When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with the unification of Italy and the influx of immigrants into America. The Mafia means more than a horse head under the sheets--it functions as an alternative to the state, providing its own social and political justice. Combining a nuanced history with a unique counternarrative concerning stereotypes of the immigrant, Salvatore Lupo, a leading historian of modern Italy and a major authority on its criminal history, has written the definitive account of the Sicilian Mafia from 1860 to the present. Consulting rare archival sources, he traces the web of associations, both illicit and legitimate, that have defined Cosa Nostra during its various incarnations. He focuses on several crucial periods of transition: the Italian unification of 1860 to 1861, the murder of noted politician Notarbartolo, fascist repression of the Mafia, the Allied invasion of 1943, social conflicts after each world war, and the major murders and trials of the 1980s. Lupo identifies the internal cultural codes that define the Mafia and places these codes within the context of social groups and communities. He also challenges the belief that the Mafia has grown more ruthless in recent decades. Rather than representing a shift from "honorable" crime to immoral drug trafficking and violence, Lupo argues the terroristic activities of the modern Mafia signify a new desire for visibility and a distinct break from the state. Where these pursuits will take the family adds a fascinating coda to Lupo's work.
Surveys the radical changes that have occurred in recent years in every aspect of Chilean life. Features more than 3,000 dictionary entries covering history, politics, geography, economics, the environment, culture, and a myriad other topics that include writers, artists, playwrights, and important figures, many of which were not included in the previous edition. Also included are 24 photographs of the paintings of famous Latin American artists, and an exhaustive bibliography of more than 1,200 resources subdivided by topic and fully annotated.
The change from old to new technologies has fundamentally changed the relationship between the consumer and the firm. This book is at the frontier of behavioural research into how these new commercial realities are borne out in practice, examining the adoption of e-commerce by small firms and the transactional phenomenon that entails access to the Internet. In analyzing the process of e-commerce adoption and why e-commerce actors behave as they do, its coverage includes the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) by small firms; the use of ICT applications to support marketing and sales transactions; and the factors that influence consumers' online purchasing decisions.
Since unification in 1860, Italy has remained bitterly divided between the rich North and the underdeveloped South. This book examines the historical, literary, and cultural contexts that have informed and inflamed the debate on the Southern Question for over a century. It brings together analysis of cinema, literature, and newspaper archives to reconsider the myths and stereotypes that both Northerners and Southerners deploy in their narratives. Salvatore DiMaria offers a masterful assessment of the entangled issues that have produced the South’s image as impoverished and backwards, such as organized crime, illiteracy, and mass emigration. Documenting the state’s largely failed efforts to bring the South into its socio-economic fold, DiMaria also points to the future, arguing that the European Union and globalization are transformative forces that may finally produce a unified Italy.
According to the author, an extra measure of loyalty and patriotism was required of Italian immigrants because the country of their birth was a declared enemy of their adopted country. This is the story of their quest for acceptance.
Salvatore Bernocco was born in Ruvo di Puglia, a town in Apulia, situated in southern Italy, in 1961. He works in the town hall, utilizing his degree in economics and commerce from the University of Bari nearby. A journalist, writer and poet, he also is Managing Editor of "Fermento", a monthly publication by the Catholic church, SS. Redentore in Ruvo di Puglia; as well as the Vice Editor of the local magazine "Il Rubastino". Many of his articles have been published in the "Osservatore Romano", the newspaper of the Catholic Church, as well as having published articles in many other regional and national newspapers and magazines within Italy. He also has written many books and poems in Italian. He's the President of Sehaliah, a cultural and yoga association, of Ruvo di Puglia, founded in 2005; and the Co-Founder of the APO Association, the goal of which is the prevention of cancer. This is his second experience in English and Italian languages with the publisher Xlibris. His first book, Insights on Life and Love, was released in 2010. His attempt is to bridge two different cultures unified in poetic thoughts, thanks to the experiences and knowledge he gained studying English from the age of 14.
An insider's account of the downfall of the New York mob profiles organized crime at the height of its influence while recounting the author's participation in several lucrative heists and relating his decision to become a federal informant.
