Books - Journals

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Released in October 2006 by the International Women's Forum, BOLOGNA INSIDE, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Know to Make Bologna Home, is a guidebook for English speakers living in or around Bologna, Italy. The 192-page volume, also available in online format, is aimed not at tourists, but rather at newcomers who seek to call Italy "casa" but need additional help navigating resources, services, and bureaucratic procedures. The guidebook contains 10 chapters on all aspects of getting settled, including: Plugging In, Essential Services, Housing, Health, Work, Family, Shopping, Tempo Libero, Provincia and Long Term. The guide’s insightful tips on  Italian customs and dialect also provides recent arrivals with city-specific information to help them better understand their new adopted culture. With 90 personal vignettes by 60 unique women authors and 10 portraits of international women, this guide offers a unique, personal read for those interested in a truly “inside” view of daily life in Italy.ISBN 88-87569-27-4
For more information, please see the International Women’s Forum of Bologna website.

University of Idaho Press: A thoughtful book about the importance of speaking out on behalf of human rights, Common Courage grew out of the last public interviews with noted Northwest human rights activist and former Catholic priest Bill Wassmuth, who died after a two-year battle with Lou Gehrig's disease in 2002.

Through her frank and moving interviews with Wassmuth, Vogt chronicles Wassmuth's fascinating life story--from Idaho farmboy to popular Catholic priest to outspoken human rights activist and his final battle with his illness--while also capturing his views on the challenges of small town activism.

The book, with photos and a foreword by famed civil rights lawyer Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, also tells the story of the monumental grassroots community battle against hate groups in the Pacific Northwest. Wassmuth, whose parish rectory was bombed in 1986 by Aryan Nations followers trying to silence him, helped galvanize Northwest residents to run the neo-Nazi group out of the region.

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RICERCA E DIDATTICA ALL' UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Published 2005 Bolonoia Press

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Journal of Policy Research Volume 5
Published 2004