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Highlights
Frankfurt Book Fair 2009
Non Fiction
Social sciences, Political theory & History,
Human sciences & Literary studies, Religion, Parenting,
Cinema, Cooking essays, Travel Literature & Sports
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Giorgio Triani
L’ingorgo [Too Much Everywhere. Surviving Excess] Eleuthera (Italy), forthcoming: January 2010 - 160 pp. approx.
Today, wherever one turns, excess is unavoidable. You might be driving
your car or watching TV, eating your lunch or sunbathing on the beach,
attending a conference or sipping a coffee at the bar, on a plane or buying
your groceries, abundance inevitably haunts you.
Far more dramatic and disturbing is that such an excess – in the economy
and society, in the media and technology, in the environment and at home –
is as overwhelming as it is unrelenting. The ever-increasing quantity of
commodities matches the ever-expanding sprawl of commercial outlets, and
standing in queues (at the box-office or the restaurant) is a commonplace for
all of us. Day in and day our daily lives – whether at work or on our “free”
time – we are suffocated by fast-paced experiences in crowded spaces.
With an entertaining style, Too Much Everywhere narrates this world with an
(inevitable!) abundance of data, examples and anecdotes while also
suggesting some possible exit-strategies. At the end of the book, a short
survival manual offers the opportunity to the reader to contemplate the
possibility that while standing still may not be a solution it may be the first
step to salvation. Giorgio Triani, is a sociologist and a journalist. He teaches sociology at the
University of Verona and journalism at the University of Parma. He regularly
writes on social issues and advertisement for Italian periodicals such as “Oggi”
and “Famiglia Cristiana”. He is the editor of La società dello zapping (2005) and
L’album della pubblicità (2006). He also is the author of Bar sport Italia (1994), Casa e
supermercato (1996) e Sedotti e comprati (2002) all published by Eleuthera.
«This is a happily apocalyptic essay about a world and a society that have rushed head-on
into the era of excess, where everything momentously proliferates and constantly
expands. »
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Marco Sioli
American Golem. Lo spazio e il tempo degli Stati Uniti
[American Golem. Space and Time in the United States] IBIS (Italy), 2009 - 11x17 cm, 256 pp., € 12.00
The United States of Bush and Obama are two faces of a coin – a ruling and
hegemonic America on one side, a multi-ethnical and liable America on the
other. This double character has always been constant in the national
history. Therefore, Sioli’s book becomes a journey across the physical
geography of American cities and at the same time a journey through time,
i.e., in United States history. Both levels are seamlessly combined in the
double value of this exceptional country. Marco Sioli teaches History of North America at the University of Milan. He is
vice-president of Réseau pour l’études de la jeune Amérique in Paris and member
of the managing committee of the European Association of Early American
Studies. He is also fellow of the Library Company in Philadelphia, the Gilder
Lehrman Institute for American History in New York, the Huntington Library in
Los Angeles and the Newberry Library in Chicago. His main works: Esplorando la
nazione. Alle origini dell’espansionismo americano and La parabola di Ronald Reagan. Da
Hollywood all’ascesa dei neoconservatori. He collaborates with Ibis as editor of the
Italian edition of: G. Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company
and Conversation; Journey through France and Italy by T. Jefferson; From Sicilia to Alps
by R.W. Emerson.
Diana Carminiati, Alfredo Tradardi
Boicottare Israele: una pratica non violenta
[Boycott Israel, a Non-violent Practice] Derive Approdi (Italy), 2009 - 11x20 cm - 132 pp. - € 10.00
In recent years the State of Israel has brought out a policy of segregation
and repression against the Palestinians – a policy that many considered
even worst than apartheid in South Africa.
What can one do to confront such a situation? More than 170 Palestinian
organizations that represent both refugees and people living in the Bank
and in Gaza, and also the so-called “Israeli Arabs”, addressed an appeal to
the democratic world to employ with Israel the same penalties as enforced
against the South African apartheid – boycott, disinvesting and embargo.
This book illustrates the reasons for the boycott of the Israeli cultural-
military-industrial complex, which today can be the only real alternative to
a spiral of violence that continuously affects that unfortunate country.
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Diana Carminati, a former teacher of History at the University of Turin, is now
involved in peace making projects in Gaza and was one of the International
Observer during the Palestinian elections in 2006. Alfredo Tradardi is a
coordinator of ISM (International Solidarity Movement) – one of the organizations
that promote the campaign Boycott Israel.
See also, in Travel Literature
Cecilia Gentile, Segui le donne. Da Beirut alla Palestina pedalando per la
pace (Follow the Women. From Beirut to Palestina, pedalling for peace)
Fabio Frosini
Da Gramsci a Marx. Ideologia, verità, politica [From Gramsci to
Marx. Ideology, Truth, Politics] Derive Approdi (Italy), 2009 - 120 pages - 14 x 23 cm - € 14.00
This book is an attempt to reconsider Marx following the suggestions
provided by Antonio Gramsci in his Quaderni dal carcere (Prison Notebooks).
This review, which Gramsci only carries our through hints and rapid
programmatic statements, is essential to rethink a possible model of
"Marxism" overcoming the alternatives that have characterized it until his
apparent euthanasia the late 1980s - man / structure, politics / economic
development, truth / ideology, conjuncture / structure, etc. Fabio Frosini has taught Philosophy at the University of Urbino since 1998. He is
the author of many essays, including Gramsci e la filosofia. Saggio sui «Quaderni del
carcere» (Carocci, 2003).
Francesco Codello
Né obbedire, né comandare [Neither Rule Nor Be Ruled] Eleuthera (Italy), 2009 - 160 pp., € 13.00
« I therefore shall not be a competitor with you, for I do not desire either to
rule or to be ruled». This revolutionary statement attributed by Herodotus
to the Persian aristocrat Otanes anticipates by almost 2,500 years the basic
principle of the anarchist worldview.
The book is written for the young reader who, unfamiliar with political
theory, may also have little patience for ideological debates. Using a set of
key words, the author approaches anarchism from an existential
perspective, stressing its pragmatic aspects. Anarchism is thus conceived as
an ethical principle that can guide the daily lives of all those who seek to
change themselves and the world.
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Francesco Codello, a teacher and the referent for the International Democratic
Education Network in Italy, is member of the editorial board of the Italian
anarchist review “Libertaria”. He is the author of Educazione e anarchismo (1995)
and La buona educazione (2005).
«I was struck by the extent to which Francesco Codello’s approach to anarchism closely
resembles my own. » Colin Ward
Claudio Venza
Anarchia e potere nella guerra civile spagnola [Anarchy and Power
in the Spanish Civil War] Eleuthera (Italy), 2009 - 120 pp., book + DVD € 22.00
Seventy years ago, in March 1939 General Franco’s troops entered Madrid,
thus putting an end to a three-year long civil war, which was also
inextricably connected with an Anarchist’s inspired social revolution. For
three years, the whole world participated either ideally or directly to the
Spanish tragedy. Franco’s victory has long been an open wound in the
history of democratic Europe, the more so when one considers the internal
bloody conflicts between antiauthoritarian and totalitarian tendencies that
tore the antifascist camp. Decades had to pass before historical rigor could
overcome the intense emotions these events had engendered. Only recently
can the complex scenario of war and revolution intertwined be investigated
critically, so to finally redeem the “history of the defeated” form the
“dustbin of History” and restore it to the great tradition of historical
utopias. Claudio Venza teaches Spanish history at the University of Trieste, he is also the
co-editor of “Spagna contemporanea”.
