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  • Thinking Italian Animals

    Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    Edited by D. Amberson, E. Past ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Ortona Street Fight

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Naples '44

    A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

    by Norman Lewis ...
    The classic memoir of the Italian city left in chaos by the Nazis is "[a] masterpiece . . . elegiac and furious, and frequently hilarious" ( The New York Times)."Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny," Naples '44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through the eyes of a young, untested man who would never again look at his world the same way ( The New York Times Book Review) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let's Explore Italy (Most Famous Attractions in Italy)

    Italy Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Italia - the land of pizza and pasta. But do you know that there's more this delightful place than all the delicious food? This picture book features the must-see places in Italy. It defines great activities that you can do and what to expect the moment you arrive. Picture books are essential in encouraging participation, which is the foundation of active and effective learning. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Edited by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • St. Peter's Bones

    How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again

    by Thomas J. Craughwell ...
    In this fascinating account of the search for the remains of the world's first pope, none other than Peter, the chief apostle of Jesus, Thomas J. Craughwell takes us on one of the most exciting archaeological finds of the twentieth century.In 1448 a team of architects and engineers brought Pope Nicholas V unhappy news: the 1,100-year-old Basilica of St. Peter suffered from so many structural ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

    by Cesare Beccaria, Aaron Thomas ...
    Translated by Jeremy Parzen ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Bond of the Furthest Apart

    Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka

    by Sharon Cameron ...
    In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon Cameron's title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson's films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders

    by N. Pireddu ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Algerian Literature

    A Reader’s Guide and Anthology

    by Abdelkader Aoudjit ...
    Series Book 66 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
    The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors, and provides selections from a wide range of their writings, many translated here for the first time ... Read more

    $125.59 USD

  • Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

    by Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD