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Pastrengo is a Milan-based literary agency founded on September 2016 by Francesco Sparacino and Michele Turazzi. Pastrengo represents Italian authors of fiction (commercial and literary, young adult) and non fiction.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 1996In contact with the Gods?
Directors talk theat
by Maria M. Delgado, P. P. Heritage
In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theatre in the last 20 years. They include Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Augusto Boal, Jorge Lavelli, Lluis Pasqual, Lev Dodin, Maria Irene Fornes, Jonathan Miller, Jatinder Verma, Peter Sellars, Declan Donnellan, Ariane Mnouchkine, Ion Caramitru, Yukio Ninagawa and Robert Wilson. In addition to the art and craft of directing, there are discussions on multiculturalism; the "classical" repertoire; theatre companies and institutions; working in a foreign language; opera; Shakespeare; new technologies; the art of acting; design; international festivals; politics and aesthetics; the audience; and theatre and society. Finally, there is an epilogue by Peter Brook, Jonathan Miller and Oliver Sacks. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2003'Other' Spanish theatres
Erasure and inscription on the twentieth-century Spanish stage
by Maria M. Delgado
'Other' Spanish theatres challenges established opinions on modern Iberian theatre by considering the roles of contrasting figures and companies who have impacted upon both the practice and the perception of Spanish and European stages. In questioning the primacy of the dramatist, this pioneering study offers a new interpretation of a nation's theatrical culture that has been viewed primarily through the prisms of a select number of playwrights. Accordingly many of the conclusions reached are new ones, and the case, for acknowledging the wide influence of Spanish practitioners on theatre in Europe and the Americas is made in persuasive terms. Through a bold documentation and interrogation of key productions and their reception both at home and abroad, 'Other' Spanish theatres focuses on the doing of performance, asking provocative questions around how performances are tested against the texts that remain. In a broad and detailed study Delgado selects six case studies which map out alternative readings of a nation's theatrical innovation through the twentieth century: muse and mentor to Federico Garcia Lorca, Margarita Xirgu; theatrical innovator and influence on Orson Welles, Enrique Rambal; tragedienne Maria Casares feted by George Craig Camus, Genet and Cocteau; actress, producer and director Nuria Espert; international director Lluis Pasqual and Catalan performance company La Cubana. ;
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December 2004Gerontopsychiatrie
Grundlagen, Klinik und Praxis
by Herausgegeben von Bergener, Manfred; Herausgegeben von Hampel, Harald; Herausgegeben von Möller, Hans-Jürgen; Herausgegeben von Zaudig, Michael; Unterstützt von Broich, K.; Unterstützt von Bürger, K.; Unterstützt von Calabrese, P.; Unterstützt von Ceballos-Baumann, A.; Unterstützt von Diehl, J.; Unterstützt von Faltraco, F.; Unterstützt von Fischer-Altevogt, L.; Unterstützt von Freyberger, H. J.; Unterstützt von Frölich, L.; Unterstützt von Görnitz, A.; Unterstützt von Gutzmann, H.; Unterstützt von Haass, C.; Unterstützt von Hajak, G.; Unterstützt von Hamann, G. F.; Unterstützt von Haupt, M.; Unterstützt von Hegerl, U.; Unterstützt von Heun, R.; Unterstützt von Hohagen, F.; Unterstützt von Hoyer, S.; Unterstützt von Ibach, B.; Unterstützt von Kockott, G.; Unterstützt von Kohl, K. G.; Unterstützt von Kölsch, H.; Unterstützt von Kordon, A.; Unterstützt von Kornhuber, J.; Unterstützt von Kretschmar, H.; Unterstützt von Kurz, A.; Unterstützt von Lange, K.; Unterstützt von Lewczuk, P.; Unterstützt von Liebetrau, M.; Unterstützt von Padberg, F.; Unterstützt von Pogarell, O.; Unterstützt von Pruessner, J. C.; Unterstützt von Spitzer, C.; Unterstützt von Stotz-Ingenlath, G.; Unterstützt von Teipel, S. J.; Unterstützt von Thürauf, N.; Unterstützt von Trautmann-Sponsel, R. D.; Unterstützt von Walter, J.; Unterstützt von Wiltfang, J.