The book is completed with the DVD of an original documentary shot in 1936-
37: Spagna 1936: l’utopia si fa storia [Spain 1936: Utopia Turns into History] Barcelona, July 1936: the main character of these rare images is the entire Spanish
people rising in arms against the fascist coup. The documentary, shot as the actual
events were taking place, was originally intended to solicit international antifascist
solidarity. This new version includes a complete new commentary, written by the
Italian novelist Pino Cacucci and read by the actor Paolo Rossi, narrating the
neglected epic of the of the tragic yet inspiring Spanish Revolution.
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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Ombretta Ingrascì
Donne d’onore. Storie di mafia al femminile [Women of Honour. Stories of
Women in the Mafia] Published by Bruno Mondadori Editore (Italy), 2007 - Foreword by Renate Siebert -200 pp.
Full English translation available
Rights available: World, except Polish (Bauer Weltbild Media), Spanish world
(451Editores), German (Juliane Roederer Lit. Ag.)
Women and mafia: a fascinating journey inside a mysterious world
What has been the role of women inside the Italian mafia? How has it changed in
the last thirty years? Far for the traditional image of woman as a simple mother
and wife, and therefore a victim of mafia bosses, this book offers a passionate and
well documented study about the active role of the ladies of Cosa Nostra and
‘Ndrangheta. The author combines a refined selection of sociological,
psychological and juridical literature with first-account testimonies of direct
protagonists whom she personally interviewed- also evoking the dramatic life of
Rita Atria, a teenager who turned state’s evidence, and finally committed suicide.
Ombretta Ingrascì (1974) holds a PhD from Queen Mary College, University of
London, where she graduated with a thesis titled Mafia Women in Contemporary
Italy. Focusing her scholarship about organized crime, she has published several
articles on the topic. She currently combines research with University teaching,
and is also involved in projects and activities of education to legality for secondary
schools.
“Ombretta Ingrascì’s research into women in the mafia (... ) deserves to be translated as
widely as possible.” John Dickie, author of Cosa Nostra. A History of the Sicilian Mafia
“An excellent introduction to such a complex phenomenon as mafia.”
Renate Siebert, author of Le donne, la mafia
“Ingrascì suggests one of the keys to the understanding of the new Mafia is the role
women have been assuming in the criminal world.” La Repubblica
Andrea Casazza
La fuga dei nazisti. Mengele, Eichmann, Priebke, Barbie da Genova
all’impunità [Nazi’s Escape. Mengele, Eichmann, Priebke, Barbie from
Genoa to Impunity] Il Melangolo, 2007, 160 pp., b&w illustrations
This essay originates on the opening of the Buenos Aires Immigration Centre
Archives in 2003. Casazza went there to reconstruct the route of these Nazi
criminal who left from Germany to South America, passing through Genoa. This
town, with the connivance of religious authorities, was an important leg for those
who, losing themselves in the crowd of common immigrants, tried to escape
convictions of Nuremberg and agents of Mossad. The author examines very
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carefully secret services’ papers, which had remained hidden for many years and
partly destroyed by arsons, and he shows the connivance of Péron’s regime,
tracking a worrying network of solidarity with Nazi murderers.
Andrea Casazza (b. in Genoa in 1958) is a journalist for the daily «Il Secolo XIX».
He edited Finestra sul Risorgimento (il melangolo, 2004) for «Il Secolo XIX». He is
the author of the report book Liguria criminale (with Max Mauceri, 2006),
concerning ten unsolved crime cases happened in Liguria, and of three detective
stories taking place in Genoa: Omicidio agli Erzelli (2005), Ego te absolvo (2006) and
Basilico e sangue (2007).
See also, in our Fiction Rights List
Aldo Carpi, Diario di Gusen [The Gusen Diary]
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Leonardo Lippolis
Viaggio al termine della città [Journey to the End of the City - The
Metropolis and the Arts in the Wake of Post Modernity] Eleuthera (Italy), 2009 -136 pp., € 13.00
In July 1972 the Pruitt-Igoe, a Le Corbusier-style residential complex built
by Yamasaki between 1952 and 1955 at the outskirts of Saint-Louis, was
demolished at the request of its inhabitants. Some thirty years from that
emblematic event, on September 11, 2001, the collapse of another of
Yamasaki’s creation, the Twin Towers, was yet another moment of historical
rupture. Was it chance, fate or maybe just an all-too fitting sign of the times?
Journey to the end of the city investigates the crisis of the metropolis and the
imaginary of an age whose inexorable decline can be gleaned through the
transformation of its cities. Thus, Pruitt-Igoe and the Twin Towers
symbolically trace the locus of the post-modern moment whose ever-
changing fabric of the metropolis has shown the ailing symptoms of the
tragic decline of the West. While intellectuals, philosophers, urban
sociologists, novelists and film directors have described such catastrophic
dystopia in the making, artists have striven to find a melancholic haven in
urban heterotopias. It would seem as if such dialectical movement fatefully
contains the destiny of our present age. Leonardo Lippolis (b. 1974), has been studying the articulations between arts,
architecture, politics and the city in a neo-situationist perspective. He is the author
of Urbanismo unitario (2002) e La nuova Babilonia. Il progetto architettonico di una
civiltà situazionista (2007).
Raffaele Mantegazza
Educazione e poesia [Education and Poetry] Città aperta editrice (Italy), forthcoming: November 2009 - 160 pp., € 14.00
A book that suggests a poetical pedagogy, a poetical approach to education, an education to
poetry.
Education that helps a boy to grow as a man and a girl to grow as a woman is a
complex process – it is doubtful that the discourse which tries to describe it should
be compressed by an instrumental and technological reason which pretends to be
all-embracing .A poetical reason is also there. Poetry discovers reality while
inventing and re-creating it, it also creates new realities while discovering
fractures, gaps, shadow areas in what already exists – truth in poetry is in the
tension between existing and new realities.
So, educating a boy or a girls is saying more, showing something that was not
there, enriching reality with new presence, dreaming a world richer with new
human beings, new subjects. Such “something more” can be communicated to
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students, when the teacher's words become in turn poetry. It is possible to educate
to poetry, not only to its technical terms, but also to a spiritual approach to it.
Raffaele Mantegazza teaches Intercultural Pedagogy at the university of Milano
Bicocca. He is the author of several titles, many of them published by Città Aperta.
Other titles available by the same author:
L’odore del fumo. Auschwitz e la pedagogia dell’annientamento
[The Smell of Smoke. Auschwitz and the Pedagogy of Annihilation], Città Aperta, 2001 -
rights sold: Spanish, English
Pedagogia della resistenza [A Pedagogy of Resistance], Città Aperta, 2003
Pedagogia della morte [An Education to Death], Città Aperta, 2004 - rights sold:
Spanish
La fine dell’educazione [The End of Education. An (Anti)pedagogical Utopia], Città
Aperta, 2006
I buchi neri dell’educazione [The Black Holes in Education], Eleuthera, 2006
Augusto Mazzoni
Il dono delle muse. Heidegger e la musica [The Muses’ Gift.
Heidegger and Music] Il melangolo (Italy), 2009 - 128 pp., € 15.00
Heidegger has been an inspirational figure not only for contemporary
philosophy, but also for the arts - and especially music.
This book explores this aspect in Heidegger’s thought, somehow forgotten
by scholars, in order to understand whether Heidegger’s vision of art as a
production of truth can be applied to music. Augusto Mazzoni’s fields of interest are aesthetics, philosophy of music, and
music analysis. He has published essays, contributions and reviews in journals
and for collective works, in Italy and France, and is the author of La musica
nell’estetica fenomenologica (Mimesis, 2004) and La musica nell’ermeneutica
contemporanea.
On the some subject: Giancarla Sola, Heidegger e la pedagogia [Heidegger and Pedagogy] Il melangolo (Italy), 2008 - 160 pp.
A new analysis of the thought of one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth
century, whose texts are here considered from a pedagogical point of view. Giancarla Sola teaches Pedagogy and Clinical Pedagogy at the University of Genoa.
