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In a far-off ocean lagoon, a young ham-merhead shark pup who is different from the others learns how to deal with bullies, hearing his mom de-scribe
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FictionSeptember 2021Tres Horizontes (Three Horizons)
by Lina Flórez / Pablo Pérez
The Colombian city of Medellín thru the eyes of three women for different generations.
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FictionNovember 2022Las cosas que ya no están (Things that are no longer there)
by Tatiana Torres Álvarez
At the end of the day, a reader crosses Bogotá. The landscape, the reflections and the notes in the margins of the pages of a book shake the memories of a love.
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FictionFebruary 2021Basuras (Rubbish)
by Miguel Ángel Vallejo
A hard-boiled story set in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia where a homeless man becomes a hero for his community.
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January 2011Die Lagune der Delfine
Erfrischende Geschichten von tollen Tümmlern und flossenflinken Flippern
by Herausgegeben von Wehrhahn, Antonia
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June 2016Ein Leben für ein Leben
Roman
by Louis Begley, Christa Krüger
Der New Yorker Kriegsveteran und Bestsellerautor Jack Dana hat sich zum Schreiben auf die Insel Torcello in der venezianischen Lagune zurückgezogen. Und auch, um die dunklen Schatten vergangener Ereignisse, den Mord an seinem Onkel Harry und die Trennung von seiner großen Liebe Kerry, abzuschütteln. Doch just, als er beschließt, nach New York zurückzukehren und um Kerry zu kämpfen, erhält er einen Anruf: Kerry ist tot. Jack ist sich sicher, dass auch sie ermordet wurde. Hat sein alter Widersacher, der mächtige Abner Brown, wieder seine Fährte aufgenommen? Jack sinnt auf Rache – und nimmt den Kampf mit einem gefährlichen Gegner auf. In Ein Leben für ein Leben spinnt Louis Begley ein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel zwischen Long Island und New York. Ein Roman über einen Mann, der alles riskiert, um die Menschen, die er liebt, zu rächen.
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The ArtsSeptember 2013Launder and Gilliat
by Bruce Babington, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the producer-writer-directors of a succession of famous and well-loved films including Millions Like Us, Two Thousand Women, Waterloo Road, The Rake's Progress, I See a Dark Stranger, The Blue Lagoon and The Happiest Days of Your Life. This study of the pair is notable both for its contextualising of them within English and British culture over four decades, including British cinema's 'golden age' of the war and immediate post-war years, and for its close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite their popularity. Scholarly but not pedantic, the book shows its subjects to be not ordinary mainstream practitioners but deceptively serious filmmakers registering the 'ideological weather' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative ways. ;
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Business, Economics & LawFebruary 2018Strategic Management in Tourism
by Luiz Moutinho, Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez, Alejandro Pérez-Ferrant, Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez, Anne-Mette Hjalager, Brent W Ritchie, Dawn Gibson, Eduardo Parra-López, Geoff Southern, James Wilson, Jithendran Kokkamikal, José Alberto Martínez-González, Kanes Rajah, Kun-Huang Huarng, Larry Dwyer, Luiz Moutinho, María Moral-Moral, Mercedes Melchior-Navarro, Noel Scott, Rafael Alberto Pérez, Ronnie Ballantyne, S.F. Witt, Scott McCabe, Shirley Rate, Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu, Vanessa Yanes-Estévez, Yawei Jiang, Yvette Reisinger
This comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. Fully updated throughout, this new edition: -Covers forecasting, functional management and strategic planning; -Includes extra chapters to incorporate a wider spread of important topics such as sustainability, authenticity and crisis management; -Contains pedagogical features throughout, such as learning objectives, questions and case studies to aid understanding Now in its third edition, and reviewing the major factors affecting international tourism management, this well-established student resource provides an essential overview of strategic management for students and professionals in the tourism sector.
