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Notre - Dame Le fiamme e la rinascita in sei articoli di Repubblica: Incendio Notre-Dame cantiere sotto accusa, di Anais Ginori; Notre-Dame il tesoro perduto, di Corrado Augias; Notre-Dame 48 ore per capire se i danni sono irreparabili, di Ettore Livini; Dentro Notre-Dame, di Anais Ginori; Il fuoco e lo stupore, di Francesco Bonami; La sindaca di Parigi Hidalgo: "Su Notre-Dame correremo. Ora appalti come per i Giochi e in cinque anni ce la faremo", di Anais Ginori.

Coca, farlopa, perico, merca, Fariña. Nunca Galicia comercializó un producto con tanto éxito. Aunque ahora parezca una pesadilla lejana, en los años 90 el 80 por ciento de la cocaína desembarcaba en Europa por las costas gallegas. A través de testimonios directos de capos, pilotos de planeadoras, arrepentidos, jueces, policías, periodistas y madres de toxicómanos, Nacho Carretero retrata con minuciosidad este paisaje criminal. Fariña incluye, además, un repaso inédito por los clanes que siguen operando hoy en día.

Warum steigen derzeit in deutschen Metropolen die Mieten so drastisch und wie lässt sich diese Entwicklung durch Eigeninitiative stoppen? - Analysen, Vorschläge und Modelle dazu am Beispiel Berlins von einem erfahrenen Multi-Unternehmer... In Berlin und vielen anderen Großstädten werden Wohnungen immer teurer. Viele Menschen finden gar keine bezahlbare Wohnung mehr. Es bewerben sich inzwischen in der Spitze bis zu 800 Interessenten auf eine freie Wohnung! Die Situation ist nahezu unerträglich!

"Londra era, ma non è più." Una pressione centrifuga l'ha fatta esplodere fino a invadere il Sud dell'Inghilterra, tanto che è quasi impossibile stabilire dove cominci e dove abbia fine. Londra è ovunque, è sfruttata e sfruttatrice, è multiculturale, ha fretta ma non sa dove andare. È un museo per turisti in cui un graffito di Banksy viene ricoperto entro poche ore da un plexiglass protettivo. La abitano cittadini stregati dagli smartphone e ciclisti che non hanno tempo di evitare i pedoni.

L'inizio del nuovo millennio sta portando alla ribalta le grandi città del mondo come luoghi della sperimentazione del futuro del pianeta e insieme come protagoniste della competizione a livello globale: città come Los Angeles, Londra e Tokyo hanno un ruolo di guida economica e identitaria sia per se stesse sia per i Paesi che rappresentano. L'Italia è un Paese fondato sulle città e la nostra storia - dall'epoca dei comuni alle istanze autonomiste odierne - ci ricorda quanto l'attaccamento alla comunità locale sia spesso più forte del legame con lo stato centrale.

The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a Black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today.

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless-vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces, and laws not just here, but across the globe. Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll, and nothing will ever be the same. This audiobook shows us what the future has in store.

The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.

Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Gay New York forever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.

On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers?

One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our actions and the state of the planet that we all share. We need a new myth, a new narrative that restores the connections between humanity and the Earth. We are being confronted by a daily barrage of geographical stories on climate change, geopolitics, population growth, migration, dwindling resources, polluted oceans and natural hazards. These are planetary concerns affecting all people and all places.

To be a great leader, you must be able to unite people from all backgrounds with seemingly competing agendas to come together under a common cause. Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League, has been such a leader and shares the lessons he learned along a legendary journey of achievement.

America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades - celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities.

Mach was aus dir und werde glücklich? Willkommen im Dauerstress der Selbstoptimierung! In "Ich mach mich fertig" rechnet Karlotta Ehrenberg ebenso scharfsinnig wie spitzzüngig mit dem Diktat unserer Zeit ab: der unablässigen Arbeit an uns selbst. Höher, schneller, schöner, besser: Getrieben von dem Wunsch nach Selbstoptimierung und -verwirklichung leiden wir mehr denn je unter psychischem Stress. Entspannung? Die wird heute wie alles andere im Leben akribisch geplant - inklusive Yoga, Therapie und Achtsamkeit.

Liguria, un altro viadotto a rischio. "Chiudete o finirà come il Morandi": ecco l'Italia delle strade a pezzi, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Preve; Dissesto, la solitudine della Liguria. Allarme porti: "Così si chiude", di Maurizio Crosetti; Nel Paese dell'eterna burocrazia un cantiere su due è bloccato, di Sergio Rizzo; I ponti mettono paura, la procura fa chiudere un pezzo di autostrada, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Lignana; Venti ponti a rischio. Conte: revoca vicina per Autostrade, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Lignana;

Mose, Ilva, Alitalia. Un Paese in crisi: Mose, Ilva e Alitalia, il paese dei fallimenti, di Massimo Giannini; L'irresponsabilità al governo, di Claudio Tito; Il bivio dei Benetton: ingresso nella compagnia o rischio concessioni, di Ettore Livini; Alitalia, il governo cambia rotta. Prima ristrutturazione, poi la vendita, di Lucio De Lellis; Conte: "Mittal rimane ma non escludo intervento pubblico. Non cadremo a gennaio", di Claudio Tito.

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants. During their breaks they could explore acres of parkland planted with hundreds of trees and thousands of shrubs. This is no fantasy or utopian vision of work but a description of the working conditions enjoyed by employees at the Guinness brewery established at Park Royal in West London in the mid-1930s.

Journalist Josiah Bates pulls back the curtain on a crisis that continues to plague the United States in this gripping narrative. Fueled by the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest, gun violence has surged to unprecedented levels, devastating marginalized communities and urban areas across the nation. Bates embarks on a heart-wrenching journey, crisscrossing the country to meet victims, perpetrators, community activists, and renowned scholars. Through their powerful stories, he unearths the hidden causes behind the escalating gun violence epidemic.

Рустам Рахматуллин - писатель-эссеист, краевед, многие годы изучающий историю Москвы, - по-новому осмысляет москвоведческие знания. Автор прибегает к неожиданным сопоставлениям и умозаключениям, ведет читателя одновременно по видимой и невидимой столице. Сравнивая ее с Римом, Иерусалимом, Константинополем, а также с Петербургом и другими русскими городами, он видит Москву как чудо проявления Высшего замысла, воплощаемого на протяжении многих веков в событиях истории, в художественных памятниках, в городской топографии, в символическом пространстве городских монастырей и бывших загородных усадеб.

Historian Georgina Hickey investigates challenges to the code of urban gender segregation in the twentieth century, focusing on organized advocacy to make the public spaces of American cities accessible to women. She traces waves of activism from the Progressive Era, with its calls for public restrooms, safe and accessible transportation, and public accommodations, through and beyond second-wave feminism, and its focus on the creation of alternative, women-only spaces and extensive anti-violence efforts.