Among her books: Umbildung. La “trasformazione” nella formazione dell’uomo (2003).
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Donatella Puliga
Ospitare Dio. Il mito di Filemone e Bauci tra Ovidio e noi [Sheltering
God. The Myth of Baucis and Philemon from Ovid to Our Times] Il melangolo (Italy), 2009 - 180 pp., € 18.00
Hospitality, and namely give shelter to strangers, is a topical theme today. It
actually has very ancient roots, being the subject of historical tales and
myths. Among them, Ovid’s Baucis and Philemon is especially interesting
as it links the theme of giving shelter to strangers to marital love,
regeneration, change and transformation - as a mean to strengthen (and not
of losing) one’s identity. The author of this book examines how this myth
remains in modern and contemporary literature (both Italian and foreign),
and a rich iconographical chapter shows how this theme for interesting in
figurative arts as well. Donatella Puliga teaches Classical Mythology and Latin Language and Literature
at the Siena University. She is co-author of several books, among which In Grecia.
Racconti del mito, Un’altra Grecia. Le colonie d’Occidente tra mito, arte e memoria,
published by Einaudi.
Franco Vazzoler
Il chierico e la scena [The Scholar and the Scene. Five Chapters about
Sanguineti and Theatre] Il melangolo (Italy), 2009 - 200 pp., 16.00 €
This book is not an essay (nor a collection of essays) about Edoardo
Sanguineti’s theatre. It offers a “tasting” of his dramaturgy, to highlight his
idea of the theatre since the Sixties. More recently, Sanguineti has been
active as an author (L’amore delle tre melarance, The Love for Three Oranges,
for Benno Besson; Sei Personaggi.Com) and a translator of classical texts
(Molière’s Dom Juan, Shakespeare’s King Lear) - marking one of the most
important theatrical experiences of the last years.
The book includes the successful interview with Sanguineti “The scene,
body and desguise” (La scena, il corpo, il travestimento), and an updated
list of his theatrical works. Edoardo Sanguineti (b. 1930) is one of the most important Italian living authors. A
poet and a writer, he has been awarded with several literary prizes. A member of
the avant-garde Gruppo 63 in the Sixties, he is currently a member and founder of
the Accadémie Européenne de la poésie (Luxemburg), a member of Poetry
International (Rotterdam) and president of Oplepo.
Franco Vazzoler teaches Italian Dramatic literature at Genoa University. He is the
author and editor of several books.
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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Maurizio Ferraris
Piangere e ridere davvero. [Laughing and Crying, for Real. A Feuilleton] Il melangolo (Italy), 2009 (Series: Altrescritture) - 110 pp, € 11.00
The first “soap opera” in the history of philosophy
In 45 astonishing and riveting episodes, the book explores the paradox of fictitious
situations. While this subject seems to be quite theoretical, it deeply affects our
everyday lives, and in a number of activities, such as going to cinema, reading
novels, watching TV movies and so on. Here is the paradox: can you really cry for
Anna Karenina, who is not real, a fiction? And more in general: what is the
difference between crying for a movie and crying for the death of Lady Diana?
The subject becomes more complicated in the case of laughing. We really laugh for
jokes, even if they are about unreal events. So, what is the difference with laughing
and crying for real? With humour and philosophical depth, the author tries to
explain, with an unusual approach, why we like novels and movies so much and
why feelings are so important in our life.
Maurizio Ferraris teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the Turin University and has
been visiting professor in major European and American universities. He is the
author of more than 30 books, including: Dove sei? Ontologia del telefonino
(Bompiani 2005); Babbo Natale, Gesù Adulto. In cosa crede chi crede? (2006); La
fidanzata automatica (2007); Storia dell’ontologia (2008), some of them translated in
English, French, German and Spanish.
Simone Regazzoni
Harry Potter e la filosofia [Harry Potter and Philosophy] Il melangolo (Italy), 2008 (Series: Altrescritture), 126 pp., € 11.00
An investigation into JK Rowling’s saga through the lens of philosophy.
Each chapter discusses some great questions of philosophy and existence in a
conversation between the author and Harry, Hermione, Albus Dumbledore, but
also with Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger. What is evil? How could we be happy?
What does it mean to be brave? Does justice really exist? Is magic only
superstition? Which is the relationship between magic and technology?
Simone Regazzoni teaches at the Catholic University in Milan. He is the author of
several successful books, among which La filosofia del Dr. House [The philosophy of
Dr. House, more than 20,000 copies sold] and La filosofia di Lost [The philosophy of
Lost].
Forthcoming by the same author:
Pop filosofia [Pop Philosophy] - conversations with young contemporary thinkers
Il melangolo (Series: Altrescritture): January 2010
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Michael Dummett
La natura e il futuro della filosofia [The Nature and Future of Philosophy] Il melangolo (Italy), 2001 - 160 pp. - English manuscript available
Rights sold: English World (Columbia UP)
A clear exposition of the grounds of analytical philosophy, by one of the
exponents of the British School. All themes and still open problems are critically
examined and traced to their essential nucleus: the connection between reality and
language. This essay is a testimony of one of the greatest European philosophers,
who considers what the future of philosophy may be in a world dominated by
technology.
Michael Dummett belongs to that European philosophical tradition including
Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein. A professor at Oxford University, he has taught
for years Philosophy of Mathematics and Logics. He is the author of a wide work,
particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic,
philosophy of language and metaphysics. Dummett is also an outstanding expert
in the history of Tarots, with various publications to his credit.
Other titles available by the same author:
I tarocchi siciliani [The Sicilian Tarots], Il Melangolo 2003 (200 pp. with colour ill.)
Beppo Levi
Leyendo a Euclides [Reading Euclid] Prologue by Mario Bunge Libros del Zorzal (Argentina), 2000 - 224 pp. - French edited translation available
Rights sold: Brazil (Editora Record), French (Agone), Greek (Patakis), Italian
(Bollati Boringhieri)
«Twenty-two centuries after Euclid wrote the Elements, one of the greatest contemporary
mathematicians scanned from a clear an original perspective the logic of the Euclidean
geometry. The reader learns to see Euclid, as well as his probable teacher, Plato,
through a modern lens. They discover, if they weren’t already familiar with these
figures, the pleasure of conversing with the deceased without recourse to the
occult.» Mario Bunge
Beppo Levi (1875-1961), born in Turin, disciple of the main representatives of the
Italian mathematical school like Corrado Segre, Giuseppe Peano and Vito Volterra,
teached since 1906 at the Universities of Cagliari, Parma and Bologna. It is in
Argentina where Beppo Levi writes (in Spanish) and publishes Reading Euclid
(1947), work that made him feel specially proud. This work remained lost for more
than 50 years. In its lines he looks over the mythical Elements of the famous Greek
mathematician with an agile and accessible style.
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Ivonne Bordelois
Etimologogia de las pasiones [Etymology of Passions] Libros del Zorzal (Argentina), 2006- 208 pp.
Rights sold: Brazil (Nuovo Fronteira), Italian (Apogeo/Feltrinelli)
At first, when people spoke of family, they were referring to a group of slaves; if
we can’t remember this now, it is just because we have chosen to ignore the tight
constriction inflicted by family chains. Up until the end of the 17th century, in
France, the word orgasme meant “rage attack”, yet another interesting fact worthy
of analysis. These subtle transitions cast light over the things that we have decided
to forget or ignore and often concern passions: the deepest and most intense parts
of our lives. This text lets us in to the hidden world of words, to which we are
subtly invited.
Ivonne Bordelois is a poet and an essayist. She has a PhD in Linguistics (MIT)
where she studied with Noam Chomsky and she held a chair at Utrecht University
(The Netherlands). She has written several books, and in 2005 she was awarded
the Sudamericana Prize.
