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  • The Girl on the Via Flaminia

    by Alfred Hayes ...
    An American soldier becomes entangled with a desperate young woman in occupied Rome in this "superb" novel of postwar Italy ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Robert is an American GI in Rome during the final months of World War II. Lisa is a young woman obliged to work in Mamma Adele's on the Via Flaminia. The passion they feel for one another is fueled by their separate, and equally desperate, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Girl on the Via Flaminia

    by Alfred Hayes ...
    The Girl on the Via Flaminia, first published in 1949, is a novel of life in Rome, Italy, shortly after the end of World War II. Allied troops occupy the city and the Italians struggle to cope with the soldier's presence while at the same time beginning the slow process of rebuilding their lives and their devastated country. One soldier arranges to share an apartment with an Italian women he has ... Read more

    $2.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exceptions in International Law

    Edited by Lorand Bartels, Federica Paddeu ...
    Many international obligations are subject to exceptions. These can be expressed in several ways: an obligation may be vitiated by the presence of one of its constitutive negative requirements, an obligation may be set aside by the application of another more specific rule, or an actor might have a right to act in a certain way notwithstanding a contrary obligation. Exceptions are also of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Constructing a new framework for rural development

    Edited by Pierluigi Milone, Flaminia Ventura, Jingzhong Ye ...
    Series Book 22 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    "This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the past, peasants and their seemingly simple production models have been criticized for being unable to fully meet the needs of modern society, especially when it comes to world hunger, food quality, and sustainability. However, often neglected is the ... Read more

    $207.99 CAD

  • Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy

    Blaming Women in the Courts and the Press

    by Flaminia Saccà ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume illustrates and analyses the stereotypes and prejudices underlying the social representation of violence against women as it is narrated and described in Italy by the press and by court judgements. After a theoretical reflection on the role of culture and socialisation in reproducing the conditions underlying gender-based violence and its normalisation, and after reconstructing the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • European Political Leaders and the Social Representation of the Covid-19 Crisis

    Leading the Pandemic

    by Flaminia Saccà, Donatella Selva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of the already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy, positioning it at the centre of the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Justification and Excuse in International Law

    Concept and Theory of General Defences

    by Federica Paddeu ...
    Series Book 130 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    The defences available to an agent accused of wrongdoing can be considered as justifications (which render acts lawful) or excuses (which shield the agent from the legal consequences of the wrongful act). This distinction is familiar to many domestic legal systems, and tracks analogous notions in moral philosophy and ordinary language. Nevertheless, it remains contested in some domestic ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    All The Young Dudes

    A BBC Radio 4 comedy

    by Jim Sweeney ...
    Narrated by Jim Sweeney, Cathryn Harrison, Steve Steen, Sadie Shimmin, Stephen Frost, Flaminia Cinque, Izzy De Rosario, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    A gentle comedy drama about the reunion of three old school friendsWhen unemployed teacher Patrick and his wife, high-flying professional Helen, move back to the town where Patrick grew up, they thought life would be simpler. But Patrick's hazy and fond memories of his schooldays are brought back into sharp relief once he's surrounded by the people and places he'd long stopped thinking about, and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Mr Luby's Fear Of Heaven

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    by John Mortimer ...
    Narrated by Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Donnla Hughes, Flaminia Cinque, Jeremy Irons, Marsha Fitzalan, Stephen Critchlow ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    When Lewis Luby (Jeremy Irons) comes to, late at night in an Italian hospital, he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe of God. Surely there has been some mistake: Luby, who has never for one moment believed in the immortality of the soul, cannot possibly be in heaven! John Mortimer had the idea for 'Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven' when he first visited the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • A Tuscan Memory

    Completely gripping and emotional historical fiction

    by Angela Petch ...
    Italy, 1923. In a tiny hamlet nestled in the Tuscan mountains, farmers gather after a hard day in the meadows, and children’s laughter rings across the square: but one little boy does not join in their play. Behind his deep brown eyes hides a heartbreaking secret… Ninety years later. When elderly Giselda Chiozzi discovers a lost little boy, curled up asleep in the beech forest outside her grand ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Left Undone

    A Novel

    by Adriana Trigiani ...
    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling.”—People, "Book of the Week""Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."—Library Journal (starred)“The beauty of any book by Adriana Trigiani is her ability to interweave life and fiction. . ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A Farewell to Arms

    The Hemingway Library Edition

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Series series Hemingway Library Edition
    The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD