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Author : James Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Manzini Story written by James Hall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ezio Manzini
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026232864X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Design, When Everybody Designs written by Ezio Manzini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold—an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations—making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.
Author : Mario Manzini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781077772625
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Escapist. the Manzini Story written by Mario Manzini and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the "Guinness World Champion Escapologist and Master Magician Mario Manzini who rose from the slums of the Bronx, New York City to become the world's most famous and successful Escape Artist, Magician and Entertainer. Mario Manzini started doing escapes at the age of 5 after seeing a documentary on Harry Houdini on TV. Seeing old news movie clips of Houdini being locked into handcuffs by Police Officers and leaping off a bridge into a river and escaping while underwater. Houdini escaping from locked prison cells, hanging by his angles upside down high in the air escaping from a strait jacket and more effected Mario to the point of him wanting to do the same thing when he grew up and he did. Mario opened for Evel Knievel at the Snake River Canyon Jump hanging 1 mile high from a burning rope while escaping from a strait-jacket. This is a real page turner and you will not be able to put this book down until you read it to the very end.
Author : Mario Manzini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781717729705
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Escape from the Mob. the Mario Manzini Story: His Father Forced Him to Be Involved with the Mafia Against His Own Wishes as He Wanted to Only Be in Sh written by Mario Manzini and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His father was in the Mafia and forced his son Mario to be involved in it against his wishes. Mario wanted to be an entertainer in show business. His father forced him to watch him dismember bodies of guys he killed when he was 9 years old and also made him watch him torture and shoot a man tied to a chair blowing the top of his head off. On his 18th birthday his father gave him a loaded gun wanting him to kill a guy so that he would become a made man in the Genovese Mafia Crime Family which he refused to do and ran away from home. His father forced him to come back and made him run his crime business and rackets. Mario had to do that but still his first love and passion was show business and entertaining families. He never killed anyone and never dealt in drugs and never dealt in porno but ran most of all the other Mob businesses for his father while still doing his shows as an escape artist, magician, Rock & Roll singer and guitar player. He led a double life. One as Mario Manzini entertainer. The other as Dennis Migliore associate of the Mafia for his father all the time looking for a way out to escape the hold that his father had on him and just stay in show business. His mother and father sexually molested him since he was 4 years old. His mother would beat him and torture him when he tried to get away from her. She'd burn his hands over the stove and with lite cigarettes and beat him with his fathers belt and with whips. His father and mother would tie him to a chair and urinate on him when he was small. His father would pick him up while he was sleeping at age 5 and put him into bed with his own mother who was waiting to molest him as his father watched it all. When he was 9 years old his father took him to the basement of his uncles butcher shop at night in the Bronx, NYC to watch all of the gang members dismember a corpse of a guy that they all killed. His father forced him to watch it and then when he tried to get away, his father called him vile names and sissy. There are so many unbelievable incidents in this biography that most people will be shocked after reading it. His father was a hit man in the Genovese Mafia Crime Family having killed over 16 people over his long career as a gangster. "A Real Page Turner" "You Won't be Able To Put It Down" "Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture"! This is his True Story!
Author : Antonio Manzini
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006269653X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Spring Cleaning written by Antonio Manzini and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth installment in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from the international bestselling author, Antonio Manzini picks up three days after his last novel, Out of Season, left off, as Rocco seeks revenge for a friend—and closure for himself. Rocco is still reeling from the death of his best friend’s girlfriend, who was murdered as she slept in his bed. There’s no doubt that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid the ultimate price. With the identity of the hitman still unknown, a cloud lingers over Rocco, dulling his judgment and leaving this anti-hero exposed to other threats. For Rocco has stepped on one too many people’s toes over the years, namely the mafia that is still being rooted out in Aosta. To complicate matters, the kidnapped teenager that Rocco saved has not fully recovered. But all is not as it appears with that family. Her mother, father, and boyfriend are all running some sort of farce that Rocco can’t easily crack. And now he must grapple between these two parallel investigations and find answers once and for all…before one too many skeletons come after him. With the same clever insights, vitality, and humor readers have come to expect from Manzini, Spring Cleaning is another engaging, page-turning mystery.
