Italian Culture
What is it about Italian culture that has inculcated such a negative mentality when it comes to football?
Not knowing how to play under pressure, and the traditional one.. calling cheap fouls.
Italian Culture Week | Integrated Campaign
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Folk Favorites of the ’60s and ’70s (Reader’s Digest Music) $139.95 4 CD set released by Reader’s Digest Music in 1996. Contains 80 of the greatest folk songs from the 1960s and 1970s! 1. Taxi – Harry Chapin |
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Discovering Southern Tuscany [Italy] $45.00 Southern Tuscany offers visitors the kind of purity and wholesome simplicity which can hardly be found anywhere else. Its colors and smells, its soaring cypresses and clean seas make it a haven in which visitors will find the necessary peace of mind to cleanse mind and soul. In particular, those included to spiritual contemplation come here to experience the mood of deep devotion lying at the hear… |
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The Hat By Tomi Ungerer Video This animated movie’s theme is Italian Culture/Magic, Grade Level K-3, and running time 6 minutes…. |
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Freud and Italian Culture (Paperback) $53.67 Description not available. |
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Barron`s AP Italian Language and Culture $22.6 This brand-new manual is focused to reflect the most-often-asked questions on Advanced Placement Italian exams. It reviews all five parts of the exam: Listening, Reading, Writing, Culture, and Speaking, with exercises, answer keys, and detailed comment… |
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Italian Folk (Paperback) $26.02 Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger in… |
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Speak the Culture! Italy (Paperback) $24.7 A fully illustrated primer on Italian culture goes beyond the parameters of travel and phrase books to inform readers on the nation`s history, values and character, covering everything from regional identity and famous figures to Italian art and archit… |
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Culinaria Italy (Relaunch) (Hardcover) $24.05 An in-depth look behind the scenes of Italian cuisine, including authentic and inspiring recipes alongside beautiful photographs of local dishes, products, the country and its people. |
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Italian Folk (Hardcover) $76.69 Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger in… |
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The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010 (Paperback) $21.17 The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944?2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler`s prime ally in the Second Wo… |
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Tea With Mussolini (DVD) $11.87 In this gently comic coming of age story, set in Florence over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, the illegitimate son of an Italian merchant is raised by a group of prim English ladies whose passion for Italian culture have made them permanent residen… |
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Italy and Italian $8.9 Introduces the geography, culture, and language of Italy, explaining how to use and pronounce everyday words and phrases. |
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The Cultures of Italian Migration (Hardcover) $71.33 Description not available. |
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Ciao (Hardcover) $191.07 CIAO!, Sixth Edition continues to emphasize practical, communicative use of Italian, while teaching the four language skills and providing an enhanced introduction to Italian life and culture. The new edition is distinguished by greater coherence in th… |
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Painless Italian $8.9 Middle school and high school students who are taking Italian and finding the learning process painful will change their minds when they open this book. Separate lessons teach important and interesting aspects of Italian culture while also presenting … |
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Looters, Photographers, and Thieves (Hardcover) $61.43 Description not available. |
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Jacopa Da Firenze $134.69 Description not available. |
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Italian Survival Guide (Paperback) $13.43 Description not available. |
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Culture Shock! Italy $11.25 Information and background for travelers and expatriates includes a brief history and description of the country, along with facts about the food, language, culture, and pastimes to help the “shocked” function in society, business, and residence. |
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Find Out About Italy (Hardcover) $11.77 Each Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts: Part One: Introduction?Takes readers on a journey across the country, pointing… |
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Better Reading Italian (Paperback) $11.14 Sharpen your Italian language skills through readings about its speakers` daily lives and culture Better Reading Italian offers you entertaining, “real world” texts to help you understand and learn more Italian vocabulary and ph… |
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Read and Think Italian (Mixed media product) $13.38 Learn Italian as you read and hear about the vibrant culture of its speakersRead & Think Italian is an innovative, non-intimidating approach to learning Italian. Compiled by the expert editors of Think Italian! magazine, … |
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Culture Smart! Italy $9.85 Looks at the social life, customs, and national characteristics of Italy, including coverage of such topics as values, attitudes, religion, family, food, language, and social relationships. |
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Culture: Splendid Trip – Italy – 3-Disc Set (DVD) $17.81 No passport is required in this tour of Italy that explores the stunning sights of Tuscany and Sicily–and makes some pit stops to sample some of Italy`s famed cuisine! |
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Italy for the Gourmet Traveler (Paperback) $16.14 “So filled with passion and expertise…the definitive guide for Italian food culture.”—Rick Steves”Takes dead aim at the brain`s pleasure centers, conjuring up a seductive vision of simple but succulent meals dished out to hardy fisherfolk s… |
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Ciao! (Mixed media product) $194.04 CIAO! VIDEO UPDATE, Sixth Edition emphasizes practical, communicative use of Italian, while teaching the four language skills and providing an enhanced introduction to Italian life and culture. The Video Update Edition includes a DVD of the new video p… |
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Popular Italian Cinema (Hardcover) $77.19 With its monsters, vampires, and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the post-war period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular … |
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Italian Immigrant Radical Culture (Hardcover) $48.48 Description not available. |
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La Cucina Italiana, 8 issues for 1 year(s) $23.97 The Magazine of La Cucina Italiana is unique in its approach to Italian cuisine, travel, and culture. Readers rely on the publication to provide them with in-depth, accurate information concerning Italian regional foods, dining establishments, and pl |
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La Bella Lingua (Hardcover) $18.09 Follows the author`s quest to learn Italian over twenty-five years and her study of the ties between the language and Italy`s culture, literature, history, and food. |
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The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory (Hardcover) $86.18 “Why did Renaissance art come to matter so much, so widely, and for so long? Patricia Emison`s answer depends on a recalibrated view of the long Renaissance from 1300 to 1600 synthesizing the considerable evolution in our understanding of the epoch sin… |
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Videocracy (DVD) $21.77 Filmmaker Erik Gandini examines the twisted nexus of politics and junk culture that informs Italian television in this documentary. Silvio Berlusconi is the prime minister of Italy; he also owns and operates a private television outlet, Mediaset, as we… |
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The Italian Way (Hardcover) $25.79 Outside of Italy, the country`s culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as The Italian Way makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily a… |
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Berlitz Italian Hide This Book $9.84 It`s not the Italian you learned in high school. Learn the lingo on love, sex, extreme sports, fashion, gossip, partying and much more. Also exposed in "Hide This Book" are hilarious mishaps, social trends, and cool cultural features. Th… |
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Walking And Eating In Tuscany And Umbria $17.81 Offers a wide variety of half-day and full-day walks, incorporating the scenery and culture of the Italian regions of Tuscany and Umbria, and includes information about local food and wine, overnight itineraries, easy-to-follow maps, the best restau |
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Collins Gem Italian (Mixed media product) $7.91 The acclaimed Collins Italian Gem Dictionary has been revised and updated with the latest vocabulary in a stunning eighth edition. Collins Italian Gem Dictionary 8th Edition includes useful travel phrases and cultural facts to supp… |
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Brian Sewell`s Grand Tour of Italy (DVD) $53.99 Acerbic British art critic Brian Sewell revisits the time-honored tradition of the Grand Tour, travelling to such Italian cities as Rome, Florence, Milan, and Venice to offer insight into classical and Renaissance art and culture in his inimitably opin… |
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Living in a Foreign Language $10.67 The veteran actor recalls how he and his wife, actress Jill Eikenberry, purchased a small cottage in rural Umbria and found a home in the heart of Italy, sharing the couple`s efforts to understand the nuances of Italian culture, build a new life for th… |
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Irrestible Signs (Hardcover) $76.28 Challenging the consensus that linguistic nationalism originated with nineteenth century German philosophers, Irresistible Signs advances a more nuanced theory of how culture and language become inextricably linked through literary and rhetorical eleme… |
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The Legacy of the Italian Resistance (Hardcover) $68.97 “This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the `three wars` are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this … |
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Between Raphael and Galileo (Hardcover) $35.94 Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569–1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathemat… |
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A History of Italy (Paperback) $24.53 Intertwining the history of art, literature, food, music and religion, Baldoli explores Italy`s history from the Middle Ages to the present. The book offers an insight into continuities across past and present day Italian culture, politi… |
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Vite Italiane (Paperback) $47.4 Since the 1880s, Italians have enriched the state with their hard work, traditions and culture. From the farmers of the South-West to the miners of Kalgoorlie and the fishermen of the northern coast, Vite Italiane contains the remarkable stories of hun… |
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John Tesh: One World (DVD) $13.36 One World is a musical project by John Tesh, that embraces the musical traditions of many cultures, from Naitve American to Irish to Spanish and Italian. Special guests include: flamenco dancer Arleen Hurtado and praise music stars Point of Grace. |
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Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance Science of Procreation (Hardcover) $116.32 Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procrcation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture—Bellini`s and Titian`s famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for the camerino of Duke Alfonso d`Este of Ferrara, and F… |
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Langenscheidt Universal Phrasebook Italian (Paperback) $7.91 More than 1,000 essential phrases and 2,500 additional words • Arranged in travel-related situations for easy reference • Easy-to-use pronunciation system • Cultural information and useful tourist tips • Concise, easy-to-unders… |
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Collins Italian Concise Dictionary (Paperback) $11.04 A comprehensive reference contains more than 80,000 references and 115,000 translations, in a guide that is complemented by cultural information and a grammar supplement designed to promote natural Italian speech and writing. Original. 15,000 first pri… |
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Decameron Tarot $17.72 This deck, created by celebrated Italian illustrator Gaudenzi and scholar of erotic culture Spadanuda, bravely plumbs the earthy world of Boccaccio`s Decameron. Like other erotic decks, Gaudenzi and Spadanuda amplify the sexual imagination. Unlike othe… |
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Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500 (Paperback) $15.46 The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo created some of the world`s most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields…. |
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Ciao, I Am Poetino (Paperback) $15.4 The main character in Ciao, I am Poetino takes us into his life–sharing people, places, things and his Italian culture with warmth, sensitivity, and humor. Poetino invites you to come have fun with him. Experience his Italian cultura (culture). Meet… |
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Vermilion Parish (Paperback) $16.33 Vermilion Parish is a region with fascinating history and culture. From the settlement of the area–beginning as early as 1757, predominately by French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, and Acadian colonists and the native Attapakas people–Vermilion… |
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The Sweet Life (Paperback) $8.9 Rome?city of style, culture, food, music, and romance. But is someone sinister stalking Janey Gordon during her Italian adventure?Sixteen-year-old Janey is all alone in the world apart from her trio of… |
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Percorsi L`italia Attraverso La Lingua E La Cultura (Mixed media product) $129.08 The first edition of Percorsi quickly became one of the best-selling elementary Italian texts. The new second edition features a new design, more focus on skills-development, updated cultural infor… |
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‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period. $49.99 My dissertation examines, within Fascist propagandist literature and cinema of the 1930s, the hybrid figures of mulattoes—the offspring of interracial unions between Italian men and native women of Italy's African colonies—and Levantines—white Italian immigrant merchants and craftsmen living in Alexandria, Egypt, who culturally intermingled with other ethnic groups. The popular novels and feature films I examine reveal the mulattoes and Levantines as interchangeable characters invalidating Benito Mussolini's efforts at establishing a national identity based on a common cultural background, racial attributes, and religious beliefs. As my title suggests, I take mulattoes and Levantines out of the cinematic and literary "stock" of propaganda, where they were depicted as outside the stirpe (stock) of the Italian people, to reveal the inconsistencies within Fascist ideals of racial and cultural purity. In historical and anthropological terms, I intend to bring to light how literary and cinematic devices used to stigmatize mulattoes and Levantines often undermine themselves, calling attention to what was supposed to be absent or different from what was in "stock," in the works themselves, in the actual peoples depicted and even in the motives of Fascist colonial enterprises. My analysis is informed by the framework of studies on exoticism, hybridity and mimicry, passing and the tragic mulatto, masculinity and femininity, and cultural studies, all of which lead back to the question: Why did Italians resist the ethnic and cultural metissage during colonialism and still to this day insist on "whiteness" when they describe themselves and their culture? |
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‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period. $69 My dissertation examines, within Fascist propagandist literature and cinema of the 1930s, the hybrid figures of mulattoes—the offspring of interracial unions between Italian men and native women of Italy's African colonies—and Levantines—white Italian immigrant merchants and craftsmen living in Alexandria, Egypt, who culturally intermingled with other ethnic groups. The popular novels and feature films I examine reveal the mulattoes and Levantines as interchangeable characters invalidating Benito Mussolini's efforts at establishing a national identity based on a common cultural background, racial attributes, and religious beliefs. As my title suggests, I take mulattoes and Levantines out of the cinematic and literary "stock" of propaganda, where they were depicted as outside the stirpe (stock) of the Italian people, to reveal the inconsistencies within Fascist ideals of racial and cultural purity. In historical and anthropological terms, I intend to bring to light how literary and cinematic devices used to stigmatize mulattoes and Levantines often undermine themselves, calling attention to what was supposed to be absent or different from what was in "stock," in the works themselves, in the actual peoples depicted and even in the motives of Fascist colonial enterprises. My analysis is informed by the framework of studies on exoticism, hybridity and mimicry, passing and the tragic mulatto, masculinity and femininity, and cultural studies, all of which lead back to the question: Why did Italians resist the ethnic and cultural metissage during colonialism and still to this day insist on "whiteness" when they describe themselves and their culture? |
