The Pursuit of Italy

The active pursuit of social and labour rights is a crucial response to globalization. These essays - by leading scholars from the UK, France, Germ...

Traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience. Featu...

Reducere. In 1900, King Hubert of Italy was assassinated. The countrywas new yet weak. The people were poor. The economic andpolitical future of Italy was un...

Reducere. The unexpected death of a favorite cousin takes Iowa newspaper reporter Tony Harrington and his mother, Carlotta, to the Amalfi Coast of Italy for ...

A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...

Reducere. DescriptionCarla Coulson had it all, or so everyone told her--a glamorous inner-city apartment, a successful business and a designer wardrobe. One ...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatj...

Reducere. A gothic mystery novel and story of passion and romance set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape, The Wanderess tells of the ...

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world-from American shooters and ISIS ...

Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts w...

- Features breathtaking perspectives and stunning photography of Germany's roads and countryside- Includes maps and hot tips for routes and hotels ...

DescriptionAlthough soccer had long been the world's game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to A...