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Francesco Brancato
Creazione ed evoluzione. La grammatica di un dialogo possibile alla
luce della riflessione di Joseph Ratzinger [Creation and Evolution.
Grammar of a possible dialogue in the light of Joseph Ratzinger's
thinking] Città aperta edizioni (Italy), 2009 - 14x21 cm, 224 pp., € 20.00
Today more than ever it is clear not only to scholars, be they scientists,
philosophers or theologians, but also to the public at large, that the
question of the relationship between creation and evolution has become the
“crossroads” where the dialogue between theology and the sciences - and
between faith and reason - takes a critical turn. This work deals with this
theme and considers in particular the contribution of some major
contemporary theologians (K. Rahner, A. Ganoczy, W. Pannenberg, J.
Moltmann) in order to offer an overlook of the status quaestionis, and bring
the essentials of reflection by J. Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). Francesco Brancato teaches Theology of Creation, Eschatology and
Theological anthropology, at the St. Paul Theological Study, Catania,. He writes
for various theological journals and has published articles and studies
especially on particular issues of eschatology.
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Dag Tessore
La donna cristiana secondo l’insegnamento della tradizione apostolica
[Christian Woman according to the Apostolic Tradition] Il leone verde (Italy), 2008 (Series: Lumina mundi) - 17x24 - 460 pp., € 30.00
Equal rights for women and men, the freedom for women to work outside home
and to wear what they like, are taken for granted and unquestioned nowadays,
excluding any voice of dissent.
But is the emancipation of women really a conquest of civilization?
This book means to reverse the point of view about the issue, going back to the
teachings of the Early Church Fathers, and examining the notions of “patriarchal
society”, “submission”, “seclusion”, “veil”, “obedience to one’s husband” without
any preconceived ideas. A number of their texts dealing with this subject are here
translated for the first time. This book offers a great and thorough research that is
of interest for scholars as well as common readers.
Dag Tessore is a specialist on History of Christianity, Christian spirituality, Greek,
Latin and Eastern Patristic – Islamic religion and culture. He is the author of a
number of works published by several publishers, and writes for many Italian
journals (Medioevo, L'Officina, Rivista di Psicologia Analitica, Rocca, Jesus, La Rivista
del Clero Italiano). Many of his books have been translated into English, German,
Russian, Hungarian, Portuguese and Czech.
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Isabelle Fox
Sempre con lui [Being there. The benefits of being a stay-at-home
parent] Il Leone Verde (Italy) (Series: Il bambino naturale), 2009- 224 pp., € 18.00 original English
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Millions of infants and toddlers in the Western world today are deprived of
nurturing care due to both parents working and the frequent changing of
primary caregivers. This problem has reached epidemic proportions in the
1990s. Here is an important book that takes an honest look at this issue,
suggesting hints for consideration and key concepts for the psychological
well-being of children, as well as practical solutions to offer our kids -
depending on one’s family ties and professional commitments - the best
opportunity to feel taken care of, understood and loved. Isabelle Fox has been Clinical Psychotherapist specializing in Child Development
for over 40 years. During ten years she was Senior Mental Health Consultant for
Operation Head Start. She is the author of From Diapers to Diplomas (1991), Goodbye
Diapers, Goodbye Bottle, Goodbye Blanket (1961).
Franco De Luca
Bambini e (troppe) medicine [Children and (Too Many) Drugs. How
to Protect Our Children from Overmedicalization] Il Leone Verde (Italy) (Series: Il bambino naturale), 2009 - 128 pp., € 14.00
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This book was conceived and written in order to help parents getting more
self-confident and skilled while taking care of their growing kids. According
to the WHO recommendations, health care should be based on a
participative approach. However, the main approach is that of delegating
health care - particularly children heath care - to doctors, who are asked to
decide about both little health problems and more important concerns in the
life and development of little patients. As the main solution to children’s
problems is drug administration, the author intends to provide parents with
a critical approach in order to make them aware of all risks and damages
due to the “drug” solution. He also provides a list of recipes for home-made
preparations and food which can treat slighter children’s disorders. Dr. Franco De Luca has been practicing as a paediatrician in a Family Advice
Bureau in Campagnano di Roma for 30 years, where is also in charge of the
Children and Adolescents Preventive Health Care Unit.
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E. Serravalle
Bambini supervaccinati [Overvaccinated Children. Getting the right
information to make a responsible choice] Il Leone Verde (Italy) (Series: Il bambino naturale), 2009 - 277 pp. , € 18.00
«For nearly thirty years now, I have been examining and treating children
according to knowledge and ethics. I learnt vaccination at University and
kept on administering all vaccines available, persuaded as I were of the
benefits of mass immunization. (...) In the course of my medical practice I
had also the opportunity to meet non-vaccinated children, which made me
realize that I had wholeheartedly and uncritically accepted the idea of
absolute effectiveness and safety of vaccines. I observed that non-vaccinated
children were far less affected by the most common paediatric diseases than
vaccinated children, and met parents whose children fell severely ill, or
even died, after being administered a vaccine (...)» Dr Eugenio Serravalle specialized in Preventive Pediatric Health Care, Neo-natal
Care and Neo-natal Pathology. He also published La salute è servita (2006),
Vaccinare contro il papillomavirus?, with Roberto Gava (2008), Tutto quello che occorre
sapere prima di vaccinare il proprio bambino (2009).
Paola Negri
Dai ancora il latte? [Are You Still Breastfeeding?] Il Leone Verde (Italy) (Series: Il bambino naturale), forthcoming: October 2009
Here is a book providing mothers and future mothers with scientific
evidences supporting breastfeeding beyond infanthood and the importance
of mother’s milk in toddler’s diet and well-being: breastfeeding is a crucial
element in nurturing, besides breast milk’s nutritional characteristics and
benefits and beyond the first months of life. Feelings and difficulties
connected with toddlers’ breastfeeding are also coped with, as well as social
and cultural prejudice preventing mothers from carrying on the nursing
relationship with their toddlers. A number of experiences of breastfeeding
during pregnancy and tandem nursing (i.e., sibling breastfeeding) are
provided, as well as personal reports about the end of breastfeeding. Paola Negri is a professional breastfeeding adviser and trainer working with new-
mothers and pregnant women. She took part in research and enquiry projects on
violations of the WHO-UNICEF International Code of Marketing and Beast-milk
Substitutes, and committed in breastfeeding promotion among institutions and
media. She wrote Tutte le mamme hanno il latte. Rischi e danni dell'alimentazione
artificiale [All Moms Have Milk. Risks and Damages of Bottle-Feeding], published
in this same series.
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Elena Dal Prà
Via il pannolino [By bye diapers!] Il Leone Verde (Italy) (Series: Il bambino naturale), forthcoming: October 2009
Potty training is a crucial step to independence, which may often imply pain
and distress both in children and parents. This book is meant to provide an
easy-going approach to potty training, against all resignation and despair,
as well as a number of useful tips on how, where, when and why to cope
with it!
Here is a practical, kid-sized guide to potty training inviting all parents to
be observant and respectful of their children’s time for nappy-bye. Elena Dal Prà is an educator and an infant massage teacher specialised in
breastfeeding, child care and upbringing through mild discipline and baby-sized,
eco-friendly potty training. After being a professional guidance and training
consultant, in 2005 she started operating as a working mothers advisor and
women’s counsellor for public authorities and associations. She also writes and
moderates discussion forum for parenting websites.
