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Book The Treasures and Pleasures of Italy

Download or read book The Treasures and Pleasures of Italy written by Ronald L. Krannich and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seductive place of great beauty, intriguing history, and interesting people, Italy attracts30 million visitors each year. Most head for the four major cities: Milan, Florence, Venice and Rome. Here's the book that intorudces the best of the best in travel treasures and pleasures in these four appealing places. Explore the fabulous shops, visit many historical and cultural treasures, and dine in some of the best restaurants. Use this book once and you'll what to come back again and again to further explore Italy's many exciting treasures and pleasures.

Book For the Love of Italy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marella Caracciolo Chia
  • Publisher : Three Rivers Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0307452484
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book For the Love of Italy written by Marella Caracciolo Chia and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From grand views and romantic hillside villas to sprawling gardens and alfresco dinners, Italy offers its most authentic self through its landscape and its food. For the Love of Italy celebrates Italy's countryside and the farm-to-table movement with vivid profiles and luscious photography of twenty-two spectacular agriturismi, or hospitable farming estates. Each is inextricably connected to the Italian agricultural tradition and to the most simple of daily routines and pleasures. All will delight visitors with lovely accommodations and unforgettable graciousness. Marella Caracciolo, who has written extensively about travel in Italy from both sides of the Atlantic, and renowned photographer Oberto Gili present a sensual journey in this evocative collection of diverse landscapes, unmatched architecture, and local gastronomic traditions. One can stay at a Renaissance villa estate with breathtaking views, where biodynamic wine is produced, or at a unique luxury hotel in the prehistoric dwellings of Basilicata, where visitors sleep, bathe, and eat by candlelight. Families visiting Villa la Foce and the nearby thirteenth-century farmhouse in southern Tuscany, will discover exquisite gardens, a swimming pool, a tree house--and meals inspired by the bounty of the enormous vegetable garden and orchards. Caracciolo describes in transporting prose the colorful history and seasonal rhythms of these and nineteen other estates. And in Gili's photography the interiors, architecture, and gardens unfold with charm and grace. Whether one wants to learn traditional pasta making, sip Brunello right where it's made, or wander an ancient orangerie and then take a nap, these delightful farms promise unique and spectacular trips--or the fantasy of one. With a resource section that will be indispensable for anyone planning a trip to an agriturismo, For the Love of Italy is a portrait of an irresistible country and an enviable way of life.

Book Saving Italy  The Race to Rescue a Nation s Treasures from the Nazis

Download or read book Saving Italy The Race to Rescue a Nation s Treasures from the Nazis written by Robert M. Edsel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.

Book Italian Pleasures

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  • Author : David Leavitt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Italian Pleasures written by David Leavitt and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pleasures of the Italian Table

Download or read book Pleasures of the Italian Table written by Burton Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italy for the Gourmet Traveler

Download or read book Italy for the Gourmet Traveler written by Fred Plotkin and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most complete gastronomic guide to Italy ever published, Fred Plotkin takes you beyond the traditional tourist experience, revealing the true richness of this nation's extraordinary cuisine and the lifestyle that surrounds it. From country markets and wineries to city restaurants and cooking schools, you will discover Italian culinary treasures and pleasures that no other book offers.

Book The Palace of Pleasure

Download or read book The Palace of Pleasure written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interview for Success

Download or read book Interview for Success written by Caryl Rae Krannich and published by Win the Interview Win the Job. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this bestseller is designed to quickly prepare interviewees for handling the most important steps in the interview process. Jam-packed with sound advice on how to best prepare for different types of interviews, network for information and advice, handle stress, observe etiquette, formulate key questions, rehearse the tough questions, and much more.

Book Italy for the Gourmet Traveler

Download or read book Italy for the Gourmet Traveler written by Fred Plotkin and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most complete gastronomic guide to Italy ever published, Fred Plotkin takes you beyond the traditional tourist experience, revealing the true richness of this nation's extraordinary cuisine and the lifestyle that surrounds it. From country markets and wineries to city restaurants and cooking schools, you will discover Italian culinary treasures and pleasures that no other book offers.

Book Give Me More Money

Download or read book Give Me More Money written by Ron Krannich and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides salary negotiation advice for individuals who applying for a job or are seeking a raise or promotion, discussing how to figure out one's value and negotiating power, evaluate an offer, and more, and includes a directory of national salary averages.

Book Italian Pleasure Gardens

Download or read book Italian Pleasure Gardens written by Rose Standish Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italian Renaissance Courts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Cole
  • Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
  • Release : 2016-02-02
  • ISBN : 9781780677408
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Italian Renaissance Courts written by Alison Cole and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. The princes who ruled these city-states, vying with each other and with the great European courts, relied on artistic patronage to promote their legitimacy and authority. Major artists and architects, from Mantegna and Pisanello to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci, were commissioned to design, paint, and sculpt, but also to oversee the court's building projects and entertainments. The courtly styles that emerged from this intricate landscape are examined in detail, as are the complex motivations of ruling lords, consorts, nobles, and their artists. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, Cole presents a vivid picture of the art of this extraordinary period.

Book The Pleasures of the Imagination

Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by John Brewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.

Book No One Will Hire Me

Download or read book No One Will Hire Me written by Ronald L. Krannich and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no secret -- finding a job is often tough and frustrating work. Indeed, after a few weeks of responding to classified ads, surfing the Internet, and applying for jobs, many job seekers experience numerous rejections and thus conclude "No one will hire me!" Worst of all, they begin to lose their most important assets -- their self-esteem, motivation, and enthusiasm -- while continuing a seemingly fruitless job search. More often than not the problem of finding a job lies close at hand. Not surprisingly, the frustrated job seeker is often his or her own worst enemy. Outlining 15 key mistakes most job seekers frequently make, two of America's leading career experts provide a wealth of information and advice on how to quickly transform an ineffective job search into one that results in job interviews and offers. Each chapter identifies a major mistake and then offers analyses, self-tests, exercises, and resources for avoiding the error. In today's highly competitive job market where employers are demanding greater evidence of performance based on past patterns of accomplishments, No One Will Hire Me! offers a refreshing new look at a variety of issues affecting millions of job seekers each year. Insightful, practical, and jam-packed with user-friendly resources, the book shows how to organize an effective job search that out-shines the competition. Best of all, the book dares to address one of today's most important issues -- why and how individuals must change career-limiting habits that work against their best interests. This book is a unique roadmap for anyone wanting to plan and implement an effective job search in what might otherwise turn out to be a sea of rejections. Book jacket.

Book Nail the Resume

Download or read book Nail the Resume written by Ron Krannich and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps users transform ordinary resumes into outstanding resumes that immediately grab the attention of employers. Going beyond the rules of good resume writing, this book focuses on what employers really look for on resumes. It dispels numerous myths and mistakes as well as identifies 66 key principles for effective resume writing.

Book Herculaneum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Jay Deiss
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 1989-09-21
  • ISBN : 9780892361649
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Herculaneum written by Joseph Jay Deiss and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1989-09-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papyri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.

Book 101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers

Download or read book 101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers written by Caryl Rae Krannich and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized according to each step in the preparation process and augmented with examples to clarify the points made, this book pulls together major principles and techniques used by today's effective speakers.