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February 2023Aus ihrer Sicht
Roman | Das hochpolitische Schicksal einer Frau im von Faschismus und Patriarchat beherrschten Italien
by Alba de Céspedes
Rom, 1939. Alessandra wächst in bescheidenen Verhältnissen auf. Ihre Mutter – ein außergewöhnliches Klaviertalent – wird vom Ehemann ständig in ihre Schranken verwiesen, und so wird Alessandra früh eingebläut, welche Rolle für Frauen vorgesehen ist. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod der Mutter wird sie vom Vater in ein Dorf in den Abruzzen geschickt, wo sie lernen soll, sich zu fügen. Doch Alessandra ist ein freier Geist, sie politisiert sich und fordert nichts weniger als die Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau. Als sie zurück in Rom den antifaschistischen Philosophen Francesco kennenlernt, scheint sie endlich am richtigen Ort angelangt zu sein. Doch es wird ihr viel zu spät klar, was ihr für die ersehnte Freiheit abverlangt werden wird. Dieser radikal »aus ihrer Sicht« erzählte Roman ist die Geschichte einer großen Liebe und eines Verbrechens. In einem von Faschismus und dem Patriarchat beherrschten Italien entspinnt sich das intime und hochpolitische Schicksal einer Frau, die das Unmögliche möglich macht: Resignation in Rebellion zu verwandeln.
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April 2004Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden: Paradoxien der Mode
by Alessandra Corti, Elena Esposito, Elena Esposito
Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia. Elena Esposito lehrt Soziologie an der Universität Modena e Reggio Emilia.
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March 2002Soziales Vergessen
Formen und Medien des Gedächtnisses der Gesellschaft
by Elena Esposito, Alessandra Corti, Jan Assmann, Elena Esposito
Unsere Gesellschaft hat den traditionellen Sinn von Gedächtnis der antiken und vormodernen Gesellschaften verloren: die Vorstellung, daß das Gedächtnis – noch grundsätzlicher als zur Aufbewahrung der individuellen Erinnerungen – dazu dient, dem Kosmos eine Ordnung zu geben und Richtlinien für Denken und Handeln zu liefern.Formen und Stärke dieses Gedächtnisses hängen mit den verfügbaren Kommunikationsmedien zusammen: von der Schrift bis zu den Massenmedien und den jüngsten elektronischen Technologien. Diese Medien, die viel mehr zu erinnern und zu vergessen erlauben, verlangen immer komplexere soziale Strukturen. Wie zeichnet sich dann aber das Gedächtnis unserer informatisierten technischen Gesellschaft aus? Wieviel muß es vergessen können, um noch eine Orientierung in einer chaotischen und selbstreferentiellen Welt behalten, also um noch erinnern zu können?
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January 2024Dian Fossey
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Alessandra De Cristofaro, Svenja Becker
Dian Fossey war eine brillante Zoologin. Mit Leidenschaft und eisernem Willen kämpfe sie gegen Tierhandel und Wilderei an. Sie rettete eine einzigartige Spezies vor dem Aussterben: den Berggorilla. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Persönlichkeiten: Jede dieser Frauen, ob Künstlerin, Pilotin oder Wissenschaftlerin, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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September 2018The Little Yellow Bird
by Alessandra Marconato
“The bird in the cage, does not sing for love but for rage.”A room, a window, a yellow bird in a cage.A woman and two books.Alessandra Marconato’s novel invites us to open the cages around and inside us, in order to conquer authentic freedom. The freedom of critical and conscious thinking, of clear eyes looking upon the world and people. The freedom acquired through an intimate knowledge of ourselves.Alessandra Marconato’s fluent and evocative narrative leads us outside the cage we build around ourselves.A fairy tale following the success of the publication of her novel "La foresta delle Illusioni": an intimate path of growth and reason to not stop dreaming, to keep growing inwardly and socially.The novel is pleasant and consuming reading, and suggests some avenues to be explored.Her direct style – simple but engaging – captivates not only an adult audience, but also preteens and teenagers. The novel is, in fact, a motivational path and an opportunity for personal growth, which encourages young people to develop and use critically linguistic/communicative and interpersonal tools to interact constructively.
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February 2017The Forest of Illusions
by Alessandra Marconato
“The time came when Taras had to start to train herself to become a ruler of the kingdom...”In this way an allegorical novella begins, a story with medieval taste and references to Zen Philosophy. This novel written by Alessandra Marconato is dedicated to adults, inviting them to keep growing and working on themselves.“Taras made her farewell to Maestro and left, she entered into the Forest of illusions...she had the gaze of a person who knew where to go but, at the same time, she lived in a thoughtlessness way..”What will happen along the way? Encounters, adventures, silences, choices.A suggestive path of growth during which magical elements weave together to discover a personal identity and a “social role”.Among fantastic places, animal totems and visions, Taras will lead us along the Forest to conquer our personal Kingdom...Through an evocative and direct narration, Alessandra Marconato traces a path thanks to which the reader can come back home with a different self-consciousness and a new vision of the world and others. This is not a handbook or a course: it is an original and interesting text, which needs to be deciphered and devised while reading.The novel is pleasant and consuming reading, it captivates not only an adult audience, but also preteens and teenagers. The novel is, in fact, a motivational path and an opportunity for personal growth, which encourages young people to develop and use critically linguistic/communicative and interpersonal tools to interact constructively.The main character is a non-gender specific person– we do not know if Taras is a boy or a girl; the author has decided not to sexually classify the main character in order to overcome stereotypes and to promote a personal growth which has nothing to do with gender.Young readers can easily empathize with Taras and his/her personal experiences, adventures and meetings in order to understand their own growth and social and affective relationships.
