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Introduction to British Politics

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:52:43 +0000

This is the long-awaited third edition of Dearlove and Saunders’ highly acclaimed, best-selling, textbook on British politics. The book has been completely rewritten, reorganized and updated, while retaining the distinctive style and approach of the earlier editions. At root, this book is about political power – how it is organized formally within the State and how it is exercised and influenced informally from outside.

Written in lively and provocative prose, the volume presents the most systematic and penetrating analysis of who really runs Britain, to what end, and to whose advantage. Fully up to date, this new edition provides comprehensive coverage of the issues of the day – constitutional change, welfare reform, New Labour’s Third Way, the European common currency, globalization, and much more. The volume also provides students with a highly readable and engaging guide to the key theoretical perspectives that have shaped the study of British politics.

This outstanding volume will prove invaluable reading for all students of British politics, whether they are studying for A-level or undergraduate university courses. Please visit the accompanying website at: http://www.polity.co.uk/britpol

Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500

Arnaldo Ageno — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:01:58 +0000

Between the `Black Death’ in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Yet the traditional story of the Renaissance has been dramatically revised in the light of new scholarship, and new issues have greatly enriched our understanding of the period. Emphasis has been placed on recreating the experience of contemporary Italians – the patrons who commissioned the works, the members of the public who viewed them, and the artists who produced them.

In this book Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of the Italian Renaissance. Giving equal weight to the Italian regions outside Florence, she discusses a wide range of works, from paintings to coins, and from sculptures to tapestries, examines the issues of materials, workshop practises, and artist-patron relationships, and explores the ways in which visual imagery related to contemporary sexual, social and political behaviour.

Disgrace

Arnaldo Ageno — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:18:57 +0000

sAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

La chaise bleue

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:51:05 +0000

Ce jour-là, Escarbille et Chaboudo se promenaient dans le désert. Et dans le désert, il n’y avait rien. Rien, sauf…une tache bleue, au loin. Ils s’approchèrent : c’était une chaise. C’est fou ce qu’on peut faire avec une chaise bleue.

Il cinema russo e sovietico

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 05:05:38 +0000

La cinematografia sovietica è stata una delle grandi cinematografie mondiali, segnata da capolavori a tutt’oggi insuperati. Giovanni Buttafava, massimo specialista italiano, ne racconta la storia, evidenziandone i periodi più fecondi e i protagonisti fondamentali, da Pudovkin a Ejzenstejn, da Medvedkin a Dovzenko. Il saggio parte dal cinema muto del periodo zarista, attraversa la travolgente stagione delle avanguardie, descrive il travagliato periodo staliniano e quello successivo del disgelo, arriva all’inquietante era brezneviana, con l’esordio di nuovi registi oggi pienamente affermati, come Nikita Michalkov, Andrej Tarkovskij, Otar Ioseliani. Segue quindi un’indagine vivissima sugli anni ’60 e ’70: vi si parla dell’evoluzione dei gusti dello spettatore sovietico, del lento affermarsi di un nuovo modo di vedere la realtà attraverso la macchina da presa, delle resistenze spesso insormontabili della censura, dell’affacciarsi di insospettati giovani talenti che rifiutano le grigie convenzioni del realismo socialista e confermano la vitalità e l’anticonformismo del cinema russo.

Xiao wang zi 小王子 Il piccolo principe in lingua cinese semplificata

Arnaldo Ageno — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:42:49 +0000

《小王子》是法国作家圣埃克苏佩里最有影响的作品，为我们讲述了一个发生在非洲撒哈拉大沙漠中如梦如幻的故事：在撒哈拉沙漠，一名迫降的飞行员遇见了一个从外星来的小王子。这个可爱的小人儿在到处寻觅友情，他曾经访问过六颗行星，第一颗行星上住着一个可笑的权欲迷；第二颗行星上住着一个虚荣狂；第三颗行星上住着一个酒鬼；第四颗行星上住着一个贪婪的商人；第五颗行星上住着一个自私的灯夫；第六颗行星上住着一个不知海洋、山脉为何物的地理学家。小王子认为，爱和友情是高于一切的，那么爱和友情到哪里去寻觅？童话结尾揭示了底蕴：爱和友情就在我们身边。

这部童话语言纯净，充满感情和诗意，到目前为止已被翻译成一百多种文字，被认为是二十世纪最伟大的童话。

Hoshi no Oujisama 星の王子さま Il Piccolo Principe in giapponese

Arnaldo Ageno — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:55:16 +0000

世界中で100以上の言語に訳されている名作『星の王子さま』．英語の初版本と，版権を所有するフランス・ガリマール社版を比べると，さし絵の色調やタッチが微妙に異なっていました．このたびサン＝テグジュペリの生誕100年を記念して，作者が生前目にした唯一の版といわれる英語版に基づいて，オリジナル版『星の王子さま』をお届けします．

La Résistance expliquée à mes petits-enfants

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:40:15 +0000

Que fut réellement la Résistance au temps de l’occupation allemande ? Comment fut-elle vécue, au jour le jour, par ces hommes et ces femmes que réunissait un même refus de la défaite et de la servitude ? Comment parvinrent-ils à créer des réseaux actifs, à diffuser une presse clandestine, à entreprendre des actions militaires ? Au-delà des polémiques et des légendes, c’est la quotidienneté d’un combat que raconte ici Lucie Aubrac. Sur un ton direct, avec clarté et patience, elle répond aux questions de ses propres petits-enfants, mais aussi à celles de milliers d’écoliers ou lycéens qu’elle rencontrait chaque année avant sa disparition en 2007.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Colazione da Tiffany)

Arnaldo Ageno — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:17:55 +0000

Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn’s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Truman Capote’s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

It’s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany’s. And nice girls don’t, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while – down. Pursued by to Salvatore ‘Sally’ Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing and ‘Rusty’ Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly ‘top banana in the shock deparment’, and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Le premier homme (il primo uomo)

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:42:46 +0000

«En somme, je vais parler de ceux que j’aimais», écrit Albert Camus dans une note pour Le premier homme. Le projet de ce roman auquel il travaillait au moment de sa mort était ambitieux. Il avait dit un jour que les écrivains «gardent l’espoir de retrouver les secrets d’un art universel qui, à force d’humilité et de maîtrise, ressusciterait enfin les personnages dans leur chair et dans leur durée».
Il avait jeté les bases de ce qui serait le récit de l’enfance de son «premier homme». Cette rédaction initiale a un caractère autobiographique qui aurait sûrement disparu dans la version définitive du roman. Mais c’est justement ce côté autobiographique qui est précieux aujourd’hui.
Après avoir lu ces pages, on voit apparaître les racines de ce qui fera la personnalité de Camus, sa sensibilité, la genèse de sa pensée, les raisons de son engagement. Pourquoi, toute sa vie, il aura voulu parler au nom de ceux à qui la parole est refusée.