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Biography & True StoriesVenice is lagoon
by Roberto Ferrucci
After the two tragedies avoided in summer 2019, the theme of the cruises ships in the lagoon has returned to international prominence. For too many years Venice has been waiting in vain for the solution to what is only one of the serious problems that afflict the city (tens of millions of tourists who besiege it every year, thousands of apartments Airbnb and the consequent hemorrhage of residents, the scandal of the Mose, the most useless and expensive public work in Europe) and the solution can only be one: out the ships from the lagoon. This long story, that in France has been defined a récit, tries to give voice to those who live in Venice and is forced to suffer the sieges of mass tourism. In an alternation between the lagoon and Saint Nazaire, where most of the cruise ships are built, the narrator and his companion do the accounts with the consequences of these epochal anomalies. They are looking, like other Venetians, for a possible key to resistance in a city where obstacles are increasing day by day, in the face of the indifference of institutions often hindering themselves. Venice, which has become the crossroads and the emblem of an era finally forced to come to terms with a nature that is showing us the bill, that tells us to hurry, that time is up. A book that tries with the word to find an alternative route, a possible and necessary reversal of course to save the most beautiful and fragile city in the world, and with it the entire planet. The series: Taccuini d'Autore collects books on the road. Texts that travel around the world, crossing the frontiers of writing, crossing this abstruse era looking for traces of meaning, meeting stories, landscapes, characters. Books that accompany us in our daily lives and in ours elsewhere.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018Byzantine Venice
From the foundation myth to 1082
by Nicola Bergamo
Nicola Bergamo's in-depth study proposes an historical excursus on the evolution of relations between the nascent city of Venice and the powerful Byzantine empire, from the first Venetian settlements in the lagoon eaves of the Augustan X Regio Venetia et Histria, through the devastating gothic wars and the Longobard invasion, until the fiscal liberation of 1082 with the chrysobolla granted by the basileus Alessio I Comneno, which greatly increased the commercial fortune of the Venetians within the Mediterranean, consolidating what would become a shining thousand-year-old republic. A change also in the political power that from the exarch, the tribune and the magister militum would pass to the elite families who elected the first duces, and would move its centre of gravity from the primitive capital Civitanova on the mainland to the lagoon nucleus of Rivoalto around which the city would develop, seeking a solution to the continuous struggles between the patriarchates of Grado and Aquileia and the assaults of the Narentan pirates who crossed the ships on their way to Constantinople.The essay is accompanied by an introductory text by PierAlvise Zorzi.
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FictionMarch 2021Lagoon Whisperer
by Gunnar Kunz
Come to me. Don’t be afraid. Resist no longer the whispers of the lagoon. Climb down the stairs of the sunken houses of Venice, floor by floor. Deeper. Deeper. Below, in the darkness, something is waiting for you. A secret. Salvation. Death. Black fog creeps towards Venice, black as the paint of a gondola, meandering through the lagoon and filling the channels with something dark. Something evil. Something that brings death and doom. Marco, son of a glassblower, and his girlfriend Chiara, the mask-maker, seem to be the only ones capable of saving Venice. But in doing so, they must not only fight against ancient magic, against intrigue and betrayal, but also surrender themselves to the whispering of the lagoon - and the fish-men, who according to legend live deep under the city.
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The ArtsMarch 2003Svevo in Venice
by Paolo Puppa
Few people know it, but Italo Svevo lived for over fifteen years in Venice, at the Sacca Serenella on the island of Murano, commuting, a little anonymous and a little dark, between this strip of land surrounded by the lagoon and his native Trieste. His father-in-law Gioacchino Veneziani's father-in-law, Gioacchino Veneziani's father-in-law, had a heavy burden as director of the Murano branch of the large Trieste underwater paint factory, but duty came first.This long period is marked by hours and hours spent waiting for the chemical preparation to be melted in the furnaces; by his assiduous correspondence with his wife Livia, who remained in Trieste; by nights stolen from sleep to write or reflect; by shrill notes torn from a violin that seemed to mockingly parody the torment of his frustrated soul. Paolo Puppa reconstructs, starting from the original correspondence of the writer from Trieste, the stay of Ettore Schmitz-Italo Svevo in Murano, giving life to a real monologue of the soul.Svevo appears there in all his human weakness, torn between the anxiety to write and the duty to work, between the passionate love for his wife and living with an island that is not always a friend.Only the sunsets in the lagoon, the wandering through the calli, the Venetian festivals know how to make the sensitive eyes of the writer shine, recluse almost in a hermitage surrounded by water. "Svevo a Venezia" has a preface by Elvio Guagnini, director of the magazine of Swabian studies in Trieste and full professor of Italian literature at the University of Trieste. The full text will be recited by Mario Valgoi at the Conservatory of Trieste with the accompaniment of the pianist Carlo Carratelli.
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December 2016Arcan Venice
The Curious, the Eros, the Fantastic, the Occult
by Claudio Dell'Orso
The evocation of the devil by the courtesan Veronica Franco with the King of France. The spy initiation of Mata Hari a few days after the Great War. The black diary of Edgar Allan Poe found by Baron Corvo. The head that screams in Lista dei Bari. The Stargate at San Simeon Grando. The young Stalin on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The strange kidnapping of the Japanese ambassador. The extravagances of the Marquise Luisa Casati-Press. The deposits of human bones in the lagoon islands. The mysterious rockfall in Campo San Boldo. The haunted houses and ufological sightings... the Venice of the unusual, magical city par excellence, told with the usual irony by Claudio Dell'Orso.
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Travel & TransportItalia coast to coast
400 km from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian
by Simone Frignani
The charm of central Italy united withan actual coast-to-coast adventure. Aunique and charming itinerary envisagingeighteen days on foot (or nine by bicycle)along paths and dirt roads, leadingfrom the Monte Conero promontory tothe Monte Argentario one – on the roadtowards the discovery of undergroundcities and ancient roads. Including visitsto medieval towns such as Nocera Umbra,Assisi, Todi (perched as a guard over theTiber River), Orvieto (with its splendidGothic cathedral) and then the tuff citiescalled Sorano, Sovana and Pitigliano,all the way to the nature reserve of theOrbetello lagoon (in the Maremma area).