Author : Antonio Manzini
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062310062
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Black Run written by Antonio Manzini and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery—the first in a sensational crime series—set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri, D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning Mankell. Getting into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of police Rocco Schiavone is exiled to Aosta, a small, touristy alpine town far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated and crotchety Roman despises mountains, snow, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes. When a mangled body has been discovered on a ski run above Champoluc, Rocco immediately faces his first challenge—identifying the victim, a complex procedure complicated by his ignorance of the customs, dialect, and history of his new home. Proud and undaunted, Rocco makes his way among the ski runs, mountain huts, and aerial tramways, meeting ski instructors, Alpine guides, the hardworking, enigmatic folk of Aosta, and a few beautiful locals eager to give him a warm welcome. It won't be easy, this mountain life, especially with a corpse or two in the mix. But then there's nothing that makes Rocco feel more at home than an investigation. An insightful observer of human nature, Antonio Manzini writes with sly humor and a dash of irony, and introduces an irresistible hero—a fascinating blend of swagger, machismo, and vulnerability—in a colorful and atmospheric crime mystery series that is European crime fiction at its best.
Author : Antonio Manzini
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062696505
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Out of Season written by Antonio Manzini and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever, engaging third novel in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from bestselling Italian author, Antonio Manzini, following the dashing deputy police chief who confronts his most riveting case ever. It’s the bitterly cold spring season in alpine Aosta, and a girl has been kidnapped. Chiara Berguet, daughter of the owners of a local construction firm, was targeted thanks to the sizeable debt her parents owe. But like many a best-laid plan, a blown tire causes the crime to go haywire as the kidnappers’ van skids off the road and crashes into a pair of larch trees. Both the driver and his accomplice die on impact, leaving the girl in the back, gagged and bound and unable to break herself free. Meanwhile Rocco Schiavone wakes to find himself in Anna’s apartment. She’s the best friend of his girlfriend Nora, and memories of the night before, a heated evening with Anna, return to him. As he sneaks out, he sees the first few snowstorm clouds of the spring season move across the sky, an ominous reference that something is off. If trouble at home and a case of kidnapping weren’t enough, Rocco will eventually have to contend with Enzo Baiocchi. Rocco was the one who sent Enzo to prison, and in the process killed Enzo’s brother. Having just escaped from prison, Enzo is heading north with a newly purchased revolver and, clearly, revenge on his mind. And when an unfortunate incident of mistaken identity makes Enzo’s act of revenge even more fiendish, it also presents a gruesome scene for Rocco to discover on his return home.
Author : Elias Masilela
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864867063
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Number 43, Trelawney Park, KwaMagogo written by Elias Masilela and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the stories of ANC and PAC operatives who operated from Swaziland, and focuses on the base for operations undertaken by MK and APLA: Number 43 Trelawney Park - KwaMagogo.
Author : Lynne Graham
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488059640
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Italian in Need of an Heir written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension has never been higher in this dramatic marriage of convenience romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham! He’s negotiating the deal of a lifetime…and everything is at stake! No one rejects Raffaele Manzini. Gorgeous, ruthless and successful, he gets what he wants. But strong-willed math prodigy Maya Campbell is his biggest challenge yet. Because if he’s to acquire the company he most desires, they must marry and have a child… At first, Raffaele’s proposal shocks Maya. But her beloved family is in financial ruin, and this is her chance to save them. Maya’s head might be saying no to the wildly attractive Italian, but her body—and her heart—are saying a very emphatic yes! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read both Cinderella Brides for Billionaires books by Lynne Graham: Book 1 — Cinderella’s Royal Secret Book 2 — The Italian in Need of an Heir
Author : Marta Fossati
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198910991
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010 written by Marta Fossati and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century. She examines a selection of short stories by important Black South African writers (Rolfes and Herbert Dhlomo, Peter Abrahams, Can Themba, Alex La Guma, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Ahmed Essop, and Zoë Wicomb) with an alertness to the dialogue between ethics and aesthetics performed by these texts. This new history of Black short fiction problematises and interrogates the often-polarised readings of Black literature in South Africa that can be torn between notions of literariness, protest, and journalism. Due to material constraints, short fiction in South Africa circulated first and foremost through local print media, which Fossati analyses in detail to show the cross-fertilisation between journalism and the short story. While rooted in the South African context, the short stories considered also hold a translocal dimension, allowing us to explore the ethical and aesthetic practice of intertextuality. These are writings that complicate the aesthetics/ethics binary, generic classifications, and the categories of the literary and the political. Theoretically eclectic in its approach, although largely underpinned by a narratological analysis, The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics offers a fresh perspective on the South African short story in English, spotlighting several hitherto marginalised figures in South African literary studies.
Author : Antonio Manzini
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008124353
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book A Cold Death (A Rocco Schiavone Mystery) written by Antonio Manzini and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series from Italian crime maestro Antonio Manzini.
