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Milan since the Miracle
Author: John Foot
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781859735503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first comprehensive post-war history of one of Europe's most vibrant cities throughout an extraordinary period of social, cultural and economic change. The capital of Italy's economic miracle of the 1950s and 60s, Milan was a magnet for immigrants, as industry, design and culture created a heady mix of wealth, innovation and conflict. By the 1980s, heavy industry had all but disappeared and the city had reinvented itself as the world capital of fashion and a dynamic post-industrial metropolis. Meanwhile, the urban landscape was darkened by the bleak estates of the peripheries and the corruption scandals that exploded in what became known as 'Tangentopoli', or Bribesville. This fascinating book traces Milan's 'biography' through its buildings, design, fashion, cinema, families, immigrants and television. The city emerges as a potent economic power-house and laboratory for change, where art and culture converge in a modern but problematic urban space. Anyone interested in Italian history, urban studies or the future of Europe's cities will find this book an essential read.
The Milan Miracle
Author: Bill Riley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0253020956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will lightning ever strike twice? Can David beat Goliath a second time? These questions haunt everyone in the small town of Milan, Indiana, whose basketball team inspired Hoosiers, the greatest underdog sports movie ever made. From a town of just 1,816 residents, the team remains forever an underdog, but one with a storied past that has them eternally frozen in their 1954 moment of glory. Every ten years or so, Milan has a winning season, but for the most part, they only manage a win or two each year. And still, perhaps because it's the only option for Milan, the town believes that the Indians can rise again. Bill Riley follows the modern day Indians for a season and explores how the Milan myth still permeates the town, the residents, and their high level of expectations of the team. Riley deftly captures the camaraderie between the players and their coach and their school pride in being Indians. In the end, there are few wins or causes for celebration—there is only the little town where basketball is king and nearly the whole town shows up to watch each game. The legend of Milan and Hoosiers is both a blessing and a curse.
The Story of Milan
Author: Ella Noyes
Publisher:
Published: 2018-03-02
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781986119320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Story of Milan is a great overview of the city.
A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial
Author: Steve Hendricks
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-10-11
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0393065812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hendricks reveals the riveting true story of the CIA "snatch" of a radical imam in Italy.
The Couturier of Milan
Author: Ian Hamilton
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2017-01-16
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 177089957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New-World China meets Old-World Italy, as Ava investigates the dark side of the glamourous world of fashion in the latest installment of the Ava Lee Novels. Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters — May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee — have made over the past year. The show is a success, but perhaps too much of one. It attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. When VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters’ stake in the company, Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÖ comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base begins to abandon them. With the help of Xu, Ava uncovers the dark and complex dynamics between East and West in the global fashion industry, eventually leading to a confrontation between two of the world’s biggest crime syndicates.
The Man In Milan
Author: Vito Racanelli
Publisher: Polis Books
Published: 2020-11-24
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 1951709276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For fans of Daniel Silva and David Baldacci comes a gripping thriller based on real world events that will have you riveted until the final page is turned. When NYPD detectives Paul Rossi and Hamilton P. Turner begin investigating the Sutton Place murder of an Italian air force pilot, the last thing they expect is that they will and find themselves sucked into the potential cover-up of the Ustica massacre, the most horrific aviation crime in Italian history, in which all 81 souls on board perished, where Italian President Francesco Cossiga blamed a missile deployed by the French Navy for the disaster. But as they begin investigating, Rossi, recovering from a broken marriage, and Turner, an African-American opera buff, poet, and former lawyer with ambitions to be mayor, come up against NYPD bureaucratic obstacles and stonewalling by the Italian Consulate in NYC. Lieutenant Laura Muro, the policewoman sister of the victim, comes to New York to aid the investigation, but soon the trio find themselves in the crosshairs of the Gladio, Italy’s powerful, shadowy political cabal whose reach extends to the highest reaches of New York political and ruling class. From New York to Italy, Rossi, Turner, and Muro must uncover the shocking truth about one of the most notorious disasters in airline history, and how this infamous act ties to the present-day murder. Riveting, erudite, and surprising at every turn, THE MAN IN MILAN announces a major new voice in international thriller fiction.
The story of Milan
The Siloviki Wars
Author: Sam Timel
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 1594653178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Some say it's like seeing Bill Gates turn into Che Guevara... But it ain't that simple. Let me explain how it all began..." -- Sam Timel
The Story of Milan
