Download or read book How Santa Really Works written by Alan Snow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Claus has a complicated and sophisticated Christmas operation, which includes the training of and numerous jobs for his elves to the celebrations at his own Christmas Day party.
Download or read book The World Encyclopedia of Christmas written by Gerry Bowler and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a truly comprehensive look at Christmas and all of its customs with its long history around the world. The World Encyclopedia of Christmas contains articles on the history of Christmas baking, drinking, and merrymaking, and Christmas dramas, music, literature, art, and films. It includes entries on the evolution of the Christmas tree and the Christmas card, gift-giving, and decoration of church and home. There are profiles of the many gift-bringers, from Santa Claus to Babouschka, and miraculous tales of the numerous saints associated with the season. And there are histories of seasonal celebrations and folk customs around the world, from the United States to Japan, from Egypt to Iceland. Who, for example, knew the links between the Punch and Judy show and Christmas? That the medieval Paradise tree hung with tempting apples was the forerunner of the Christmas tree? About the Peerie Guizers, who terrorized the Shetland Islands, going door-to-door for Christmas charity? Or what Freudians make of our interest in Christmas stockings and Santa’s entrance through the chimney? There are detailed accounts of Wren Boys and Star Boys, mumming and wassailing, the Feast of Fools and the origins of eggnog. And of course stories of the Nativity and legends of the Magi. With beautifully illustrated accounts ranging from the pagan roots of Yuletide, through the birth of Christ, and the long and fascinating history of the festival ever since, The World Encyclopedia of Christmas, is a rich and continually surprising array of religious and secular history, trivia, literature, and art. This wonderful book deserves to find a home with every family that celebrates Christmas.
Download or read book Cantico di Natale written by Charles Dickens and published by BiBook. This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si tratta di un'edizione bilingue dell'affascinante racconto di Charles Dickens, da gustare nella sua versione originale e senza bisogno di dizionari. - Grazie alla tecnologia BiBook puoi leggere comodamente in francese, consultando la versione tradotta in italiano ogni volta che ne hai bisogno. - Dimentica il dizionario. Una traduzione paragrafo per paragrafo è disponibile facendo clic su un collegamento sulla prima lettera di ogni paragrafo. - Impara il francese mentre ti diverti a leggere. La maggior parte degli esperti concorda sul fatto che il modo migliore per imparare una lingua sia leggere. - Goditi questo libro da un ereader o anche sul tuo cellulare o tablet e i tuoi viaggi in metropolitana non saranno mai più noiosi. Parole chiave: libro, ebook, bilingue, doppia, versione originale, traduzione, lingua, lingua, elearning, educazione, apprendimento, pratica, lettura, immersione.
Download or read book Simplification Explicitation and Normalization written by Margherita Ippolito and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for general laws and regularities in Translation Studies gained new momentum in the 1990s when Baker (1993) promoted the use of large electronic corpora as research tools for exploring the linguistic features that render the language of translation different from the language of non-translated texts. By comparing a corpus of translated and non-translated English texts, Baker and her research team put forward the hypothesis that translated texts are characterized by some “universal features”, namely simplification, explicitation, normalization and levelling-out. The purpose of this study is to test whether simplification, explicitation and normalization apply to Italian translations of children’s books. In order to achieve this aim, a comparable corpus of translated and non-translated works of classic fiction for children has been collected and analysed using Corpus Linguistics tools and methodologies. The results show that, in the translational subcorpus, simplification, explicitation and normalization processes do not prevail over the non-translational one. Therefore, it is suggested that the status of translated children’s literature in the Italian literary “polysystem” (Even-Zohar, 1979, 1990) and, from a general viewpoint, all the cultural, historical and social conditions that influence translators’ activities, determine translation choices that can also tend towards processes different from those proposed by Baker.
Download or read book Christmas written by Bruce David Forbes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas—from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOW For three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?
Download or read book Le tre conversioni dell Inghilterra dal paganesimo alla religione cristiana written by Robert Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Ramon Llull and Llullism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism offers a comprehensive survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) and of its influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe, as well as in the Spanish colonies of the New World. Llull’s unique system of philosophy and theology, the “Great Universal Art,” was widely studied and admired from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. His evangelizing ideals and methods inspired centuries of Christian missionaries. His many writings in Catalan, his native vernacular, remain major monuments in the literary history of Catalonia. Contributors are: Roberta Albrecht, José Aragüés Aldaz, Linda Báez Rubí, Josep Batalla, Pamela Beattie, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio, and Gregory B. Stone.