Other forthcoming titles in the same series:
F. Benso, E. Benso
Il bambino dislessico [The Dyslexic Child]
E. Balsamo
Libertà e amore [Freedom and Love]
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Katharina di Nieuwerve
Viaggio cucinario nell’immaginario dei sapori [A Cooking Travel
through Taste Imageries] DeriveApprodi (Italy), 2009 - 14 x 23, 144 pp., € 15.00
«God created food, but the devil created cooks for sure» James Joyce
Not only unusual or curious recipes, but the food as a guideline that
helps to enjoy pleasures of the table in the ordinary life of men and
women, the civilization of flavours, the ceremonies of conviviality and
the sins that food emphasizes.
A guide to scents, aromas, flaveurs that excite the senses and arouse
our appetites and pleasures. A book of anecdotes - from Plato’s olives
and figs to body-sushi - that becomes a cultural history of food.
With a foreword by Gianni Emilio Simonetti, who teaches Food
Design at the Politecnico of Milan-Bicocca.
Katharina van Nieuwerve, the heir of an ancient and noble Flemish family,
after a brief diplomatic career, which has enabled her to travel all over the
world, is now specialized in gourmet journalism. Presently she lives in
Amsterdam.
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Anonimo
La cuoca impudica. Ricette segrete di una donna di mondo rivelate a chi
intenda diventarlo [The Unchaste Cook. A high-class prostitute’s secret
recipes revealed to anyone would like to be one] Foreword by Luigi Veronelli
DeriveApprodi (2001), 144 pp. (with illustrations), € 14.46
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The diary of a high-class prostitute tells about life in Paris during the Thirties:
encounters with writers, musicians and painters in the same cultural context
described by Walter Benjamin, Surrealism, universal exhibitions. On the other
hand, the narrating character is not just a prostitute, but also a writer, a model, an
actress… a cook. The fascination of this past age is wonderfully evoked by the
calibrated mixture of refined and juicy recipes, memories, anecdotes, short stories;
an effective narration of a fertile artistic and intellectual moment is offered
through a real erotic recipe book.
The gastronomic element in this work is particularly interesting: pleasure of
senses is exalted without any hypocrisy, without any shame. Recipes are clearly
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explained and simply ordered in three sections. Ingredient doses and cooking
times have been adapted to modern tastes and technologies.
This diary has been saved from a destiny of oblivion when it was found - bound
with two pastry-making manuals on a bookstall in the Flohmarkt in Vienna; the
manuscript dates back to 1919/1931. This book is enriched by thirty erotic
photographic and graphic illustrations.
Luigi Veronelli was an oenologist and a great expert of cooking, whose authority
is a guarantee of the interest of this unconventional work.
Anonimo
La cuoca rossa [The Red Cook. Story of a Spartacist group from Bauhaus to
Weimar. With recipes of the German cuisine] Foreword by Luigi Veronelli DeriveApprodi (Italy) - 192 pp. (with illustrations), € 15.00
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Hannah R. is a cook for the Bauhaus, the legendary school of art, architecture and
design established by W. Gropius at the time of the Weimar Republic. Everybody
calls her the “Red Cook”: she leads a group of students and teachers (all in close
relationship with Paul Klee) to join Spartacism and create a specific cell within the
school.
Her memories and recipes build a peculiar biography, showing both the artist and
the activist. The narration is also formed by passionate discussions about art and
revolution, by encounters with some of the outstanding figures of Mitteleuropean
culture – in those agitated years: W. Kandinsky, R. M. Rilke, A. Schnitzler…
Eventually, this work shows the contrast between the passion and the energies of
revolutionaries and a historical situation of angst and sense of powerlessness.
Hannah and her comrades seem to challenge those middle class people that a few
years later will welcome the National Socialism. It is a significant portrait of brave
people: they are ready to fight, but also aware of the difficulties determined by
their choice.
Luigi Veronelli was an oenologist and a great expert of cooking, whose authority
is a guarantee of the interest of this unconventional work.
Anonimo
La Cuoca di Buenaventura Durruti [Buenaventura Durruti’s Cook. Spanish
cuisine during the Spanish “civil war”. Recipes and memories] Foreword by Luigi Veronelli DeriveApprodi (Italy), 2002 - 208 pp. (with illustrations), 16,00 euro
Nadine’s diary was written between 1932 and 1939, the years of the Spanish civil
war, one the most tragic times in modern history. Nadine is a revolutionary
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activist from the “Durruti” column: she is part and symbol of all those young
people who fought for freedom and equality.
This book certainly offers a testimony of extraordinary experiences and
remarkable people, with their strong ideals, but also illusions and limits. At the
same time, Nadine tells the reader about everyday life in war, about the search of
the most essential goods, about food: recipes, ingredients, cooking and eating
become a way to show an existence shared by friends, among frightful risks and
moments of happiness.
Gianni Emilio Simonetti
La vivandiera di Montelimar. Il secolo delle rivolte logiche e la nascita
della cucina moderna nelle memorie di una petroleuse [The Sutler in
Montelimar. The century of logical revolts and the birth of moderne cuisine
in a petroleuse’s memories] DeriveApprodi (Italy), 2004 - 208 pp. (with illustrations), € 15.00
A 17th century Neapolitan painting, Paris in 1871 during the Commune, a cooking
school for managers - three apparently different fictional cues that are linked by
the narrating character, Ginevra. So, the reader is told about both the victims of
the repression which follows the unsuccessful insurrection and a cook who has to
serve arrogant middle class people, after experiencing hunger.
Ginevra’s narration goes back to the origins of culinary culture and habits,
revealing how food can become an instrument of domination and hypocrisy,
explaining the formation of modern taste, telling about the “bread revolts” at the
end of the 19th century - the despair of poverty as opposed to an age of pleasures
and Aestheticism.
Gianni Emilio Simonetti is both an artist and a theorist of art.
Roberto Iovino and Ileana Mattion
Sinfonia gastronomica. Musica, eros, cucina [Culinary Smphony. Music,
Eros, and Food] Viennepierre edizioni (Italy), 2006 - pp. 298, € 18.00
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There was a time when sitting at the table meant «to share with others the joy of
tasting a delicacy, savouring a fine wine, indulging in the physical and intellectual
pleasures». This is what this book is about: that time when flavours were
decorated by a beautiful melody; of the passions that can be stimulated, even
today, by a table set with elegance, delicious food, a good drink, and appropriate
and captivating music.
In this Culinary symphony we can attend a banquet in ancient Greece, where diners
used to eat while lying down, surrounded by the sound of a flute, and sexy
dancers. Or a Renaissance feast, where courses were alternated with original
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musical and theatrical pieces. In the Baroque age, we approach the peak of a
genre, the Tafelmusik, or table music. We may also enjoy a menu of the Futurist
movement.
Not only we learn how deep an appreciation - and, in some cases, a proper
devotion- for cuisine did geniuses like Bach, Handel, Brahms and Verdi have, but
we are invited to recreate provocative music dinners inspiring to different times.
A tribute to pleasures of life that are «complementary and indispensable».
Roberto Iovino (b. 1953) teaches History of Music at the “N.Paganini” School of
music in Genoa. As a music critic, he collaborates with the Italia daily “la
Repubblica” and several music reviews. He is the author of several works.
Ileana Mattion (b. 1964), since 1988 she has leaded researches in musicology and
history of music, publishing several books.
See also, in Cinema
Liborio Termine, Mangiare con gli occhi. Stare a tavola nel cinema
[Eating with One’s Eyes. Being at table in cinema]
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Giovanna Bertelli
Divi e Paparazzi. La dolce vita di Fellini [Stars & Paparazzi. Fellini’s
Dolce vita ] Le Mani (Italy), 2009 - 21 x 28 cm, 200 pp., b/w and colour illustrations*, € 28.00
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Federico Fellini’s worldwide famous movie La dolce vita was inspired
to the many episodes of Roman life, and especially the night life of the
café-society, of the end of the ‘50s: brawls, baths in the Trevi Fountain,
pursuits and traps… Wide photographical reportages by the first
paparazzi were published in the popular press, contributing to create
the myth of “la dolce vita” who reached its climax in the “crazy
Roman Summer” of 1958 before being immortalized by Fellini’s
movie.
