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Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

By: Alessandro Dal Lago

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Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

By: Alessandro Dal Lago

While continually broadcasting the deaths of "illegal immigrants" who have drowned at sea, the majority of mass media incessantly feeds the panic over the "invasion" of Italy by poor immigrants from the Third World. This study is not merely an examination of the familiar limitations of the media, but an investigation of the comprehensive attitude in Italian society of rejecting foreigners who have been transformed into public enemies through a vicious cycle of panic and exclusion. Political dialogue has not proven very aware of the problem of acknowledging the civil rights of the new migrants. The recent cultural rediscovery of the "Italian nation" and the "Italian homeland" - that communal sentiment on which national belonging is based - is not separate from these recent disturbing developments. Not only does this appeal to the "Italian nation" prove weak, but it corresponds to a process of inferiorization of other societies: poorer nations, the underdeveloped regions of Italy itself, and the less wealthy areas in dominant regions. The political left and right both display this disturbing mentality. In this extensively documented, polemical book, Alessandro Dal Lago clearly takes a stand regarding the most profound impulses in Italian society. This study reveals that what is involved in the cultural discussion on migration are the most fundamental parameters and values upon which our democracy rests.

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8895145380

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Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

By: Alessandro Dal Lago

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Prophet of Renewal

David Levi: a Jewish Freemason and Saint-Simonian in Nineteenth-century Italy

By: Alessandro Grazi

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Prophet of Renewal

David Levi: a Jewish Freemason and Saint-Simonian in Nineteenth-century Italy

By: Alessandro Grazi

This is an intellectual biography of the Italian Jewish writer and politician David Levi (1816-1898). Freemasonry, Saint-Simonianism, and the Enlightenment are his vessels for a new, secular, interpretation of Jewish identity and for innovative views on Judaism’s relation with modernity.

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BRILL

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9004518991

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9789004518995

The Struggle for Development and Democracy

Volume 1 – New Approaches

By: Alessandro Olsaretti

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The Struggle for Development and Democracy

Volume 1 – New Approaches

By: Alessandro Olsaretti

In The Struggle for Development and Democracy Alessandro Olsaretti proposes a humanist social science as a first step to overcome the flaws of neoliberalism, and to recover a balanced approach that is needed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

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9004470522

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9789004470521

The Black Prince And The Sea Devils

The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas

By: Jack Greene,Alessandro Massignani

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The Black Prince And The Sea Devils

The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas

By: Jack Greene,Alessandro Massignani

At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed with a variety of destructive torpedoes. The covert tactics he and the Decima MAS developed, including the use of midget submarines, secret nighttime operations, and small teams armed with explosives, have become a standard for special forces around the world to this very day.After the Italian capitulation in 1943, Borghese determinedly fought on as a Fascist commando leader. After the war, he became a man of mystery, variously said to be involved with several right-wing conspiracies, abortive coups, and clandestine activity. The Prince's death in 1974 was every bit as mysterious as his life.Greene and Massignani have drawn upon official archives as well as information from Allied and Axis veterans in an unprecedented attempt to separate fact from fantasy in this detailed examination of Borghese, the Decima MAS, and the Italian naval special forces.

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Da Capo Press

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0786751282

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9780786751280

Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment

Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics

By: Alessandro De Giorgi

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Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment

Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics

By: Alessandro De Giorgi

The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'. However, global processes of transformation have revolutionized industrial capitalism since the early 1970s, thus configuring a post-Fordist system of production. In this book, the author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies. Current penal politics can be seen as part of a broader project to control this labour force, with far-reaching effects on the role of the prison and punitive strategies in general.

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Routledge

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1351903551

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9781351903554

Giacomino Senzapaura

By: Alessandro Giampaoletti

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Giacomino Senzapaura

By: Alessandro Giampaoletti

Avventure di giovani esploratori maceratesi. Una storia di bambini con una strega, briganti, orchi, animali strani, una mamma sola, un babbo in prigione e altre simpatie che laddove la periferia si confonde con l'infinito prendono forma e vita.

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Lulu.com

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1445276879

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9781445276878

Qualcosa Da Leggere

By: Alessandro Pedrazzi

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Qualcosa Da Leggere

By: Alessandro Pedrazzi

Qualcosa da leggere su questo pianeta e sulle bizzarre follie di coloro che lo abitano. Una vasta e straordinaria raccolta di nomi piA' o meno noti che hanno lasciato la loro impronta eccentrica nella storia. Scienziati, artisti, nobili, papi, leader politici, gente comune e le loro fobie, i loro capricci, le idee squinternate, le compulsioni e le strane abitudini.

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1409295850

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Maps of Paradise

By: Alessandro Scafi

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Maps of Paradise

By: Alessandro Scafi

Where is paradise? It always seems to be elsewhere, inaccessible, outside of time. Either it existed yesterday or it will return tomorrow; it may be just around the corner, on a remote island, beyond the sea. Across a wide range of cultures, paradise is located in the distant past, in a longed-for future, in remote places or within each of us. In particular, people everywhere in the world share some kind of nostalgia for an innocence experienced at the beginning of history. For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? In the Far East? In equatorial Africa? In Mesopotamia? Under the sea? Where were Adam and Eve created in their unspoiled perfection? Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the eighth to the twenty-first century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. Over one hundred illustrations celebrate this history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. It is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and happiness, and the yearning to discover heaven on earth.

