Italian category: 1892 books
What They Didn't Teach You in Italian Class
Slang Phrases for the Cafe, Club, Bar, Bedroom, Ball Game and More
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
• Slang books are perennial strong sellers • Up to date with the latest slang expressions • Fun to read with an attitude that reflects the street-smart content • A re-imagining of wildly popular Dirty Italian (over 100,000 copies sold)
Corporeal Bonds
The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante,...
Transmissions of Memory
Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian...
Italian Women Writers
Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread illiteracy, especially among women in both rural and...
Mi piace aiutare I Love to Help
Italian English Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Italian English children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Italian as their second language.
Jimmy the little bunny goes to the beach with his family. There he learns about the importance of helping others. When Jimmy's sandcastle is destroyed by the wave, they work together to...
Ho una mamma fantastica My Mom is Awesome
Italian English Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Italian English Bilingual Childrens Book. Perfect for kid studying English or Italian as their second language. In questa toccante storia della buona notte, una bambina ci dice perché ha una mamma fantastica. Vediamo che, nel corso della sua giornata, porta con sé il tenero affetto per sua madre....
I Love to Help Mi piace aiutare
English Italian Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
English Italian Bilingual Children's Book. Perfect for kids learning English or Italian as their second language.
Jimmy the little bunny goes to the beach with his family. There he learns about the importance of helping others. When Jimmy’s sandcastle is destroyed by the wave, they work together...
by Gina Steer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This new Step-by-Step cookbook series provides a wide choice of great value recipe books covering everything from soups and curries to cakes and breads. In Italian, whether you try Creamy Chicken Cannelloni, Vegetable Frittata or Tiramisu, you can rest assured that you will be guided every step of the way with photographs and easy-to-follow methods. See inside pages at; http://wp.me/p45cth-1R
Eating My Way Through Italy
Heading Off the Main Roads to Discover the Hidden Treasures of the Italian Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A cultural and culinary celebration of everything that makes Italian cuisine great, from Rome’s resident gastronomic expert
After a lifetime of living and eating in Rome, Elizabeth Minchilli is an expert on the city's cuisine. While she’s proud to share everything she knows about Rome,...
The Politics of Dubbing
Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian...
Not My Mother's Kitchen
Rediscovering Italian-American Cooking Through Stories and Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Mo Rocca, host of "My Grandmother's Ravioli" says: "When life gives you lemons, make limoncello! Not My Mother's Kitchen is a funny, loving, and oh so useful manual on food, family and survival when your mom is a terrible cook."
Serving up a tale that is part memoir and...
Moral Combat
Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women’s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses...
by Melissa Coburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification. Starting from the premise...
Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition
Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "East" by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the apocalyptic prophetic tradition that it reflects, on Columbus’s...