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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
27 November 2023

Carno Polo: Ovvero delle Curiose Vicende di un altro Marco tra i Cinesi del XXI secolo (2023) su Amazon

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  From my honeymoon in Fenghuang, Hunan Il mio ultimo libro: una lettura per venire con me in Cina stando seduti a casa. O forse un'idea...
22 August 2021

Film review: A Time to Kill (1996) by Joel Schumacher, ****

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Synopsys John Grisham's explosive novel is brought to the screen by Joel Schumacher. Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson) seeks violent revenge ...
07 August 2021

Film review: Emperor (2012) by Peter Webber, *****

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Synopsys Brigadier-General Bonner Fellers ( Matthew Fox ) is sent to Japan as a part of the occupation force. He is tasked with arresting J...
21 May 2021

Film review: The Help (2011) by Tate Taylor, *****

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Synopsis The #1 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensembl...
31 December 2020

12 BUONE COSE DEL 2020 - 12 GOOD THINGS ABOUT 2020

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 2020 ENGLISH TEXT BELOW Siccome di messaggi con insulti al povero anno 2020 ne abbiamo sentiti troppi (ma non si chiama COVID-19?) ho pensa...
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01 October 2019

Festa nazionale, 70 anni dalla fondazione della Repubblica Popolare Cinese

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La prima cosa che mi ha colpito della grande parata militare organizzata a Pechino, dicono che sia la più imponente della storia della Cinam...
13 February 2019

Taipei tour, food and baths

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Giro guidato con Chen (non il suo vero nome) una guida di "Toursbylocals", un'originale agenzia che mette in contatto turisti ...
18 January 2019

Chinese tourists in Palau

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Mrs Wan, who runs some restaurants and hotels in Palau, came over from Guangzhou some fifteen years ago with her husband. She speaks Cantone...
25 December 2017

My book on the Maldives is available in English! "Journeys through the Maldives" by Marco Carnovale

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Typical Maldivan boat Tales from the many trips to the Maldives of the author. Avoiding the tourist resorts, he visited remote villages,...
18 December 2017

Book review: The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy (2015) by J. J. Robinson, ****

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Islamic Center in Malé Synopsis The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than...
06 December 2017

Book review: Wild Swans (1992), by Jung Chang, *****

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Synopsis Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China...
11 April 2013

Film review: Not one less (1999) by Zhang Yimou, *****

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Testo italiano di seguito Wei Minzhi Synopsis Not One Less , Zhang Yimou 's ( Raise the Red Lantern ) tale of an adolescent subs...
02 March 2013

Recensione: "Il mio cuore è più stanco della mia voce" (2012 postumo) di Oriana Fallaci, ****

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Fallaci in Vietnam Sinossi Prima il Vietnam, poi Città del Messico e infine la storia d’amore con Alekos Panagulis , eroe della Resist...
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13 November 2012

Film review: Bananas (1971) by Woody Allen, ****

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Synopsis Woody Allen's second film as a director was a wild, unpredictable and unlikely comedy about a product-tester named Fielding...
04 November 2012

The Island President (2011) by Jon Shenk, ****

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Synopsis Jon Shenk's The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a probl...
10 April 2012

Recensione film: Il Portaborse (1991) di Daniele Lucchetti, ****

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Sinossi Giovane ministro corruttore cinico, arrogante, dinamico, fintamente colto scopre in un giovane professore di liceo del Sud l...
27 March 2012

Film Review: Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel (1997) by Christian Frei, ****

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Synopsis Like so many thousands of other Cubans, Miriam Martínez means to emigrate to the United States with her family. The daughter of a...
24 February 2012

Book Review: Triumph of the City, by Edward Glaser, ****

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Singapore, 2012 Synopsis America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our citie...
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12 January 2012

Book Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg, *****

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Pollution in the Maldives Synopsis Lomborg, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the Univer...
03 August 2011

Il mercato dei libri in Italia: poveri noi lettori di libri, "protetti" dalla nuova legge sugli sconti.

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Il parlamento italiano ha approvato, con nefasto consenso trasversale, una legge che regolamenta il prezzo dei libri, il "ddl Levi 22...
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