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In the centenary of Fausto Coppi’s birth, Beppe Conti proposes a ranking to tell the stories, the adventures and the triumphs of the ten greatest cyclists ever. The choice considers the greatness of the characters before of their results, the years they had competed in, the deeds achieved more than their victories. The emotions aroused among people. Rankings make people discuss, so in the second part of the book 23 famous figures who live with passion the great cyclism, reveals their preferences: journalists, entrepreneurs, doctors and managers. A photographic homage to il Campionissimo closes the book, making us live once again his legend.
Covering a period of more than five hundred years, ranging from the roots of the Portuguese colonization to current days, Boris Fausto narrates the most important facts of Brazilian history. In his detailed analysis of the greater influences that delineate the country’s formation, the author analyzes fundamental institutions, such as the colonial system, the slavery system and the authoritarian regimes of the 20th century. Fausto emphasizes socio-political practices, challenging controversial issues, including reasons for the Portuguese abandoning the enslavement of the indigenous peoples, but enslaving Africans; the maintenance of the Brazilian territory as a whole, while the Spanish colonies were fragmented; and even the difficult transition from the authoritarian regime to the democratic government over the last few decades.
Much has been written about Fausto Coppi, both as a racer and as a man, and about his exploits and death. But very little is known about his highly personal relationship with racing bicycles. The fruit of passionate research and of an unexpected find – the Bianchi racing team’s production registers, which belonged to Pinella di Grandi, the legendary mechanic of Il Campionissimo – this book gives the spotlight to the track and road bicycles that Coppi used throughout his career.
The Italian frame builders of the 1960s and 1970s were the great “tailors” of bicycles and worked not only for the Italian champions of the time, but also for non-Italian ones, such as Eddy Merckx. Starting from Faliero Masi, who built the frame for Fausto Coppi after he left the Bianchi team, the books tells the entrepreneurial stories of Cino Cinelli, Ernesto Colnago, Ugo de Rosa, Francesco Galmozzi, Aldo Gios, Licino Marastoni and Sante Poliaghi, and describes the bicycles they produced both for the general public and for champions. The text, richly illustrated with photographs, also includes an analysis of the Italian industry of racing bicycle components and of the companies (Ambrosio, Campagnolo, Cinelli, 3ttt, Universal, Columbus) that dominated the international scene of the time.
Spray paint cans to coat walls, works that self-destruct and others that don't cost much money, unusual theme parks: that is all it takes to recognise Banksy, but no one really knows who he is. Fausto Gilberti’s new book, dedicated to the street artist with a hidden identity, is full of question marks: Banksy is hiding somewhere, and we have a lot of fun chasing his grafti all over the world. And we can't forget the day he put sharks in a lake in a London park, or when there were no walls around and he painted on the cows in a field. And what about the time he walked into the Louvre and hung a painting without asking permission
The history of the great cyclism, from the pioneers’ firsts adventures at the end of the XVIII century to the very last season: the first bicycle people though was ridden by the Devil, the birth of the Tour de France, of the Giro d’Italia and of other famous competions, the big and the forgotten champions, the feats the made history, the backgrounds, famous rivalries and unfamiliar friendships. Gerbi, the first Tour and Giro’s winners and their comments after the victory, the only woman who ran the Giro with men, the rivalry between Coppi and Bartali, Merckx, Hinault, Pantani’s tragedy, Armstrong’s triumphs and fraud and the nowadays champions. The author is available to update the texts.
