In questo dettagliato studio a carattere interdisciplinare, lo storico inglese Philip Cooke prende in esame la duratura e contrastata eredità della Resistenza, ricostruendo i mutevoli e ambivalenti atteggiamenti sviluppati dai principali partiti politici e dalle istituzioni repubblicane nel corso del loro ambizioso progetto di edificazione di una nuova nazione sulle rovine del fascismo e della seconda guerra mondiale. Utilizzando romanzi, film, documentari, giornali, diari, monumenti, quadri, musei, l'autore illustra le modalità con cui, in un lungo arco di tempo, la politica, la storia e la cultura italiane hanno interagito fra loro, mette in discussione stereotipi 'di parte', come quello dell'egemonia comunista sulla memoria, e rilegge la storia del secondo dopoguerra da una prospettiva inedita e innovativa, che diventerà un imprescindibile punto di riferimento per chiunque vorrà riflettere sulla Resistenza e con essa sull'intera vicenda dell'Italia contemporanea.

Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as clusters and an over reliance on venture capital, the inadequacy of existing orthodoxies has come to be replaced by the notion of transversality.

This approach has three strong characteristics that differentiate it from its failing predecessor. First, as the name implies, it seeks to finesse horizontal knowledge interactions as well as vertical ones, thus building ‘platforms’ of industrial interaction. Secondly, it is not a supply, but a demand side model in which needs-driven innovation rather than pure market competition prevails. Finally, it is ongoing through recessionary times, being more robust than over-specialized approaches to economic growth.

The intellectual origins of transversality lie in an aspiration to promote eco-innovation, one of the key hopes of assisting Western regional and national economies to re-balance and escape recession. The policy models of key regional exponents of the concept are explored and their goals achievement is assessed. An array of policy instruments and measures is presented for hands-on policy implementation. The book will be of vital interest to academics as teachers and researchers as well as policy advisers and public servants.

Letters by the British composer to his friends, family, and colleagues document his life from school days to the end of World War II

This collection of forty-three articles on regional growth strategies showcases current scholarship in innovation as a tool for development in a variety of economic, environmental, political, and social contexts. Beginning with a section on regional innovation theory, the work covers topics such as regional innovation and growth dynamics, innovation evolution, agglomeration, foreign direct investment and regional growth, systemic and institutional innovation, and policy and planning for development. Chapters include numerous illustrations, tables, and sidebars. The contributors are academics in economics and economic geography from institutions around the world. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The fifth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, covers the years 1958-65, during which he wrote two major operatic works - A Midsummer Night's Dream and the ground-breaking Curlew River - and his pacifist choral masterpiece War Requiem. Other significant compositions from the period include the orchestral song-cycle Nocturne, the first of the cello pieces for Rostropovich, and settings of poems by Blake and Pushkin.

Correspondents include friends, fellow artists and collaborators such as Peter Maxwell Davies, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, E. M. Forster, Perey Grainger, Duncan Grant, Robert Graves, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, Hans Werner Henze, Barbara Hepworth, Christopher Isherwood, Otto Klemperer, Alma Mahler-Werfel, Yehudi Menuhin, Henry Moore, John Piper, William Plomer (librettist of Curlew River), Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dmitri Shostakovich, Edith Sitwell, Galina Vishnevskaya and William Walton, as well as Britten's partner and principal interpreter, Peter Pears.

The Volume charts the peak of Britten's position as one of the leading figures of the international musical establishment as composer, conductor and pianist, and his continuing involvement with the Aldeburgh Festival and the English Opera Group. The deterioration in Britten's relationship with Boosey & Hawkes, his publishers since the mid-1930s, is closely documented, as is the founding, at the composer's instigation, of the new publishing house of Faber Music in 1964. Central to the period is the composer's warm friendship with musicians from the Soviet Union, and Britten's and Pears's visits to Moscow, Leningrad and Armenia are Charted in detail.

This collection of essays is based on the work of Jane Jacobs, who theorized that 'Change...occurs from the bottom up. When enough individual elements interact and organize themselves, the result is collective intelligence--even though no one is in charge.' Cooke (regional development, University of Wales) and Lazzeretti (cultural economics, University of Florence, Italy) have selected articles, some reprinted from journals, that explore different ways in which these 'cultural clusters' within communities influence the economy and growth of the area. Examples range from watch making to film making in place as diverse as Singapore, Switzerland and Vancouver, Canada. Highly technical language makes this accessible largely by professionals in economics and urban planning. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This long-awaited third volume of composer Benjamin Britten's remarkable letters covers the years 1946-51. Fresh from the astonishing success of his great first opera, Peter Grimes, Britten was vital to the post-war rebuilding of the arts in Great Britain with his visionary work as a composer, conductor, and performer. With his partner, the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, he founded the Aldeburgh Festival, which eventually grew into the international festival that it is today, and the English Opera Group. He also toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor. During this time he wrote many of his best-known works, including the operas Billy Budd, Albert Herring, and The Rape of Lucretia.
Britten's correspondents include literary figures such as Christopher Isherwood, Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster (the librettist for Billy Budd), and Edward Sackville-West, as well as musical colleagues from around the world including Ernest Ansermet, Francis Poulenc, Aaron Copland,and Igor Stravinsky.
This volume of selected letters represents one of the richest and most innovative periods of the composer's creative life. His daily concerns and the unique era in which he lived are vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed and fascinating information. Donald Mitchell contributes a superb introduction.