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Foglie sparse
by Alessandra Jatta
The October Revolution described through the incredulous eyes of a noble Moscow woman who sees her whole world collapsing in an instant. And her determination to try to save at least her family and her dignity in the midst of the disaster. Alessandra Jatta gives us an unusual perspective on some of the most dramatic moments in Russian history over the last century, revealing the thoughts and concerns of an entire social class at the moment of its decline. A true story, in which the use of photos, excerpts from diaries and documents belonging to the author’s direct ancestors adds value to a narrative that will leave you breathless.
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FictionSeptember 2020Zodiaco Street Food
by Heman Zed
Times change and even organized crime needs to run for cover. Romeo Marconato, former member of the Mala of Brenta, certainly does have a gift: the ability to sniff out good deals. Stuck with a wife he hates, a difficult child and a villa in the Paduan countryside, he has built his business from the ground up at the edges of the law: Zodiaco, a zodiac themed food truck franchise that runs along the Padova-Venezia highway.Then there is super chef Vitiello, tv super star from the show The Simple Cook, and his writers, knees deep in a creative slump for the following season format. And there is also a loose cannon: she waits tables at L’ultimo Doge, hiding her true descent in spite of herself. However, Romeo Marconato is the pivot of the story. Uncontested king of low priced and even lower quality street food, he will be served a juicy opportunity at the hands of his past. All is left to see, is how well he will handle a chain of events well beyond his grasp.
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ALE AND THE OAK
the extraordinary life of trees
by DANIELE ZOVI
Alessandra is an inquisitive girl, she likes walking in the woods with her parents. While they look for mushrooms, she sits under a big oak, follows the race of a squirrel and…she talks with the tree. Rovere (“Oak”), this is the name of the tree, speaks through its vibrant trunk and so Ale learns some secrets about the life of the wood: the wood is not a bunch of trees, but a world of close relations between plants and between planets and animals, and these relations are built on solidarity. Plants interact and help among them. A tender illustrated tale that blends magic and love for nature and will surprise and move kids through the words of Daniele Zovi, one of the m
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A Tale of two towers
by Alessandra de Paula and Graham Meaden
When the neighbor’s sun shines always brighter ... Mr. Mouse and Mr. Hedgehog both loved lying in the sun and having tea. One day, being disturbed by Mr. Mouse’s cherry tree, Mr. Hedgehog builds a tower in order to lie in the sun without any shadows. As Mr. Mouse discovers the tower, he has the idea to make one for himself and being nearer to the sun. But this means new shadows for Mr. Hedgehog ... So the two towers got taller and taller – until they finally collapsed because of an earthquake. Now, the two friends try to find a solution together...
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Travel tips & advice: generalSeptember 2020Sicilia
Personal Jo - Journal
by Alessandra Dammone, SimePhoto
Part journal, part sketchbook, part tongue-in-cheek guide to iconic sights and landmarks, this innovative series of notebooks includes stunning photographs and fun factoids. Visual Notebooks from SIME Books helps you save and organize your notes and memories to treasure forever. The combination of beautiful Photography with blank pages gives you scope and potential to transform this object into a distinctly personal visual journal; the unique natural paper of the cover and inside pages give this notebook a special contemporary feeling that makes for an enjoyable writing experience.
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Food & DrinkSeptember 2016Sweet Venice
Storie di Mori, amori e buranelli Stories of Moors, amours and epicures
by Alessandra Dammone, Colin Dutton
The pastry shop in Veneto it is a complex issue. If at first glance it may seem little represented, on closer inspection it shows ancient roots and holds incredible wonders.Tiramisù, pandori, bussolai buranelli, zaleti, San Martino biscuits, fave dei morti, fritole and galani. A simple pastry. Made of few raw materials, but really good. Sometimes a bit rustic. Completely devoid of superstructures. Just like people. Concrete. Punctual. And straight to the heart. From the same series:• Sweet Sicily. Storie di Pupi, amori e canditi – Sweet Sicily. Sugar and spice, and all nice things
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March 2014Arcobaleni
Fiabe, favole, miti, racconti della memoria - Un laboratorio di intercultura a scuola
by Alessandra Urbano
RAINBOWS Fairy tales, fables, myths, tales of memory written by children during an interculture workshop at school. With parallel text in the language or dialect of origin, and images of the works by Luciano Regoli
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Vita and the Book of the Dead
by Alessandra Cinardi
The novel is the first book of a successful trilogy.It has been published in Italy by a famous Publisher.Vita’s adoptive parents discover that her 13-year-old daughter has got magical powers, so theysend her to a hospital of child Neuropsychiatry.During the recovery, Vita finds out to bedesigned to find the Necronomicon, the SacredBook of the dead.Vita hence attends the Paranormal High School,buried in the Roman underground where she isgoing to learn how to control her talents.She is going to face her more deep-seated fearsand to pass different proofs to cross the threeinfernal circles of Duat – the Egyptian Hell –with the help of her new friends Gandolfo,Ercole, and the sweet Lilith. They have to arriveat Osiris’ sight to obtain the Necronomicon, theSacred Book of the Dead. At the same time, Seth- God of Hurricanes and God of Evils - wants toseize the Necronomicon to put humanity underhis rules. Vita is the main character’s name, andthe Necronomicon is the ancient Egyptian textthat contains the information necessary to thedead in the afterlife, as a guide for the threatening World of Duat.
