During the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War, foreign agents conducted intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and subversive operations inside neutral countries aimed at damaging their opponents' interests. The essays contained in this collection analyze the risks of espionage operations on neutral soil as well as the dangers such covert activities posed for the governments of neutral states. In striving to avoid involvement in the firing line of the Second World War or the front lin...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street ... their target, 'Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!' It was ACT UP's first demonstration. In November 1999 a radical coalition of environmental, labor, anarchist, queer, and human rights activists converged in Seattle-their target was similar, a system of global capitalism. Between 1987 and 1999 a new project in activism had emerged unshackled from past ghosts. Through innovative use of civil rights' ...

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility.This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19 across the world, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday practices of urban citizens. The contributors discuss how the virus made urban inequalities s...

Il libro narra la storia di una giornalista che si imbatte, per ritrovare il padre scomparso , in una spedizione sull'Isola di Pasqua, alla ricerca di una Farfalla di Luce.Dopo varie ricerche si ritroverà a dover capire se questa Farfalla di Luce sia una chiave segreta, o un portale spazio tempo che usavano antichi sacerdoti per spostare le statue Moai. Sarà catapultata in un intensa avventura fra l'Isola di Pasqua e i Monti Caprioni in Italia , dove scoprirà l' esistenza reale di un fenom...

Diviso tra il Bene e il Male, un uomo senza volto va alla ricerca della libertà ormai perduta. Persuaso da un’inebriante e misteriosa luce, cerca di trovare il ricordo di sé stesso poiché in crisi con la sua anima e in lotta con la sua mente.