Download or read book Amori distanti Amori d istanti Di Valentina Pagliaro written by Valentina Pagliaro and published by Valitutti Davide. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia è una giovane scrittrice, impegnata da ormai quattro anni con Paolo. La loro è la storia d'amore perfetta: si amano alla follia, si capiscono con uno sguardo. Si incastrano alla perfezione, come i pezzi di un puzzle. La quotidianità, però, uccide la creatività e la fantasia della ragazza che, dopo aver scoperto l'enorme segreto del suo ragazzo parte per Casoria, alla ricerca dell'affetto di uno sconosciuto. I due passano insieme diversi giorni e si innamorano. La ragazza è confusa. Da una parte ha Paolo: protezione, benessere, il ragazzo della porta accanto. Dall'altro ha Vincenzo: amore, passione. Ma anche distanza, assenza di una quotidianità. Riuscirà Gaia a perdonare il suo ragazzo, oppure resterà con lo sconosciuto che è riuscito a risvegliare il suo cuore?

Download or read book Blaire written by Anita Gray and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please Note: This is the original BLAIRE cover. Only available in paperback. For readers who love the darkness of FSOG, This Man, Twist Me, Captive in the Dark & Red Sparrow. Now a Top 100 Amazon Bestselling eBook Bought. Conditioned. Sold to the enemy. My name is Blaire. I'm head of security to a man who controls the Russian underworld in Europe. His name is Maksim and he's my master. He bought me ten years ago and conditioned me with brutality to worship and protect him. And I have protected him. I've slain everyone who has tried to do him harm. Everyone but a man he loans me to; a man who threatens to break me and everything I believe in. You're going to need a strong stomach and a strong heart to follow my story, because take my word for it, it's no fairy tale. "Loved this book! Interesting characters, nonstandard plot, and lots of action! You can feel the connection developing between Charlie and Blaire over time. New York Times Bestselling Author, Anna Zaires ..".a complex story that delved into the darkness, while pushing hard towards the light." Trish, Unbound Book Reviews "Screen worthy 5 star read." BestSellers and BestStellars Book Blog

Download or read book New Moon written by Stephenie Meyer and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From evil vampires to a mysterious pack of wolves, new threats of danger and vengeance test Bella and Edward's romance in the second book of the irresistible Twilight saga. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning. Bella and Edward face a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times

Download or read book The Imagined Immigrant written by Ilaria Serra and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.

Download or read book Il Guerriero del Cuore written by David De Angelis and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il Guerriero del Cuore è un manuale di ispirazione alla Vita. Vengono descritte le qualità ed i sentimenti che accompagnano l’esistenza di colui che si sente un guerriero di fronte alla vita. Un guerriero, la cui unica legge è dettata dal suo cuore e dalle sue emozioni. Attraverso le sue pagine, imbevute di una straordinaria forza e a tratti poesia, il lettore viene invitato ad abbracciare se stesso e i suoi sogni attraverso l’incertezza e le sfide della vita, ispirandolo ad assaporarla fino in fondo ed a raggiungere il suo massimo potenziale. Ogni frase vuole ispirare e spingere il lettore a riconoscere ciò che di vero e di profondo c’è dentro se stesso, spingendolo alla conquista di ciò che veramente conta per lui. Fede, Amore, Talento e Immaginazione sono solo alcuni dei passi su cui deve passare colui che vuole diventare l’autore dell’avventura della sua vita. Attraverso ogni parola, il lettore diventerà un guerriero consapevole, volto alla realizzazione della propria visione ed il compimento del suo destino. Diventerà l’artefice consapevole della propria Vita.

Download or read book The Work of Art written by Gérard Genette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What art is--its very nature--is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence--its physical presence--and transcendence--the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.

Download or read book Libera di sognare Free to dream written by Stefania Marchisone and published by Aletti Editore. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All'età di 12 anni decisi di abbandonare l'istinto per intraprendere una razionalità esasperata, ero stufa di stare nel mio mondo perché lì mi sentivo inadeguata e fuori posto, volevo piacere agli altri ed essere accettata. Ho indossato così tante maschere nel tempo da dimenticarmi chi ero e anche chi sono. La mia vera natura! In questo estenuante tentativo di non mostrare debolezze, di lottare e combattere sempre, mi sono persa lungo un terreno disseminato di trappole e ho smesso di scrivere. Dopo anni passati ad inaridire sempre di più la mia interiorità, l'anima ha iniziato a gridare il suo dolore riversando disagi anche sul fisico e sono stata costretta a fermarmi e ad ascoltarla ripercorrendo passo dopo passo la via di casa. Ritornando in quei campi dove scrivevo da bambina con, sullo sfondo, la montagna (il Monviso) dove tutto ebbe inizio. È incredibile come i condizionamenti esterni possano cambiare una vita, distorcerla, reprimerla. L'anima reclamava il suo paradiso perduto, era dunque giunto il momento di tornare da quella bambina che nessuno comprendeva per iniziare ad ascoltarla, abbracciarla e aiutarla ad avere il coraggio di scrivere liberamente senza più paure ne giudizi. Ognuno di noi ha già dentro di sé la cura ai suoi disagi e, se concede spazio e visibilità al bambino interiore, di sicuro lui gli mostrerà la via. Questo libro mi ha obbligata a rimettere in discussione la mia vita, ad uscire dalla zona di confort che mi faceva sentire al sicuro, a mettermi a nudo spogliandomi del superfluo e ad abbracciare la me bambina per un nuovo inizio più in linea col mio sentire.