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‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period. $49.99 My dissertation examines, within Fascist propagandist literature and cinema of the 1930s, the hybrid figures of mulattoes—the offspring of interracial unions between Italian men and native women of Italy's African colonies—and Levantines—white Italian immigrant merchants and craftsmen living in Alexandria, Egypt, who culturally intermingled with other ethnic groups. The popular novels and feature films I examine reveal the mulattoes and Levantines as interchangeable characters invalidating Benito Mussolini's efforts at establishing a national identity based on a common cultural background, racial attributes, and religious beliefs. As my title suggests, I take mulattoes and Levantines out of the cinematic and literary "stock" of propaganda, where they were depicted as outside the stirpe (stock) of the Italian people, to reveal the inconsistencies within Fascist ideals of racial and cultural purity. In historical and anthropological terms, I intend to bring to light how literary and cinematic devices used to stigmatize mulattoes and Levantines often undermine themselves, calling attention to what was supposed to be absent or different from what was in "stock," in the works themselves, in the actual peoples depicted and even in the motives of Fascist colonial enterprises. My analysis is informed by the framework of studies on exoticism, hybridity and mimicry, passing and the tragic mulatto, masculinity and femininity, and cultural studies, all of which lead back to the question: Why did Italians resist the ethnic and cultural metissage during colonialism and still to this day insist on "whiteness" when they describe themselves and their culture? |
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1480s Disestablishments: 1480 Disestablishments, 1481 Disestablishments, 1483 Disestablishments, 1485 Disestablishments, 1487 Disestablishments $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Ordre du Croissant (Order of the Crescent ; Italian – Ordine della Luna Crescente ) was a chivalric order founded by Charles I of Naples and Sicily in 1268. It was revived in 1448 or 1464 by René I , king of Jerusalem , Sicily and Aragon (including parts of Provence ), to provide him with a rival to the English Order of the Garter . René was one of the champions of the medieval system of chivalry and knighthood, and this new order was (like its English rival) neo-Arthurian in character. Its insignia consisted of a golden crescent moon engraved in grey with the word LOZ, with a chain of 3 gold loops above the crescent. On René’s death, the Order lapsed.In later culture Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at … |
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1508 Works: 1508 Architecture, 1508 Paintings, 1508 Plays, the Deposition, St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, San Rocco, Venice, Bovo-Bukh $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Bovo-Bukh (“Bovo book”; also known as Baba Buch , etc.), written in 15071508 by Elia Levita , was the most popular chivalric romance in the Yiddish language . It was first printed in 1541, being the first non-religious book to be printed in Yiddish. For five centuries, it endured at least 40 editions. It is written in ottava rima and, according to Sol Liptzin, is “generally regarded as the most outstanding poetic work in Old Yiddish”. The theme derives from the Anglo-Norman romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton , by way of an Italian poem that had modified the name Bevis of Hampton to Buovo d’Antona and had, itself, been through at least thirty editions at the time of translation and adaptation into Yiddish. The central theme is the love of Bovo and Druziane. , The story “had no basis in Jewish reality”, but compared to other chivalric romances it “tone down the Christian symbols of his original” and “substitute Jewish customs, Jewish values and Jewish traits of character here and there…” The character was also popular in Russian folk culture as Prince Bova .The Bovo-Bukh later became known in the late 18th century as the Bove-mayse or “Bovo’s tale”. This name, in turn, was corrupted and passed into the Yiddish language as bubbe meise , literally “grandmother’s tale”, meaning “old wives’ tale”. Plot summary Based on Sol Liptzin , A History of Yiddish Literature , pp. 6-7.Bovo’s young mother conspires to have her husband, an aged king, killed during a hunt, then marries the murderer. They try and fail to poison the child Bovo, whom they are afraid will avenge his father. The handsome youth runs away from Antona, is kidnapped and taken to Flanders to be stable boy to a king, whose daughter Druzane falls in love with him.The heathen sultan of Babylonia arrives, backed by ten |
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A Dictionary Of English And Romance Languages $24.09 This dictionary assembles 3,246 English proverbs and thousands of equivalents in five national Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of these languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, literature, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and for workers in newer areas such as advertising and contemporary media. The Dictionary is also of benefit to diplomats and politicians who try to improve their communication by sharing ideas formulated in some common meaningful expressions; it will assist interpreters and translators, and teachers and students for whom it is important to understand not only what the target culture expresses in the same way as their own, but also what is formulated in a different way. Finally, the Dictionary will be of great interest to non-professionals who, for the sheer enjoyment of it, wish to savour the wisdom, wit, poetry and the colourful language of proverbs. |
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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610 $57.5 A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he is still one of the best known westerners in China, celebrated for introducing western scientific and religious ideas to China and for explaining Chinese culture to Europe.The first critical biography of Ricci to use all relevant sources, both Chinese and Western, A Jesuit in the Forbidden City tells the story of a remarkable life that bridged Counter-Reformation Catholic Europe and China under the Ming dynasty. Hsia follows the life of Ricci from his childhood in Macerata, through his education in Rome, to his sojourn in Portuguese India, before the start of his long journey of self-discovery and cultural encounter in the Ming realm. Along the way, we glimpse the workings of the Portuguese maritime empire in Asia, the mission of the Society of Jesus, and life in the European enclave of Macau on the Chinese coast, as well as invaluable sketches of Ricci’s fellow Jesuits and portraits of the Chinese mandarins who formed networks indispensible for Ricci’s success. Examining a range of new sources, Hsia offers important new insights into Ricci’s long period of trial and frustration in Guangdong province, where he first appeared in the persona of a foreign Buddhist monk, before the crucial move to Nanchang in 1595 that led to his sustained intellectual conversation with a leading Confucian scholar and subsequent synthesis of Christianity and Confucianism in propagating the Gospels in China. With his expertise in cartography, mathematics and astronomy, Ricci quickly won recognition, especially after he had settled in Nanjing in 1598, the southern capital of the Ming |
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A Natural History of Latin $1.99 No known language, including English, has achieved the success and longevity of Latin. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its direct descendants, and countless Latin words and phrases comprise the cornerstone of English itself. A Natural History or Latin tells its history from its origins over 2500 years ago to the present. Brilliantly conceived, popularizing but authoritative, and written with the fluency and light touch that have made Tore Janson’s Speak so attractive to tens of thousands of readers, it is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis.The book commences with a description of the origins, emergence, and dominance of Latin over the Classical period. Then follows an account of its survival through the Middle Ages into modern times, with emphasis on its evolution throughout the history, culture, and religious practices of Medieval Europe. By judicious quotation of Latin words, phrases, and texts the author illustrates how the written and spoken language changed, region by region over time; how it met resistance from native languages; and how therefore some entire languages disappeared. Janson offers a vivid demonstration of the value of Latin as a means of access to a vibrant past and a persuasive argument for its continued worth. A concise and easy-to-understand introduction to Latin grammar and a list of the most frequent Latin words, including 500 idioms and phrases still in common use, complement the work. |
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A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present $28.95 Patrizia Palumbo,Paperback – New Edition, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by University of California Press |
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A Sitdown With the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV’s Most Talked-About Series $0.99 Regina Barreca (Editor),Paperback – REV, English-language edition,Pub by Palgrave Macmillan |
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A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. (1596) $10.82 EARLY SOCIAL CUSTOMS. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Social customs, human interaction and leisure are the driving force of any culture. These unique and quirky works give us a glimpse of interesting aspects of day-to-day life as it existed in an earlier time. With books on games, sports, traditions, festivals, and hobbies it is one of the most fascinating collections in the series. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours.Ettliche Künste, auff mancherley Weisz Dinten und allerhand Farben zu bereyten. English.Phillip, William,W. P., fl. 1618.W.P. = William Phillip.Part 1 is a translation of: Ettliche Küntse, auff mancherley Weisz Dinten und allerhand Farben zu bereyten.Italian original of part 2 not traced.Signatures: A-E4.The first leaf has an arabesque pattern on the recto, but no text.[40] p.London : Printed by Adam Islip for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop at the little north dore of Pouls, at the signe of the Gun, 1596.STC (2nd ed.) / 3355English Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery++++This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there |
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A vicenda: Cultura $43.44 A vicenda is a flexible, comprehensive communication- and culture-based program for intermediate Italian that develops communicative competence in all language skills and provides a solid review of grammar, all within the context of contemporary Italian culture and society. The themes of A vicenda reflect the concerns and priorities of today’s Italy and Italians as part of the larger European Community, and the language students encounter in A vicenda is equally contemporary and up-to-date. The “Five Cs of Foreign Language Learning” – Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities – are consistently woven throughout the A vicenda program. Together, all of these characteristics result in the most well-rounded and engaging intermediate Italian program available today.A vicenda is a two-volume program. A vicenda: Lingua is the core volume, and focuses primarily on language acquisition and the development of all four language skills. A vicenda: Cultura is the companion volume, and it offers authentic excerpts from newspapers and magazines, narrative texts, poetry, and author-written texts, accompanied by reading strategies and activities, as well as additional vocabulary development and language practice.Instructors can use both volumes or only one, depending on the goals of their course and the number of contact hours they have with students. |
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Academics of the Warburg Institute: Giorgio Agamben $10.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Giorgio Agamben (born 1942) is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and previously taught at the University of Macerata and at the University of Verona, both in Italy. He also has held visiting appointments at several American universities, from the University of California, Berkeley, to Northwestern University, Evanston, and at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. Agamben’s best known work includes his investigations of the concepts of state of exception and homo sacer. Agamben received the Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon in 2006. Agamben was educated at the University of Rome, where he wrote an unpublished thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil. Agamben participated in Martin Heidegger’s Le Thor seminars (on Heraclitus and Hegel) in 1966 and 1968. In the 1970s, he worked primarily on linguistics, philology, poetics, and topics in medieval culture. During this period, Agamben began to elaborate his primary concerns, although their political bearings were not yet made explicit. In 19741975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, due to the courtesy of Frances Yates, whom he met through Italo Calvino. During this fellowship, Agamben began to develop his second book, Stanzas (1977). Agamben was close to the poets Giorgio Caproni and José Bergamín, and to the Italian novelist Elsa Morante, to whom he devoted the essays “The Celebration of the Hidden Treasure” (in The End of the Poem) and “Parody” (in Profanations). He has been a friend and collaborator to such eminent intellectuals as Pier Paolo Pasolini (in whose The Gospel According to St. Matthew |
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African American History in North Carolina: History of North Carolina, St. Paul A.m.e. Church (Raleigh, North Carolina), Pope House Museum $10 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The earliest discovered human settlements in what eventually became North Carolina are found at the Hardaway Site near the town of Badin in the south-central part of the state. Radiocarbon dating of the site has not been possible. However, based on other dating methods, such as rock strata and the existence of Dalton-type spear points, the site has been dated to approximately 8000 BC. Spearpoints of the Dalton type continued to change and evolve slowly for the next 7000 years, suggesting a continuity of culture for most of that time. During this time, settlement was scattered and likely existed solely on the hunter-gatherer level. Towards the end of this period, there is evidence of settled agriculture, such as plant domestication and the development of pottery. From 1000 BC until the time of European settlement marks a time period known as the “Woodland period”. Permanent villages, based on settled agriculture, existed throughout the state. By about 800 AD, fortified towns appeared throughout the Piedmont region, suggesting the existence of organized tribal warfare. An important site of this late-Woodland period is the Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeologically rich location occupied by the Pee Dee culture of the Mississippian tradition. Map of North America by Vesconte Maggiolo after an earlier map made on the Verrazzano expedition of 1524. The narrow isthmus of land separating “Tera Florida” from “Francesca” is the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Cape Fear is labeled “C. de la Foresto”.The earliest exploration of North Carolina by a European expedition is likely that of Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. An Italian from Florence, Verrazzano was hired by French merchants in order to procure a sea route to bring silk to the city of Lyon. With… More: |
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Albanian Shi’a Muslims: Sami Frash ri, Naim Frash ri, Baba Rexheb, Xhafer Bej Ypi, Hasan Zyko Kamberi, Mehdi Bej Frash ri $8.41 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Sami Frashëri ( born June 1, 1850, Frashër, Kolonje, Albania, then Ottoman Empire June 18, 1904) was an Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright and a prominent figure of the Rilindja Kombëtare, the National Renaissance movement of Albania, together with his two brothers Naim and Abdyl. Frashëri was one of the sons of an impoverished Bey from Frashër (Fraer during the Ottoman rule) in the District of Përmet. He gained a place in Ottoman literature as a talented author under the name of emseddin Sami Efendi and contributed to the Turkish language reforms. However, Frashëri’s message, as declared in his book “Albania – What it was, what it is, and what will become of it” published in 1899, became the manifesto of the Albanian Renaissance (Rilindja Kombëtare). Frashëri discussed the prospects for a free and independent republic of Albania. In this way, beginning with a demand for autonomy and struggle for their own alphabet and education, he helped the Albanian National Liberation movement develop its claim for independence. He finished gymnasium in Zosimea Greek language school in Ioannina. There, he came in touch with Wester Philosophy and studied Greek, French and Italian. With the help of a personal teacher, he also learned Arabic, Turkish and Persian. In 1872 he migrated to Istanbul where he worked in a governmental press bureau. His lifetime goal, as that of many other members of Albanian renaissance, was the development and improvement of Albania’s culture and independence of the country. Along with his elder brother Abdyl, Hasan Tahsini, Pashko Vasa and Jani Vreto, he founded the Central Committee for Defending Albanian Rights. Early in the 1879, this committee formed a commission for Albanian alphabet. Sami |
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Alex Fakso: Heavy Metal $9.98 In Heavy Metal, the Italian photographer Alex Fakso brings us behind the scenes of the secretive and low-down-glamorous world of European graffiti art, documenting the daily (and nightly) lives of that continent’s most celebrated street artists—spraycans in hand. Fakso was allowed unprecedented access to this normally guarded underground culture, from Milan, to London, Berlin, Barcelona and beyond, allowing him to produce an electrifying body of work that conveys, on every page, the sense of an urgent covert mission. Fakso produced these photographs during the twilight hours, documenting each artist’s unique tactics, movements and sense of personal determination: each photograph conveys the compelling sense of risk and adventure with which the artist approaches his work, whether entering into a shadowy train yard or negotiating a high fence to do so. In keeping with the tradition of the great urban documentarians Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant and Bruce Davidson, who recorded New York’s subway graffiti in the 1970s and 1980s, Fakso puts European graffiti, and its practitioners, on the map. This exhilarating, long-overdue collection represents the new generation of emerging European street artists, and is an essential record of European urban culture in our time. |
