Giorgios Village

Author : Tomie DePaola
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780399208546
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giorgio's Village written by Tomie DePaola and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio and his cat Puffino enjoy a day's activities in their village in Italy at the time of the Renaissance. Includes six village scenes with moving parts.

Author : Rudolph M. Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351520148
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate, Honor, Family and Village written by Rudolph M. Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against this characterization by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800. He analyzes births, marriages, and deaths in terms of four concepts that capture more accurately and sympathetically the essence of the Italian peasant's life: Fortuna (fate), onore (honor, dignity), famiglia (family), and campanilismo (village).Fortuna is the cultural wellspring of Italian peasant society, the worldview from which all social life flows. The concept of Fortuna does not refer to philosophical questions, predestination, or value judgments. Rather, Fortuna is the sum total of all explanations of outcomes perceived to be beyond human control. Thus, in Bell's view, high mortality does not lead peasants to a resigned acceptance of their fate; instead, they rely on honor, reciprocal exchanges of favors, and marriage to forge new links in their familial and social networks. With thorough documentation in graphs and tables, the author evaluates peasant reactions to time, work, family, space, migration, and protest to portray rural Italians as active, flexible, and shrewd, participating fully in shaping their destinies.Bell asserts that the real problem of the Mezzogiorno is not one of resistance to technology, of high birth rates, or even of illiteracy. It is one of solving technical questions in ways that foster dependency. The historical and sociological practice of treating peasant culture as backward, secondary, and circumscribed only encourages disruption and ultimately blocks the road to economic and political justice in a post-modern world.

Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718282
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ionian Islands written by John Freely and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend has it that the Ionian Islands were created as Zeus' beautiful lover, Io, raced through the Ionian Sea escaping Hera's wrath. Rising from the waters between Greece and Italy, the Ionians - peaks of an underwater mountain range - are quite unlike any of the other Greek islands and are some of the most culturally, historically and mythologically rich in all Greece. Consisting of Corfu, Paxos, Ithaka, Lefkas, Cephalonia, Zakynthos (Zante) and Kythera, they have been inhabited since Paleolithic times and have a colourful and often turbulent past. Variously invaded and occupied by the Goths, Arabs, Normans, Venetians, British, Germans and most recently by tourism, they have always absorbed and assimilated other cultures whilst still retaining their unique character and identity. The Ionians have been made famous in literature from Homer and Aeschylus to Gerald Durrell and Louis de Bernières and numerous myths are associated with them: Corfu is linked to the voyage of Jason's Argonauts, Aphrodite was born on Kythera, Paxos and Corfu were once joined until Poseidon threw his trident and separated them and Odysseus' home was on Ithaka. John Freely, who has visited and travelled throughout the islands over the course of 40 years, here illuminates the history, culture and present day of all seven islands, providing the most readable and comprehensive guide to the magnificent Ionians.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-10-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Lucia Ronchi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Author : Annabelle Thorpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803289147
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Village Trattoria written by Annabelle Thorpe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE ENEMY OF LOVE ** Italy 1943 The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria. Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena one day. But instead it is charismatic, unpredictable Giorgio Capaldi who has inherited it and now arrives from Rome to run it. While Sophia and Giorgio clash, the town falls under Nazi occupation. And when no one knows who to trust, it is Casa Maria that becomes the centre for secrets, dangerous passions and ultimately betrayal. 'A wonderful, joyous book, which really spoke to me about the indomitability of the human spirit.' Elizabeth Enfield Praise for Annabelle Thorpe: 'Unputdownable!' Claire Dyer, author of The Last Day 'A pacy, engaging tale of human weakness and of passion so overwhelming it can make fools of us all' Daily Express

Author : Sir William Gell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Itinerary of Greece written by Sir William Gell and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Gell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Itinerary of Greece written by William Gell and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: