Download or read book Dottoressa written by Susan Levenstein and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wise and witty.”―Publishers Weekly “A charming story well told.”―Kirkus Reviews “Smart, funny, charming . . . full of astute insights into the way Italy works.”―Alexander Stille “A wonderfully fun read.”―Dr. Robert Sapolsky "As funny as it is poignant. A must read for anyone who thinks they understand medicine, Italy, or humanity.”―Barbie Latza Nadeau After completing her medical training in New York, Susan Levenstein set off for a one year adventure in Rome. Forty years later, she is still practicing medicine in the Eternal City. In Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome Levenstein writes, with love and exasperation, about navigating her career through the renowned Italian tangle of brilliance and ineptitude, sexism and tolerance, rigidity and chaos. Part memoir―starting with her epic quest for an Italian medical license―and part portrait of Italy from a unique point of view, Dottoressa is packed with vignettes that illuminate the national differences in character, lifestyle, health, and health care between her two countries. Levenstein, who has been called “the wittiest internist on earth,” covers everything from hookup culture to neighborhood madmen, Italian hands-off medical training, bidets, the ironies of expatriation, and why Italians always pay their doctor’s bills.
Download or read book Italian Now Level 1 L italiano d oggi written by Marcel Danesi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated worktext for high school and college introductory courses emphasizes functional use of conversational and written Italian with extensive use of fill-in exercises, matching columns, word puzzles, dialogues, and more. Students will also get a review of basic grammar, vocabulary, verb forms, idioms, and sentence structure. Additional features include lists of irregular verbs and Italian-English and English-Italian glossaries. Answers for all exercises, quizzes, and puzzles are presented at the back of the book. Line illustrations throughout.
Download or read book Bringing Montessori to America written by Gerald L. Gutek and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Montessori to America tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States.
Download or read book The Devil s Grip written by Lina Wolff and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wickedly dark with a mystical edge, this story of an Italian love affair gone bad captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships—from the acclaimed author of Carnality. A woman arrives in Florence, overwhelmed by the strange, warm city so different from her home. Amidst the Renaissance architecture and amorous couples, she finds an unexpected love of her own. With his dark, ugly looks, people might stop and stare, wondering what someone like her was doing with someone like him. But he’s the Mickey to her Minnie, and she can fix him—they can fix each other. She feels bound to him, body and soul. It’s not long before the lying starts. Other women have begun to notice him, and she spirals into paranoia. Soon they’re both cheating and lashing out, and she becomes more and more convinced he’s not merely a violent man: there’s a demon inside him, and inside her too. Their grip on each other is so strong, it might be impossible to break, even after she puts an ocean between them, following another man to New Orleans. Heady, unsettling, and shockingly funny with its dead-on descriptions of codependent and abusive relationships, The Devil’s Grip takes us on a breathless journey with the shadow selves we can’t escape.
Download or read book The Works of Graham Greene Volume 2 written by Mike Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific writer. While his published works established him as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, much of his writing was never to see the light of day and has been gathered together in a number of archives across the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada The second volume of The Works of Graham Greene is a comprehensive guide to the archives of Greene's writing. The book details archival holdings of unpublished novels, short stories, plays, film scripts, journals, poetry, fragments of writing, and letters, as well as manuscripts and typescripts of published works. Analysing and contextualising the unpublished work, the book is fully cross-referenced throughout and includes a substantial index as well as practical guidance for students, scholars and researchers on accessing and making the most of each of the archives.
Download or read book Oscan in the Greek Alphabet written by Nicholas Zair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining Greek-alphabet Oscan inscriptions, this book shines light on the linguistics, bilingualism and epigraphy of ancient Southern Italy.
