Italian: A Self-Teaching Guide by Edoardo A. Lebano, ISBN 0471638382

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Written to allow those learning Italian or brushing up on their skills to study on their own at their own pace, this guide acquaints readers with the basic elements of Italian grammar and vocabulary, gradually giving them the skills and facility to speak, read, write, and understand the language. Unlike most other texts, it focuses on grammar and situations relevant to traveling in Italian-speaking countries and to situations germane to everyday life in Italy. Includes a pronunciation guide, appendixes with grammar references, and an extensive glossary.


Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction by Mansour O. El-Kikhia, ISBN 0813015855

Mansour El-Kikhia provides a readable, comprehensive, and objective overview of modern Libyan politics with special attention to Muammar al-Qaddafi and the domestic and regional forces responsible for shaping his character and politics. The author explains the impact of Qaddafi's personality and policies, his terrorism, and his foreign adventures on Libya's domestic and international relations by placing Qaddafi's regime in historical context. Beginning with early Greek and Punic influences on the region, El-Kikhia offers a brief history of Libya through the periods of colonization, independence, Arab socialism, and economic growth in order to demonstrate the continuity of Libyan political, economic, social, and foreign policy development from ancient times to the current regime. Born in Libya, El-Kikhia experienced firsthand many of the events he analyzes. He offers a perspective rarely available to American readers, given the difficulty of conducting research in that country. He draws... Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction by Mansour O. El-Kikhia, ISBN 0813015855
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Alamein to Tunis: The Eighth Army's in North Africa by Adrian Turner, ISBN 0850526663

The British victory at El Alamein in November, 1942, while a decisive turning point in the war, did not immediately lead to the collapse of Axis forces in North Africa. While much depleted, the Afrika Korps escaped from the El Alamein battlefield in good order and fell back on strong defensive positions in Tunisia, bolstered by some of the world's most difficult terrain. German paratroopers and Hermann Goring Division panzergrenadiers were sent to North Africa as reinforcements, Italian units were more capable in the defensive role, and Montgomery could not be sure of the loyalty of Germany's nominal Vichy French allies.

Not even the creation of a second front in North Africa with the arrival of the Americans and fresh British units was enough to dislodge the Axis forces. The author describes in detail the hard campaigning and desperate battles that were necessary to bring about final victory in North Africa. A full description is given of the often-neglected air aspect of the campaign....

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Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth, ISBN 0375714138

In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.
With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna O'Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. Elsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friends--the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston--at the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writer's... Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth, ISBN 0375714138
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Backyard Mosaics by Connie Sheerin, ISBN 1402701063

NEW IN PAPERBACKBrighten your porch, patio, deck, garden, or yard with colorful, decorative mosaics you can easily make yourself. Over 25 projects will add charm to all your outdoor settings. You can use either new or recycled materials for both the surfaces and the tesserae that cover them; just imagine, for example, a worn out table enlivened by patterns formed from broken pottery. Give a statue of Buddha a handsome coat of old chipped China, and place it in a quiet, meditative garden spot. Transform your outdoor dining area with fashionably retro mosaic furniture, serving carts and trays. Warm up the yard with a decorative chiminea, a terra cotta fireplace on a stand. For a different look, do your mosaic work without grouting; it creates interesting effects on a garden thermometer. Or choose from a welcome sign, tabletop fountain, stepping stone path, gazing balls, hearts and roses planter, and more. Backyard Mosaics by Connie Sheerin, ISBN 1402701063
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Serlio on Domestic Architecture by Sebastiano Serlio, ISBN 0486293521

Sixth book of classic treatise by influential Italian Renaissance architect. 76 plates� 7with extensive editorial apparatus� 7depicting farmhouses, villas, fortresses, pavilions, palaces, etc. Extensive scholarly discussions. Introduction. Notes. Serlio on Domestic Architecture by Sebastiano Serlio, ISBN 0486293521
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Objects of Desire: A Portrait of Love and Marriage by Ralph Graves, ISBN 0740740083

This is a love story, told in a completely different way. Eleanor MacKenzie, just graduated from Barnard, and Ralph Graves, just graduated from Harvard, met as brand-new researchers at Life magazine in September 1948. They soon married other people, but the two couples then became closest friends. After seven years of that closeness, Eleanor and Ralph realized that they were profoundly in love. Both went through bitter and punitive divorces to get to each other. It was worth it. They have now been married for 45 years. This book is the story of their love and marriage, told through the myriad objects that have played a significant role in that story. Gifts, homes, cars, painting, books, furniture, jewelry, clothes--all are invested with a deeply emotional value that grew out of what those objects of desire meant to these two people. But the story does not apply only to these two particular people. As Ralph Graves says about these objects of desire, "They have resonance. Each of us, in every... Objects of Desire: A Portrait of Love and Marriage by Ralph Graves, ISBN 0740740083
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