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All-Audio Italian $19.99 LEARN ITALIAN ON THE GO–LEARN ANYWHEREIf you have trouble finding time to fit in language lessons, All-Audio Italian is the perfect solution. Developed by the experts at Living Language®, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn Italian as you drive, work around the house, or exercise at the gym.SHORT, EASY-TO-FOLLOW LESSONS–NO READING REQUIREDAn English-speaking narrator guides you through 35 short lessons–just listen and repeat after native Italian speakers. VOCABULARY–GRAMMAR–DIALOGUES–CULTUREBegin with vocabulary and grammar basics before hearing a lively dialogue that includes the most current Italian idioms and usage. Interactive exercises reinforce what you’ve learned. You’ll also learn some intriguing facts about Italian customs and culture. |
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Always Faithful $17.97 The Always Faithful part of the title has arisen from the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis.Always Faithful: A Marine’s Tale gives a realistic view of the anguish a young person endures in becoming a United States Marine, as well as the trauma of war. The story also helps the reader understand a certain Italian faction, as well as the Italian-American culture as it pertains to the Goomba perspective. It is not a story about the Marine Corps, nor a story about the Mob. It is simply about an eighteen year old young man of Italian descent from Trenton, New Jersey whose life is touched by both.For this teen, there is more to life than the customary demands placed on people his age. These demands put him on a rollercoaster ride destined to resolve uncertainty. Peer pressure sets the main character, Joseph Mommalione on a journey, which tests, his honor in the Marines, loyalty to strong Italian family traditions, and ability to bear confinement.Joe Momma’s year long venture before, during, and after the 1991 Gulf War shows the way to heroism, imprisonment, vengeance, and love. He goes from the typical teen back on the block to the traumatic experience of Marine boot camp, to the theatre of war where his few days of combat lead to heroism and everlasting friendship with two Marines. After the war, he and his comrades are recuperating from their wounds back in New Jersey while Joe Momma is being groomed into his uncle’s crime family. Circumstances land Joe Momma in the county jail where he is threatened by the FBI to reveal information about his mob connections. Rather than face three to five years in the Trenton State Penitentiary, he plans and successfullycompletes a daring escape from jail with the help of the two former Marines and his mentor Carmine Scalia, who is also a former Marine. Before he blends into the criminal underworld, he seeks revenge on the cop who put him behind bars. In doing so, he discovers a plot by a Tucci Crime Family |
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Always Faithful $22.35 The Always Faithful part of the title has arisen from the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis.Always Faithful: A Marine’s Tale gives a realistic view of the anguish a young person endures in becoming a United States Marine, as well as the trauma of war. The story also helps the reader understand a certain Italian faction, as well as the Italian-American culture as it pertains to the Goomba perspective. It is not a story about the Marine Corps, nor a story about the Mob. It is simply about an eighteen year old young man of Italian descent from Trenton, New Jersey whose life is touched by both.For this teen, there is more to life than the customary demands placed on people his age. These demands put him on a rollercoaster ride destined to resolve uncertainty. Peer pressure sets the main character, Joseph Mommalione on a journey, which tests, his honor in the Marines, loyalty to strong Italian family traditions, and ability to bear confinement.Joe Momma’s year long venture before, during, and after the 1991 Gulf War shows the way to heroism, imprisonment, vengeance, and love. He goes from the typical teen back on the block to the traumatic experience of Marine boot camp, to the theatre of war where his few days of combat lead to heroism and everlasting friendship with two Marines. After the war, he and his comrades are recuperating from their wounds back in New Jersey while Joe Momma is being groomed into his uncle’s crime family. Circumstances land Joe Momma in the county jail where he is threatened by the FBI to reveal information about his mob connections. Rather than face three to five years in the Trenton State Penitentiary, he plans and successfullycompletes a daring escape from jail with the help of the two former Marines and his mentor Carmine Scalia, who is also a former Marine. Before he blends into the criminal underworld, he seeks revenge on the cop who put him behind bars. In doing so, he discovers a plot by a Tucci Crime Family |
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American Comedy and Humor: American Humor, Black Sitcom, American Comedy Awards, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor $10.93 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: American Humor, Black Sitcom, American Comedy Awards, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Joey and Maria’s Comedy Italian Wedding, It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier, Israeli-palestinian Comedy Tour, Invite Them Up, Borscht Belt Humor. Excerpt: American humor refers collectively to the conventions and common threads that tie together humor in the United States. It is often defined in comparison to the humor of another country – for example, how it is different from British humour and Canadian humour. It is, however, difficult to say what makes a particular type or subject of humor particularly American. Humor usually concerns aspects of American culture, and depends on the historical and current development of the country’s culture. The extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous obviously depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, and context. People of different countries will therefore find different situations funny. Just as American culture has many aspects which differ from other nations , these cultural differences may be a barrier to how humor translates to other countries. One leading analysis of American humor, the 1931 book American Humor: A Study of the National Character by Constance Rourke, identified the character of the “Yankee” as that first American comic figure, the first widely accepted American character that the nation could find funny, make fun of and even export for the amusement of the world – a gangly traveler who told stories, played elaborate practical jokes, was ingenuous, sly, perhaps uneducated. She reports that American comedy sprang forth after the American Revolution, when t… More: |
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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona $0.99 Tim Parks’s best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate’s life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in An Italian Education, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born children. With the exquisite eye for detail, character, and intrigue that has brought him acclaim as a novelist, Parks creates an enchanting portrait of Italian parenthood and family life at home, in the classroom, and at church. Shifting from hilarity to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby, Parks learns that to be a true Italian, one must live by the motto “All days are one.” |
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An Italian Lady Goes To The Bronx $28.09 An extraordinary ethnographic study that sets its sights on the de-bronxification of daily life. After her children leave for college, an Italian woman who has lived for years in New York City, and who formerly taught the “The Art of Listening” at a University in Mi-lan, decides to explore the South Bronx. She wanted to see for herself how people live and think “on the other side of the barricade.” And one fine morning, flaunting the ad-vice and concerns of friends and colleagues, she donned her brightest clothes and em-barked upon her mission. In the three months spent in one of the most notorious zones of America’s urban disaster – where Fort Apache, the Bronx was filmed in the 1970s, starring Paul Newman – she collected a wealth of material on the positive, construc-tive forces at work in the Bronx: the new urban pioneers.The book, which sites itself at the crossroads of the new journalism and urban ethnography, recounts the encounters and clashes between the author, her culture, and her expectations and her various personalities who guide her through the realities of daily life in the Bronx. Marianella Sclavi follows these persons throughout the course of their daily lives (she speaks of “shadowing” them), entering homes, school rooms, a courthouse, a union headquarters, and various churches and associations that host the meetings of committees doing battle for decent housing and the rebirth of urban community. And while doing so, she elaborates what she calls a “humor-based methodology for city planners, teachers, sociologists and administrators.” |
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An Unintentional Liaison $64.99 This book provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important similarities that, as unintentional as they may be, connect Lars von Trier’s films to Italian cinema and culture, proposing a challenging new perspective on his work. Since a large literature on Italian and Danish film-making already exists, this book focuses on the way in which von Trier’s cinema can simultaneously be redefined in relationship with Italian cinema and culture, while rethinking, at the same time, the spectator’s relationship to the movies. Over the past few decades, Lars von Trier has produced a body of fascinating films that provide intensive critiques of nearly every element of the cinematic apparatus, while emphasizing the obligation of filmmakers to rework the language of cinema. Following the example of the Italian Neo-Realist masters, he rejected illusion in order to rediscover a sincerity of cinema. In this search for truthfulness, von Trier has also placed himself closely to Italian culture where the recurring theme of aspiration to a coniunctio oppositurum, or to an ideal stage where spirituality intersects with the earthly, has dominated much of the film production. |
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An admirable method to loue, serue and honour the Virgin Mary With diuers practicable exercises thereof. Al inriched with choice examples. Written in Italian by the R.F. Alexis de Salo, Capuchin. And Englished by R.F. Permissu superiorum. (1639) $31.64 EARLY SOCIAL CUSTOMS. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Social customs, human interaction and leisure are the driving force of any culture. These unique and quirky works give us a glimpse of interesting aspects of day-to-day life as it existed in an earlier time. With books on games, sports, traditions, festivals, and hobbies it is one of the most fascinating collections in the series. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++An admirable method to loue, serue and honour the Virgin Mary With diuers practicable exercises thereof. Al inriched with choice examples. Written in Italian by the R.F. Alexis de Salo, Capuchin. And Englished by R.F. Permissu superiorum.Salo, Alessio Segala de.R. F., fl. 1639.Place of publication and printer’s name from STC.A variant of the edition which has Cousturier’s name in the imprint.Running title reads: A method to loue and serue the B.V. Mary.[24], 607, [1] p.[Rouen : J. Cousturier], M.DC.XXXIX. [1639]Allison & Rogers. Catholic Books, 747. /STC (2nd ed.) / 21628a English Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library++++This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the original work or the micro-film from which the books were digitized. This can result in errors in reproduction. Possible imperfections |
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Antoni Lange $72 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Antoni Lange (1863 – 17 March 1929) was a Polish poet, philosopher, polyglot (15 languages), writer, novelist, science-writer, reporter and translator. A representative of Polish Parnassianism and symbolism, he is also regarded as belonging to the Decadent movement. He was an expert on Romanticism, French literature and a popularizer of culture of Eastern cultures. He is famous for his novel Miranda. He translated English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Indian, American, Serbian, Egyptian and Oriental writers into Polish and Polish poets into French and English. He was also one of the most original poets of the Young Poland movement. His work is often compared to Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle. |
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Antonio Gramsci $87.35 An introduction to the work, key ideas and influence of Gramsci, Italian Marxist theorist and political activist. Gramsci was a long term prisoner of the Mussolini regime, hence his most famous writings have been those penned in his cell, including the “Prison Notebooks” and the “Prison Letters.” Gramsci’s ideas about the the relationships between the rulers and the ruled, about domination, resistance and transgression, have been extremely influential in cultural studies and cultural theory. He is perhaps best-known for formulating the concept of “hegemony” which describes the process whereby the ruling power wins the consent of the ruled to the status quo, and hence to fit their subordination , and their ways of understanding the world with the interests of the ruling power. Gramsci’s ideas were much employed during the grim years of Thatcherism, as critics on the left (notably Stuart Hall) struggled to find ways to explain the fact that the working classes kept voting for Thatcher, even though it was apparently against their interests to do so. Gramsci’s thought also offers hope in that challenges or transgressions to hegemonic ideas or structures can be found even in the most outwardly conservative of narratives. Popular culture has often been cited as a key battleground, on which struggles for meaning and power take place – for example debates about whether Eminem is a “good thing” – because he speaks for the disenfranchised white working-class American, and argues against racial boundaries in music – or a bad thing because of his homophobic and misogynistic lyrics.Steven Jones’ book will explain the contemporary relevance of Gramsci’s ideas, notably about hegemony, through recent texts, phenomena and events such as the death of Diana, “La haine,” the Global spread of McDonalds and anti-globalization tracts including Naomi Klein’s “No Logo.” |
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism $15 Rudolf Wittkower Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism ‘Scores have profited from, and been inspired by, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism and its lesson of the importance of consistent modular relations. No other book on the subject of architectural history written by scholars of his generation has had such a creative effect on men in practice.’ Nikolaus Pevsner, Foreword to Art and Architecture in Italy ‘Professor Wittkower’s mind is not only inquiring but immensely well stored and tenacious. His studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship.’ Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review ‘To say that this is the best study of Italian Renaissance architecture in English is faint praise.’ John Coolidge, Magazine of Art Since its original publication in 1949, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism has acquired the status of a classic, having brought to light, through exemplary scholarship, the connections between the architecture and the culture of the Renaissance. Focusing on the work of the main Renaissance architects from Alberti to Palladio, Rudolf Wittkower has produced definitive explanations of the true significance of certain architecture forms, and has at the same time revealed the limitations of a purely aesthetic theory of Renaissance architecture. This fifth edition of Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, intended to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the book, integrates the illustrations with the text and includes an edited selection of lectures on Proportion by Professor Wittkower. |
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Arnoma Hotel $0 Hotel Address: 99 Rajdamri Road, Pathumwan Bangkok. The Arnoma Hotel, Bangkok is centrally located in the heart of the city\’s business and entertainment district. It is directly opposite the World Trade Centre and major department stores are within a 5 minutes walk. With 400 branded retail outlets and five major department stores. The hotel is situated only a few minutes from the expressway to Bangkok\’s International Don Muang Airport. The Thai Handicraft and Culture Centre is just next door to the hotel and for guests that wish to travel further a field the elevated Sky Train service and the Erawan Shrine are just around the corner. The hotel has 361 spacious and luxurious guest rooms and suites offering both comfort and style for all valued customers to ensure the maximum convenience and pleasure. All air-conditioned rooms are luxuriously appointed with marble bathroom, hair dryer, safe deposit, mini bar, international direct-dial telephone, PC connection, radio and remote-control cable television. A non-smoking floors and rooms accessible for disabled guests are available on request. Room service is provided 24 hours a day. The hotel additionally has four exclusive floors of luxurious accommodation with extra, personalized services, express check in and check out and a butler service. Executive guests are provided with a complimentary breakfast in the executive lounge or The Buttercup coffee shop, a coffee and tea facility is available in the rooms and afternoon and evening food and beverage are serviced in the executive lounge. Guests are also entitled to free local calls and the pressing of one suit of dress per day.Guests can dine in the casual ambiance of Trattoria Felice, Italian and European restaurant, or The Good Earth for superb Chinese cuisine in pleasant surroundings. The Buttercup Coffee Shop offers a good selection of Asian and Western specialties, buffet breakfast/lunch and a la cart menu. Guests can … |