Download or read book Anime Innamorate written by Fabio D'Antoni and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E' la storia di due amanti, desiderosi di stare insieme. Poiché non riescono nel medioevo a coronare il loro sogno d'amore, le loro anime si inseguiranno nel tempo, fino a ritrovarsi. Una storia d'amore, ricca di intrighi, sviluppata ai tempi dei Pitti in Scozia, alla fine del 400. Passando per la Francia pre rivoluzionaria del 1770, fino a giungere ai nostri giorni, in Italia all'interno dello spettacolare scenario che offre la città di Verona. Una leggenda, continui colpi di scena e misteriosi avvenimenti segneranno questa incredibile avventura.
Download or read book Scary Monsters written by Michelle De Kretser and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award A profoundly original exploration of racism, misogyny, and ageism—three monsters that plague the world—this novel from a beloved and prize-winning author is made up of two narratives, each told by a South Asian migrant to Australia “When my family emigrated it felt as if we’d been stood on our heads.” Michelle de Kretser’s electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upside down, just as migration has upended her characters’ lives. Lili’s family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she’s teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants, and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbor. All the while, Lili is striving to be A Bold, Intelligent Woman like Simone de Beauvoir. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation and embraces “Australian values.” He’s also preoccupied by his ambitious wife, his wayward children, and his strong-minded elderly mother. Islam has been banned in the country, the air is smoky from a Permanent Fire Zone, and one pandemic has already run its course. Three scary monsters—racism, misogyny, and ageism—roam through this mesmerizing novel. Its reversible format enacts the disorientation that migrants experience when changing countries changes the stories of their lives. With this suspenseful, funny, and profound book, Michelle de Kretser has made something thrilling and new. “Which comes first, the future or the past?”
Download or read book Drawing Conclusions written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant writer . . . an immensely likable police detective who takes every murder to heart.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Late one night, Guido Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate. But he can’t shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman’s son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge of the old age home where she volunteered do little to satisfy Brunetti’s nagging curiosity. And with the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, he intends to get to the truth. “One of her best . . . She has become a must-read for all those who favor character-driven crime stories.” —Booklist, starred review “[A] wickedly entertaining series.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Divas in the Convent written by Craig A. Monson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella—and despite the church hierarchy’s vehement opposition to all convent music—Vizzana became the star of the convent, composing works so thoroughly modern and expressive that a recent critic described them as “historical treasures.” But at the very moment when Vizzana’s works appeared in 1623—she would be the only Bolognese nun ever to publish her music—extraordinary troubles beset her and her fellow nuns, as episcopal authorities arrived to investigate anonymous allegations of sisterly improprieties with male members of their order. Craig A. Monson retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Gifted singers, instrumentalists, and composers, these nuns used music not only to forge links with the community beyond convent walls, but also to challenge and circumvent ecclesiastical authority. Monson explains how the sisters of Santa Cristina—refusing to accept what the church hierarchy called God’s will and what the nuns perceived as a besmirching of their honor—fought back with words and music, and when these proved futile, with bricks, roof tiles, and stones. These women defied one Bolognese archbishop after another, cardinals in Rome, and even the pope himself, until threats of excommunication and abandonment by their families brought them to their knees twenty-five years later. By then, Santa Cristina’s imaginative but frail composer literally had been driven mad by the conflict. Monson’s fascinating narrative relies heavily on the words of its various protagonists, on both sides of the cloister wall, who emerge vividly as imaginative, independent-minded, and not always sympathetic figures. In restoring the musically gifted Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana to history, Monson introduces readers to the full range of captivating characters who played their parts in seventeenth-century convent life.