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September 2020Piers Plowman
The A Version
by William Langland, Michael Calabrese
Passionate about trying to create social justice in a time of crisis after the Black Plague, William Langland spent his entire life working on Piers Plowman, an epic study of the human quest for truth, justice, and community. The “A Version,” the first and shortest of the three versions he crafted, is wonderfully relatable and completely teachable to a modern student audience. Piers Plowman is becoming ever more relevant to students and scholars in English studies. Perhaps because the poem involves culture, religion, community, and work and engages explicitly with the histories of government and popular revolt, this allegorical tale of a wandering Christian named “Will,” searching for truth with the aid of a humble plowman named Piers, has found new critical and pedagogic life in the last 20 years. Currently there are no translations of the A-version of Piers Plowman in print, so readers, scholars and teachers have been longing for an affordable, student-centered translation. The apparatus includes a 30-page historical and critical introduction, footnotes, a bibliography, a note on translation theory and practice, and samplings of the original text in Middle English, with a guide to pronunciation of that language. Piers Plowman is an extraordinary important document about the issues dramatically relevant to this day. It confronts poverty and inequity in 14th-century England and explores the need for virtue and social justice, encouraging its readers to create equality with open access for people of all classes and abilities. Though a Christian poem, Piers addresses issues of inclusivity, social responsibility and communal duty, as the poem’s protagonist wanders about the world, facing injustice and persecution as he looks for truth and salvation. Michael Calabrese, author of An Introduction to Piers Plowman and director of the Chaucer Studio’s Middle English recording of the poem, brings Piers Plowman to life for 21st-century students and for all readers interested in the history of society, virtue, faith and salvation.
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September 2023
Piers Plowan
The A Version, Revised Edition
by William Langland, Michael Calabrese
Passionate about trying to create social justice in a time of crisis after the Black Plague, William Langland spent his entire life working on Piers Plowman, an epic study of the human quest for truth, justice, and community. The "A Version," the first and shortest of the three versions he crafted, is wonderfully relatable and completely teachable to a modern student audience. Piers Plowman is becoming ever more relevant to students and scholars in English studies. Perhaps because the poem involves culture, religion, community, and work and engages explicitly with the histories of government and popular revolt, this allegorical tale of a wandering Christian named "Will," searching for truth with the aid of a humble plowman named Piers, has found new critical and pedagogic life in the last 20 years. Currently there are no translations of the A-version of Piers Plowman in print, so readers, scholars and teachers have been longing for an affordable, student-centered translation. The apparatus includes a 30-page historical and critical introduction, footnotes, a bibliography, a note on translation theory and practice, and samplings of the original text in Middle English, with a guide to pronunciation of that language. Piers Plowman is an extraordinary important document about the issues dramatically relevant to this day. It confronts poverty and inequity in 14th-century England and explores the need for virtue and social justice, encouraging its readers to create equality with open access for people of all classes and abilities. Though a Christian poem, Piers addresses issues of inclusivity, social responsibility and communal duty, as the poem’s protagonist wanders about the world, facing injustice and persecution as he looks for truth and salvation. Michael Calabrese, author of An Introduction to Piers Plowman and director of the Chaucer Studio’s Middle English recording of the poem, brings Piers Plowman to life for 21st-century students and for all readers interested in the history of society, virtue, faith and salvation.