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Art Museums and Galleries in Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, the David Collection, the Hirschsprung Collection $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Statens Museum for Kunst, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, the David Collection, the Hirschsprung Collection, Fotografisk Center, Thorvaldsens Museum, Cisternerne, Arken Museum of Modern Art. Excerpt: Statens Museum for Kunst (English: National Art Museum) is the Danish national gallery located in Copenhagen. The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches in and handles Danish and foreign art dating from the 14th Century till the present day, mostly with their origins in western culture circles. As far as the Danish art is concerned the museum must invest in and maintain representative collections. The collections of the Danish National Gallery originates in the Art Chamber (Danish: Kunstkammeret) of the Danish monarchs. When the German Gerhard Morell became Keeper of Frederik V’s Art Chamber about 1750, he suggested that the king create a separate collection of paintings. To ensure that the collection was not inferior to those of other European royal houses and local counts, the king made large-scale purchases of Italian, Netherlandish and German paintings. The collection became particularly well provided with Flemish and Dutch art. The most important purchase during Morell’s term as Keeper was Christ as the Suffering Redeemer by Andrea Mantegna. Since then a great variety of purchases have been made. During the 19th century the works were almost exclusively by Danish artists, and for this reason the Museum has an unrivalled collection of paintings from the so-called Danish Golden Age. That the country was able to produce pictures of high artistic quality was something new, and a consequence of the establishment of the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in 1754. More recently, the collection has been influenced by generous donations and long-term … More: |
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Art Treasures from the Museo Egizio $5.75 The book illustrates the exceptional collections in the only museum in the world, apart from the one in Cairo, devoted exclusively to Egyptian art and culture. The famous phrase the route to Memphis and Thebes passes by Turin was written by Champollion when he came to Turin in 1824.The Museo Egizio was formally instituted in 1824, with the acquisition by King Carlo Felice of a large collection of more than 5,000 objects belonging to Italian diplomat Bernardino Drovetti. King Carlo then went on to commission the professor of botany, Vitaliano Donati, to acquire further objects from Egypt. This guide presents seventy highlights from the collections: a selection that chronologically covers the period fully. Royal and private funerary and votive monuments illustrate evolutions in style in ancient Egypt. |
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Ashes and Stars $17.95 Fifty-five of Daniel Hughes’s final poems, containing distinctly insightful and literate meditations on themes of love, art, and hope.Daniel Hughes’s final volume of poetry, written during his years of struggle with multiple sclerosis, displays his characteristic wit, intelligence, and imagination. While the poems in Ashes & Stars deal with themes such as love and mortality, the conflict between imagination and actuality, and the pleasures of the world around us, they are never somber or overly serious. Even the shortest ones have a wry comic sense. Additionally, Hughes’s poems demonstrate a remarkably economical and precise use of language, without a wasted word in the entire collection. Although the concentrated emotion of the poems may remind readers of Emily Dickinson and Robert Lowell, Hughes’s poetic forms-quatrains, tercets, irregular sonnets, irregular rhymes-also illustrate the deep influence of the English Romantics, whom he championed throughout his academic career. In addition, many poems draw inspiration from numerous individuals and works of art from the Italian Renaissance, as they weave abstract themes from Western culture with the sensual data of the poet-s experience. Despite these deep historical and literary roots, the conversational tone of Ashes & Stars ensures that it is never dry or academic. The poems speak to the reader as to an intimate, giving a sense of transmitting hard-earned experience and knowledge. All readers will appreciate the passionate energy and worldly air of these unique and exactingly honest final poems. |
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Asian Travel Renaissance $39.23 Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism, and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and English figures. It contrasts the traditions and aspirations of rival trading companies and religious orders in the Renaissance era, describing the cultural politics of European contact with countries from Siam to Japan.The book comprises a series of essays written by international scholars, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of religious, cultural, political, and economic exchange. Subjects under scrutiny include Dutch methods of globalisation, the Jesuits’ attempts to introduce European culture into China, the part played by the Far East in the English imagination, and the documentary resources available to chroniclers who recorded the journeys of their countrymen. Collectively, the essays establish the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration and experience in the early modern period. |
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Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture $90 Contemporary Italian history has been marked by an extraordinary series of murders and political assassinations including the killing of the king in 1900 and the assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. This book explores some well- known and some lesser-known assassinations and murders and analyzes them in their historical, political and cultural contexts. |
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Atti Del 3O Convegno Nazionale Di Etnoarcheologia, Mondaino, 17-19 Marzo 2004 / Proceedings of the 3Rd Italian Congress of Ethnoarchaeology, Mondaino (Italy), 17-19 March, 2004 $139.98 Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Congress of Ethnoarchaeology held in Mondaino (Italy), 17-19 March, 2004. Contents: 1) Ethnoarchaeology: a new agency (S. di Lernia); Some brief notes on a survey of the Middle Indus Valley: the connection between petroglyphs, foundation myths and the ritual practices of the brok-pas (A. Benassi, I .E. Scerrato); Archetypal logic, rogations, ambarvalia, human sacrifices and Kyoto Protocols (G. Forni); Traditional tools and techniques to produce the metal vessels: the coppersmith from Roccagorga and the archaeometallurgy (C. Giardino); Wood locks with dropping pivots. an ethnoarchaeological example from north-western Italy (O. Musso); Purun Runa. a brief essay of Andean ethno-history (M.I. Pannaccione Apa); Wool and olive oil, a winning combination in the textile industry (M.R. Belgiorno); Women potters of Notse’ (Togo). Documents in the manufacturing of globe-shaped jars (G. Calegari); Basketry: craftsmanship, experimental archaeology and archaeology (E. Cristiani, C. Lemorini, M. Massussi, I. Piccoli); The end of the typical pottery manufacture of Barrama (Tunisia) (A. Depalmas, F. di Gennaro); The kiln of Montottone (central Italy) – an ethnoarchaeological research (L. Foglini); Ethnohistorical analogies and functional contexts: grinding/pounding tools from the site of Monte Loffa (Monti Lessini, Verona) (M. Migliavacca, A. Atzori, L. Longo); The Tamberma’ Culture between Togo and Benin. Warriors entrenched in clay castles (A. Priuli); Circulation of human groups patterns and raw material strategies in the hunter-gatherer’s society (M.F. Rolfo, A. Spera, G. Reddavide); The wedding trousseau: broom material productions intextile manufacture. The renewal of an ancient tradition (R. Agostino, M. Sica); Ethnoarchaeology of rock shelters (S. Biagetti, C. Delpino, M. Tarantini); Farming in hollow structures (F. Brescia, P. Cerino); What we can learn about the archaeological record combining quantitative |
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Australian Ice Hockey League Players: Steve Mckenna, Rob Zamuner, Don Burke, Ari-Pekka Hakala, Mel Angelstad, Marcel Kars, Brad Wanchulak $9.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steve McKenna (born August 21, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and a veteran of eight seasons in the NHL. After three seasons at Merrimack College, McKenna made his professional debut with the Phoenix Roadrunners of the International Hockey League in 1996. He joined the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL during the 199697 season, appearing in nine games. He was a NHL left winger. McKenna appeared in 137 games with the Kings over four seasons before entering the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft and being selected by the Minnesota Wild with the 37th overall pick. After appearing in 20 games with the Wild, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on January 13, 2001, in exchange for Roman Simicek. Then was instantly assigned captaincy for his supreme leadership skills. McKenna joined the New York Rangers for the 200102 season before returning to the Penguins for the two seasons following that. During the 200405 NHL lockout, he played for the Nottingham Panthers of the Elite Ice Hockey League (Great Britain) and the Adelaide Avalanche of the AIHL (Australia). In 200506, he joined Alleghe of the Italian Serie A and later in 2006, he played for Kangwon Land in the Asia League, giving him the rare distinction of playing on four different continents. On August 16, 2006, Ice Hockey Australia announced that McKenna had been appointed as coach of the Mighty Roos, Australia’s national team. During his time with the Avalanche in the AIHL, McKenna “fell in love with Eileena and the Australian culture and climate and now wishes to make Australia his home.” McKenna’s official tenure as coach of the Mighty Roos started out in 2007, after McKenna completed his playing season with the Kangwonland. He will coach the team duri… More: |
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Azerbaijani Opera Singers: Muslim Magomayev, Huseyngulu Sarabski, Bulbul, Shovkat Mammadova, Hagigat Rzayeva, Rubaba Muradova, Lutfiyar Imanov $8.07 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Muslim Magomayev, Huseyngulu Sarabski, Bulbul, Shovkat Mammadova, Hagigat Rzayeva, Rubaba Muradova, Lutfiyar Imanov, Ahmad Agdamski. Excerpt: Muslim Mahammad oglu Magomayev (Azerbaijani: ; Russian: ; born August 17, 1942 in Baku, USSR, died October 25, 2008 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani baritone operatic and pop singer of the 1960s and 1970s. Muslim Magomayev represented one of the most respected artistic dynasties in Azerbaijan. His grandfather Muslim Magomayev (1885-1937), a friend and contemporary of the prominent Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, was one of the founders of Azerbaijani-composed music. Magomayev’s father, Mahammad Magomayev, who died two days prior to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II while serving as a soldier in the Soviet Army, was a gifted Scenic designer; his mother, Aishet Magomayeva, was an actress. Magomayev learned to play a piano as a child, and began to take lessons from teachers of voice at the age of 14. He finished the piano and composition class of the musical school at Baku Conservatoire, and then graduated from the school’s vocal class. As a teenager he became interested in Italian songs, American jazz and other styles of popular music. “He was 19 when he first performed, at an international youth music festival in Helsinki, the Finnish capital.” In 1962, at the age of 20, Magomayev first appeared in Moscow where he performed within the frameworks of the Days of Azerbaijani Culture. He sang two musical pieces (“He chose to sing arias from Gounods Faust, and the song Do the Russians Want War?”) in a gala-concert on the USSR’s main stage, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, and became a celebrity on a spur of the moment. A year later he gave his first solo concert in the Moscow … More: |
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Ballet in Georgia (Country): Georgian Ballet Dancers, George Balanchine, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Nina Ananiashvili $13.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Georgian Ballet Dancers, George Balanchine, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Nina Ananiashvili, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Tamara Toumanova, David Makhateli, Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Elena Glurjidze. Excerpt: Tbilisi Academic Opera and Ballet Theater Tbilisi State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is situated on Rustaveli Avenue , in the center of Tbilisi , Georgia . It is the oldest opera house in Georgia . The Tbilisi Opera has hosted opera stars such as Montserrat Caballé and José Carreras , and has held many ballet performances.Foundation of the Theater The Grand Hall “Daisi” (Georgian for sunset)Tbilisi Opera House at nightTbilisi State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet is a symbol of the unique culture of Georgia. The foundation of the opera theatre in Georgia was the consequence of the political and cultural processes in the country after its annexation by the Russian Empire . The Chief Governor of the Caucasus , appointed in Georgia in 1844, the general, field marshal and diplomat Mikhail Vorontsov , put in train many cultural enterprises. Amongst the most important was introduction of interest in opera. The first opera performance was on September 20, 1845. Performances took place twice a week, and mainly comprised vaudevilles and comedies. Vorontsov also invited artists from the Imperial Theatre. Later, some performances were also given in the Georgian language .On the initiative of Vorontsov on 15 April 1847 there were laid the foundations of the building of the opera theatre, which took 4 years under the guidance of the Italian Architect, Antonio Scudieri bering completed in 1851. The theatre was built on the central square of the city of Tbilisi (the modern Liberty Square, the territory next to the municipality). Given the varied musical practices |
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Barcodes $10.45 In this English and Italian edition,Shpend Sollaku Noé stands up as Dante Alighieri of the twenty-first century: there are no pits or circles of hell in his poem, but his vision is equally terrifying. Reading Barcodes, we feel more than damned, real puppets who move around the world-hell where, instead of flames, there are computers, loans, envy, image obsession, false religion, lack of culture, fabrication of history, unscrupulous bureaucracy, corruption, and incivility. |
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Barcodes $21.33 In this English and Italian edition,Shpend Sollaku Noé stands up as Dante Alighieri of the twenty-first century: there are no pits or circles of hell in his poem, but his vision is equally terrifying. Reading Barcodes, we feel more than damned, real puppets who move around the world-hell where, instead of flames, there are computers, loans, envy, image obsession, false religion, lack of culture, fabrication of history, unscrupulous bureaucracy, corruption, and incivility. |
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Barron’s AP Italian Language and Culture [With 3 CDs] $26.99 S. Gheli,Paperback – Includes CD, English-language edition,Pub by Barron’s Educational Series, Incorporated |
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Basic Italian $34.95 Introducing Italian culture and people through the medium of the language used today, this easy-to-follow text provides readers with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations. |
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Becoming Neapolitan: Citizen Culture in Baroque Naples $60 Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries managed to maintain a distinct social character while under Spanish rule. John A. Marino’s study explores how the population of the city of Naples constructed their identity in the face of Spanish domination.As Western Europe’s largest city, early modern Naples was a world unto itself. Its politics were decentralized and its neighborhoods diverse. Clergy, nobles, and commoners struggled to assert political and cultural power. Looking at these three groups, Marino unravels their complex interplay to show how such civic rituals as parades and festival days fostered a unified Neapolitan identity through the assimilation of Aragonese customs, Burgundian models, and Spanish governance. He discusses why the relationship between mythical and religious representations in ritual practices allowed Naples’s inhabitants to identify themselves as citizens of an illustrious and powerful sovereignty and explains how this semblance of stability and harmony hid the city’s political, cultural, and social fissures. In the process, Marino finds that being and becoming Neapolitan meant manipulating the city’s rituals until their original content and meaning were lost. The consequent widening of divisions between rich and poor led Naples’s vying castes to turn on one another as the Spanish monarchy weakened.Rich in source material and tightly integrated, this nuanced, synthetic overview of the disciplining of ritual life in early modern Naples digs deep into the construction of Neapolitan identity. Scholars of early modern Italy and of Italian and European history in general will find much to ponder in Marino’s keen insights and compelling arguments. |
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Bella Italia $28.48 Do you like to travel? Learn a foreign language? Find out how to make your way through a foreign country-such as Italy? Or just go on an imaginary trip by following the author and her sister-in-law during their fourth stay in Italy? Whichever is your interest, you will find joy in reading this latest account and following these two from the tiny town of Riva Trigoso on the Italian Riviera to Genova, Roma, Venezia and Milano. Since 2001, they have made life-long Italian friends who help to make these journeys possible and unforgettable. Bella Italia will help you fall in love with Italy and the Italians while learning important phrases and protocol in their country. The author has studied Italian language and culture at Nazareth College’s Casa Italiana, in Rochester, New York since 2001 which enables her to connect with the people she meets on her journeys throughout Italy.Sixteen beautiful color photos taken by the author of Riva Trigoso, Genova, Roma, Venezia and Milano are included in this book. Jean has had her photos published in two books, America at the Millennium, Best photos of the Century, and Meadows of Memories by The International Library of Photography. |