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177

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University of Chicago Press

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022610608X

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9780226106083

Trame del Fantastico

By: Alessandro Cappabianca

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Trame del Fantastico

By: Alessandro Cappabianca

Trame d'ombra, specchi oscuri, intrecci misteriosi. La materia stessa del film, pellicola trasparente e diafana sulla quale si muovono figure d'ombra, induce a pensare che la vocazione privilegiata del cinema sia nel fantastico, come già riteneva Artaud. I fantasmi, silenziose o sonore apparizioni, ci vengono incontro dallo schermo, in bianco e nero o a colori, da Nosferatu a Shutter Island: materia dei corpi come materia di sogni, incubi e visioni, portatori di maschere, generatori privilegiati di archetipi. Metafisico. Fantastico. Film noir. Horror. Termini usuali, ma inadeguati, per certi film. In realtà qui non siamo tanto di fronte a un'inadeguatezza terminologica, che si tratterebbe di superare inventando un termine più adatto, quanto alla generale insufficienza che l'ottica dei "generi" (un'ottica di comodo) dimostra nei confronti di ogni film che investa universi di senso sufficientemente complessi, tali da mettere in gioco qualcosa che potremmo chiamare memoria filogenetica.

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Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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888101842X

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9788881018420

Anno d'Inverno

By: Alessandro Fantini

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Anno d'Inverno

By: Alessandro Fantini

Il sospetto che in un comune disco club di provincia si nasconda lo scenario di un macabro complotto si tramuterà in certezza quando Anatole asseconderà l'invito di Herbert a varcare la soglia del "Gorgeous" per ammirare i prodigi anatomici e vocali della misteriosa cantante dei "Madame Creole". Sopravvissuta agli anni che separano i due conflitti mondiali, l'ossessione di Charles per la figura leggendaria di Roberto Il Diavolo lo ricondurrà su quell'isola di Jersey dove i miti della storia Normanna e l'amore per la piccola Shirley che nutrirono la sua epopea di adolescente combattuto tra passione e disinganno, suggelleranno la fine di quel lungo "anno d'inverno" iniziato all'indomani dell'omicidio dell'erede al trono d'Austria-Ungheria. Queste e altre storie compongono il rutilante mosaico di personaggi e situazioni catturati ancora una volta dalla prosa immaginifica di Alessandro Fantini, sull'orlo dell'abisso dove storia e fantasia si rimestano nell'abbacinante oscurità del rituale letterario

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1291221409

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9781291221404

Endometria

By: Alessandro Fantini

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Endometria

By: Alessandro Fantini

Endometria - Il seme della Carne" viene riproposto dopo cinque anni dalla sua prima edizione in questa seconda versione in formato paperback con una nuova veste grafica, una nuova impaginazione delle illustrazioni, una ricca appendice contenente il racconto "Il Velo della Notte", l'antefatto alle vicende narrate nel romanzo, e una raccolta di testi critici scritti dallo stesso autore in occasione delle presentazioni tenute alla Fiera del Libro di Torino. Dimenticati gli anni di prigionia del Velo della Notte, Edel ed Arnel regnano adesso su una nuova marca, lontano dalle guerre intestine che affliggono Lantaria. Ma alla radice del loro amore pulsa da tempo l'epicentro del caos che sta per abbattersi sull'intero continente.

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1471762459

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9781471762451

La città meravigliosa degli artisti straordinari

By: Marcello Jori,Stefano Benni,Alessandro Mendini

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La città meravigliosa degli artisti straordinari

By: Marcello Jori,Stefano Benni,Alessandro Mendini

Catalogo della mostra di Siena, Magazzini del Sale (19 luglio-15 settembre 1996). Marcello Jori ha tracciato i confini di quella che è stata definita "zona protetta" per artisti viventi e leggendari, da lui personalmente selezionati, invitati e ritratti. Intorno al corpo di ogni artista ha progettato la forma architettonica dell'abitazione che il soggetto occupa nella città meravigliosa. Gli "abitanti" di questa città sono fino ad oggi: Giulio Paolini, Tony Cragg, Mario Merz, Morimura, Gerhard Richter, Luigi Ontani, Hermann Nitsch, Julian Schnabel, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer, Enzo Cucchi, Salvo, Mimmo Paladino, Alessandro Mendini, Peter Halley, Gilbert & George.

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8881580926

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Book's by Alessandro Dal Lago

Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

Non-persons. The Exclusion of Migrants in a Global Society

Prophet of Renewal

Prophet of Renewal

The Struggle for Development and Democracy

The Struggle for Development and Democracy

The Black Prince And The Sea Devils

The Black Prince And The Sea Devils

Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment

Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment

Giacomino Senzapaura

Giacomino Senzapaura

Qualcosa Da Leggere

Qualcosa Da Leggere

Maps of Paradise

Maps of Paradise

Trame del Fantastico

Trame del Fantastico

Anno d'Inverno

Anno d'Inverno

Endometria

Endometria

La città meravigliosa degli artisti straordinari

La città meravigliosa degli artisti straordinari

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