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The contributors ask the following questions:
• What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?
• How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons?
• What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology?
• What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting...
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The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore...
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When learning the Italian language, it is quite beneficial to have a study for conversation and the italian verb forms. Italian verbs are not like English verbs as there are many different forms for each pronoun, as well as for present tense, past tense, future tense, as well as several conditional tenses. Having a study guide with a table format especially helps student memorize these many different verb tenses easier than not having an Italian conversation...
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This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 “The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature”. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian...
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These recipes are very simple with combinations that have proven the test of time. Often people say the simple things in life are always the best, which is so very true. This is a fine example of that. However, because these recipes are so simple and easy, the focus, awareness and connection when creating the dish is not as profound. Therefore, the flavour of the combination is not to its maximum intensity. So to maximise the intensity of each of...
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Italian food is the ultimate comforting homemade cuisine. Full of rich, robust flavors, enticing aromas, and exuberant colors, Italian cuisine is a celebration of love for both food and family. With The Italian Cookbook for Beginners, you won't need to travel far and wide to enjoy the authentic flavors of Italy. Offering over 100 classic recipes, The Italian Cookbook for Beginners will show you how to cook like an Italian mama, using affordable everyday...
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Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life- including in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere.
The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century...
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Designed as a quick reference tool and an easy aid to study, this volume features 770 basic phrases that cover most everyday situations. Subjects include travel and transportation; shopping and stores; food; medical and emergency situations; entertainment; and postal, banking, and other services. Includes a phonetic pronunciation guide and an index.
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Italian Style Vegetable Dishes contains a collection of the best vegetarian recipes taken from various Italian cookbooks and articles. Complete with helpful tips and precise cooking instructions, these recipes are sure to impress dinner guests of all culinary inclinations.
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Is God really in charge? Where is he when everything goes wrong?
The Life of Joseph is an easy-to-use, beautifully illustrated guide through God's purposes in suffering. Joseph's life shows how God can take misfortune and evil and turn it into great good. Joseph was betrayed and forgotten by the people closest to him and had every reason to grow bitter, yet he continued to obey God. And God was working behind the scenes to change Joseph and his family.
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12) Dante and Islam
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Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a "night journey" taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising...
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Explore the rich tradition of Italian cooking with this complete guide featuring tips, techniques, and 101 recipes for pastas, risottos, seafood, and more.
Italian Cooking 101 features delicious, diverse, and accessible recipes, all of which have been thoroughly kitchen tested. It is both a cookbook and a comprehensive reference guide covering everything you need to know about homestyle Italian cuisine, from the various culinary regions to grocery...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Leopard with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, the story of a failing aristocratic family in Sicily following the start of the unification of Italy, as they come to terms with changes in their social circles, relationships and the political landscape, as well as their own loss of power and relevance....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Leopard with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, which tells the story of the Salina family and their changing place in Sicilian society. The novel presents a sharply critical view of 19th century Sicilian society and, with the help of historical events and figures, charts the fall of the aristocracy...
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Cristina Mazzoni is the Wolfgang and Barbara Mieder Green and Gold Professor of Romance Languages and Cultures at the University of Vermont. Her many books include Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy and She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon. She lives in Burlington, Vermont. Instagram @artsbymcm
A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most in English for the first time
The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy...
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The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
- Rome doesn't judge you by Nicola Lagioia
- The soul of the city by Matteo Nucci
- 39 memos for a book about Rome by Francesco Piccolo
- Plus: a guide to the sounds of Rome by Letizia Muratori, the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs, the influence of the Vatican, the excessive power of real estate speculators and the rule...
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