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Betty Crocker’s Italian Cooking: 200 Easy Recipes That Celebrate the Food and Culture of Italy $25.95 Betty Crocker Editors,Hardcover, Edition: 3, English-language edition,Pub by Macmillan General Reference |
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Between Cultures: Children of Immigrants in America $14.97 As the grandchild of Italian immigrants, photographer Gina J. Grillo has a personal impetus in her photographic studies of ethnic and immigrant life in the United States. In Between Cultures, Grillo explores the struggles immigrant children face as they develop their cultural identity in an environment completely new and foreign to them.Following the tradition of the pioneering photographers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, Grillo portrays the immigrant experience through children’s eyes, unearthing a complex and poignant world. She begins with images of newly arrived immigrant families at O’Hare International Airport during their first few hours in the United States, and then follows them through the gates and into Chicago’s urban life: through her chronicle of citizenship ceremonies, cultural celebrations, weddings and dances, and other everyday scenes of immigrant life, Grillo captures the crucial elements that shape not only the characters of the children, but also the neighborhoods in which they reside.For adults, emigration to America is filled with both hope and fear, yet it is tempered by a mature understanding. For children, however, this same journey unfolds in the unrelenting present as they must constantly negotiate their individual identities and allegiances to culture, country, and kin. With moving quotations and drawings by immigrant children woven into Grillo’s visual sequence, Between Cultures is a unique meditation on the development of individual identity through the reconciliation of multiple cultural heritages. |
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Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-1991 $23.95 A study of the cultural policies of the Italian communist party following the collapse of fascismand the struggle with popular consumer culture that led to its demise in 1991. |
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Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy $16.98 For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence—as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the “Florentine model” to explore the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life—the “many Italies” that stretched from the Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research directions of the field. At the volume’s core are questions important to all historians of late medieval and early modern Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval world to the early modern period? In exploring the contours of Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies, the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the development of many other regional and local histories that are increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding of Italy as a whole. |
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Beyond Florence: The Countours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy $66.59 For many years English-language scholarship on late medieval and early modern Italy was largely dominated by work on Florence—as a city, culture, and economic and political entity. During the past few decades, however, scholarship has moved well beyond the “Florentine model” to explore the diversity of Italian urban and provincial life—the “many Italies” that stretched from the Apennines to the Mediterranean. This volume brings together a group of sixteen urban, social, religious, and economic historians of late medieval and early modern Italy whose work reflects this shift, and illustrates some of the significant new research directions of the field. At the volume’s core are questions important to all historians of late medieval and early modern Europe: What does the new work on Italy beyond Florence have to say about the traditional definition of the Renaissance, a definition that made Florence its paradigmatic expression? What new questions about the period in general have emerged as a result of decentering the Renaissance? How has the effort to view Florence in a wider set of Italian and Mediterranean political and economic networks shed new light on the history of city states? And how has this work led to a reexamination of the continuities connecting the late medieval world to the early modern period? In exploring the contours of Italy from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the volume creates a landscape against which to evaluate the current state of Florentine studies, the resurgence of Venetian studies, the renewed interest in Italy under Spanish rule, and the development of many other regional and local histories that are increasingly used by scholars to facilitate a broader understanding of Italy as a whole. |
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Beyond the Basics German CD $13.99 Our best-selling language series just went Beyond the Basics!Now there’s a fantastic new way for language learners to take their studies to the next level and go Beyond the Basics! Ideal for people who already have some introductory knowledge, the brand-new Beyond the Basics courses take students further in key areas, including vocabulary, grammar, culture, and natural-sounding conversational skills. Each course includes twenty lessons that feature more challenging dialogues as well as numerous examples, explanations, and practice exercises.Best of all, the packages are as compact and portable as ever! Each program comes complete with a coursebook, handy learner’s bilingual dictionary, and four hours of recordings on four CDs.Available in Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Inglés/English for native Spanish speakers! |
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Beyond the Basics Italian CD $13.35 Our best-selling language series just went Beyond the Basics!Now there’s a fantastic new way for language learners to take their studies to the next level and go Beyond the Basics! Ideal for people who already have some introductory knowledge, the brand-new Beyond the Basics courses take students further in key areas, including vocabulary, grammar, culture, and natural-sounding conversational skills. Each course includes twenty lessons that feature more challenging dialogues as well as numerous examples, explanations, and practice exercises.Best of all, the packages are as compact and portable as ever! Each program comes complete with a coursebook, handy learner’s bilingual dictionary, and four hours of recordings on four CDs.Available in Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Inglés/English for native Spanish speakers! |
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Beyond the Basics: Italian (Book) $6.65 Our best-selling language series just went Beyond the Basics!Now there’s a fantastic new way for language learners to take their Italian to the next level and go Beyond the Basics! Ideal for people who already have some introductory knowledge, the brand-new Beyond the Basics courses take students further in key areas, including vocabulary, grammar, culture, and natural-sounding conversational skills. Each course includes twenty lessons that feature more challenging dialogues as well as numerous examples, explanations, and practice exercises. |
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Biblical Geography And History $12.45 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the beautiful clear lakes on the heights the descent is sudden to the malarial marshes in the lowlands. Situation of Rome. This western slope is cut midway from north to south by the Tiber, next to the Po the largest river in Italy. To the east the Apennines rise to their greatest height, insuring a heavy annual rainfall. The Tiber valley itself was one of the earliest highways from east to west and was in ancient times the natural division between the highly civilized Etruscans on the north and the Latins and the Greek colonies on the south. Here the varied life of ancient Italy met and mingled and the result was a virile race and a strong, aggressive civilization. Its centre was the Palatine hill, a low volcanic mound beside the Tiber, fourteen miles from its mouth. The uniformity of the Italian territory favored the union of its mixed population under the leadership of Rome its central city. Reason Why Rome Went Forth to Conquer. Even more important in the development of its culture were the attacks from without to which it was constantly exposed. Even the lofty Alps did not prove impassable barriers to the barbarian hordes who were attracted by this fertile land. Ancient Italy, encircled by the sea and plentifully provided with open harbors on the east and south, was never free from the dread of foreign attack. Not until Rome had conquered the powerful nations living on even the most distant shores of the Mediterranean could she feel secure in her central position. It was this constant fear, as well as the influence of her commanding position, that made Rome in time the mistress of the Mediterranean. From the East she received a century or two later than Greece all that the old civilizations could give, both of good and evil. This inheritance she hi turn gave to the |
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Biblical Geography And History $21.24 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the beautiful clear lakes on the heights the descent is sudden to the malarial marshes in the lowlands. Situation of Rome. This western slope is cut midway from north to south by the Tiber, next to the Po the largest river in Italy. To the east the Apennines rise to their greatest height, insuring a heavy annual rainfall. The Tiber valley itself was one of the earliest highways from east to west and was in ancient times the natural division between the highly civilized Etruscans on the north and the Latins and the Greek colonies on the south. Here the varied life of ancient Italy met and mingled and the result was a virile race and a strong, aggressive civilization. Its centre was the Palatine hill, a low volcanic mound beside the Tiber, fourteen miles from its mouth. The uniformity of the Italian territory favored the union of its mixed population under the leadership of Rome its central city. Reason Why Rome Went Forth to Conquer. Even more important in the development of its culture were the attacks from without to which it was constantly exposed. Even the lofty Alps did not prove impassable barriers to the barbarian hordes who were attracted by this fertile land. Ancient Italy, encircled by the sea and plentifully provided with open harbors on the east and south, was never free from the dread of foreign attack. Not until Rome had conquered the powerful nations living on even the most distant shores of the Mediterranean could she feel secure in her central position. It was this constant fear, as well as the influence of her commanding position, that made Rome in time the mistress of the Mediterranean. From the East she received a century or two later than Greece all that the old civilizations could give, both of good and evil. This inheritance she hi turn gave to the |
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Biblical Geography And History $32.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the beautiful clear lakes on the heights the descent is sudden to the malarial marshes in the lowlands. Situation of Rome. This western slope is cut midway from north to south by the Tiber, next to the Po the largest river in Italy. To the east the Apennines rise to their greatest height, insuring a heavy annual rainfall. The Tiber valley itself was one of the earliest highways from east to west and was in ancient times the natural division between the highly civilized Etruscans on the north and the Latins and the Greek colonies on the south. Here the varied life of ancient Italy met and mingled and the result was a virile race and a strong, aggressive civilization. Its centre was the Palatine hill, a low volcanic mound beside the Tiber, fourteen miles from its mouth. The uniformity of the Italian territory favored the union of its mixed population under the leadership of Rome its central city. Reason Why Rome Went Forth to Conquer. Even more important in the development of its culture were the attacks from without to which it was constantly exposed. Even the lofty Alps did not prove impassable barriers to the barbarian hordes who were attracted by this fertile land. Ancient Italy, encircled by the sea and plentifully provided with open harbors on the east and south, was never free from the dread of foreign attack. Not until Rome had conquered the powerful nations living on even the most distant shores of the Mediterranean could she feel secure in her central position. It was this constant fear, as well as the influence of her commanding position, that made Rome in time the mistress of the Mediterranean. From the East she received a century or two later than Greece all that the old civilizations could give, both of good and evil. This inheritance she hi turn gave to the |
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Biblical Geography And History $20.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the beautiful clear lakes on the heights the descent is sudden to the malarial marshes in the lowlands. Situation of Rome. This western slope is cut midway from north to south by the Tiber, next to the Po the largest river in Italy. To the east the Apennines rise to their greatest height, insuring a heavy annual rainfall. The Tiber valley itself was one of the earliest highways from east to west and was in ancient times the natural division between the highly civilized Etruscans on the north and the Latins and the Greek colonies on the south. Here the varied life of ancient Italy met and mingled and the result was a virile race and a strong, aggressive civilization. Its centre was the Palatine hill, a low volcanic mound beside the Tiber, fourteen miles from its mouth. The uniformity of the Italian territory favored the union of its mixed population under the leadership of Rome its central city. Reason Why Rome Went Forth to Conquer. Even more important in the development of its culture were the attacks from without to which it was constantly exposed. Even the lofty Alps did not prove impassable barriers to the barbarian hordes who were attracted by this fertile land. Ancient Italy, encircled by the sea and plentifully provided with open harbors on the east and south, was never free from the dread of foreign attack. Not until Rome had conquered the powerful nations living on even the most distant shores of the Mediterranean could she feel secure in her central position. It was this constant fear, as well as the influence of her commanding position, that made Rome in time the mistress of the Mediterranean. From the East she received a century or two later than Greece all that the old civilizations could give, both of good and evil. This inheritance she hi turn gave to the |
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Biblical Geography And History $23.4 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the beautiful clear lakes on the heights the descent is sudden to the malarial marshes in the lowlands. Situation of Rome. This western slope is cut midway from north to south by the Tiber, next to the Po the largest river in Italy. To the east the Apennines rise to their greatest height, insuring a heavy annual rainfall. The Tiber valley itself was one of the earliest highways from east to west and was in ancient times the natural division between the highly civilized Etruscans on the north and the Latins and the Greek colonies on the south. Here the varied life of ancient Italy met and mingled and the result was a virile race and a strong, aggressive civilization. Its centre was the Palatine hill, a low volcanic mound beside the Tiber, fourteen miles from its mouth. The uniformity of the Italian territory favored the union of its mixed population under the leadership of Rome its central city. Reason Why Rome Went Forth to Conquer. Even more important in the development of its culture were the attacks from without to which it was constantly exposed. Even the lofty Alps did not prove impassable barriers to the barbarian hordes who were attracted by this fertile land. Ancient Italy, encircled by the sea and plentifully provided with open harbors on the east and south, was never free from the dread of foreign attack. Not until Rome had conquered the powerful nations living on even the most distant shores of the Mediterranean could she feel secure in her central position. It was this constant fear, as well as the influence of her commanding position, that made Rome in time the mistress of the Mediterranean. From the East she received a century or two later than Greece all that the old civilizations could give, both of good and evil. This inheritance she hi turn gave to the |
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Biblical Geography and History $33.57 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:the beautiful clear lakes on the heights the descent is sudden to the malarial marshes in the lowlands. Situation of Rome. This western slope is cut midway from north to south by the Tiber, next to the Po the largest river in Italy. To the east the Apennines rise to their greatest height, insuring a heavy annual rainfall. The Tiber valley itself was one of the earliest highways from east to west and was in ancient times the natural division between the highly civilized Etruscans on the north and the Latins and the Greek colonies on the south. Here the varied life of ancient Italy met and mingled and the result was a virile race and a strong, aggressive civilization. Its centre was the Palatine hill, a low volcanic mound beside the Tiber, fourteen miles from its mouth. The uniformity of the Italian territory favored the union of its mixed population under the leadership of Rome its central city. Reason Why Rome Went Forth to Conquer. Even more important in the development of its culture were the attacks from without to which it was constantly exposed. Even the lofty Alps did not prove impassable barriers to the barbarian hordes who were attracted by this fertile land. Ancient Italy, encircled by the sea and plentifully provided with open harbors on the east and south, was never free from the dread of foreign attack. Not until Rome had conquered the powerful nations living on even the most distant shores of the Mediterranean could she feel secure in her central position. It was this constant fear, as well as the influence of her commanding position, that made Rome in time the mistress of the Mediterranean. From the East she received a century or two later than Greece all that the old civilizations could give, both of good and evil. This inheritance she hi turn gave to the |