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FictionLike wild beast
by Giuse Alemanno
Oppido Messapico, a small town in deepest Puglia. Costantino Ro chira and his henchmen plan to wipe out the rival mob family, the Sarmenta. It’s all about money and the neighboring Calabrese mob, the ‘Ndrangheta. But the plan works only halfway: by sheer luck the Sarmentas’ only son, Massimo aka Mattanza (Slaughter), a troubled and cruel kid, cheats death, together with his uncles and his cousin Santo. They all leave town on an old Fiat Regata, after clearing the family money and staging their own disappearance. Their trip leads them in the far North of Italy, in Lombardy’s Val Camonica, where an old friend and compatriot, Giovanni Argento, gives them shelter. There, Santo and Mattanza plot their revenge… “Like Wild Beasts” is a tough novel with hard-core nuances, sparing nothing and no one: a Tarantino movie, as told by Giovanni Verga.
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Respiratory medicineMay 2013Advances in Smoking Cessation
by Riccardo Polosa, Pasquale Caponnetto
With approximately 5.4 million deaths annually, tobacco smoking is the leading noninfectious cause of premature mortality in the world. This book of 20 chapters from international experts comprehensively explores smoking-related health issues. The editors have paid special attention to the structure and content of Advances in Smoking Cessation so that only truly ground-breaking yet practical aspects of the topic would be dissected out to offer the reader a terrific learning experience.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Rionero, settembre 1943. Una strage, nessun colpevole
by Giovanni Marino, Pasquale Libutti
On September 26, 1943, Canadian troops liberate Rionero in Vulture, in Basilicata, Italy, while the Nazi-Fascist troops retreat further north. The first soldiers who enter the town discover a massacre of innocent civilians, which took place two days earlier. It is the first time that the Allies are able to document a war crime in Europe: the reports and images of the massacre will be published in countless newspapers in Canada, England and the United States. The trial on Rionero’s bloodshed in 1943 will be held in 1951, without identifying any culprit. This research reconstructs the events of Rionero, where in two separate episodes 18 people were killed and others lost their lives due to war, or in any case remained obscure. Other documentation concerns events that took place in nearby Atella, where two civilians and a German soldier die in unclear circumstances.
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Examinations & assessmentFebruary 2001NAEP Reporting Practices
Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting
by Pasquale J. DeVito and Judith A. Koenig, Editors; Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices, Board on Testing and Assessment, National Research Council
At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of implementing these reporting practices. The committee developed study questions designed to address issues surrounding district-level and market-basket reporting.
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Examinations & assessmentJuly 2000Designing a Market Basket for NAEP
Summary of a Workshop
by Pasquale J. DeVito and Judith A. Koenig; Editors; Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting; National Research Council
At the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to examine the feasibility and potential impact of district-level and market-basket reporting practices. As part of its charge, the committee sponsored a workshop in February 2000 to gather information on issues related to market-basket reporting for the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Designing a Market Basket for NAEP: Summary of a Workshop explores with various stakeholders their interest in and perceptions regarding the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of market-basket reporting for the NAEP. The market-basket concept is based on the idea that a relatively limited set of items can represent some larger construct. The general idea of a NAEP market basket is based on an image of a collection of test questions representative of some larger content domain and an easily understood index to summarize performance on the items.
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Examinations & assessmentJanuary 2000Reporting District-Level NAEP Data
Summary of a Workshop
by Pasquale J. DeVito and Judith A. Koenig, Editors; Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting, National Research Council
The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) has earned a reputation as one of the nation's best measures of student achievement in key subject areas. Since its inception in 1969, NAEP has summarized academic performance for the nation as a whole and, beginning in 1990, for the individual states. Increasingly, NAEP results get the attention of the press, the public, and policy makers. With this increasing prominence have come calls for reporting NAEP results below the national and state levels. Some education leaders argue that NAEP can provide important and useful information to local educators and policy makers. They want NAEP to serve as a district-level indicator of educational progress and call for NAEP results to be summarized at the school district level. Reporting District-Level NAEP Data explores with various stakeholders their interest in and perceptions regarding the likely impacts of district level reporting.