Through a rich selection (more than 150 photos) from the archives of
two of the most important photographers of the time, Tazio Secchiaroli
and Pierluigi Pratulon, this books narrates the prologue of Fellini’s
movie, that will become the symbol of a whole epoch. Giovanna Bertelli, a photoeditor and an expert in photography, teaches History of
Photography at the European Institute of Design. She was artistic director of
several photography exhibitions and edited many books, many of them translated
and published also abroad: Italia 1948-1968, 20 anni di fotografie di Federico Garolla,
2005 (Bolis; US edition: Rizzoli America); Marcello Mastroianni nelle fotografie di
Tazio Secchiaroli, 2006 (Bolis; German edition: Collection Rolf Heyne; French
edition: Editions du Seuil); Tazio Secchiaroli, Sophia Loren (Rizzoli; German
edition: Schirmer-Mosel).
Simone Emiliani, Carlo Altinier
Fughe da Hollywood. I dieci anni che sconvolsero il cinema
americano [Escape from Hollywood. Ten Years that Upset American
cinema] Le Mani (Italy) 2009 - 14x21 cm, 336 pp, full colour photographs
In the early Sixties, the cinema of the US undergoes a deep change. Some
classic genres like western and musical are no longer successful. The bosses
of the majors seem not able to move with the times. Television is an
important competitor, and the tastes of the average audience change.
From this critical moment Hollywood revives, entering one the best and
most innovative seasons in its history. For nearly ten years (1966-75), in a
brief but intense season, a group of young directors and actors leads a true
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revolution in the way of making cinema - also thanks to the influence of the
European nouvelle vague. Cinema is no longer a “dreams industry”, but the
place where the disquiet against the morals of the American traditional
society is given voice, together with the longing for an escape from the
world. Simone Emiliani (1969) is assistant editor of the specialised website
sentieriselvaggi.it and a film critic for several dailies and magazines. He is the
author of books about Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman and Walter Hill, and of
essays included in Hollywood 2000 and John Boorman, both published by Le Mani.
Carlo Altinier (1978) is a story editor and documentary film maker for the TV
production company Magnolia in Rome. He writes for film magazines and
websites.
Paola Casella
Donne e madri nel cinema del ventunesimo secolo [Women and
mothers in 21st century cinema] Le Mani (Italy), forthcoming: March 2010 - 14 x 21 cm, 208 pages, full colour ill., € 15.00
A tribute to women for the 8th of March
This book analyses the evolution of the female figure, and especially the
mother, through images in the cinema of the first decade of the new
century. Auteur films but also blockbusters are taken into account, in order
to identify some recurrent patterns of women and mothers – from the denial
of femininity as a sacrifice to enter “the society of men”, to the rediscovery
of unyielding maternal instinct that becomes a sign of hope for the future of
mankind. Among the films reviewed: David Cronenberg’s Easter Promises,
Le silence de Lorna (The Silence of Lorna) and L’enfant (The Child) directed by
Dardenne brothers, Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, notte (Good Morning,
Night), Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar
Baby and The Changeling, Henry Selick’s Coraline, Francesca Comencini’s Lo
spazio bianco (recently presented at the Venice Film Festival), Sam Mendes’
Revolutionary Road, Juno, directed by Jason Reitman. Paola Casella is a journalist and a cinema critic for the Italian daily «Europa». For
the RaiSat Cinema TV network she has realized several interviews to directors and
actors and reported from the main international film festivals. She is the author of
Hollywood Italian, awarded with the Prize Donna Città di Roma, and Second Act,
and has contributed to Hollywood 2000 and Ventuno per undici - fare cinema dopo l’11
settembre, both published by Le Mani.
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Paolo Perrone
Quando il cinema dà i numeri [Cinema and Maths] Le Mani (Italy), forthcoming - 14 x 21 cm, 212 pages, b/w and colour illustration, € 14.00
The idea common people have of mathematicians is that of people who are
able of make even simple things complicated. Solitary and eccentric, they
hide behind their search for formula that can be life-long.
The figure of the investigator of numbers has been present in cinema as well
– in filmed biographies of mathematicians who really existed as well as in
fictional characters, and several times showing on the screen wonder-
children, shrewd teachers or “simply” keen at figures. This books shows a
rich gallery of film characters, with the same mental powers but different in
age, relational attitudes and individual destinies, from sentimental comedy
(The Mirror Has Two Faces) to more dangerous thriller paths (Oxford
Murders), involved in a sharp generational conflict (Will Hunting) or in the
paranoid whirls of a deranged mind (A Beautiful Mind). Paolo Perrone is the director of the cinema magazine “Filmcronache” and editor
in chief of the weekly “Il nostro tempo”. He teaches Journalism and Multimedia
Communication Technologies and Methods at the University of Piemonte
Orientale, and is a contributor to some of the most influential Russian periodicals.
Sergio Arecco
Cinema e paesaggio. Dizionario critico da Accattone a Volver
[Cinema and Landscape. An annotated dictionary from Accattone to
Volver] Le Mani (Italy), 2009 - 14x21 cm, 256 pp., b/w and colour ill., € 16.00
A critical dictionary from A to Z - from the origins until today, from
Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1922-23) to Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, 2008),
through Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) or Hiroshima, mon
amour (Alain Resnais, 1959). 101 cinema masterpieces where the
landscape is never simply a background but actually plays a main role,
interacts with the other characters and has its own dramatic function. Sergio Arecco is the author of many essays about cinema, several of them
published by Le Mani: Alain Resnais o la persistenza della memoria [Alain Resnais or
the Persistence of Memory, 1997], Robert Bresson. L’anima e la forma [Robert Besson.
The Soul and the Shape, 1998], Ingmar Bergman. Segreti e magie [Ingmar Bergman.
Secrets and Magics, 2000], Il paesaggio del cinema. Dieci studi da Ford a Almodóvar
[The Landscape of Cinema. Ten Studies from Ford to Almodovar, 2002, awarded
with the Prize “Filmcritica”), Il vampiro nascosto. [The Hidden Vampire, 2003],
Marlene Dietrich (2005), Marlon Brando (2007).
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Liborio Termine
Mangiare con gli occhi. Stare a tavola nel cinema
[Eating with One’s Eyes. Being at table in cinema] Le Mani (Italy), forthcoming: October 2009
14x21 cm, 128 pp., with b/w and colour illustrations (film shots), € 14.00
In a gourmand journey through 30 unforgettable films, from silent cinema
until today, this book is a refined review of the ways of being at table and
the different meanings of food in the characters’ lives and stories. Charlot’s
sharp hunger turns into an artistic act when he cooks a shoe in The Gold
Rush and in a real amusement when he steals a sandwich from a child’s
hands in The Circus. In Federico Fellini’s Amarcord the table is the scene of
family conflicts, while in Babette’s Feast, on the contrary, a richly prepared
table solves conflicts, and in 2001: A Space Odissey food is aseptic, but full of
nostalgia. From La grande bouffe to Pretty Woman, the way people eat is a
sign of their relation to the world and the others. Liborio Termine teaches History and critics of cinema at the Turin University. He
is the author, among others, of Il buio elettrico. Il cinema e la sfida del Novecento,
published by Le Mani.
Stefano Paba
Il volto nel cinema [The Face in the Cinema - provisional title] Le Mani (Italy), forthcoming - 14x21 cm, 240 pp., full colour illustrations, € 18.00
Face is where one’s beauty and seduction lie. It reveals one’s feelings and
emotions, but can also disguise and lie. In cinema, the face is the subject of a
privileged shooting technique, the close-up - whose ever changing intensity
and expressions cross any epoch and style.
