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  • Non-GAAP Disclosure

    Empirical and Institutional Perspectives under IFRS

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book investigates the increasingly pervasive use of non-GAAP disclosure in corporate reporting, with a particular focus on the European context under IFRS. It explores both empirical and institutional dimensions, reviewing two decades of academic debate and evaluating recent and upcoming regulatory changes. The book includes a definitional review, an investigation of the most-used non-GAAP ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Everything Is Broken Up and Dances

    The Crushing of the Middle Class

    by Edoardo Nesi, Guido Maria Brera ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class.Just a handful of years into the new millennium, globalization has had a profound impact on economies and societies throughout Europe and America. In ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sentimental Economy

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    In a warm, perceptive essay that touches on economics, fashion, literature, and politics, the Strega Prize–winning author of Story of My People reflects on the seismic shifts of 2020 and the diverse ways we’re adapting.Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020—from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father—Edoardo Nesi considers the changing global ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Story of My People

    Essays and Social Criticism on Italy's Economy

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was a thriving industrial center that prided itself on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Shadow Is Yours

    A Novel

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Translated by Gregory Conti ...
    A recent college graduate accompanies a reclusive middle-aged writer on a chaotic road trip to Milan in this hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, friendship, and the pitfalls of nostalgiaIn 1995 Vittorio Vezzosi rose to worldwide acclaim with his debut novel, The Wolves Inside. Unfortunately for his adoring fans—and his publisher—he wouldn’t write another word. Instead, the great author shut ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Infinite Summer

    A Novel

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Translated by Alice Kilgarriff ...
    A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired themInfinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment propelled smart and industrious young men to create companies devoted to design, architecture, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sentimental Economy

    by Edoardo Nesi ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 1 min

    From the Strega Prize–winning author of Story of My People comes an astute, multifaceted essay on the seismic shifts of 2020 and how he and people from all walks of life are adapting.Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020—from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father—Edoardo Nesi considers the changing global economy and its effect on our lives. He ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
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  • Seven Seasons in Siena

    My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

    by Robert Rodi ...
    Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual ... Read more

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  • An Italian Education

    The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona

    by Tim Parks ...
    A "marvelous" Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors ( The Washington Post).Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian.When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Italian Neighbors

    by Tim Parks ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy.Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood, the novelist found that he had inadvertently collected a gallery full of splendid characters. In this ... Read more

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  • The Street Kids

    by Pier Paolo Pasolini ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    The "provocative" novel about hard-living teenagers in poverty-stricken postwar Rome, by the renowned Italian filmmaker ( The New York Times).Set during the post–World War II years in the Rome of the borgate—outlying neighborhoods beset by poverty and deprivation— The Street Kids tells the story of a group of adolescents belonging to the urban underclass. Living hand-to-mouth, Riccetto and his ... Read more

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