CONTENTS SORAYA HADJZOBIR, UWE ALTENBERGER, CHRISTINA GÜNTER The Edough Massif garnetites: evidences for a metamorphosed paleo-garnet beach-sand placer (Cap de Garde, Annaba, Northeast Algeria) KHALID FATHI UBEID * AND KHALED AHMED RAMADAN Activity concentration and spatial distribution of radon in beach sands of Gaza Strip, Palestine SALVATORE MILLI , DANIELE E. GIRASOLI, DANIEL TENTORI, PAOLO TORTORA Sedimentology and coastal dynamics of carbonate pocket beaches: the Ionian-Sea Apulia coast between Torre Colimena and Porto Cesareo (Southern Italy) XIII GEOSED CONGRESS. Italian Association For Sedimentary Geology - A section of Italian Geological Society Abstracts XIII GEOSED CONGRESS. Italian Association For Sedimentary Geology - A section of Italian Geological Society Fieldtrip guide
A study of an important work by the Italian writer, Vincenzo Gramigna, dedicated to the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns that tore the seventeenth century apart. Filippo Salvatore teaches at Concordia University. {Guernica Editions}
The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.
The Twilights Last Gleaming is a story about the destructive effects that hate and lies can have on a society. The story alternates between three venues: the rise of a vicious leader on a faraway planet, the efforts of a brave group of scientists to use a spaceship to escape the hate-filled planet, and the future fight to rid the spaceship of hate by the pioneers in space searching for a new planet to call home. Part science fiction and part political thriller, The Twilights Last Gleaming is a dystopian study of what might happen if hatred and lies are left unchecked.
Tra realtà e fantasia questo romanzo è un affascinante viaggio, un'analisi interiore, tesa verso una dimensione superiore alla ricerca del senso della vita. Da un giovane delfino intento a cogliere il senso della sua esistenza, inizia a dipanarsi la trama che porterà il suo spirito a maturare e poi alla metamorfosi: diventa un'anima. Nell'Eden la giovane anima affronta l'apprendistato alla vita, un percorso irto di imprevisti che la conducono a indagare sul mondo in cui dovrà nascere. Scopre che laggiù, distratto dai cosiddetti "bagliori della vita", l'uomo ha quasi scordato di essere formato da una parte fisica e da una spirituale e legandosi a ciò che gli appare reale, ha imparato a sopravvivere tra caduche utopie mondane. Teme che anche lei, nascendo, possa "mondanizzarsi". Per dipanare i suoi dubbi, decide di scendere sulla Terra. Tra gli uomini, l'angelica clandestina è coinvolta in affascinanti avventure che la portano a comprendere il vero scopo della vita. Una storia che conduce alla serenità.
A realistic understanding of the mafia must avoid depictions both of a monolithic organization and of localized, isolated groups. Here, renowned historian Salvatore Lupo analyzes the mafia as a network of varied relationships and institutions, the result of a complex cultural and social encounter that was shaped by multiple, diverse environments.
The IDEALIST begins with a boy's imaginary quest to rescue his father from the czar's prison. Out of his imagination emerges Georg-Karl Russano, a Socialist journalist and champion of human rights. His father, disillusioned by the Russian Revolution, becomes his bitter enemy. Alessandra, his first love, is from a prominent family whose wealth finances Mussolini's rise to power. Georg-Karl shares his fugitive existence with Roberto and Giulia until the secret police capture him. After a daring escape, Georg-Karl rejoins Giulia and their son in exile. His book Prisons earns him international success, although fame leads him to a betrayal. He seeks redemption in the Spanish civil war. With the execution of his father and mistress, Georg-Karl loses faith in his cause, but the crucible of World War II restores his beliefs. With the Allied victory, Italy becomes a democracy, his ideals enshrined in its constitution. Russano reflects on his comrades./p> ...their faded faces besieged his memory-the architects of destruction, the blind visionaries, the bright shadows of the underground, the prisoners of principles, the unhappy exiles, the soldiers of the republic, and the heroes of the Resistance. They were his life, his beacons, like the fiery stars in the night.
“Risk Management in the Cultural Heritage Sector: Museums, Libraries, Archives” is the second volume in the Book Series “Education and Research in the Sector of Cultural and Environmental Heritage”. Its contents can be traced preliminarily to a historical overview of the regulatory situation regarding the safety of cultural heritage in Italy and internationally, with a consequent discussion of procedures for evaluation and prevention, guidelines and security systems, in particular, in confined environments. Attention then focuses on the various types of risk and relevant scientific methodologies, comparing methodological paths and monitoring standards established by Italian and International Organisations. A number of case studies carried out by the Diagnostic Laboratory for Cultural Heritage of the Department of Cultural Heritage at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna are examined.