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FictionTHE CONTRACT
by MOJCA ŠIROK
Nominated for The Kresnik Award in 2019 (Award for the best novel in Slovenia). The first body of a man is discovered by the police in a prestigious city quarter, in the villa belonging to one of the most successful lawyers in Rome. This murder is followed by a traffic accident at the other end of Rome and a suicide of a mafia boss in prison. But coincidences exist only in novels, says the chief police investigator. By examining the events behind the scenes, Pogodba, through juicy language, lively dialogues and unexpected plot twists takes the reader into the very heart of mafia activities. The detectives, prosecutors, journalists and politicians often share past connections. Their love affairs and friendships are interwoven with their professional duties, and the lines between where the state ends and the mafia begins, are very fuzzy.
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Sap Hunters
by Romain Benassaya, Alexandre Ristorcelli and Laurent Genefort
The World Tree is dying, threatening the lives of all the clans that inhabit it. Can three Sap Hunters and the last Chasm Strider clan find the source of its sickness in time? All is not right within the branches of the sacred World Tree. Towering huge, its life-giving sap sustains the many divided clans living within it… until the Chasm Strider clan’s diviner, Pierig, discovers the Tree’s sap has become infected! Before he can warn his clan, tragedy strikes and he is violently captured by the Sap Hunter clan, warriors who demand he use his special divining skills to track the source of the corruption. As the sickness eats away at the World Tree, the party works its way down the levels of the massive Tree, inching closer to its roots. But what secrets do the dense roots hide? How deep will this unlikely group descend to save everything they love?Mad Max meets Avatar in this adaptation of Laurent Genefort's novel, as adapted by Alexandre Ristorcelli.
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MusicMay 2011My Music
Explorations of Music in Daily Life
by Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil
A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives.
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Sustainable agricultureJuly 2018Water management for sustainable agriculture
by Theib Oweis
There is increasing competition for water resources in the face of declining aquifer reserves and increasing risk in many areas of drought related to climate change. At the same time poor water management is damaging agriculture with problems such as salinization, waterlogging, erosion and run-off. This volume summarises the wealth of research on understanding and better management of water resources for agriculture.Part 1 reviews fundamental issues such as plant water use and soil water retention. Part 2 discusses ways of mapping and monitoring groundwater and surface water resources whilst Part 3 covers other sources such as rain and floodwater, waste and brackish water. Part 4 surveys developments in irrigation techniques such as drip irrigation and fertigation. The final sections in the book discuss ways of using water resources more efficiently such as site-specific and deficit irrigation techniques.With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, this wlll be a standard reference for agronomists, scientists involved in water and irrigation science as well as government and non-governmental organisations responsible for agriculture and water resource management.
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BoxingOctober 2013Marvelous
The Marvin Hagler Story
by Brian and Damian Hughes
Marvelous Marvin Hagler is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest middleweight boxer of all time, he held the world title for 12 defences, including bouts with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran which entered fistic folklore. From his wild early fights in the boxing wilderness of Brockton, Massachusetts, Brian and Damian Hughes trace the blazing trail of Hagler's career: the controversial defeats subsequently avenged, a riot-scarred title win in London, and his unification of the middleweight crown. Hagler became a huge favourite, taking on all comers while never taking a step back. And so to The Ring magazine's "greatest round of all time" against Hearns, his ferocious battle with Duran, and the still-controversial loss to his nemesis Leonard. Marvelous tells the story of Hagler's extraordinary life for the first time, separating truth from myth to get right to the heart of a complex and charismatic man.
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Biography & True StoriesPadre Pio: The True Story, Revised and Expanded, 3rd Edition
by C. Bernard Ruffin
Before his death in 1968, Padre Pio was known throughout the world as a very holy man — many even called him a living saint. This humble Italian priest who bore the wounds of Christ received thousands of letters and visitors each year, seeking his spiritual counsel, healing, and prayer. Padre Pio’s intense spirituality and holiness remain legendary and life changing. This is the comprehensive life story of the priest who became world famous for his stigmata, miracles, and supernatural insights. Read in detail about the many miracles of Padre Pio, and discover how knowing this powerful saint can change your life, too. By far the best biography of Padre Pio ever written — newly updated with more details and 16 pages of photos!
