This book is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Nordic government and politics for students of politics and European studies. The five Nordic countries have developed in distinctive political, social and economic directions in during this century. Nordic Government and Politics provides an analysis of their differences and similarities, showing how they function politically and reviewing the main features of their economic, social and foreign policies.

Product Description: Una joya de la literatura contemporánea que ya ha fascinado a más de medio millón de lectores en Italia y Estados Unidos. UNA SAGA MEMORABLE. Con La amiga estupenda, Elena Ferrante inaugura una trilogía deslumbrante que tiene como telón de fondo la ciudad de Nápoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenù y Lila, dos jóvenes mujeres que están aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas...read more

Product Description: Érase una vez dos niñas, Elena y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de Nápoles, y desde entonces su historia ha sido el hilo conductor de esta espléndida saga napolitana que ahora llega a su tercera entrega...read more

Product Description: La niña perdida pone punto final a «Dos amigas», la historia de dos amigas que nacieron a mediados del siglo XX en Nápoles.UNA SAGA MEMORABLE.«Las novelas de Elena Ferrante me han tenido atado al sillón, leyendo y celebrando unas páginas donde la emoción nunca es banal...read more

Product Description: The role of economics in urban conservation is relatively underdeveloped. Professor Lichfield has added to his other pioneering studies in this innovative and important exposition of approach, method and techniques for the systematic application of economics in the conservation of urban areas...read more

From the author of My Brilliant Friend"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-Corriere della Sera"Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-El Mundo"Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of exceptional and bold strength."-Il Manifesto"Severe and rigorously unsentimental, packed full of passages written with dizzying intensity at a rare and acute pitch. Ferrante is at her best when her writing holds tight to those nagging, niggling obsessions that make up our mental landscapes."-La StampaA national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.

Product Description: [Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein] [Read by Hillary Huber] The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels!In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of marriage and now works as a laborer...read more

When her husband Mario leaves her, Olga, left to care for two young children, enters a long period of self-doubt and pity, until she acknowledges the truth about her marriage.

Product Description: The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery...read more

Product Description: Una joya de la literatura contemporánea que ya ha fascinado a más de medio millón de lectores en Italia y Estados Unidos.UNA SAGA MEMORABLE.Con La amiga estupenda, Elena Ferrante inaugura una trilogía deslumbrante que tiene como telón de fondo la ciudad de Nápoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenù y Lila, dos jóvenes mujeres que están aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas...read more

Product Description: En Crónicas del desamor se reúnen las tres novelas que han convertido a Elena Ferrante en una de las voces de más prestigio de la literatura italiana contemporánea. Las tres piezas tienen como protagonista a una mujer, y las tres indagan en el dolor femenino con mano firme, sin concesiones al sentimentalismo...read more