Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: italian, crossword, toronto, studies, puzzles, learning, fun, solving
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-07-17
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0802044301
ISBN-13: 9780802044303
Designed to teach the basic elements of the Italian language, this book is a breakthrough in the field of language studies. Its easy, stimulating, and enjoyable approach to learning Italian will benefit beginners and more advanced speakers alike.An opening chapter on Italian spelling and pronunciation is followed by thirty lessons, each one introducing a conversational theme centred around a crossword puzzle. The lessons present new words and expressions, sample conversations, and language notes, each one building on the last and presenting puzzles that are progressively more challenging. A nu
Authors:Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Mia Fuller,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: italian, studies, colonialism, american
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0230606369
ISBN-13: 9780230606364
Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian imperial endeavors in Africa. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that reflect the insights of anthropology, race and gender studies, film, architecture, and oral and cultural history. The volume includes many essays by Italian and African scholars that have never been translated into English. It is a unique resource that offers students and scholars a comp
Author: Joseph Sciorra
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: italian, critical, studies, america, lives, american, folk, vernacular, culture
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-11-08
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0823232654
ISBN-13: 9780823232659
Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals’ beliefs, politics, aesthetics, values, and behaviors that leave little room for nuance and elaboration. This collection of essays explores local knowledge and aesthetic practices, often marked as folklore,as sources for creativity and meaning in Italian-American lives. As the contributors demonstrate,
Author: Joseph Sciorra
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: italian, critical, studies, america, lives, american, folk, vernacular, culture
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-11-08
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0823232662
ISBN-13: 9780823232666
Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals’ beliefs, politics, aesthetics, values, and behaviors that leave little room for nuance and elaboration. This collection of essays explores local knowledge and aesthetic practices, often marked as folklore,as sources for creativity and meaning in Italian-American lives. As the contributors demonstrate,
Author: Gerald Meyer
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: italian, american, studies, radicalism, world, lost
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0275978923
ISBN-13: 9780275978921
Radicalism had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian-American community. This study brings together 16 selections that restore to Italian-American history the radical experience that has long remained suppressed, but that nevertheless helped shape both the Italian-American community and the American left. The detailed introduction by the volume editors interprets the overall history of Italian-American radicalism and offers extensive bibliographical references on the topic, which the volume editors organize into three sections: labor, politics, and culture. A concludin
Author: Catherine E. Love
Publisher: Webster’s New World
Keywords: italian, english, dictionary, world, new, webster
Number of Pages: 1032
Published: 1992-09-29
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0139536396
ISBN-13: 9780139536397
Compiled in collaboration with a team of expert linguists, the Webster’s New World concise bilingual dictionaries are the perfect choice for beginning students and advanced speakers as well. Comprehensive and authoritative, yet clear and concise, the dictionaries offer a full array of features, as well as wide-ranging coverage of current expressions. Long-standing favorites in hardcover, the dictionaries will continue to be standard references for years to come -- especially now that they are available in unabridged paperback editions. More than 100,000 words, giving wide-ranging coverag
Author: Nadja Rizzuti
Publisher: Hide Thi
Keywords: italian, book, hide, berlitz
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-07-30
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 9812466533
ISBN-13: 9789812466532
This uncensored language guide has everything you need to speak real Italian - from cool lingo to hard-core insults. The book features phrases on love, sex, the body, partying, fashion, and extreme sports, as well as language used on the Internet, in text-messaging, email, and more.
