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Product Description: Inspired by newspaper clippings he had kept about two former African dictators accused of cannibalism, journalist Riccardo Orizio set out to track down tyrants around the world who had fallen from power―to see if they had gained any perspective on their actions, or if their lives and thoughts could shed any light on our own...read more

Hardcover:

9780802714169 | Walker & Co, April 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Seven dictators from around the world who have fallen from power, examine the effects they had on their countries and how they view themselves.

Paperback:

9780802776921 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, May 30, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Inspired by newspaper clippings he had kept about two former African dictators accused of cannibalism, journalist Riccardo Orizio set out to track down tyrants around the world who had fallen from power―to see if they had gained any perspective on their actions, or if their lives and thoughts could shed any light on our own.

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A study of the world of the descendants of European colonists in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean describes their poverty-stricken lives as outcasts among the native cultures, focusing on the Blancs Matignon of Guadeloupe, the Burghers of Sri Lanka, the Confederados of Brazil, and other groups left behind by time. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780743211970 | 1 edition (Free Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A study of the world of the descendants of European colonists in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean describes their poverty-stricken lives as outcasts among the native cultures.

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By Avril Bardoni (trans) and Anna Cataldi (editor)

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9781852305000 | Element Books Ltd, May 1, 1994, cover price $19.95

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In his hillside villa overlooking the Bay of Naples, Professor Bellavista reflects on everyday life in Naples, love, liberty and the state of the world with a group of unemployed student philosophers

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9780802110770 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In his hillside villa overlooking the Bay of Naples, Professor Bellavista reflects on everyday life in Naples, love, liberty and the state of the world with a group of unemployed student philosophers

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One of Italy's modern writers explores the theme of the break-up of families, with the subsequent destruction of dreams held by family members, in two novellas, with young woman narrators

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9780805006834 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: One of Italy's modern writers explores the theme of the break-up of families, with the subsequent destruction of dreams held by family members, in two novellas, with young woman narrators

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