Download or read book Un Anno di Luce written by Max Rosso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco è un uomo che va verso la mezza età e la sua vita scorre grigia nella routine di tutti i giorni; ha un matrimonio fallito alle spalle e un figlio adolescente. Un giorno, per caso, incontra Luce, una splendida donna, anch'essa divorziata e con una figlia, e la sua vita si accende di colori brillanti. Riscopre il gusto di vivere e, finalmente, riesce ad amare incondizionatamente: è un uomo felice. Comincia così una storia che lo fa tornare indietro nel tempo, alla sua giovinezza, colma di speranza e aspettative, ma inizia anche una battaglia per conquistare e consolidare la relazione con Luce. Non sarà facile gestire la distanza, il lavoro e i figli ma in palio c'è il compimento del suo grande sogno: costruire un legame che duri nel tempo e avere finalmente una famiglia vera. Le cose sembrano funzionare, la loro relazione è piena della serenità e della gioia che derivano dallo stare bene insieme e, a poco a poco, Marco si convince di avere veramente la possibilità di realizzare la sua vita.
Download or read book Italian Quarterly written by Carlo Luigi Golino and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing and Translating for Children written by Elena Di Giovanni and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features a variety of essays on writing for children, ranging from studies of classic authors to an analysis of the role of pictures in children's books, to an examination of comics and theatre for the young.
Download or read book IL GRANDE NIDO che ha dato ORIGINE al BIG BANG DEI BUCHI NERI DI STEPHEN HAWKING written by William Moreira and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Hawking avrebbe dovuto passare più tempo ad aiutare la scienza medica a risolvere i problemi, compreso il suo, anziché cercare buchi neri nelle profondità della sua “mente brillante”, criticando aspramente quella che lo ha creato. Il dramma che lo ha reso disabile avrebbe potuto spingerlo a usare la sua “mente brillante” per aiutare gli altri sulla terra, invece di cercare buchi neri e inseguire l’infinitesimo, lasciando che se ne occupino quelli che non sono in condizioni fisiche come la sua. Avrebbe potuto divertirsi con un telescopio a casa sua, come facevo io quando abitavo a Miami, North Miami Beach, e poi a Oakland Park, mentre lo scorrere del tempo scandiva la mia vita. A quanto ne so, l’orgoglio di essere l’uomo dei buchi neri non lo sta aiutando, perché avrebbe dovuto spiegarci come difenderci da questi mostri anti Dio. Se uno di loro va fuori orbita e ci viene addosso, lui e la sua famiglia diventano cibo per buchi neri, poiché non hanno un Dio che li difende. Questi divoratori della galassia terrorizzano angeli e demoni, e turbano i sogni dei bambini.
Download or read book Father Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Il Carroccio written by Agostino De Biasi and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Or Deception written by Felix Siddell and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the key works of Buzzati and Morante, Siddell looks at two coexisting and conflicting approaches: one which defined place as an outcome of individual perception, and another in which place is understood as an arrangement of locations separate from the individual. The progression of Buzzati's texts from plausible indications of location to perception-bound space is examined, as is Morante's use of enclosed spaces as the basis of a conceptualisation of elsewhere, paying attention to the contrast and interaction between opposing constructs of place.
Download or read book Read and Think Italian written by The Editors of Think Italian! Magazine and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Italian as you read and hear about the vibrant culture of its speakers Read & Think Italian is an innovative, non-intimidating approach to learning Italian. Compiled by the expert editors of Think Italian! magazine, this audio package brings together more than 100 engaging, fully illustrated readings and articles about the life and culture of Italy. The 70-minute audio CD features many of the articles read aloud by native speakers, as well as questions for review and reinforcement of new vocabulary.
Download or read book Dino Buzzati and Anglo American Culture written by Valentina Polcini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the relationship between Dino Buzzati’s fiction and Anglo-American culture by focusing on his re-use of visual texts (Arthur Rackham’s illustrations), narrative sources (Joseph Conrad’s novels), and topoi belonging to such genres as the seafaring tale, the ghost story and the Christmas story. Tracing Buzzati’s recurring theme of the loss of imagination, Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture shows that, far from being a mere imitator, he carries on an original and conscious reworking of pre-existing literary motifs. Especially through the adoption of intertextual strategies, Buzzati laments the lack of an imaginative urge in contemporary society and attempts a recovery of the fantastic imagery of his models. Alongside a reconsideration of Buzzati’s intertextuality, this book offers new insights into Buzzati’s fantastic fiction, by highlighting its playful and ironic component as opposed to the more overtly pervading sense of gloominess and nostalgia. Furthermore, while filling a gap in the critical study of Buzzati in the English-speaking world, the book contributes towards a general reassessment of an author who, although regarded as minor for many years, can rightly be ranked among the masters of twentieth-century fantastic literature.
Download or read book Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
