This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long
and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground
economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world …

Italy Today is a concise narrative of the nation's stunning transformation from the ashes of
World War II to the leading economic and cultural power it is today. This book provides
insights into the dynamics of Italy's progression from the Second World War, through the …

Crisis is a much abused word in the world press today, but it is no exaggeration to say that it
has become a way of life in Italy. Governmental crises, which have been endemic since the
foundation of the Republic close on thirty years ago, have more recently become over …

… It is widely recognized that food represents a key issue for the identity of Italy, and
that today Italian food habits enjoy global popularity as both desirable and varied.
In this book, the historian Carol Helstosky tries to analyse some …

Core collections of plant genetic resources consist of a limited set of accessions chosen to
represent the genetic variation in a crop species and its wild relatives with minimum
repetition. They were proposed to deal with the burgeoning number and size of germplasm …

Italy embodies all stages of economic development in its marketing structure and operations,
ranging from regional differences hoary with age… to regulations of distribution based upon
the guild system of the Middle Ages… to huge, quasi-independent, state-owned enterprises …

This article explores a number of aspects of paid domestic work in contemporary Italy and
recent changes in that sector. The first section presents the distinguishing characteristics of
paid domestic workers, showing that the image of a non-Italian woman, originally from an …

In 1950, the American Journal of Psychiatry published ''A Survey of Italian Psychiatry,
1949''by two authoritative psychiatrists, one American and the other one Italian (Lemkau and
De Sanctis, 1950). It was a dramatic report on the obsolete and repressive institutions in Italy  …

The high estimated prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) forcefully supports the need
for collaboration among nephrologists, cardiologists, diabetologists and general
practitioners, to reduce the cardiovascular risk of CKD patients and delay the start of dialysis …