As the preferred choice of both teachers and students, this textbook offers an unrivalled combination of expertise, accessibility and comprehensive coverage. The new edition reflects the way the economic crisis has impacted the shape and nature of European Union law. Materials from case law, legisla[...]

It's 1978. Italy has just been shocked by the kidnapping of the politician Aldo Moro by the left-leaning terrorist group the Red Brigades. In Milan, the upper class continues to amuse itself in luxury restaurants, underground clubs, and cabarets, the sexual appetites of whom are catered to by the en[...]

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist[...]

Thumper and his sisters explore the world around them, in a touch-and-feel board book that contains a different tactile element on each spread.[...]

Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, art history, literary studies and anthropology, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts a[...]

A classic Italian noir novel, from one of the greatest Italian crime writers, translated for the first time.
Milan, 1966. When Doctor Duca Lamberti is released from prison, at the end of his sentence for helping a sick older woman commit suicide, he has few options. He's lost his license to prac[...]

""To live life without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing." "
-- Pier Giorgio Frassati
Enter the heart of a passionate young man, who in his brief life reached the heights of adventure, friendship--and sanctity.
Born to [...]

A murderer obsessed with comic strips...When Mayor Marsalis' son, Gerald, is found dead in his studio, his body is stained red and arranged like the cartoon character Linus - with a blanket next to his ear and his thumb stuck in his mouth. Desperate, Marsalis asks his ex-cop brother, Jordan, to inve[...]

Flying aircraft such as the Macchi 200-202, Fiat G.50 and biplane Fiat CR.42, the Italian fighter pilots were recognised by their Allied counterparts as brave opponents blessed with sound flying abilities, but employing under-gunned and underpowered equipment. Following the Italian surrender in Sept[...]

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a dumb experience? For Walter Benjamin, the poverty of experience was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian [...]