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Boccaccian Novella: The Creation and Waning of a Genre $42.59 Corradina Caporello-Szykman, Aldo Scaglione (Editor),Hardcover,Series: Studies in Italian Culture Ser., English-language edition,Pub by Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated |
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Boccaccio Geografo: Un viaggio nel Mediterraneo tra le citta, i giardini ea il ‘mondo’ di Giovanni Boccaccio $40 English summary: This collection of articles explores the work of the Renaissance geographer De Boccaccio, with texts, indices, maps and reproductions of portulans, all of which communicate his rich curiosity for the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean. De Boccacio’s writings combine physical and human geography, literature and culture to bring readers to the heart of a Mediterranean almost more imagined than experienced. Scholarly articles guide the reader through the different historical and cultural aspects of De Boccaccio’s work. Italian text. Italian description: Dopo i rivoluzionari studi di Manlio Pastore Stocchi sul De Canaria , innovativo contributo alla letteratura di scoperta ed esplorazione oceanica, per la prima volta storici, geografi e letterati si fermano a discutere di Boccaccio geografo. Il testo, unico nel suo genere, ripercorre le tappe umane e intellettuali dei viaggi di Boccaccio, indaga sulle sue conoscenze geografiche, descrive la sua vivace curiosita per il mondo e per culture e popoli lontani dalle coste mediterranee. Boccaccio geografo , corredato da un accurato indice dei luoghi e da preziose mappe e portolani custoditi nei manoscritti delle biblioteche italiane e straniere, si interroga anche sul modo in cui il narratore Boccaccio racconta ‘quegli’ spazi e ‘quei’ viaggi. Ne emerge un racconto geografico a piu tappe, un ‘vocio’ filtrato continuamente dalla memoria letteraria e biografica. La Napoli di Virgilio poeta dell’ Eneide e la Lunigiana di Dante esule, il giardino che sa di Oriente e di Occidente, la vite toscana che incontra l’arancio, gli odori e i sapori di terre lontane nel cuore di un Mediterraneo piu immaginato che vissuto, spazio di un’alterita letteraria piu che topografica, come quelle lontane Isole Fortunate che non sembrano poi cosi diverse da Berlinzone, nella contrada che si chiamava Bengodi, in cui Calandrino spera di trovare l’elitropia. Geografia fisica e geografia umana si incontrano in |
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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892 $58.96 The subject of this book-an Italian-born exiled Prince-has become an icon of misjudged romanticism and Scottish nationalism; much of this is due to the way he has been portrayed over the years. This study traces how the enduring visual image of Prince Charles Edward Stuart was created, beginning with his birth in 1720 and ending with the exhibition of John Pettie’s Prince Charles Edward Stuart Entering the Ballroom at Holyrood – probably still the most enduring and popular image of the Stuart prince-at the Royal Academy in 1892. This book considers the role of portraiture in the Stuart court, both before and after exile in 1688 and how the well-established traditions of royal portraiture and image-making were used by the Stuart dynasty to promote their ambitions and stature. Charles’s birth in 1720 resulted in a flurry of portrait commissions in which he was depicted as the royal heir apparent. The messianic role with which he was invested reached its apotheosis with the Jacobite uprising of 1745. He adopted the costume and manners of an idealized Highland chieftain and within the space of a few months created an abiding iconography which was to endure long after his death. The major portraits of Charles executed during his lifetime are considered, from the early court portraits of Antonio David and Domenico Dupra to the final images of a broken man by Ozias Humphrey and Hugh Douglas Hamilton. Alongside this, there is a thorough examination of a parallel phenomenon in which works of art, observing established parameters, were copied and adapted, and then re-copied, until the tartan-clad ideal of 1745 began to eclipse the real person. The revering of Charles Edward and the manufacture of items bearing his likeness are compared to other ‘cults’ of the individual and contrasted with the ‘commercialization of politics’ which several commentators have identified as a coherent phenomenon of late eighteenth-century British life. The extent to which the material culture |
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Books About Italy, including: The Civic Culture, Christ Stopped At Eboli, Italian Journey, Italian Hours, The Dark Heart Of Italy, South Wind (novel), Rambles In Germany And Italy $11.98 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Books and Rough Business $1.6 Books would seem to be one thing, and rough business another — except that the life of Tullio Pironti has brought both together. This mover and shaker in Italian arts and publishing began as a scuffling street kid in Naples, then enjoyed a boxing career that included two trips to the nationals, and only after that entered the book business. Yet in the decades that followed, he ended up working with the likes of the Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfuz and the Maestro of Italian film, Federico Fellini. Not surprisingly, then, Pironti’s memoir won wide attention in his home country, with more than 100 notices. Red Hen Press is excited to bring it out now in an American edition. Before anything else, the young Pironti had to survive a war. His memoir begins with a refugee experience, as he and his family are driven out of their homes in downtown Naples by the American bombing of 1942-43. Then after the liberation, Pironti must make his way with his wits and his fists, amid a colorful array of Neapolitan street figures. His recollections of youth provide rare insight into coming of age in a culture so ancient, so full of secrets. Then once Pironti quits his boxing career, the real fight begins. His rise as editor and publisher presents the Italian version of up by the bootstraps — during a period of near-Biblical changes for the country. In the arena of the arts, Pironti experiences those changes first-hand. As he improvises his way onto the best-seller lists and into the film industry, his work makes a larger and larger place for women, andfor books by Arabs and Africans. Then too, many of his publications boldly expose the destructive collusion between the Mafia and the politicians in Rome. At the memoir’s climax, Pironti himself suffers for his exposés. He faces trumped-up charges from |
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Brindisi $39.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brindisi listen, Brindisi Brinnisi, Latin Brundisium, Greek or Brentesion Vrindhision) is a city in the Apulia (or Puglia) region of Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an important role in commerce and culture, due to its position on the Italian peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city is a major port for trade and towards Greece and the Middle East. Brindisi has an active industry in agriculture, chemical and energy production. |
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Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand $65 In this volume, a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of topics: politics, music, the visual arts, literature and the intellectual life, as well as the emergence of Italian as an academic discipline. Edited, with an introduction, by Martin McLaughlin, the volume includes essays by Ian Campbell, Hilary Fraser, T.G. Griffith, David Kimbell, John Lindon, Denis Mack Smith, Brian Moloney and J.R. Woodhouse, as well as the last article written by the late Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge, Uberto Limentani. (Legenda 2000) |
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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 $67 Gerald McKevitt,Hardcover – 1, English-language edition,Pub by Stanford University Press |
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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 $27.95 Gerald McKevitt,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Stanford University Press |
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Brooklyn Bodega $30.23 What is a bodega? A bodega is a Spanish word typically associated with a small grocery store or neighborhood convenience store predominately owned and run by Hispanics, among other ethnic groups. However, there are other associations with this word as well. The word bodega also means a wine shop or a warehouse for the storage of wine. Nevertheless, if you ask most people what a bodega is, they will tell you it is a small grocery store, but not a 7-11. I chose to title this book Brooklyn Bodega simply because of the many distinct bodegas in Brooklyn. Although Manhattan and Staten Island have bodegas also, they do not share the genuine look and feel of Brooklyn’s bodegas. Furthermore, there are just too many bodegas in the Bronx and Queens to go out and photograph. Besides that, Brooklyn Bodega sounds much cooler than New York City Bodega! Growing up in Brooklyn and living here practically all my life, I was exposed to a certain kind of lifestyle-a certain culture-one consisting of various ethnic communities and one-of-a-kind neighborhoods. Immigrants who make up these communities are Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Saudi-Arabian, Mexican, Korean, Chinese, Indian, Senegalese, Italian, Russian, Polish and many more. Brooklyn Bodega primarily focuses on the visual and aesthetic look of the bodega, if you will. Although there is much history to the bodega, what the author, Michael Leifman, is concentrating on is the look of the bodega. By displaying exterior photographs, you can see how each bodega shares similar but distinct features. With the corrugated metal awnings, yellow and red colors, and bold graphics, these architectural structures area part of the unmistakable landscape of New York City. Each photograph allows the viewer to see how the bodega stands on its own. By incorporating people, graffiti, and advertising, the bodega becomes a product of the community-a place that fits right into its surroundings |
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Buildings and Structures in Switzerland by Canton: Buildings and Structures in Graub nden, Buildings and Structures in Ticino $19.84 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Buildings and Structures in Graubünden, Buildings and Structures in Ticino, Buildings and Structures in Valais, Buildings and Structures in the Canton of Zurich, Bernina Railway, Gotthard Base Tunnel, Museo Delle Culture, Burg Marmels, Disentis Abbey, Gotthard Road Tunnel, Gotthard Rail Tunnel, San Bernardino, Therme Vals, Ceneri Base Tunnel, Verzasca Dam, Lugano Airport, Great St Bernard Tunnel, Rheinau Abbey, Great St Bernard Hospice, Lugano Cathedral, Monte Ceneri Transmitter, Porta Alpina, Cornaredo Stadium, Osservatorio Astronomico Di Gnosca, Ruine Neuburg, Stadio Comunale Bellinzona, Basilique de Valère, Cholfirst Radio Tower, Stadio Del Lido, Vereina Tunnel, Monte Generoso Observatory, Sternwarte Mirasteilas, Campo Sportivo “Al Vallone”, Ruine Castelmur, Tarasp Castle, Church of San Giovanni Battista, Bubenholz Tunnel, Cholfirst Tunnel, Marthalen Landi-Silo. Excerpt: The Bernina Railway is a single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It links the spa resort of St. Moritz, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, with the town of Tirano, in the Province of Sondrio, Italy, via the Bernina Pass. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway in the Alps, and – with inclines of up to 7% – as one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world. On 7 July 2008, the Bernina Railway and the Albula Railway, which also forms part of the RhB, were recorded in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, under the name Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes. The whole site is regarded as a cross border joint Swiss-Italian heritage area. The most famous trains operating on the Bernina Railway are known as the Bernina Express. Bernina Railway with the Palü Glacier in the background. Postcard from ca… |
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Burials At San Lorenzo Fuori Le Mura (Rome) $9.43 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics. He is considered to be one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer. De Gasperi was born in Pieve Tesino in Trentino, at that time belonging to Austria-Hungary, now part of the Province of Trento in Italy. His father was a local police officer of limited financial means. From 1896 De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement. In 1900 he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Vienna, where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement. He was very much inspired by the Rerum Novarum encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891. In 1904 he took an active part in the student demonstrations in favour of an Italian-language university. Imprisoned with other protesters during the inauguration of the Italian juridical faculty in Innsbruck, he was released after twenty days. In 1905, De Gasperi obtained a degree in philology. In 1905 he began to work as editor of the newspaper La Voce Cattolica which was replaced in September 1906 by Il Trentino, and after a short time he became its editor. In his newspaper he often took positions in favour of a cultural autonomy for Welschtirol and in defence of Italian culture in Trentino, in contrast to the Germanisation plans of the German radical nationalists in Tyrol. However, he never questioned whether or not Trentino should belong to AustriaHungary and claimed th… More: |
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Business Italy: A Practical Guide to Understanding Italian Business Culture $1.99 Peggy Kenna, Sondra Lacy,Paperback,Series: International Business Culture Ser., English-language edition,Pub by NTC Publishing Group |
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Cadogan Guide: Umbria $1.99 There is no one better to uncover the secrets of Umbria, Italy’s ‘Green Heart’, than Italian experts Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls. Having lived there for three years, they know just where to seek out the delights of this bewitching region, to the east of its better-known neighbour, Tuscany. Discover magnificent Assisi, the home of St Francis; take in Gubbio, a medieval gem to rival Siena; enjoy the extraordinary Renaissance treasures of Spoleto. After all that culture, they lead you to the dinner table to enjoy Umbrian specialities, from pasta with truffles to ‘drunken’ chicken, made using the famous white wines of Orvieto. All restaurants are personally researched, so you can be sure you will enjoy some of the best tastes the culinary world can offer, as the sun beats down on some secluded terrace. The guide is also packed full of information about festivals, markets and vineyards to give you a real taste of local life, alongside some of Italy’s most remarkable sights. |
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Campania: Camorra, Osci, Herculaneum, Naples Metropolitan Area, Stabiae, Campi Flegrei, Sinuessa, 1980 Irpinia Earthquake, Torre Annunziata $20.68 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Camorra, Osci, Herculaneum, Naples Metropolitan Area, Stabiae, Campi Flegrei, Sinuessa, 1980 Irpinia Earthquake, Torre Annunziata, Politics of Campania, Villa Poppaea, 1857 Basilicata Earthquake, Trebula Balliensis, Oplontis, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’agata De’ Goti, Gulf of Naples, Roman Catholic Diocese of Teano-Calvi, Ciampate Del Diavolo, List of Camorra Clans, Roman Catholic Diocese of Vallo Della Lucania, Agnano, Gulf of Pozzuoli. Excerpt: Campania (Italian pronunciation: ) is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,595 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country. Located on the Italian Peninsula, with the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, the small Flegrean Islands and Capri are also administratively part of the region. Throughout much of its history Campania has been at the centre of Western Civilisation’s most significant entities. The area was colonised by Ancient Greeks and was within Magna Græcia, until the Roman Republic began to dominate. During the Roman era the area was highly respected as a place of culture by the emperors, where it balanced Greco-Roman culture. The area had many duchies and principalities during the Middle Ages, in the hands of the Byzantine Empire and some Lombards. It was under the Normans that the smaller independent states were brought together as part of a sizable European kingdom, known as the Kingdom of Sicily, before the mainland broke away to form the Kingdom of Naples. It was during this period that especially elements of Spanish, French and Aragonese culture touched Campania. Later the area became the central part of the Two Sicilies under t… More: |
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Catholic University Of The Sacred Heart $16.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Alumni, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Faculty, Romano Prodi, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Angelo Scola, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Michael Cox, Giovanni Colombo, Agostino Gemelli, Marcel Danesi, Alfredo Mantica, Carlo Caffarra, Adriano Bernareggi, Fausto Terrefranca. Excerpt: Agostino Gemelli Agostino Gemelli (January 18, 1878 – July 15, 1959) was an Italian physician , Franciscan friar and psychologist who was also the founder and chancellor of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in 1921.Born ‘Edoardo Gemelli in Milan, he carried out neurophysiological and psychological experiments. He focused some of his research on the psychology of the workplace. His Institute of Psychology was the most prominent institution of its kind in Italy. A large teaching hospital in Rome , the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic , is named after him.Agostino Gemelli is also considered one of the 20th century’s most prominent Franciscans . He worked to reconcile Christian faith and modern culture.Despite his many administrative duties as university chancellor (which he performed until his death), Gemelli’s endeavors involved both scientific and philosophical studies. In addition, he wrote extensively on the contemporary meaning of Franciscan spirituality and was a pioneer in actively engaging the laity in the mission of the church.Padre Pio Controversy Agnostino Gemelli was a a harsh critic of the character of Saint Padre Pio , stating that Padre Pio was “an ignorant and self-mutilating psychopath who exploited people’s credulity” with his stigmata . Agnostino Gemelli’s criticism was instrumental in moving the Vatican to take various measures in censuring Padre Pio, |
