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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. »




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.




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.




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.




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




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]

HUMAN SCIENCES & LITERARY STUDIES



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




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).




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.




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




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.




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.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES



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.

PARENTING & EDUCATION



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

manuscript available

Rights available: World excl. English

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

Rights sold: Spanish for Latin America and USA (Escuela para padres editores)

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.




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.




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.

BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS

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

Rights sold: Spanish

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

Rights sold: German

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

Rights sold: Spanish (Siruela)

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

book layout available in digital format * photos reproduction rights :Reporter associati

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.

BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS

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.

TRAVEL LITERATURE AND SPORTS



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…




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




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




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.




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”.




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.

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