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New Labour and the European Union

Political Strategy, Policy Transition and the Amsterdam Treaty Negotiation

By: Stefano Fella

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New Labour and the European Union

Political Strategy, Policy Transition and the Amsterdam Treaty Negotiation

By: Stefano Fella

This title was first published in 2002. This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on the UK-EU relationship and on the development of the Labour party since Tony Blair became leader in 1994, providing a detailed examination of the process of policy-making undertaken by Labour in relation to the 1996-97 intergovernmental conference (IGC) of the EU. It tracks policy development from opposition to government, culminating in the conclusion of treaty negotiations at Amsterdam in June 1997. The book moves beyond the existing literature in providing an original account of policy-making based on internal party and government sources. It highlights a ’New Labour’ approach to the EU - set in place by the time of the Amsterdam summit and characteristic of the Blair government’s European policy thereafter - and suggests that this approach represents both continuity and change with previous UK governments and a break from the European social democratic perspective that had been central to Labour’s previous pro-European conversion.

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Routledge

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1351738712

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Anti-Racist Movements in the EU

Between Europeanisation and National Trajectories

By: Stefano Fella,Carlo Ruzza

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Anti-Racist Movements in the EU

Between Europeanisation and National Trajectories

By: Stefano Fella,Carlo Ruzza

Based on extensive primary research, including interviews with movement and policy actors across six European countries, this book examines anti-racist movements throughout Europe, focusing on how they influence culture and government policy at national and EU level, shedding light on the nature of racism and responses to it across Europe.

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259

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Springer

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1137284668

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9781137284662

Re-inventing the Italian Right

Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

By: Stefano Fella,Carlo Ruzza

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Re-inventing the Italian Right

Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

By: Stefano Fella,Carlo Ruzza

Following his third election victory in 2008, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the most controversial head of government in the EU. This is a cogent examination of the Berlusconi phenomenon, exploring the success and development of the new populist right-wing coalition in Italy since the collapse of the post-war party system in the early 1990s. Carlo Ruzza and Stefano Fella provide a comprehensive discussion of the three main parties of the Italian right: Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, the xenophobic and regionalist populist Northern League and the post-fascist National Alliance. The book assesses the implications of this controversial right for the Italian democratic system and examines how the social and political peculiarities of Italy have allowed such political formations to emerge and enjoy repeated electoral success. Framed in a comparative perspective, the authors: explore the nature of the Italian right in the context of right-wing parties and populist phenomena elsewhere in other advanced democracies, drawing comparisons and providing broader explanations. locate the parties of the Italian right within the existing theoretical conceptions of right-wing and populist parties, utilising a multi-method approach, including a content analysis of party programmes. highlight the importance of political and discursive opportunities in explaining the success of the Italian right, and the agency role of a political leadership that has skilfully shaped and communicated an ideological package to exploit these opportunities. Providing an excellent insight into a key European nation, this work provides a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to the research on the Italian right, and its implications for democratic politics.

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1134286333

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An Offer We Can't Refuse

The Mafia in the Mind of America

By: George De Stefano

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The Mafia in the Mind of America

By: George De Stefano

The Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. Journalist and cultural critic De Stefano takes a look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America. Beginning with a consideration of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century and the fear and prejudice--among both Americans and Italians--that informed our earliest conception of what was the largest immigrant group to enter the United States, De Stefano explores how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar to us today and uses them to illuminate and explore the variety and allure of Mafia stories. At the same time, he addresses the lingering power of the goodfella cliché, which makes it all but impossible to green-light a project about the Italian American experience not set in gangland.--From publisher description.

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472

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Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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0865479623

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9780865479623

The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics

By: Stefano Maffina

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The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics

By: Stefano Maffina

This work revolves round the analysis of Jack Kerouac's complex identity and his main artistic inspirations. Even though the writer was born in Lowell, MA, he was raised in a Franco-American family with strong bonds with the Quebec region. The resultant split identity led to deep existential doubts that Kerouac was never able to overcome. However, the awareness of his cultural dichotomy proved extremely important for his own work. Indeed, the Beat author was able to reach an original poetics which was inspired by both American and French writers. Despite Kerouac's innovative style and writing method, an analysis of the artists who influenced his work could help contextualize and better understand his literary and linguistic genius.

