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Franco Micali Baratelli
Edizioni Mursia

Edward Crankshaw
Edizioni Librex

Mario Bussagli
Rusconi

Eugène Ionesco
Rizzoli

Vincent P. O'Hara, W. David Dickson, Richard Worth
Naval Institute Press

The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to demonstrate why the war was won, not in the trenches, but upon the waves. It explains why these seven fleets fought the way they did and why the war at sea did not develop as the admiralties and politicians of 1914 expected.

After discussing each navy's goals and circumstances and how their individual characteristics impacted the way they fought, the authors deliver a side-by-side analysis of the conflict's fleets, with each chapter covering a single navy. Parallel chapter structures assure consistent coverage of each fleet--history, training, organization, doctrine, materiel, and operations--and allow readers to easily compare information among the various navies. The book clearly demonstrates how the naval war was a collision of 19th century concepts with 20th century weapons that fostered unprecedented development within each navy and sparked the evolution of the submarine and aircraft carrier. The work is free from the national bias that infects so many other books on World War I navies. As they pioneer new ways of viewing the conflict, the authors provide insights and material that would otherwise require a massive library and mastery of multiple languages. Such a study has special relevance today as 20th-century navies struggle to adapt to 21st-century technologies.

Vincent P. O'Hara, W. David Dickson, Richard Worth
Naval Institute Press

An international team of naval historians and scholars has pooled their expertise for this definitive reference on how the great navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. Each navy has its own chapter, which covers such key features as weaponry, training, logistics, and doctrine. In bringing together data buried in specialized works in various languages, the authors deliver a fresh, multinational view of the naval war.

Nora Possenti Ghiglia
Àncora

E' il primo volume che presenta la storia dei coniugi Maritain attraverso un personaggio che è vissuto accanto a loro per tutta la vita: Vera, sorella di Raissa. Una figura sconosciuta ai più ma fondamentale. E questa verità viene rivelata per la prima volta attraverso documenti inediti che l'autrice dopo dieci anni di lavoro paziente e attento ha rinvenuto nel Centro studi Maritain a Kolbsheim: si tratta di lettere, appunti, carteggi che Vera ha lasciato a testimonianza di tutto questo e che si sono riprodotti all'interno del volume.

Furio Sampoli
Newton Compton editori

Il volume è una sorta di palcoscenico di odi, di turpitudini, di efferatezze nell'arco di trecentocinquanta anni dall'apollineo demiurgo dell'impero di Roma, Ottaviano Augusto, al primo imperatore cristiano e insieme demiurgo della decadenza. Con lo spartire l'impero ai figli, come fosse una proprietà privata, Costantino spalancava le porte al vento devastante delle guerre fratricide, poi alla separazione dell'impero d'Occidente da quello d'Oriente.

Robin Pickering-Iazzi
University of Toronto Press

The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani, and Silvana La Spina, as well as famous witnesses such as Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, and Rita Atria who provide personal, often terrifying testimonies about their experiences with the Mafia. It is a historically diverse examination of criminal and outlaw institutions by some of the most significant figures in Italian literature.

These newly translated writings show the ways in which Italians perceived and wrote about the Mafia and crime from the 1880s to the 1990s. Among them are stories dealing with the important legends used by the Mafia as sources for their image and ideology, legends such as the brigand and the Blessed Paulists. Some of the fascinating themes discussed are connections between the Mafia, the State, and the Catholic Church; the Mafia and children; women and the Mafia; the Black Hand; and relations between the Mafia and the Allied Forces during the Second World War. Robin Pickering-Iazzi incorporates an invaluable introduction that charts key periods in the history of Italy and the Mafia, and profiles each of the authors in the collection, noting their major works in Italian as well as those available in English. These and other features make this text especially appropriate for courses in Italian studies.

Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature takes a unique and intriguing approach to the subject of the Mafia, and offers informed judgements about its historical impact on Italian society and culture.

Gian Alberto dell'Acqua
Banca Popolare di Milano

Roberto Cabrini
Grafiche Rossi

Claudio Pozzoli
Rusconi

Domenico Carro
Rivista Marittima

Domenico Carro
La Nuova Grafica Formia

Paolo Brianzi
Tipografia Padana

Lidia Bodini Torresani
All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro

Claudio Tiberi
Editoriale Jaca Book

Una serie di efficaci quadri d'insieme di storia dell'architettura, dalla Protostoria egea al tardo Medioevo occidentale: pubblicazione postuma di un insieme omogeneo di frammenti di riflessioni inedite di uno dei pochi docenti della materia nelle facoltà d'architettura italiane, autore anche di contributi fondamentali di carattere metodologico. Intuizioni appena accennate e argomenti trattati a fondo confermano soprattutto una maniera di lavorare, un modo di affrontare con consapevolezza piena la realtà costruita del passato.

H. R. Knickerbocker
Valentino Bompiani

Robin Lane Fox
Rizzoli

Édouard Drumont
Ernest Flammarion

Aurelio Bernardi
Edizioni New Press

Claire Dobbin
Lund Humphries & Co.

By documenting and guiding us on the journeys we make every day, maps influence the way we navigate and identify with our surroundings. The Underground, London Transport, and its successor Transport for London have produced and inspired maps which are navigational, decorative forms of publicity and works of art. This book, which draws on the rich collections of the London Transport Museum, sets out to explore this unique form of visual communication. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day, Claire Dobbin's fascinating narrative provides a chronological account of the mapping of London's Underground. Starting with the magnificent early twentieth-century decorative maps of Macdonald Gill, the evolution of London's diagrammatic Underground map, introduced by Harry Beck's iconic 1931 design, is expertly told. The legacy of Beck's inspiring design is highlighted through selected maps, artworks, posters and merchandise. Incorporating design, art, cartographic, social and transport history, London Underground Maps provides a fascinating account of the capital's innovative approach to decoding and promoting its complex underground network. An accessible narrative coupled with first-class imagery make this book a must for lovers of art, design and cartography as well as the history of London.

Adele Buratti Mazzotta
Edizioni Lativa

Édouard Drumont
Ernest Flammarion