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Catholicism as Decadence $40 This volume is the result of two workshops that took place at the Center for the Study of Italian History & Culture of Georgetown University (Fiesole) and dealt with the relationship between Catholicism and the interpretative canons of history. This theme was instrumental to the discussion of the causes leading to the emergence of the concept of decadence during the age of the counter-reformation and of the link between Catholicism and anti-modernity. In keeping with this theme the volume offers a panorama of the various national historiographies in order to highlight the specific ideological and historiographical trends that led to this association. From the discussion emerged both common trends and different declinations of one single phenomenon. Thus, it has been possible to present for the first time both a comparative perspective and a more general view.The association between Catholicism and anti-modernity, which originated during the age of the Reformation and expressed itself in literature, in historiography, and in political and philosophical thought and, more generally in the collective imagination, has become a cultural phenomenon that reached its zenith in the nineteenth century. It has had a strong impact on the epistemology of historical research, has contributed to shape many different identitary paradigms and has become a distorting lens through which to read the role of Catholicism in political debate and in social dynamics. Contributors: Marcello Fantoni, Chiara Continisio, John T. McGreevy, John O’Malley, John Monfasani, Jose Martinez Millan, Simon Ditchfield, Manfred Hinz, Helen Hills. |
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Celebrate… . . Italian Style $28.8 The kitchen has always occupied an important position in Italian culture. It is not only the place where cooking is done, but it’s usually the center of most household activity; a place to gather and socialize, a place to bond and reminisce, and of course a place where many great chefs are born. Celebrate….Italian Style, is a collection of recipes and stories about Italian life. With amusing selections, such as “An Italian Wedding”, “Neighborhood Watchdogs”, “Gramma’s Other Half” and “An Italian Christmas and the Tale of the Fishes”, this cookbook brings us back to simpler times of tradition and heritage and how friends and family unite through food. This “Coffee Table” cookbook includes 100+ traditional recipes, using readily available ingredients for dishes that are not only easy to create, but even more enjoyable to indulge in. This unique cookbook is divided into 10 different chapters, discussing the celebrations that make up our lives. Through chapters like “Sunday Dinner”, “An Italian Christmas”, “Old Country Cooking” and “A Feast with your Paisani”, this cookbook offers up some excellent recipe selections, while sharing stories from the author’s rich heritage. Included in the book are favorites which include: Antipasti Squares, Sunday Gravy, Lasagna, Chicken Saltimboca, Italian Meatloaf, Zuppa di Pesce, Sole Florentine, Braised Artichokes, Zucchini Parmesan, Cannolis, Ricotta Pie and many more…. It is these celebrations that unite us, and it is the food at these occasions that tie us together, creating memories that can last a lifetime. |
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Celebrate… . . Italian Style $17.07 The kitchen has always occupied an important position in Italian culture. It is not only the place where cooking is done, but it’s usually the center of most household activity; a place to gather and socialize, a place to bond and reminisce, and of course a place where many great chefs are born. Celebrate….Italian Style, is a collection of recipes and stories about Italian life. With amusing selections, such as “An Italian Wedding”, “Neighborhood Watchdogs”, “Gramma’s Other Half” and “An Italian Christmas and the Tale of the Fishes”, this cookbook brings us back to simpler times of tradition and heritage and how friends and family unite through food. This “Coffee Table” cookbook includes 100+ traditional recipes, using readily available ingredients for dishes that are not only easy to create, but even more enjoyable to indulge in. This unique cookbook is divided into 10 different chapters, discussing the celebrations that make up our lives. Through chapters like “Sunday Dinner”, “An Italian Christmas”, “Old Country Cooking” and “A Feast with your Paisani”, this cookbook offers up some excellent recipe selections, while sharing stories from the author’s rich heritage. Included in the book are favorites which include: Antipasti Squares, Sunday Gravy, Lasagna, Chicken Saltimboca, Italian Meatloaf, Zuppa di Pesce, Sole Florentine, Braised Artichokes, Zucchini Parmesan, Cannolis, Ricotta Pie and many more…. It is these celebrations that unite us, and it is the food at these occasions that tie us together, creating memories that can last a lifetime. |
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Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922-43: Policies, Procedures and Protagonists $95 Censorship and Common Sense in Fascist Italy, 1922-43 is the first comprehensive account of the diversity and complexity of censorship practices in Italy under the Fascist dictatorship. By presenting archival material from the political police; the Italian military; the Prime Minister’s press office, and its subsequent incarnation, the Ministry for Popular Culture, it shows how practices of censorship were used to effect regime change, to measure and to shape public opinion, behavior and attitudes in the twenty years of Mussolini’s dictatorship. |
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Cham Albanians: Anti-Fascist Committee of Cham Immigrants, Expulsion of Cham Albanians, Chameria, Cham Issue, Souliotes $27.46 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anti-Fascist Committee of Cham Immigrants, Expulsion of Cham Albanians, Chameria, Cham Issue, Souliotes, Bilal Xhaferri Cultural Association, Krahu I Shqiponjës, Principality of Gjirokastër, Chameria Battalion, Despotate of Arta, Iv “Ali Demi” Battalion, Muhamet Kyçyku, Shefki Hysa, Gjin Bua Shpata, Gjon Zenebishi, Këshilla, Bilal Xhaferri, National Political Association “Çamëria”, Democratic Foundation of Chameria, Dance of Osman Taka, Cham Albanian Dialect, Liberation Army of Chameria, Despotate of Angelokastron and Lepanto, Chameria Human Rights Association, Party for Justice and Integration, Assembly of Preveza, Rexhep Demi, Veli Gërra, Jakup Veseli, Osman Taka, Xhemil Dino, Azis Tahir Ajdonati, Ali Demi, Kristo Meksi, Abedin Dino, Thoma Çami. Excerpt: Albanian Cham Albanians, or Chams (Albanian: , Greek: Tsámidhes), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the coastal region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria. The Chams have their own peculiar cultural identity, which is a mixture of Albanian and Greek influences as well as many specifically Cham elements. Chams played an important role in starting the renaissance of the Albanian culture in the 19th century. The Chams speak their own dialect of the Albanian language, which is considered one of the two most conservative dialects, the other being Arvanitika. Following the Italian occupation of Albania in 1939, the Chams became a prominent propaganda tool for the Italians and irredentist elements among them became more vocal. As a result, on the eve of the Greco-Italian War, the adult male Cham population was deported by the Greek authorities to internment camps. After the occupation of Greece, large |
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Chaucer And His Poetry $28.78 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Ill THE HOUSE OF FAME /CHAUCER’S Period of Transition, as de- xJ fined in my first lecture, falls between his first Italian journey (in 1373) and the writing of the Palamon and Arcite or the Troilus, whichever of these two works came first. In this period he was reading and assimilating Italian poetry, was achieving emancipation from French fashions under its guidance, was “finding himself,” was getting ready for the full exercise of his native genius. His leisure was scanty, and he read far more than he wrote, enlarging his knowledge on every side. In particular, he gave much time to the Latin classics, which must share with Dante and Petrarch and Boccaccio the honor of setting him free from the bonds of French convention. The chief concrete product of this interval of rapid and virile development was the House of Fame, a poem not only of sufficient merit in itself to approach the rank of a masterpiece, but also in the highest degree remarkable for what it indicates. In design it is ambitious, far beyond anything that Chaucer had heretofore attemptedor conceived. In substance, it is a kind of epitome of the author’s knowledge and culture in science and art and philosophy, in French and Italian and Latin. It is composed, in small and great, with astonishing virtuosity. It is full of spirit and originality, and instinct throughout with conscious power. The House of Fame is divided into three Books. The first is an introduction; the second describes the poet’s marvellous journey through the upper air; the third gives an account of Fame’s palace, with its surroundings and adjuncts, and of what is to be seen and heard in her domain. The prologue to the First Book consists of two distinct parts, the Discussion of Dreams and the Invocation. Both will repay our study. T… |
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Cheek kissing $47.04 Cheek kissing is a ritual or social gesture to indicate friendship, perform a greeting, to confer congratulations, to comfort someone, or to show respect. It does not necessarily indicate sexual or romantic interest. Cheek kissing is very common in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Latin America. It is not as common in English-speaking Canada and the United States, Asia and Northern Europe. However, there are some exceptions in North America, including ethnic neighborhoods, such as Italian, French, or Hispanic neighborhoods, as well as Quebec, Louisiana and Miami. Soviet and other eastern European communist leaders often greeted each other in this fashion on public and state occasions. Nowadays in Eastern Europe male-female and female-female cheek kissing is a very common greeting between friends, especially younger than 35 years old. Male-male cheek kissing is rare. Depending on the local culture, cheek kissing may be considered appropriate between a man and a woman, a parent and a child, two women, or two men. |
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China Fictions/English Language $98.66 The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few have carried so global a resonance as that of China. What, then, of literary-cultural expression, the huge body of fiction which has addressed itself to that plurality of lives and geographies which have come to be known as “After China”? This collection of essays offers bearings on those written in English, and in which both memory and story are central, spanning the USA to Australia, Canada to the UK, Hong Kong to Singapore, with yet others of more transnational nature. This collection opens with a reprise of woman-authored Chinese American fiction using Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan as departure points. In turn follow readings of the oeuvres of Tan and Frank Chin. A comparative essay takes up novels by Canadian, American and Australian authors from the perspective of migrancy as fracture. Chinese Canada comes into view in accounts of SKY Lee, Wayson Choy, Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai. Australia under Chinese literary auspices is given a comparative mapping through the fiction of Brian Castro and Ouyang Yu. The English language “China fiction” of Singapore and Hong Kong is located in essays centred, respectively, on Martin Booth and Po Wah Lam, and Hwee Hwee Tan and Colin Cheong. The collection rounds out with portraits of Timothy Mo as British transnational author, a selection of contextual Chinese British stories and art, and the phenomenon of “Chinese Chick Lit” novels. China Fictions/English Language will be of interest to readers drawn both to “After China” as diasporic literary heritage and comparative literature ingeneral.A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University Kent, UK. His publications include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998), Multicultural American |
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Christmas Dinner $43.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christmas dinner is the primary meal traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. In many ways the meal is similar to a standard Sunday dinner. Christmas feasts have traditionally been luxurious and abundant. King John of England, in the year 1213, ordered about 3,000 capons, 1,000 salted eels, 400 hogs, 100 pounds of almonds and 24 casks of wine for his Christmas feast. Christmas dinner around the world may differ and the traditions present below can reflect the culture of the respective country it is being celebrated in. Turkey is present in a fair number of these meals.In Poland, traditional Christmas Eve meals include one or more of the following foods: Golabki filled with Kasza, Pierogi, Borscht, fish soup, carp, and pickled Herring. Krupnik is sometimes drunk after dinner. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the meal features a fish soup and breaded roasted carp with potato salad. Italian Catholics eat seven types of seafood. In some parts of Eastern Europe such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, a traditional meatless 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper is served on Christmas Eve. |
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Churer Rheintal $33 Kapitel: Chur, Rheintal, Sogn Gieri, Domat/ems, Schloss Rhäzüns, Bonaduz, Burg Ober-Ruchenberg, Felsberg Gr, Burg Neuburg, Sogn Paul, Calanda, Burg Rappenstein, Vorderrhein, Montalin, Tamins, Landquart, Ems-Chemie, Bergwerk Goldene Sonne, Reichenau Gr, Imboden, Reformierte Kirche Domat/ems, Reformierte Kirche Felsberg Gr, Rhäzünser, Verenakapelle, Hamilton Medical, Reformierte Kirche Tamins, Maienfelder Alpen, Sentupada, Tuma, Jakobsweg Graubünden, Rhiiblatt, Regionalverband Nordbünden, Kraftwerk Pintrun, Amtsblatt Stadt Chur. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Chur (German: pronounced (in Graubünden), (elsewhere); Alemannic German: ; Romansh: IPA: or ; Italian: ); French: ; Latin: , and ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern part of the canton. Chur in 1642, by Matthäus MerianThe city of Chur is the seat of the bishops of Chur and capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden, in which Chur is the most populous municipality. Archaeological evidence of settlement at the site goes back as far as the Pfyn culture (3900-3500 BC), making Chur one of the oldest settlements in Switzerland. The city is located at a highly strategic location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and pass together down the Rhine river towards various destinations in Switzerland and Germany. The modern name Chur derives from when the site was a Roman fortified camp, Curia Raetorum in Latin. Later in the Roman period, Chur became the capital of the Roman province of Rhaetia Prima in 15 BC. It was of moderate importance, being mentioned in the Antonine Itineraries and Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum (History of the Lombards), vi. 21. During the period of the Republic of the Three Leagues in Graubünden (ca. 1400-1797), Chur was the chief town of the Gotteshausbund or Chadé (League of the House of God), and one of the |
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Ciao! $315 CIAO!, Sixth Edition continues to emphasize practical, communicative use of Italian, while teaching the four language skills and providing an enhanced introduction to Italian life and culture. The new edition is distinguished by greater coherence in the grammatical presentation, a more pervasive emphasis upon cultural realities, lexical streamlining, thorough updating, and more consistent support for the instructor through marginal annotations. With thematically based chapters that focus on the vibrant life of modern Italy and the country’s rich cultural heritage, CIAO! provides the proven approach-known for its outstanding, easy-to-follow grammar presentation-and superior resources that students need to communicate in Italian with confidence and understanding. The book features a strong focus on spoken proficiency and cultural awareness, all woven into a dynamic presentation that makes it easy and fun to learn Italian. |
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Ciao! $22.78 CIAO!, Sixth Edition continues to emphasize practical, communicative use of Italian, while teaching the four language skills and providing an enhanced introduction to Italian life and culture. The new edition is distinguished by greater coherence in the grammatical presentation, a more pervasive emphasis upon cultural realities, lexical streamlining, thorough updating, and more consistent support for the instructor through marginal annotations. With thematically based chapters that focus on the vibrant life of modern Italy and the country’s rich cultural heritage, CIAO! provides the proven approach-known for its outstanding, easy-to-follow grammar presentation-and superior resources that students need to communicate in Italian with confidence and understanding. The book features a strong focus on spoken proficiency and cultural awareness, all woven into a dynamic presentation that makes it easy and fun to learn Italian. |
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Ciao! (with Audio CD) $93.48 CIAO!, Sixth Edition continues to emphasize practical, communicative use of Italian, while teaching the four language skills and providing an enhanced introduction to Italian life and culture. The new edition is distinguished by greater coherence in the grammatical presentation, a more pervasive emphasis upon cultural realities, lexical streamlining, thorough updating, and more consistent support for the instructor through marginal annotations. With thematically based chapters that focus on the vibrant life of modern Italy and the country’s rich cultural heritage, CIAO! provides the proven approach-known for its outstanding, easy-to-follow grammar presentation-and superior resources that students need to communicate in Italian with confidence and understanding. The book features a strong focus on spoken proficiency and cultural awareness, all woven into a dynamic presentation that makes it easy and fun to learn Italian. |
