 630 books
The Alphonse Courrier Affair
MORAZZONI, M
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Alphonse Courrier possesses all the might reasonably make a man content: a prosperous ironmonger's business and a position of respect in his Auvergne village, a dutiful, coolly beautiful wife who runs an irreproachable household, two healthy sons, and a hidden mistress - "the ugliest girl in...
Mafia - the history with Mario Puzo's Godfather in background
The development of Italian Mafia in America in context of both literature and movie
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Nowadays the word 'Mafia' refers nearly all groups or gangs involved in organized crime. However, originally, Mafia meant an organized criminal organization...
Hide in Plain Sight and Buried Sins
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT
Called home to the Amish countryside, city gal Andrea Hampton can’t let go of her bitter memories. But she’ll have to in order to help turn her grandmother’s house into a bed-and-breakfast. When danger stalks her, Andrea must turn to carpenter Cal Burke, a man with...
Espectros
Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...
Revue Compendium
Semestriel Janvier 2018, #1
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Compendium signifie un abrégé ou un condensé, sous la forme d'une compilation, d'un corpus de connaissances dans un domaine déterminé. Si certaines femmes ont été de grands écrivains et ont poussé jusqu’au génie l’éloquence du cœur, la finesse de l’esprit, la sagacité du jugement,...
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Fringe Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science...
by Soraya Ataide, María Lourdes Basualdo, Roberto Benencia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
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...
by Marta F. Di Stefano
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Il Settantasette, quarant'anni dopo. Una bibliografia, uno strumento utile per cominciare a conoscere uno dei momenti più controversi, esaltanti, densi di luci e di ombre della storia recente del nostro Paese.
by Marta Perry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
An Amish Nanny
Caring for her late cousin’s young kinder is Jessie Miller’s duty—even if it means seeing their father again. Years ago, she thought Caleb King might be her husband—until he met her cousin and Jessie’s dream was cut short. Laid up with a broken leg and a demanding dairy...
Ukraine
Movement without Change, Change without Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ukraine has surprised many international observers. Few anticipated its declaration of independence in 1991 or its determination to move out of Russia's shadow. Dyczok redresses the continuing dearth of information on the country. Aimed at nonspecialists and specialists alike, it presents an overview...
Latinas Crossing Borders and Building Communities in Greater Washington
Applying Anthropology in Multicultural Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
After crossing several borders, Latina/o immigrants and their children meet challenges of globalization as they acclimate to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Facing different social and cultural barriers while adapting to this metropolis, most of them meet these challenges by building transnational...
Gioventù Studentesca
Storia di un movimento cattolico dalla ricostruzione alla contestazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 15, 2016
A partire da un ampio ventaglio di fonti documentarie, in gran parte inedite, il volume ricostruisce la genesi e lo sviluppo del movimento di Gioventù Studentesca. Tale realtà, nata come esperimento di apostolato di ambiente dell’Azione Cattolica milanese (sulla scorta dell’esperienza della...
by Václav Havel, Marta Cartabia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Il saggio più famoso del drammaturgo dissidente ceco ripubblicato a oltre vent’anni dalla prima edizione italiana, insieme ad altri testi inediti.