This is the little-known story of Alfonsina Strada, born Alfonsina Morini in Castelfanco Emilia – an extraordinary woman who accomplished extraordinary feats. Alfonsina came from a family of nine siblings who lived in the direst poverty in a small Emilian village. Rebelling against her miserable destiny and the judgment of others, she started riding a bicycle, dreaming to become like Gerbi, Ganna, or Petit Breton. She became “Alfonsina Strada”, queen of the crank, die-hard pistarde, the devil in a skirt. Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, at a time when women were expected to become wives, mothers and homemakers, Alfonsina boldly hopped on a man’s bike, flying in the nose of conventions and blazing the trail in the history of sports and of women’s rights. She raced in Bologna, Turin, Milan, Paris and even Saint Petersburg, where she was praised by the Tsar Nicholas the II after setting the women's record. Alfonsina was the only woman to race alongside men and to finish the Giro d’Italia in 1924, completing one stage with a broomstick instead of handlebars. In the wake of her huge popularity, she became a star of the circus and of variety shows before retiring and opening a bicycle repair shop in Milan, whose customers included Coppi and Cavanna. She died in 1950, aged 68, while trying to restart her Guzzi 500.
Sometimes flying by the seat of your pants is the best thing you can do … When Ciara O’Toole and her husband move to Lake Como, Italy, they make plans – to run their own businesses, to learn the language and to immerse themselves in the Italian way of life. But just a few months into the adventure Ciara’s marriage ends and she finds herself alone in a country where she doesn’t speak the language. She is faced with a choice: return to Ireland or stay in Italy and make her new life work. Determined to make a go of it, she throws herself into everything – forging new friendships – whirlwind romances, attempting to eat her own weight in four-cheese pizzas … and learning to fly a seaplane! Her new passion grips her as she works tirelessly towards an all-important milestone: her first solo flight. Told with warmth, humour and disarming honesty, Going Solo on Lake Como is the inspirational story of how one woman finds her wings and takes to the skies. ‘It made me laugh, it made me cry. It is epic in scope but incredibly intimate.’ Jane Maas
A blogger becomes inspired by a friend's troubled marriage in this relationship guide. While working in Arizona, La-Paz (Why Do Married Men Cheat with Unattractive Women? 2011, etc.), a five -foot seven-inch black woman who had to watch my weight continuously to fit the bill as a print model,: met blonde, "regal" Judie on a photo shoot. Although Judie "had graced the cover of numerous high-end magazines," she was desperately unhappy, having recently discovered that her photographer husband was cheating on her with an unattractive fast food worker. Judie's angry pal Jessie encouraged La-Paz to write a book about this phenomenon--men having affairs with women less attractive than their wives--which led to La-Paz meeting Judie's soon-to-be ex and his girlfriend. She also gathered together a focus group of "seasoned women who have overcome every aspect of a challenging marriage" and created a blog in which other people could sound off about infidelity. In this book, La-Paz shares highlights of these meetings and submissions; she also weaves in the relationship challenges of her own girlfriends and the women in her Bible study group. She wraps up by sharing Judie's 40-day journal, revealing the model's post -divorce journey to greater self-love and a new, happier relationship.
The extraordinary story of Ottavio Bottecchia, a Venetian carter from San Martino di Colle Umberto, a war hero, a starving racer in his early thirties, an immediate champion, rich and celebrated, who died suddenly and mysteriously. A book that departs from the many biographies published on the Venetian cyclist that have mainly recounted the Bottecchia-man, investigating the causes of his tragic end, without putting the Bottecchia-athlete at the centre of the story. This biography has been reconstructed with wide-ranging research, introducing elements that have hitherto been ignored or neglected, such as the chronicles in Venetian dialect that Bottecchia provided in 1923 to the Guerin Sportivo or the detailed account of Bottecchia's trip to Buenos Aires in 1925, where he was invited by the Italians of the Club Atletico Huracan.