Through 80 detailed theme sheets - richly illustrated with frame shots- the
author of this book explores human face and the importance of the close-up
in the history of cinema, from the silent movie age to special effects,
digressing in aesthetics, religion, anthropology, art and erotic love.
Ambiguous, elusive and contradictory, the face is linked to man’s history
and its evolution, to his cultures and social practices, symbols and fashions.
Table of contents
1. Anatomy of the face
2 The face itself (its functions, expressions, resemblance, etc.)
3 The still face: portrait(s)
4. The face at the origins
5. The star’s face
6. The universal language of face
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7. The face of mother
8. The face of the others (ethnic make-up, masks, veils, etc.)
9. The broken face (disfigured faces, monsters, body-painting, morphing and
special effects, etc.)
10. Beyond the face
11. Some examples of emotional interpretation (C.T. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of
Arc; J. Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs; S. Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons).
Stefano Paba (b. 1966) is a film scholar and critic. Since 1997, he has been working
with American choreographer Karole Armitage for several project and
productions.
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Elena Canadelli, Stefano Locati
Evolution. Darwin e il cinema [Evolution. Darwin and Cinema] Le Mani (Italy), 2009 - 264 pp., b/w and colour illustrations, € 16.00
The first book exploring Darwin’s influence on cinema
Many films prove to be focused on Darwin’s discoveries and, even if the result is
often characterized by exaggerations or simplifications, these movies helped to
spread scientific theories all over the world.
In particular, cinema has become the most fertile field to carry out an encounter
between biological research and human fears, especially if we are talking about
horror, fantasy and science-fiction experiments: the primordial threat of King
Kong; the turnover of roles in Planet of the Apes; the border between human and
animal in Tarzan; the unexpected evolution in 2001: A Space Odyssey; mutations in
The Fly and The Thing - up to the struggle for survival in Alien or War of the Worlds.
The mixture of science and popular imagination gives birth to an incredible
dimension, discovered in this book, which shows how many questions and
curiosities Darwin’s thought has raised. Generally, art has received the inheritance
of this enthusiasm and disturbance, but cinema in particular has been able to
express them, thanks to the communicative power of images.
Rudy Salvagnini
Il cinema di Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan’s Films] Le Mani (Italy), 2009 - 14x21 cm, 320 pp., full colour illustrations, € 15
Bob Dylan is famous all over the world due to his songs. Nevertheless his
creativity has found fertile ground in many other areas. This book is a
comprehensive and in-depth analysis about the singer’s presence in cinema,
where he left a significant mark, through a rich, various and fascinating
production. It shows his manifold experience, which proves to be original and all
but linear. Dylan has been actor (Hearts of Fire) and director (Eat the Document),
giving particular importance to documentaries (Don’t Look Back) and musical
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movies (The concert for Bangladesh and The last Waltz). In fact, the author doesn’t
forget the great value of music, also noticing how important it has been in cinema:
Dylan has written several soundtracks and many of his songs influenced film
communication. Eventually, even Dylan’s television activity is documented.
With updated bibliography, filmography and discography.
Rudy Salvagnini is a film critic and comics scriptwriter.
Giuseppe Lippi
2001 Odissea nello spazio. Dizionario ragionato [2001 A Space Odyssey. An
Annotated Dictionary] Le Mani (Italy), 2008 - 23 x 22 cm, 250 pp., colour ill., € 24.00
“The vision of 2001 was one of those experiences, so rare and so extraordinary for the
public, in which you feel you are not only watching a great film but also living a historical
day for cinema” (Michael Ciment)
Forty years after 1968, the symbol-year when it was firstly screened, this book
explores 2001 A Space Odyssey through 200 alphabetic entries illustrated with
several movie frames, technical pictures and 3-D reconstructions. With articles and
comments by Michel Ciment, Lorenzo Codelli, Jean-Paul Dumont, Carlo Fruttero
and Franco Lucentini, Alexander Walker.
The book includes a filmography of Kubrick, a comprehensive bibliography, a CD
and home video discography, and the complete cast film.
Giuseppe Lippi is editorial director of the well known monthly review of science
fiction “Urania”. He edited the complete literary works by H.P.
Lovecraft, published by Mondadori.
Pino and Davide Boero
Letteratura per l’infanzia in cento film
[Children’s Literature in a Hundred Films] Le Mani (Italy), 2008 - 280 pp., ill., € 15.00
An interesting and comprehensive review of a hundred children’s books and a
hundred films based on them. From An Impossible Voyage by George Mélies (a
short abridgment of From Earth to the Moon, one of the most important novels by
Jules Verne) to Bridge to Terabithia (2007), based on the novel by Katherine
Paterson; rom Donkeyskin by Perrault (1696) to MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman (2005):
the reader can start his/her journey from the book or from the film, always
enjoining himself and thinking over the educational value of the Seventh Art.
Pino Boero teaches Children’s Literature at the University of Genoa. He is he
author, among other works, of La letteratura per l’infanzia (Laterza, 2007), and the
editor of several collections of fairy tales including Gianni Rodari’s I cinque libri
(Einaudi, 1993). Davide Boero teaches in the secondary school and writes for film
magazines.
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Cecilia Gentile
Segui le donne. Da Beirut alla Palestina pedalando per la pace
[Follow the Women. From Beirut to Palestina, pedalling for peace] Ediciclo (Italy) (Series: Biblioteca del ciclista/9), forthcoming: October 2009
13x20 cm, 150 pp. approx., € 14.00
A reportage on the “Follow the Women” event, promoted by Detta Reagan –
Nobel Prize candidate - 250 women from 28 different countries bike for peace
The cedars of Lebanon, the sunsets on the Dead Sea, the windswept Golan
Heights, spots of yellow broom - the ancient mosque of Damascus, the
souks, the infinite spaces of the Syrian plateau. But also the occupied
territories of Palestine, the separation wall, the checkpoints. Bicycle is an
original means to tell everyday’s life in Middle East.
Two hundred and fifty women from 28 countries worldwide pedal inside
this kaleidoscope of culture and contradictions. A caravan of peace who
wants to try to unite rather than divide, seeking contact with local women
of the territory, veiled women, suffering women, emancipated women, to
build with them, in an all-female solidarity, a new path of peace. The book
will be launched in October 2009 in Rome, at the press conference to present the second
“Follow the Women” event.
Cecilia Gentile a former Latin teacher, is now an editor of “la Repubblica” daily,
and an expert in environmental issues, pollution, sustainable tourism. With
Ediciclo she published Buongiorno Senegal. In bicicletta da Dakar a Podor [Good
Morning, Senegal. Biking from Dakar to Podor], 2006.
Antonio Nebbia
La Svizzera non è un trullo [Switzerland is not a trullo] Ediciclo (Italy) (Series: Biblioteca del ciclista/8), 2009 - 14x21 cm, 208 pp., € 14.50
A hilarious bike trip from Southern Italy to the country of chocolate
“The bike gives you a sense of relief rare to imagine today, because when
you leave your home, you are assailed by doubts: did I put the alarm on?
turn the gas off? did I book the five-a-side soccer field? At the end of every
leg of my trip, my only concern was: pizza or steak?”. From hot Puglia to
green Switzerland, a sentimental, humorous and crazy journey of a second
generation immigrant going back to the place where he was born and spent
the first ten years of his life. Antonio Nebbia (b. 1962) is an artist, radio compère, entertainer, cyclist tourist,
writer, software expert, tour guide…
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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Fulvio Molinari
L’isola del Muto [Muto’s Island]
Magenes, 2007 – 144 pp., €12
First edition sold out
Outer Island, Dalmatia. A north wind blast pushes Muto’s boat against a bare and
inhospitable rock, swept by wind and waves. The story of a shipwreck is enriched
by the memories of a world of maritime legends and old beliefs, where life is
regulated by the seasons and the rhythms of fishing - people live and die among
simple and strong feelings.