Da quei giorni felici, che oggi mi appaiono come in un sogno - bello, ma ormai sbiadito - sono passati più di quaranta anni. Per quanto possono sembrare lontani, quei Giorni, quel Mondo, quelle Persone, insinuano il dubbio che non siano mai esistiti davvero. In questo libro non si tratterà di come magnificare quei giorni, quel Mondo, quelle Persone; ma si tenterà, piuttosto, d'impedire la definitiva estinzione del loro fin troppo effimero ricordo.
Le mie storie non sono testi solenni ma sono normalmente brevi, come epigrafi, e in esse tento di mettere nella giusta luce brandelli di vite delle persone che ho conosciuto. Anche questa raccolta di racconti, infatti, e stata resa possibile dalle persone e dalle loro vite (normali, in molti casi; straordinarie, in alcuni); dalle loro esperienze di vita (normali, in molti casi; strane, in alcuni), dagli aneddoti a loro legati, dai racconti: raccolti personalmente da me o riportati da altri testimoni. Dalla quantita di queste informazioni e possibile ricostruire un modo di vivere, anzi, un modo di intendere la vita che, probabilmente, non esiste piu; che e scomparso e che non e piu possibile riesumare, se non attraverso la narrazione, le parole scritte, in una parola, i racconti.
Il cinema di Ingmar Bergman, il Genio di Uppsala, spiegato a chi lo ignora attraverso le recensioni di 18 grandi film e due saggi sull'influenza sui suoi film della filosofia di Kierkegaard e del teatro di Strindbergh.
The only one-volume paperback pocket encyclopedia available is back in a completely revised and updated 3rd edition. With 14,000 entries covering virtually every field of knowledge, the book's revisions reflect myriad changes in international politics and include the 1992 U.S. presidential election. 16-page, full-color atlas of the earth and universe, plus 225 location maps.
Synthetic jets are devices able to “synthetize” a jet from the ambient in which they are embedded through a simple membrane oscillation inside a cavity with an orifice. Such features make them high reliable, silent and easy to be miniaturized. For these reasons, they are widely investigated as electronic cooling devices. The present research is focused on the design and analysis of a different type of synthetic jet device compared to its single classical configuration. Such a device his experimentally characterized through the study of its free and impinging flow field and the evaluation of its heat transfer performance.
The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods. This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: - Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the Southern Levant - Textile terminologies in Europe and Egypt - Textile terminologies in metaphorical language and poetry - Textile terminologies: examples from China and Japan - Technical terms of textiles and textile tools and methodologies of classifications
Have you ever wondered what makes the Mediterranean diet so healthy? Do you enjoy olives, tomatoes, Chouriço and Mozzarella, basil, rosemary and oregano, grapes, figs, and dates; and would you like to learn more about the substances they contain? Then this book is for you! The Mediterranean diet, designated as an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’, has a reputation of being particularly beneficial to your health and for reducing the risk of diseases like cardiovascular disorders. Read this book to find out which chemical compounds contribute to these health benefits. Typical ingredients of the Mediterranean diet include olive oils, fresh and dried vegetables and fruits, cereals, moderate amounts of fish, dairy and meat, and various condiments and spices, typically accompanied by wine and infusions. The book will introduce you to the most typical ingredients, providing information about their use in Mediterranean cuisine and explaining more about the healthy substances they contain – from their chemistry to their occurrence in the foods and the resulting intake. Summarizing important facts and data from available scientific literature, this book even gives recommendations for guidelines to a healthy diet – guidelines that are becoming more and more important. In recent years, it has been observed that nutritional habits in the geographical area have started to deviate further and further away from the typical Mediterranean nutritional pattern, representing an alarming trend that this book also critically addresses, since the WHO has reported increases in obesity and malnutrition in the Mediterranean area. Illustrations of important chemical compound structures, as well as appetizing photos of select ingredients for Mediterranean dishes, accompany the text.
Previously unpublished photographs of an Italian transgender community in the 1980s This book gathers photographs from 1980 taken by Giordano Bonora--a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer--of Bologna's small transgender community during a period characterized by subversive movements and political revolts rooted in questions of identity. Texts examine the implications of challenging gender norms.
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