Selv med 2750 år bak seg er Den evige stad fortsatt ung. Her finnes alle tider i én og samme by. Overdådige barokke utfoldelser, klassisk skjønnhet, moderne brutalitet. Møt romeren i den travle kaffebaren, spis overdådige måltider eller en typisk italiensk pizza, slapp av til fontenenes musikk. Alle finner sitt eget Roma, sitt eget torg, sin egen plass, sin egen kirke. Ingen kan forbli uberørt. "Turen går til" Roma dekker storbyen fra den klassiske Villa Borghese til det moderne EUR-strøket, fra Trevifontenens kaskader til Trasteveres romantiske stemning. Byens omegn med bl.a. Ostia er også beskrevet.

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Det italienske køkken har for længst fundet vej til vore breddegrader, og et væld af retterne betragter vi næsten som vores egne. Men støvlelandet byder på mere, og udover Toscana er Sicilien et af de områder, som har en virkelig enestående madkultur. Det skyldes den mangfoldighed af forskellige herredømmer, som øen har været underlagt, og som hver især har sat deres fingeraftryk på køkkenet.<br><br>For at give os et indtryk af Siciliens rige muligheder har et hold køkkenekvilibrister været på besøg på øen med <b>Alfredo Resio</b> som rejsefører. I <i>En duft af Sicilien i danske gryder</i> kan man opleve resultatet og se, hvordan Fabio Donadoni, Sandra Leigh Draznin, Thomas Harder, Morten Koster, Kirsten Skaarup og Helle Tesio har boltret sig i regionens råvarer og omsat den til herlige opskrifter. Den sicilianske madkultur kan være en overraskende inspirationskilde til de danske gryder. <br>

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Antipasti er små, lette retter som man spiser i Italia før man kaster seg over pastaen og hovedretten. Denne boken inneholder oppskrifter på antipasti som både kan tjene som rene appetittvekkere og små selvstendige retter. Med register.

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The U.S. - Mexico border crossing has become an area of study in its own right. However, very few of the current books focus on language and linguistic factors such as this one. Perspectives on Teaching English at the U.S. - Mexico Border adds knowledge, understanding, and insight not only to the field of TESOL, but to other fields as well. Dr. Urzua notes: ""Much can be learned from exploring English language teaching at institutions of higher education located in the borderlands, especially in terms of understanding the effects of national and regional educational policies on both sides of the border, the impact of such policies on English language learners, and how issues associated with transnationalism may affect English language teaching.

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years. However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is precarious.Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980 onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics, yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and intertwined.

In The Dictator's Dilemma, Kirk Tyvela tells the story of US bilateral relations with the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship (1954-1989). He focuses on how and why that diplomatic relationship changed during the Cold War from cooperation, based on mutual opposition to communism, to conflict, based on clashing expectations concerning democratic reforms and human rights. The policy debates by officials in Washington and in Asuncion brought out a tension that has defined US diplomacy for more than a century: how can the US partner with friendly tyrants while proclaiming a democratic mission to help other nations liberalize their societies? Tyvela argues that the Stroessner regime was symbolic of a broader foreign policy struggle to perpetuate, enforce, and ultimately redefine the importance of friendly dictators to US global and hemispheric interests during the Cold War.

In "The Concept of Nature in Marx," Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature'. In Marx, industry and science are the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Emst Bloch.

The 1930sthe Great DepressionAustralia: Thomas Berg, the son of German immigrants, working as an odd-job man and struggling to support his family, starts a business with a second-hand truck and his own labour. Tough, single-minded and tyrannical, he drives its growth into a manufacturing conglomerateBerg Industriesthat cynics see as a capitalist heaven on earth. His target was for Berg Industries to remain family-owned for at least five generationsa goal that family companies rarely attain. Setting about making that goal achievable, he appoints his sons as his subordinates, funds a world trip for his daughter, Eva, and his granddaughter to prepare them for future directorships, and makes it impossible for non-family investors to buy in. When Thomas dies, his only remaining son, Eric, becomes the chairman, and he invites Eva to be the director. Together, they pursue Thomass vision. Later, their successors have to tackle very significant challenges. The first four Berg generations control the business during the twentieth century and expand it to include activities in Australia, England, and The United States. Some family members have involvements in Germany and India too. There are fifth-generation members who have yet to impress. This novel goes beyond successes and failures in business deals. It shows members of the expanding Berg dynasty at work and in private life, handling tensions that ebb and flowand finding that getting relatives onside can be like herding cats