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Cinema in an Age of Terror: North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History $45 Cinema in an Age of Terror looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them, Michael F. O’Riley reveals how the centrality of victimization in certain cinematic representations of colonial history can help us understand how the desire to occupy the victim’s position is a dangerous and blinding drive that frequently plays into the vision of terrorism. Films such as The Battle of Algiers, Days of Glory, Caché, and recent works by Maghrebien filmmakers all exemplify, in different ways, how this focus on victimization can become a problematic perspective—one in fact seeking to occupy ideological territory. Their return of colonial history to our contemporary context, although frequently problematic, enables us to see how victimization is very much about territory—cultural, spatial, and ideological—and how resistance to new forms of imperialist warfare and terror today must be located outside these haunting images from colonial history. Although such images of victimization ultimately only return as spectacular acts that draw our attention away from the cyclical contest over territory that they embody, those images nonetheless have the last word. Michael F. O’Riley is an associate professor of French and Italian at Colorado College. He is the author of Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura and Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar’s New Novels. |
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Classical Philologists: Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Mikhail Gasparov, Radoslav Kati?i?, Eiliv Skard, Glenn W. Most, Georg Koës, Pierre Willems, Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829, William Gardner Hale, Edmund Hauler, Bobbio Scholiast, Eduard Schwyzer. Excerpt: The Bobbio Scholiast (commonly abbreviated schol. Bob. ) was an anonymous scholiast working in the 7th century at the monastery of Bobbio and known for his annotations of texts from classical antiquity . He is a unique source for some information about ancient Rome , particularly biographical data and certain details of historical events, and appears to have had access to sources now lost.Although many commentaries and scholia were produced at the monastery, which was famous for its literary culture and vast library, the label “Bobbio Scholiast” has attached itself mainly to the scholia on a selection of Cicero ’s speeches.Editions A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829 is one of the three most important manuscripts preserving the poems of Catullus . Among students of the matter it is commonly known as Codex Romanus (or “R”).Description It is a Latin manuscript, written in Gothic minuscule script on parchment , dated to around 1390. It consists of 38 leaves (76 pages). It is the youngest of the three most important manuscripts of Catullus, the other two being: codex Oxoniensis (O) preserved in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and codex Sangermanensis (G) in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris . Considering the stemma codicum , the Vatican codex is of the same rank as the latter one (the Oxford manuscript being one step closer to the lost archetype, known as codex Veronensis or “V”).History The first owner of the manuscript was an Italian humanist, |
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Collins Easy Learning Italian Level 2 $11.5 The audio course guides learners through a series of 12 short units. Each unit introduces around 5 new key words or phrases before expanding on the basic vocabulary with practice activities, memory tips and culture and etiquette advice. The accompanying booklet provides full transcripts of the audio conversations as well as helpful hints to guide the user through the course.Unit 1: Checking in to the hotel Unit 2: Hiring a car Unit 3: Where are you from? Unit 4: Talking about yourself Unit 5: How are you? Unit 6: Do you want to go out this evening? Unit 7: Where shall we go? Unit 8: What do you do on Sundays? Unit 9: A holiday in Italy Unit 10: Making plans Unit 11: What’s the weather like? Unit 12: On the phone |
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Comics Nationality Pop $31.4 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Franco-Belgian Comics, Hungarian Comics, Belgian Comics, British Comics, American Comic Book, Comics in Australia, Indian Comics, Italian Comics, Argentine Comics, Canadian Comics, Dutch Comics, Serbian Comics, German Comics, Philippine Comics, Comics in Mexico, European Comics, Czech Comics, Comic Books in Finnish Dialects, Polish Comics, Thai Comics, Maqita. Excerpt: American comics Culture of the United States An American comic book is a small magazine originating in the United States and containing a narrative in the form of comics . Since 1975 the dimensions have standardized at 17 x 26 cm (6 ” × 10 ¼”), although larger formats appeared in the past. Since the invention of the comic book format in 1934, the United States has produced the most examples, with only the British comic books (during the inter-war period and up until the 1970s) and the Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity. Sales of comic books began to decline after World War II , when the medium had to face competition with the spread of television and mass-market paperback books. Confirming the trend, mass-media researchers in the period found comic-book reading among children with television sets in homes “drastically reduced”. In the 1960s, comic books’ audience expanded to include college students who favored the naturalistic , “superheroes in the real world” trend initiated by Stan Lee at Marvel Comics . The 1960s also saw the advent of the underground comics . Later, the recognition of the comic medium among academics, literary critics and art museums helped solidify comics as a serious artform with established traditions , stylistic conventions , and artistic evolution. History Proto-comic books and the Platinum Age The development of the modern American comic book |
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Compositions by Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Arias by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Operas by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, Vesti La Giubba, La Boh me $13.27 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Arias by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Operas by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, Vesti La Giubba, La Bohème, Chatterton, Are You There?, Zazà, Mattinata, I Medici. Excerpt: Mattinata (English : Morning ) was the first song ever written expressly for the Gramophone Company (the present day HMV ). Composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo in 1904, this song was dedicated to Enrico Caruso . Ever since, this piece has become a concert favourite.Libretto Italian: A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Vesti la giubba (Put on the costume) is a famous tenor aria performed as part of the opera Pagliacci , written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo , and first performed in 1892. Vesti la giubba is the conclusion of the first act, when Canio discovers his wife’s infidelity, but must nevertheless prepare for his performance as Pagliaccio the clown because ‘the show must go on ‘.The aria is often regarded as one of the most moving in the operatic repertoire of the time. The pain of Canio is portrayed in the aria and exemplifies the entire notion of the ‘tragic clown’: smiling on the outside but crying on the inside. This is still displayed today as the clown motif often features the painted on tear running down the cheek of the performer.Since the opera’s first performance in 1892, this aria in particular has ingrained itself well into popular culture, and has often been featured in many renditions, mentions, and spoofs over the years. The 1904 recording by Enrico Caruso was the first million-selling record in history. Libretto Italian: Translation in EnglishMedia Adaptations The 1971 album Spike Jones Is Murdering The Classics features a satirization of Vesti la giubba called “Pal-Yat-Chee”- the name intended as a play on the name of the opera. The song features |
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Confronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy $55 Brogi’s book looks not only at Italian and French Communist resistance to Americanization, but it also reveals how the United States was forced by the anti-American Communist Parties in France and Italy to reassess its anticommunist strategies, its image, and the general meaning of American liberal capitalist culture and ideology. |
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Consumer Tribes $46.95 Consumer Tribes are all the rage. Across the landscape of global business and throughout the Internet, the impassioned power of Consumer Tribes is being recognized and channeled into new forms of promotion and new businesses. Whether you are a consumer researcher, a sociologist, a marketer, a cultural trend spotter, or just an interested observer, you will benefit from understanding the intricacies of today’s communal consumer culture. A powerful resource, Consumer Tribes presents cutting edge research that informs while it inspires. You hold in your hands the first book to carefully examine this global phenomenon, with chapters that: • Draw together contributions from scholars from around the world; • Offer a new a new theoretical synthesis by the editors and a chapter written by the founding father of tribal social theory, Michel Maffesoli; • Describe and analyze a range of consumer tribes from Star Trek and Harry Potter fans, Italian metrosexuals, female Harley bikers, surfers, Goths and Hummer owners. Sparked by technology and led by global consumer culture’s dominance, 21st century consumption has been radically transformed. The barrier between producers and consumers has fallen. What does this mean for society and culture and how should businesses respond to the challenges and opportunities posed by their most loyal consumers? |
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Courage Of Innocence $15.67 Courage of Innocence is a non-fictional account of author Ann Federici-Martin’s saga of growing up the daughter of Italian immigrants Narciso Federici and Divina Mazzoni. Her father gathered the strength to leave his family, friends, and impoverished life behind in the hills of northern Italy to follow his dream to L’America where, it was said, “gold grew on trees like apples.” But, to get there, Narciso’s journey first leads him to Egypt where he worked as a stone mason on the first Aswan Dam to earn his passage across the Atlantic Ocean. His story, and soon thereafter his wife Divina’s, pass through the halls of Ellis Island and from there to the frontier of northern New Mexico; land of cowboys, coal miners, cactus, and open range. Ann’s memoirs read like a western novel, set against a backdrop of empty spaces the size of which the immigrants could hardly comprehend. But the family settles into their new, rugged and unpredictable life, and indeed prospers. There were no golden apples, but there were towns and villages of coal miners and cattlemen who needed groceries, homemade “Dago Red” wine, and amusements to offer distraction from their hard lives. The Federici family provided them all. Narciso even built a two-story stone opera house in the village of Cimarron, assuming that these culture-starved Americans would jump at the chance to attend a good Italian opera if it was put before them. |
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Courage Of Innocence $26.07 Courage of Innocence is a non-fictional account of author Ann Federici-Martin’s saga of growing up the daughter of Italian immigrants Narciso Federici and Divina Mazzoni. Her father gathered the strength to leave his family, friends, and impoverished life behind in the hills of northern Italy to follow his dream to L’America where, it was said, “gold grew on trees like apples.” But, to get there, Narciso’s journey first leads him to Egypt where he worked as a stone mason on the first Aswan Dam to earn his passage across the Atlantic Ocean. His story, and soon thereafter his wife Divina’s, pass through the halls of Ellis Island and from there to the frontier of northern New Mexico; land of cowboys, coal miners, cactus, and open range. Ann’s memoirs read like a western novel, set against a backdrop of empty spaces the size of which the immigrants could hardly comprehend. But the family settles into their new, rugged and unpredictable life, and indeed prospers. There were no golden apples, but there were towns and villages of coal miners and cattlemen who needed groceries, homemade “Dago Red” wine, and amusements to offer distraction from their hard lives. The Federici family provided them all. Narciso even built a two-story stone opera house in the village of Cimarron, assuming that these culture-starved Americans would jump at the chance to attend a good Italian opera if it was put before them. |
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Create a competitive advantage by investing in culture $62.33 In a hypercompetitive market the brand, the intangible values associated to it and innovation are the only sustainable competitive advantages. All of them can be fostered by investing in culture. This book shows how companies can intervene in the cultural sector – e.g. sponsorship, patronage – and focuses on the phenomenon of company foundations and company museums used as: a promotional and a communication tool; a training course for employees on the company history; a creative source for product innovation. In order to compare company museums with the more traditional permanent structure of company foundations, the analysis has been conducted on four French and Italian structures: the Cartier Contemporary Art Foundation, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, the Peugeot Adventure Museum and the Alfa Romeo Museum. The results should be especially useful to the professionals of the strategy, marketing and communication sectors or to anyone else interested in discovering the multiple hidden connections between business and culture. |
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Crucible For Silver And Furnace For Gold $6.78 Giorgio thought that a sojourn to Kenya’s coast was the perfect way to kick back and relax, luxuriate in the sun, scuba-dive, take big-game fishing trips or a dhow cruise, but it turns out to be a break filled with mixed fortunes. On the other hand, Lavina’s sabbatical for soul-searching in Malindi turns out to be a Herculean task of grappling with a moral dilemma of epic proportions. When their paths cross and their lives become intertwined, their emotionally charged struggle to connect with each other is challenging and turbulent. This story deals with various socio-economic issues ranging from the institution of marriage and multi-racial relationships, to amazing Kenyan art & culture, to historical land injustices brought about by the pre-nineteenth century, 99 year old colonial crown land leases, absentee landlords, and the long overdue land reform agenda on land tenures, the cause of many a conflict in the country. The first scene opens on the Kenyan coast with captivating miles of pristine sandy white beaches, lapped by clear turquoise waters, providing the backdrop for your typical tropical beach holiday, but gets marred with a near-tragedy. Here is a compelling and descriptive narrative that will pull at your heartstrings, but one that offers a message of hope to a moral dilemma that has bedeviled the world. Here is what others say about this work:From an an author clearly proud of her heritage and the beauty of her country comes a romantic tale set in Kenya. Featuring a jaw-achingly handsome Italian man and a beautiful, talented, but troubled local girl, the romance unfolds in a light teasing manner until the twist in the tale turns out to be a moral dilemma that would test the strength of any relationship. – Muthoni Garland – Kenyan writer nominated and short-listed for Caine Prize 2006, winner of Absinthe Literary Review 2003, and Founder of Story Moja, a new publishing initiative in Kenya Moraa |
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Cuisine Of Philadelphia $54.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The cuisine of Philadelphia was shaped largely by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s mixture of ethnicities, available foodstuffs and history. Certain foods have become iconic to the city. Invented in Philadelphia in the 1930s, the cheesesteak is a well known icon of the city, and soft pretzels have become a part of Philadelphia culture. During the 18th century city taverns were major meeting places for politicians and businessmen while the 19th century saw the creation of two Philadelphia landmarks, the Reading Terminal Market and Italian Market. After a dismal restaurant scene during the 20th century, the 1970s saw a restaurant renaissance that has continued into the 21st century. |
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Culture In London $29.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Turner Prize, List of Songs About London, List of Turner Prize Winners and Nominees, Scouting in Greater London, East End of London in Popular Culture, Ethnic Groups in London, Highgate Vampire, Southbank Centre, St. Martin’s Lane Academy, Hard Rock Calling, Etymology of London, Paul’s Walk, Indian Community of London, Culture of London, Bow Porcelain Factory, Ceremony of the Keys, Swinging London, Swearing on the Horns, Ufo Club, Coat of Arms of London County Council, Notes From New York, Arthrob, Chelsea Porcelain Factory, London Slang, Da! Collective, Matt’s Gallery, Rhymers’ Club, Pearly Kings and Queens, Penny University, Londoner, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Bp Portrait Award, Bandstand Busking, Yobbo, London International Documentary Festival, Disappearing London, Songs in the Dark, Outside the Box Comedy Club, Michael Lynch, Ngati Ranana, List of Concerts in Hyde Park, Fuselit, Italian Cultural Institute, London, Institute for Research in Art and Technology, Streets of London, Chelsea Collection. Excerpt: Arthrob were an underground arts collective in London during the mid-late 1990s. They organised cultural events such as book readings and theatre in nightclubs, aiming to bring together club culture and the arts.Founding Arthrob was founded by Chilean brothers Ernesto Leal and Juan Leal . The Leals had been born in Chile but their trade unionist family were forced to flee the Pinochet regime and they eventually found a new home in Scotland thanks to the National Union of Mineworkers . During the 1980s the brothers ran clubs in their adopted home town of Edinburgh and later in London. They were responsible for many acid house parties including the Zoom Records party in Clerkenwell, London.Arthrob began life in 1995 as a vehicle to organise events |
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Culture Of Switzerland $35.92 Strong regionalism in Switzerland makes it difficult to speak of a homogeneous Swiss culture. The influence of German, French and Italian culture on their neighbouring parts cannot be denied. The Rhaeto-Romanic culture in the eastern mountains of Switzerland is robust. |