See also, in our Fiction Rights List
Ernesto Franco, Usodimare. Un racconto per voce sola [Usodimare - A Tale
for Solo Voice] - short novel
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Bruno Morchio
La Genova di Bacci Pagano [Genoa in the Eyes of Its Most Famous
Detective] Il melangolo (Italy), forthcoming (November 2009) - 180 pp., with 80 colour and b/w
pictures, 18.00 €
Bacci Pagano, a private investigator, a romantic communist, keen of good
cuisine, Mozart, Guccini and Dostoevskij, an “illiterate of feelings”, is the
hero of Bruno Morchio’s six successful novels. With more than 100,000
copies sold, he is regarded as the Genoese Montalbano.
Quoting from his novels, and through a rich galley of beautiful
photographs, Bruno Morchio walks us in the places where his hero lives
and his adventures take place: Genoa. Different views of the town take life:
the multiethnic town with its people, shops and bars; the gloomy town and
its ill-famed neighbourhoods; the old town as well as its carruggi (alleys),
the sun and the sea... Bruno Morchio, a psychotherapist, lives in Genoa. His successful series of crime
novels has been translated in German (Unionsverlag), where a TV fiction is being
produced from his novels. Patrizia Traverso and Gianni Ansaldi are professional
photographers whit a long experience in artwork for books.
Max Mauro
La bici sopra Berlino [The Bike Over Berlin] Ediciclo (Italy) (Series: Ciclopolis/2), 2009 - 10x8 cm, 168 pp., € 14.00
After 20 years since the Wall fall, Berlin has become a different city, a
crossway of ideas, people, events. A city which is two side-by-side cities but
also one city including another like a matrioska. A city where bicycle has an
outstanding role as a means of transport, where a writer can ride in the
company of an angel – remembering Wim Wenders and Peter Handke and
describing an enchanted Berlin and a non-existing Wall.
• In the 20th anniversary of the Wall fall, a tale of a bike ride throught the
city in the company of an angel in flight from Wim Wender’s films.
• A ride along the “Wall Track” – 1 160 km long bike track.
• Over 12% Berliners use a bike as their means of transport
• The city has 620 km of tracks exclusively reserved to bike riders.
• The local bicycle fan club has ten thousands members
Max Mauro is born in Frauenfeld (Switzwerland), from an Italian immigrant
family. A professional journalist working for several Italian newspapers including
Diario, Il Manifesto, Carta, Lo Straniero, Linus, Avvenimenti, Il Mucchio Selvaggio, Il
Gazzettino, in 2006 he was awarded with the prize “Città di Borgotaro-Raccontare
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l’emigrazione” for his book La mia casa è dove sono felice [My Home Is Where I Am
Happy,2005). In the same year his book Patagonia controvento [Patagonia Upwind -
Ediciclo 2006) was selected for the Travelogue Albatros Award. He has worked in
Venezuela and Germany – presently he lives in Dublin, to carry out a research on
young immigrants at the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice.
Alberto Fiorin
Ciclovia della Drava. Da Dobbiaco a Maribor
[Drava Bike Track. From Dobbiaco to Maribor] Ediciclo (Italy) (Series: Cicloguide / 10), 2009
10,5x20,5cm, spiral binding and plastified cover, 180 pp., € 16.50
370 km along the Drava river through three countries – Italy, Austria and
Slovenia - an excellent idea for a bicycle holiday along one of the most
important and popular European bike tracks. Routes, maps, and helpful
addresses for a holiday journey through forests, lakes, castles and springs,
in the natural landscape of a charming river. Alberto Fiorin (b. 1960), is an expert bike traveller and has published several
books and guides with Ediciclo, among which, in the “Cicloguide” series,:
Ciclovia del Danubio. Da Passau a Vienna (120 pp.); Ciclovia Destra Po. Da Ferrara
al mare in bicicletta (96 pp.), Le piste ciclabili della Val Pusteria (160 pp.).
Claudio Pedroni
Ciclopista del Sole. Dal Garda a Firenze
[Sun Bike Track vol. 2. From Garda Lake to Florence] Ediciclo (Italy) (Series: Cicloguide / 9), 2009 - 10,5x20,5cm, spiral binding and plastified
cover, 140 pp., € 14.50
The long expected second stretch of the Sun Bike Track connects the Garda
Lake to Florence, through Mantova, Bologna, Pistoia and Prato, with a
secondary stretch to Modena. A unique landscape, for planned journeys as
well as for weekend trips.
Claudio Pedroni (b. 1949), has always been keen to travel by bicycle. As a
founder and member of the National Council of FIAB - Italian Federation of
Friends of the Bicycle, a non-profit association, he is responsible for the
technical council and bike track commission of FIAB. With Ediciclo he
published Ciclopista del sole vol. 1. [Sun Bike Track vol. 1. From Brennero
to Garda Lake and Verona], 2006.
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Omar Beltran
Il doping ecologico. I segreti per vincere con l’allenamento mentale
[Ecological Doping. The Secrets to Win with Mental Training] Ediciclo (Italy), 2009 - 12x20 cm , 160 pp. with illustrations, € 14.50
This book’s aim is to explain how to win in cycling races and in every
sport without doping. This can be the result of a plan based on mental
potentialities and called “Bread and Water”. But a more important
result – especially in the opinion of the creator of this method and
author of the book – could be a transformation, an evolution, a
purification of sport.
So, Beltran (who has been trainer for many professional sportsmen)
shows the right exercises, the best standards to train and in particular
how to put in tangible form one’s mental potentialities.
The book is not only addressed to professionals, but also to doctors,
trainers and managers, students and teachers – especially in sports
areas – and (the most important!) passionate people.
Omar Beltran comes from Argentina, but has been living in Italy for 20
years. He was a cyclist and volleyball trainer; now he is an expert of sports
methodologies and is committed to motivational work with sportsmen and
women in every area. He also collaborates with the “Centro Studi della
Federazione Ciclistica Italiana”.
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Gerardo Fornari
VIDEOSUB - A requisite manual for all scuba divers keen on video
shooting
Magenes (Italy), forthcoming : November 2009 -17x24 cm, 240 full colour pp. - € 20.00
A new and fully reviewed and updated edition of this successful
manual (over 10,000 copies sold of the first edition) for all
professionals and amateurs of underwater video shooting.
Subjects :
• video equipment (updated with high definition cameras)
• diving equipment
• structure of the film
• elements of underwater photography
• framing and camera movements
• underwater technique
• cutting (updated with new work station)
• sound
Gerardo Fornari began his filmmaking activity in the early seventies. He
has produced, directed and edited over 800 documentaries, TV services and
commercials for the Italian state television and other national networks. In
1982 he founded a film production company that the late eighties became
one of the most important in Italy.
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Federico Mana
Tecniche di respirazione per apnea [Breathing Techniques for Apnea] With a foreward by Umberto Pelizzari - apnoea immersion recordman Magenes (Italy), 2008 -192 pp. - two editions in 6 months, more than 3000 copies sold
Breathing techniques are the foundations for a relaxing, efficient, safe and
harmonious apnoea. The guide is a useful handbook to help divers to breath
correctly and deeply in order to improve their performances. This book illustrates
the main breathing - control techniques and later applies them to the different
apnoea's subjects. In the manual there are also some exercises aiming at improving
the thoracic and diaphragmatic elasticity. Modern apnoea, apnoea for everybody
Federico Mana is a apnoea instructor at the Apnoea Academy. He is an enthusiast of yoga and in particular of pranayama.