Crucial methods, tactics and tools for successful pension fund management Achieving Investment Excellence offers trustees and asset managers a comprehensive handbook for improving the quality of their investments. With a stated goal of substantially and sustainably improving annual returns, this book clarifies and demystifies important concepts surrounding trustee duties and responsibilities, investment strategies, analysis, evaluation and much more. Low interest rates are making the high cost of future pension payouts fraught with tension, even as the time and knowledge required to manage these funds appropriately increases -- it is no wonder that pensions are increasingly seen as a financial liability. Now more than ever, it is critical that trustees understand exactly what contributes to investment success -- and what detracts from it. This book details the roles, the tools and the strategies that make pension funds pay off.Understand the role of pension funds and the fiduciary duty of trusteesLearn the tools and kills you need to build profound and lasting investment excellenceAnalyse, diagnose and improve investment quality of funds using concrete tools and instrumentsStudy illustrative examples that demonstrate critical implementation and execution advice Packed with expert insight, crucial tools and real-life examples, this book is an important resource for those tasked with governing these. Achieving Investment Excellence provides the expert insight, clear guidance and key wisdom you need to manage these funds successfully.

Ethics in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume. The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities, and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism. The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda, disjunctures from medieval literature to medievalist film in portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf/I> on horror films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the world around us. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Mary R. Bowman, Harry Brown, Louise D'Arcens, Alison Gulley, Nickolas Haydock, Lisa Hicks, Lesley E. Jacobs, Michael R. Kightley, Phillip Lindley, Pascal J. Massie, Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Jason Pitruzello, Nancy M. Resh, Carol L. Robinson, Christopher Roman, M.J. Toswell.

This is the first publication devoted to Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe (1889-1961), the younger sister of Georgia O'Keeffe. It presents a thoughtful consideration of Ida's personal history and her creative work. As a professionally trained artist, graduating with an MFA from Columbia in 1932, Ida crafted an artistic identity that was dynamic and distinct in style and subject matter from that of her celebrated sibling. The positive critical attention she received became a source of tension between her and Georgia, who was determined that there would be only one painter in the family. Ida's complex relationship with Georgia and Alfred Stieglitz, though once loving and close, eventually devolved into estrangement. This volume illustrates works by Ida, including oils, watercolors, and monotypes, and examines their merits as well as their place within the aesthetics of American Modernism during the 1920s and 1930s.

Housed in a slipcase, Rio contains the work of two photographers who portray Rio de Janeiro in a visual dialogue spanning the centuries. Book One showcases nineteenth-century photographer Marc Ferrez's classical work on the city where he spent his five-decade career, from the mid-1860s to the early 1910s, while Book Two presents a project of Robert Polidori's from the past five years, in which he photographed Rio, emphasizing its contemporary dynamic and dense urban configuration. Polidori contextualizes today's Rio within the natural settings from which the city grew, and which have defined its iconic international profile throughout history. This tension between the natural and built environments, also significant in Ferrez's work, is a defining reference for Rio's inhabitants and is here beautifully documented in its historic and present variations.Marc Ferrez (1843-1923) is the most important Brazilian photographer of the nineteenth century. Ferrez produced a vast documentation of Rio and its surroundings using specialized cameras and large-format negatives, including a rotating panoramic camera. His last large-scale project was the Avenida Central album (1905), a unique architectural photography series on urban renewal in Rio in the early 1900s.Robert Polidori (born 1951) was born in Montreal and today lives in Los Angeles. Polidori received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000 and Communication Arts awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 Polidori's controversial photographs of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath were exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Den 13. juli 1949 døde Alfredo Reinhardt på Santo Spiritosykehuset i Vatikanet. Dødsårsaken ble oppgitt som alvorlig leversvikt. Men pasienten var innlagt under falskt navn. I virkeligheten het han Otto von Wächter: høytstående SS-offiser, tidligere guvernør for Galicia i dagens Ukraina og ettersøkt for drapet på over 100 000 mennesker. Hva brakte ham til Roma? Og hvorfor døde han? Den framstående menneskerettighetsjuristen Philippe Sands debuterte som sakprosaforfatter med den internasjonale kritikersuksessen og bestselgeren Tilbake til Lemberg i 2016. Der fortalte Sands historien om bestefaren Leo, som flyktet fra Lemberg i Ukraina akkurat i tide til å unngå tyskernes skrekkvelde under krigen. SS-offiseren som ledet det nazistiske regimet i byen spilte en birolle i Tilbake til Lemberg - en dannet østerriksk aristokrat med et slående ytre og lang erfaring som jødejeger. Han het Otto von Wächter. I Skyggespillet er det han som spiller hovedrollen.