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Showing posts with label social. Show all posts
17 June 2012

Book review: Delusions of Gender (2011), by Cordelia Fine, ****

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Synopsis A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. Sex discrimination is sup...
14 April 2012

Film review: The Dreamers (2003), by Bernardo Bertolucci, ****

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Synopsis Paris, spring 1968. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and d...
18 February 2012

Recensione: Sale Nero, di Marco Aime, Stefano Pensotti e Andrea Semplici, ****

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Sinossi Taudenni e Ahmed Ela: due "non luoghi" africani, il primo in Mali il secondo nella Dancalia etiope, sono un chiaro esemp...
22 January 2012

Book Review: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps, by Allan and Barbara Pease, ****

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Synopsis The classic international bestselling book. Allan and Barbara Pease spotlight the differences in the way men and women think. Boys...
13 October 2011

Recensione: People from Ikea, di Andrea Pugliese, ***

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Sinossi Componendo a incastro questi tubi, ripiani, viti e bulloni, sono possibili milioni di combinazioni. Sul catalogo per tale meravigl...
02 August 2011

Book Review: Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore (2003), by James Warren, *****

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Synopsis Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidl...
29 December 2002

Book Review: Snakes and Ladders - Glimpses of Modeern India, by Gita Mehta, ****

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Synopsis This fascinating blend of personal memoir, historical anecdote and wry observation offers the indispensable guide and key to con...
28 December 2002

Book Review: Karma Cola, by Gita Mehta, ***

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Synopsis Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that...
06 December 2002

Book Review: The Heart of India, by Mark Tully, ***

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Synopsis Imbued with his love for India, and informed by his experience of India (where he worked for the BBC for over 20 years), Mark Tul...
12 September 2002

Book Review: Off the Rails in Phnom Penh (2000), by Amit Gilboa, ****

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Synopsis Phnom Penh in the 1990s is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation; a city...
25 February 2000

Recensione: Lettera da Singapore, ovvero il Terzo Capitalismo, (1995) di Giuseppe Bonazzi. ****

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Sinossi Il libro nasce da un'esperienza personale dell'autore ed รจ strutturato in maniera inconsueta: a una prima parte scritta ...
19 September 1999

Book Review: Bad Times in Buenos Aires (1999), by Miranda France, ****

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Synopsis In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth o...
22 November 1998

Book Review: "Italian Neighbors", by Tim Parks, *****

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Synopsis In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelic...
12 April 1998

Book Review/Recensione: "Red Sorghum", by Mo Yan, *****

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ear of red sorghum RECENSIONE IN ITALIANO DI SEGUITO Synopsis A legend in China, where it won the major literary awards and inspire...