The Story Of Milan

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770899575

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The Couturier of Milan by Ian Hamilton Pdf

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.

Author : Cecilia M. Ady
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9353974151

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A History of Milan Under the Sforza by Cecilia M. Ady Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Ella Noyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986119327

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The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes Pdf

The Story of Milan is a great overview of the city.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Milan (Italy)
ISBN : LCCN:04037120

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Author : John Foot
Publisher : Berg 3pl
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047461150

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Milan Since the Miracle by John Foot Pdf

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.

Author : Ella Noyes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547624516

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"The Story of Milan" by Ella Noyes. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Ella Noyes Noyes
Publisher : anboco
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736420564

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The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes Noyes Pdf

Everybody has been in Milan, but who knows Milan? The traveller in search of the picturesque and mediæval sees nothing to arrest him—except comfortable hotels—in a city which seems to tell only of yesterday. A glance at the Cathedral, at St. Ambrogio, at the most famous of the pictures, and he hurries on. Yet a little longer stay reveals a wealth of artistic interest in the many fine churches, in the rich galleries and museums, and much also that is worth learning even in the outward aspect of the city in the present day. The historic buildings have mostly fallen, the old crooked ways have given place to broad thoroughfares, the picturesque life of the past has been smothered by the sombre bustle of modern commercialism. But her heritage of beauty is to some extent inalienable. She remains always Italian. Colour and atmosphere lend an indestructible charm even to her modernity. The warm brick of the buildings against the limpid blue sky, the gold and grey of sunshine and shadow, the shining canals that border some of the further streets with a still and pensive melancholy, make a lovely and characteristic harmony still, as in the days of the Quattrocentist artists who painted them in the backgrounds of their Madonnas and San Roccos. And there are some old xivstreets left, mostly in the heart of the city, such as the Via del Pesce and the Via Tre Alberghi, long cobbled alleys ribboned with triple lines of pavement, where the tall houses and bowed-out balconies of curious ironwork, rusted by age and weather, if they cannot remember the days of Milan's earlier glory, must have known at least something of the sad centuries of bondage which followed, before they shook to the roar of the Cinque Giornate sixty years ago. The compass of this small volume has made it impossible to tell otherwise than summarily of the great past of this city and of her artistic riches to-day. I have had to pass over, or barely mention, many noteworthy things.

Author : Ella Noyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163700394

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Author : Bill Riley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780253020956

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The Milan Miracle by Bill Riley Pdf

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.

Author : William Waldorf Astor Astor (Viscount)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013670120

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Sforza by William Waldorf Astor Astor (Viscount) Pdf

Author : John Gagné
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674248724

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Milan Undone by John Gagné Pdf

A new history of how one of the Renaissance’s preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars. In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled for supremacy, Milan, viewed by contemporaries as the “key to Italy,” found itself wracked by a tug-of-war between French claimants and its ruling Sforza family. In just thirty years, the city endured nine changes of government before falling under three centuries of Habsburg dominion. John Gagné offers a new history of Milan’s demise as a sovereign state. His focus is not on the successive wars themselves but on the social disruption that resulted. Amid the political whiplash, the structures of not only government but also daily life broke down. The very meanings of time, space, and dynasty—and their importance to political authority—were rewritten. While the feudal relationships that formed the basis of property rights and the rule of law were shattered, refugees spread across the region. Exiles plotted to claw back what they had lost. Milan Undone is a rich and detailed story of harrowing events, but it is more than that. Gagné asks us to rethink the political legacy of the Renaissance: the cradle of the modern nation-state was also the deathbed of one of its most sophisticated precursors. In its wake came a kind of reversion—not self-rule but chaos and empire.

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063290693

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera Pdf

"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

Author : Kat Beyer
Publisher : Egmont USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781606843154

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The Demon Catchers of Milan by Kat Beyer Pdf

Mia’s ordinary life is disrupted for good in the most horrifying way possible when she is possessed by a hungry and powerful demon—and saved only by the arrival of relatives from Italy, the country her grandfather fled many decades ago. Now her cousins, the charming and gorgeous Emilio and stern, elderly Giuliano, say the only way to keep Mia safe is for her to come back with them to Milan, to live, to learn Italian, to fall in and out of love, and to master the family trade: fighting all demons with the ancient lore of bell, book, and candle. Milan is not what Mia expected, but it will change her forever.

Author : Steve Hendricks
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393080681

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A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial by Steve Hendricks Pdf

A book so compelling it deserves to become one of the nonfiction classics of our time. As propulsively readable as the best “true crime,” A Kidnapping in Milan is a potent reckoning with the realities of counterterrorism. In a mesmerizing page-turner, Steve Hendricks gives us a ground-level view of the birth and growth of international Islamist terrorist networks and of counterterrorism in action in Europe. He also provides an eloquent, eagle’s-eye perspective on the big questions of justice and the rule of law. “In Milan a known fact is always explained by competing stories,” Hendricks writes, but the stories that swirled around the February 2003 disappearance of the radical imam Abu Omar would soon point in one direction—to a covert action by the CIA. The police of Milan had been exploiting their wiretaps of Abu Omar for useful information before the taps went silent. The Americans were their allies in counterterrorism—would they have disrupted a fruitful investigation? In an extraordinary tale of detective versus spy, Italian investigators under the leadership of prosecutor Armando Spataro unraveled in embarrassing detail the “covert” action in which Abu Omar had been kidnapped and sent to be tortured in Egypt. Spataro—seasoned in prosecutions of the Mafia and the Red Brigades and a passionate believer in the rule of law—sought to try the kidnappers in absentia: the first-ever trial of CIA officers by a U.S. ally. An exemplary achievement in narrative nonfiction writing, A Kidnapping in Milan is at once a detective story, a history of the terrorist menace, and an indictment of the belief that man’s savagery against man can be stilled with more savagery yet.

Author : Ac Milan
Publisher : Skira
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8857241165

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Always Milan! by Ac Milan Pdf

"A faithful companion our whole lives long ... So it was for our grandparents, so it was for our parents ... and so it shall be for our children. That's how it's been for 120 years now. That's how it'll be in future [sic]. Yes, Always Milan!, this team of joys and emotions, of victories and triumphs on pitches around the world, for that is the story told in these pages that overflow with love for our colours, for the red and black of AC Milan! Yes, Always Milan!, a club of players who have brought honour to the shirt, an infinite number of champions who have given us so much entertainment and enjoyment, unforgettable greats who have written its legendary history! Always Milan!, ever since that cold and foggy December evening the club was founded, and now at the start of the third millennium. A shot, the ball nestles in the back of the net, the players embrace ... An outburst of joy at a Milan goal, the same as it ever was, 120 glorious years on!"--