Download or read book A Scientific Autobiography written by Aldo Rossi and published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postscript by Vincent Scully Based on notebooks composed since 1971, Aldo Rossi's memoir intermingles his architectural projects, including discussion of the major literary and artistic influences on his work, with his personal history. His ruminations range from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual. The illustrations-photographs, evocative images, as well as a set of drawings of Rossi's major architectural projects prepared particularly for this publicationwere personally selected by the author to augment the text.

Download or read book I Saw the Muses written by Leonardo Sinisgalli and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908--1981) was born in Lucania, Italy, and was a painter as well as a major poet. His images and metaphors arise from nature. His muses perch on an ancient oak, eating, not ambrosia, but acorns and berries. The dominant landscapes of his poetry are intimate, a world of affections, places and people, that transcend time and the particulars of culture and locality. His language is plain and sensuous; his voice, gentle. In his poetry are the wonder of a child and the ironies of a twentieth century man.

Download or read book Imperial City written by Susan Vandiver Nicassio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1971-12-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book Funcooldesign written by Joe Velluto and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, design is no longer the harmony of all funstions; it's a fashion phenomenon set amid sales promotions, marketing and futility Oliviero Tosacni, exhibition curator Formed in 2004, JoeVelluto (JVLT) is one of Italy s most renowned design

Download or read book Behind the Door written by Giorgio Bassani and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Bassani's moving novel of childhood friendship and the unexpected loss of innocence The years lived since then have not, in the end, been of any use: I haven't managed to remedy the suffering which has remained there like a hidden wound, secretly bleeding. In the fourth book of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle, Bassani paints a moving portrait of a 1930s childhood in which even the familiar classroom and playground dramas begin to reflect the sinister forces at work in fascist Italy. This powerful tale of friendship and rivalry in the face of the ever encroaching spectre of adulthood adds yet another intricate thread to Bassani's rich tapestry of his native city, Ferrara. 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian 'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith

Download or read book The Bilingual Text written by Jan Walsh Hokenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual texts have been left outside the mainstream of both translation theory and literary history. Yet the tradition of the bilingual writer, moving between different sign systems and audiences to create a text in two languages, is a rich and venerable one, going back at least to the Middle Ages. The self-translated, bilingual text was commonplace in the mutlilingual world of medieval and early modern Europe, frequently bridging Latin and the vernaculars. While self-translation persisted among cultured elites, it diminished during the consolidation of the nation-states, in the long era of nationalistic monolingualism, only to resurge in the postcolonial era. The Bilingual Text makes a first step toward providing the fields of translation studies and comparative literature with a comprehensive account of literary self-translation in the West. It tracks the shifting paradigms of bilinguality across the centuries and addresses the urgent questions that the bilingual text raises for translation theorists today: Is each part of the bilingual text a separate, original creation or is each incomplete without the other? Is self-translation a unique genre? Can either version be split off into a single language or literary tradition? How can two linguistic versions of a text be fitted into standard models of foreign and domestic texts and cultures? Because such texts defeat standard categories of analysis, The Bilingual Text reverses the usual critical gaze, highlighting not dissimilarities but continuities across versions, allowing for dissimilarities within orders of correspondence, and englobing the literary as well as linguistic and cultural dimensions of the text. Emphasizing the arcs of historical change in concepts of language and translation that inform each case study, The Bilingual Text examines the perdurance of this phenomenon in Western societies and literatures.

Download or read book The Complete Danteworlds written by Guy P. Raffa and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa’s guide to the Inferno, students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dante’s underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readers—experts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in between—with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise. Based on Raffa’s original research and his many years of teaching the poem to undergraduates, The CompleteDanteworlds charts a simultaneously geographical and textual journey, canto by canto, region by region, adhering closely to the path taken by Dante himself through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This invaluable reference also features study questions, illustrations of the realms, and regional summaries. Interpreting Dante’s poem and his sources, Raffa fashions detailed entries on each character encountered as well as on many significant historical, religious, and cultural allusions.

Download or read book An Unsettling God written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality experienced through relationship. This book, drawn from the heart of foremost Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann's Theology of the Old Testament, distills a career's worth of insights into the core message of the Hebrew Bible. God is described there, Brueggemann observes, as engaging four "partners" in the divine purpose. This volume presents Brueggeman at his most engaging, offering profound insights tailored especially for the beginning student of the Hebrew Bible.

Download or read book On Famous Women written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first collection of biographies exclusively of women, both mythological and historical, was written by Giovanni Boccaccio, author to the "Decameron," between 1361 and 1362. It includes 106 biographies ranging from Eve to Boccaccio's contemporary, Queen Giovanna I of Naples"--Provided by publisher.