Download or read book The World s Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Io cammino nel buio written by Licia Praisi and published by Gingko edizioni. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licia ha 53 anni, vive sola in una casa dell’Ente Case di Ferrara dove ancora è ammalata e lotta ogni giorno per sopravvivere. Dopo aver cominciato a scrivere la sua storia come terapia, sotto consiglio della sua dottoressa, si è ritrovata a pensare che la sua testimonianza sarebbe stata una fonte di riflessione e un forte spunto di conoscenza. Perché i depressi non sono dei matti, come molti dicono, sono persone che vogliono essere semplicemente aiutate. Lei, che di queste persone ne ha conosciute tante, troppe, sa che molte, troppe, non vengono aiutate. In questo libro Licia racconta la sua infanzia infelice in collegio, senza una vera famiglia e senza un padre, la sua giovinezza trascorsa alla perenne ricerca di un qualcosa che le desse una esistenza serena, mentre si impelagava in diversi guai, poi il matrimonio, che sembrava perfetto, e l’attesa spasmodica di un figlio che non arrivava e che a un certo punto smise di ricercare, infine, per cause infinite, il sopraggiungere della depressione in forma grave, di cui ancora oggi si sa ben poco, e sulla quale c’è scarsa informazione. Nel frattempo Licia ha tentato due volte il suicidio, ha debellato un tumore al seno, ha lasciato suo marito e con una forza straordinaria sta cercando di riappropriarsi della sua vita. Con la voglia di scaricare dalle spalle tutto il peso che si porta da anni, dopo tante sofferenze e delusioni, dopo interminabili momenti angosciosi e distruttivi, tante sofferenze arrecate ai suoi cari, e a se stessa, dopo venticinque sedute di radioterapia e con la sua pastiglia al giorno che deve prendere per cinque anni, i controlli che vanno seguiti con regolarità, è qua e questa è la sua vita.
Download or read book My Venice written by Donna Leon and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of “entertaining . . . unapologetically opinionated” essays from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti novels (The New York Times). Donna Leon has won legions of fans and waves of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti—not only for her intricate plots and gripping narratives, but for her insight into the culture, politics, family-life, and history of Venice. But outside of her mystery novels, Leon has also been writing essays on Venetian life and related topics for years. In My Venice and Other Essays, the best of these essays are collected: more than fifty charming and insightful works ranging in topic from battles over garbage in the canals to the troubles with rehabbing Venetian real estate. Leon shares episodes from her life, explores her love of opera, and recounts tales from in and around her country house in the mountains. With pointed observations and humor, she also explores her family history, her former life in New Jersey, and the idea of the “Italian man.” Sure to please longtime Leon fans as well as anyone who appreciates the wit and wisdom of a master wordsmith, this volume offers “an intriguing glimpse at the strong views of an exceptionally interesting and entertaining novelist” (The Seattle Times).
Download or read book Acqua Alta written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dramatic and deeply satisfying climax . . . a high-stakes mystery in which the setting vibrates with as much life as the story itself.” —Publishers Weekly As Venice braces for a winter tempest, intrepid Italian sleuth Commissario Guido Brunetti finds out that an archaeologist and old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of opera singer Flavia Petrelli. Then, as the floodwaters rise, the corpse of a museum director is discovered—and Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet. “An evocative peep into the dark underworld of the beauteous city.” —Time Out London “A superb police detective.” —Library Journal Also published under the title Death in High Water
Download or read book The Talking Statues written by Andrew Giarelli and published by danzig & unfried. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the message on battered ancient Roman statue Pasquino mean, and why is it seemingly addressed to Charlie Sala, an American scholar writing a book about the city's "talking statues"? Together with enigmatic Czech lighting designer Pavlina Herecová, he will be pulled into the world of pasquinisti, the ragged and erudite crew of street poets preserving a 500-year-old tradition against black marketeers who are using the statues to sell pillaged Near Eastern artifacts. Featuring centuries-old street lore and climaxing in a 21st century light show that makes the statues speak once more, The Talking Statues twists through historical and literary labyrinths against a savory Roman backdrop.
Download or read book Mission in Rome written by Sylvia Gresina and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lory leaves the Netherlands for Rome in order to work for the Holland Cultural Institute as cultural director. The Eternal City immediately captures her heart, as well as one of her colleagues the charming Nick. However their budding romance comes interrupted by an unexpected meeting and Lory finds herself soon in an exasperating situation, just like in a cobweb. Her everyday life at work is colorated by art treasure robbery and other exciting events, while in her private life she has to face more and more stunning facts.
