This used to be my Playground. - Rain.

Traduz.di Maria Vasta Dazzi. Milano, Longanesi Ed. 1972, cm.12,5x18,5, pp.341, legatura ed. sopraccop.fig. Coll.La Gaja Scienza,338.

Photographs by Alex Ramsay. London, Thames and Hudson 2001, cm.26x32,5, pp.208 ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori. Author of the highly successful The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany, James Bentley, along with photographer Alex Ramsay, has now turned his attention to more extensive, though equally beautiful, Tuscan communities. Travelling from north to south of the region, as in the Villages volume, we encounter first the towns with substantial Etruscan and Romanesque features, then the walled towns of central Tuscany, followed by the coastal and thermal communities of the south. The country towns described and photographed in this book have been selected not only to exemplify the remarkable variety of this part of Italy but also because they embody its altogether exceptional artistic, gastronomic and cultural heritage. Twenty of the most beautiful towns of this opulent land are treated in this visual and textual feast by Alex Ramsay and James Bentley, which is completed by a guide to the principal sights, events, hotels and restaurants of each town. The whole volume makes a wonderful companion to The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany.

People, service and innovation : the sustainable growth path of a global leader. Foreword by Maria Latella. Bocconi University Press. Milano, EGEA 2023, cm.14,5x23, pp.118, brossura. With an aging population, and above all a society that is becoming increasingly noisy, hearing loss is a problem destined to increase and affect ever-younger age groups. Yet, it is still talked about too little: in fact, there is a social stigma associated with it that is difficult to overcome. The aim of the book is, first and foremost, to raise awareness about the consequences that noise pollution can have on each of us, while also illustrating the solutions that technology makes available today. Yet in this ? eld, technology alone is not sufficient if it is not accompanied by highly-personalized service and care. It is the skills (and sensitivity) of the trained individuals working at an Italian family company that has allowed it to become one of the world leaders in the distribution of hearing aids and personal care services. It was 1950 when Algernon Charles Holland founded what would become Amplifon in Milan, to help people who had hearing problems as a result of World War II. Today, the Group, listed on the stock exchange, operates in twenty-five countries and on five continents. This book tells the story of the company and its strategies, but above all, the values that have brought it to the top of the industry.

Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21-23, 1989. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992, cm.15,5x22, pp.515, legatura editoriale cartonata. Collana Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory,74. Testo in inglese. This nineteenth edition of LSRL proceedings contains a selection of papers on variety of Romance idioms and includes current topics in established areas of study. The phonology papers focus mostly on syllabic and higher-level prosodic structure. The morphology section deals primarily with compounding. The syntax contributions principally treat infinitival clauses, extraction phenomena, and binding. While synchronic data serve as the point of departure in most of the studies, historical perspectives are also considered in each major section. Included in the volume are two invited contributions, by Violeta Demonte (on linking and case with prepositional verbs) and Shana Poplack (on variation in the form and function of the subjunctive in Canadian French).