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395

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Lulu.com

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1471706850

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9781471706851

Looking at Life

By: Jerry De Stefano

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Looking at Life

By: Jerry De Stefano

Looking at life: Stories It Took Me 70 years to Write, is a collection of plays or screen plays that I have adventurously written over the years. It is the first of many books to come. So please, enjoy reading it and experience my imagination.

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Lulu.com

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0578026759

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9780578026756

Waverly Hills

By: Christophe Bec,Stefano Raffaele,Marie-Paule Alluard

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Waverly Hills

By: Christophe Bec,Stefano Raffaele,Marie-Paule Alluard

A macabre tale of a mother and her young daughter's experiences at one of America's most infamous medical institutions. A true tale of horror, literally!

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Humanoids Inc

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1594654867

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9781594654862

Generalized Locally Toeplitz Sequences: Theory and Applications

Volume I

By: Carlo Garoni,Stefano Serra-Capizzano

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Generalized Locally Toeplitz Sequences: Theory and Applications

Volume I

By: Carlo Garoni,Stefano Serra-Capizzano

Based on their research experience, the authors propose a reference textbook in two volumes on the theory of generalized locally Toeplitz sequences and their applications. This first volume focuses on the univariate version of the theory and the related applications in the unidimensional setting, while the second volume, which addresses the multivariate case, is mainly devoted to concrete PDE applications. This book systematically develops the theory of generalized locally Toeplitz (GLT) sequences and presents some of its main applications, with a particular focus on the numerical discretization of differential equations (DEs). It is the first book to address the relatively new field of GLT sequences, which occur in numerous scientific applications and are especially dominant in the context of DE discretizations. Written for applied mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and scientists who (perhaps unknowingly) encounter GLT sequences in their research, it is also of interest to those working in the fields of Fourier and functional analysis, spectral analysis of DE discretization matrices, matrix analysis, measure and operator theory, numerical analysis and linear algebra. Further, it can be used as a textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in numerical analysis.

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Springer

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3319536796

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Guideless the Rivers’ Course

By: Stefano Duetagli

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Guideless the Rivers’ Course

By: Stefano Duetagli

Stuart Walker Purloin was given the name Margarite Ecclesia at birth. Never comfortable in a woman’s body, in early adulthood, Margarite completes transgender surgery in Holland after living through the hell of a small, southern town as a “transvestite.” Returning to Margarite’s hometown as Stuart, they are immediately targeted as a convenient solution to a murder case and sent to a maximum-security prison in Raiford, Florida; he is inmate 123047. The journey through this hell to Stuart is much like Dante’s journey through the inferno. During a life in the hell of bigotry and imprisonment, three Virgil-like saviors appear unexpectedly to guide Margarite, and then Stuart, through a modern inferno. A novel, Guideless the Rivers’ Course, tells a story of self-exploration, resolution, and redemption from the vagaries of prison for an inmate who used to be a woman, unexpected salvation for a good man who lived inside a good woman, and ultimately, the story of a town where ghosts emerge to protect one of its own.

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iUniverse

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1532085095

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9781532085093

Re-inventing the Italian Right

Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

By: Stefano Fella,Carlo Ruzza

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Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

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Book's by Stefano Fella

New Labour and the European Union

New Labour and the European Union

Anti-Racist Movements in the EU

Anti-Racist Movements in the EU

Re-inventing the Italian Right

Re-inventing the Italian Right

An Offer We Can't Refuse

An Offer We Can't Refuse

The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics

The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics

Looking at Life

Looking at Life

Waverly Hills

Waverly Hills

Generalized Locally Toeplitz Sequences: Theory and Applications

Generalized Locally Toeplitz Sequences: Theory and Applications

Guideless the Rivers’ Course

Guideless the Rivers’ Course

Re-inventing the Italian Right

Re-inventing the Italian Right

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