Author : Petra Broomans
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9492444852
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Transit 'Norden' och 'Europa' written by Petra Broomans and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IASS (International Association for Scandinavian Studies) is the international organization for the research of Nordic literature, culture and linguistics. Since 1956 the IASS conference has been organized every other year. In 2016, the 31th IASS conference took place in Groningen (Netherlands). This 2016 conference revolved around the 21st century as an era characterized by dynamics with different implications. These ongoing global transitions are reflected in the humanities; the dichotomy between centre and periphery has invaded the literary discourse. In many small language areas, more translated literature is being published than literature written in the national language. This implies that cultural mediators play a major role in the production of literature. Their efforts are made visible in a transnational approach to the history of literature.
Author : Joel Cabrita
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674985761
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The People’s Zion written by Joel Cabrita and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The People’s Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa’s largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized Americans from across racial and class divides. It also sent missionaries abroad, particularly to Southern Africa, where its uplifting spiritualism and pan-racialism resonated with urban working-class whites and blacks. Circulated throughout Southern Africa by Zion City’s missionaries and literature, Zionism thrived among white and black workers drawn to Johannesburg by the discovery of gold. As in Chicago, these early devotees of faith healing hoped for a color-blind society in which they could acquire equal status and purpose amid demoralizing social and economic circumstances. Defying segregation and later apartheid, black and white Zionists formed a uniquely cosmopolitan community that played a key role in remaking the racial politics of modern Southern Africa. Connecting cities, regions, and societies usually considered in isolation, Cabrita shows how Zionists on either side of the Atlantic used the democratic resources of evangelical Christianity to stake out a place of belonging within rapidly-changing societies. In doing so, they laid claim to nothing less than the Kingdom of God. Today, the number of American Zionists is small, but thousands of independent Zionist churches counting millions of members still dot the Southern African landscape.
Author : Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1936932342
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Unspeakable Women written by Robin Pickering-Iazzi and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth of contributions by famous and less-known woman that have been unavailable to readers in Italy as well as the United States for over 60 years. Expertly translated, these 16 stories are evidence not only of the high literary quality of this body of work but also of resistance to the self-sacrificing ideal of the "New Woman" of Fascism. The memorable female characters in Unspeakable Women adopt a varying strategies to create their own identities and agency regarding writing, sexuality, marriage, and family-all in opposition to the repressive norms of the culture. The stories are by Grazia Deledda, who won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1926, Maria Luisa Astaldi, Gianna Manzini, Ada Negri, Carola Prosperi, Pia Rimini, and Clarice Tartufari.
Author : Swaziland Commission of Enquiry into the Affairs of the Manzini City Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Commission of Enquiry Into the Affairs of the Manzini City Council written by Swaziland Commission of Enquiry into the Affairs of the Manzini City Council and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : May Chazan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581782
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Grandmothers' Movement written by May Chazan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the African AIDS crisis older women mobilized across two continents and an ocean of difference to change the lives of innumerable African women confronting insecurity, violence, grief, and illness. In 2006 the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched its Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, seeking to organize Canadians in solidarity with "Africa's grandmothers" - older caregivers who had lost their children to AIDS and were left to raise their grandchildren. Four years later, some 10,000 Canadians had joined the campaign. May Chazan's The Grandmothers' Movement explores the encounters, ideas, and circumstances that shaped this remarkable story of solidarity and struggle. Based on interviews, family trees, personal journals, and archival materials, Chazan provides the first analysis of the movement. Through personal reflections and powerful vignettes from nearly a decade of participation in grandmothers' lives in South Africa and Canada, she presents untold narratives and brings new humanity to the AIDS crisis in Africa. The Grandmothers' Movement tells a story of hope while challenging conventional understandings of the global AIDS response, solidarity, and old age. It is about the power of older women to alter their own lives through collective action and about the influence of transnational cooperation to effect positive global change.
Author : Niccolò Ammaniti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crimini written by Niccolò Ammaniti and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian crime writing is replacing that of Scandinavia as the fastest growing in the genre. The huge success of Niccolo Ammaniti, followed by the Gabriele Salvatore film of the same name took the UK by storm. Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalban series (Picador), Carlo Lucarelli's Almost Blue (Vintage) and carte Blanche (Europa) and Massimo Carlotto's The Good-bye Kiss (Europa) are further evidence of this surge. These authors, and others, are represented in this volume, which contains nine gripping and often darkly hilarious stories.