The Roman Emperor Constantine believed that newborns knew the language of heaven but forgot it as soon as they learned to talk. To preserve the language, he built a palace where he held dozens of babies, fresh out of their mother wombs, and nurses who where in charge of feeding them and keeping them clean, but without touching them or speaking to them. As a result, all the babies withered and died without even crying. Despite this cruel outcome, a secret society was created with the purpose of finding and preserving the divine language the Emperor so desperately sought. Fast forward to 1960s Mexico City where Griselda is born in a family with a devout Catholic mother and an atheistic father. She was born eleven years after the death of Aaron, their first born, a boy who despite his young age, was completely devoted to God. Upon turning eight, Griselda suffers an accident that leaves her clinically death for ten minutes. Her mother, convinced that it was Aaron who resurrected her, becomes obsessed with getting the Church to canonize him, and ends up leaving Griselda to be raised by her father. Years later, and already a college student, Griselda adopts a boy left orphaned by the 1985 earthquake. His name is Moses. Griselda raises Moses as her career as a college professor takes off and she is hired by an international institution that gives her a house, a great salary, and puts Moses in the Luden Trask Mansion, where an important anthropological and historic study is taking place. Griselda finds a passionate relationship, while Moses, already twelve, suddenly and mysteriously disappears. Griselda will soon find out that the Luden Trask institution is just a cover for a powerful and secret society that is still trying to accomplish Constantine’s mission, and that they have abducted Moses. Now, Griselda faces a terrible dilemma where she may have to pay the highest of prices to save her son.
A series of beautifully illustrated gift books for a age group 9-99. Every title takes the reader in a special journey at the discovery of FOOD, MUSIC, FASHION and TIME from curious and unusual perspectives. In the series: LALALA - Music ZIP - Fashion YUM - Food GONG - Time
A series dedicated to the wonders of the world, to discover through precious and peculiar books, filled with sensational illustrations. Not only for the contents, these books are “wonderful” also in their binding, with surprising elements on the cover and for their evocative illustrations. A journey in discovery of our planet’s most incredible animals, divided into 15 categories: from the most wild predators as the formidable cheetah and the fierce orca, famous for their refined hunting techniques, to the “brainers” as the chimp and the gray parrot, which shows incredible, brilliant attitudes. In the categories also theextinct, the fantastic, the luminous animals find their place. The contents and the curiosities of each animal will be enhanced by illustrations of a big impact.
En estas Calles de escritos "Miro", como la llaman sus amigos, ha hecho una mezcla de creacion elitista o popular: Versos sueltos y rimados: titulos largos y cortos; estilos diferentes; apogeo de epoca. Quizas por ello, este libro la escritora lo define como "Una compilacion de las Musicas y Momentos vividos en mi vida"
The fruit of an extensive research by Professor Percival Tirapeli, this richly illustrated work covers three centuries of Colonial and Baroque art, and is divided in three parts: “Colonial Urbanism”, “Ecclesiastical Architecture” and “Sacred Art – Furniture and Ornamentation”. “Colonial Urbanism” explains the differences and approximations of the layout and planned urbanism between Hispano-American and Portuguese-Brazilian cities. “Ecclesiastical Architecture” analyzes the cathedrals of the viceroyalties, the audiences and the Brazilian sees. The section “Sacred Art – Furniture and Ornamentation” completes the analysis of churches, examining their retable façades, the furniture of the altars and their ornamental complements, such as sculptures and paintings.
An extraordinary debut, the story of a woman who fights through life like a gladiator in post-WWII Rome. It’s 1943—families are crowded and hungry. Tullia and her brothers are raised as slaves by their violent, furiously unhappy mother. Every evening she counts the money they were able to raise from the streets, and if it’s not enough, she beats them. Tullia is forced to grow up pretty fast, to work with her head down. But the way she sees the world is brave, curious, full of life. Her desperate will to survive, to make something different out of the misery of her life, is so powerful it’s impossible not to remain in awe of her strength, her dignity, and her relentless resilience. She leaves behind her abusive mother, but her majestic figure, her beauty, her clear intelligence, torment her as she becomes a woman and a mother, without ever learning how to be a daughter. She is lonely, but she’s not alone: fascinating, dirty, loud, hopeful, eternal Rome is a mother and a friend to Tullia who grows in its warm yet unforgiving embrace. Laura Mancini’s writing is transparent and imaginative, atmospheric. Reading Niente per lei is like watching history go by outside a window: it’s impossible not to see in it a blurred reflection of ourselves.
This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.
