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An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analys...
The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals kil...
Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called "one of the best English-language writers on Italy" by the New York Times Book Review, and in Th...
Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult. In the mi...
A Marriage in War and Peace
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went...
Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
A profoundly moving history of Italy's Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust, told through the lives of five Jewish Italian families: the Ovazzas of ...
In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Pa...
How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi
A profile of modern Italy as reflected in the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi traces the president's career and influence, contending that his wealth,...
Photographs of Sicily
Yet her battle is not motivated by hatred, but rather by compassion and a profound sense of justice."....
How the Information Age Threatens to Destroy Our Cultural Heritage
A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the...
Passion, Justice, Freedom--Photographs of Sicily
Letizia Battaglia s story, her unique vision of Sicily, and her fight for justice against the Mafia as revealed in this biographical monograph are as ...
The Loss of Knowledge in the Age of Information
We now have better technology than ever before for studying and preserving the past but at the same time, this very technology threatens to destroy mo...
"For a number of years, Shimon Attie (born 1957) has created his own photographic palimpsests, projecting historical images onto public spaces and the...
Glen Rubsamen's latest book is an extension of his new body of photographic works. It revolves around the Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, better known as t...