492 Great Things About Being Italian

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781510700802

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492 Great Things About Being Italian by Boze Hadleigh Pdf

492 Great Things About Being Italian is fun, informative and catnip for 17 million Italian-Americans. It follows in the footsteps of other successful books aimed at this minority proud of its remarkable—and ongoing!—heritage. It comprises 492 (as in 1492…) individual people, things, places and phenomena that make one proud to be Italian (or half-Italian, which adds millions more to the target market). But one doesn’t have to be Italian to enjoy this book, any more than one has to be Jewish to love rye bread! Italy is Americans’ second-favorite travel destination outside North America, and Italian foods, celebrities, entertainment, etc., are popular with most everyone. It’s also the kind of book that once you peek inside, you won’t be able to read just one entry of the 492—it’s like potato chips!

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610699952

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Italian Americans by Eric Martone Pdf

The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493072590

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Game Show Confidential by Boze Hadleigh Pdf

Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network’s Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim’s Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences made the transition from radio to television in the late 1940s and was so popular that a town in New Mexico was named for the show. Television proved to be the perfect platform for game shows since they were very popular and cheap to produce. Even in reruns today, the older shows still draw huge audiences. This book describes the evolution of the game show, its larger-than-life producers and hosts, as well as the scandals that have rocked it from time to time, including bloopers from such “adult” oriented shows as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and Hollywood Squares. This is an entertaining and lively look at an American phenomenon whose popularity doesn’t seem to be going away.

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781510724716

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Life's a Pooch by Boze Hadleigh Pdf

Life’s a Pooch is, pardon the expression, catnip for dog lovers. Its five riveting chapters comprise hundreds of celebrity quotes and anecdotes about everyone’s best friend. By turns funny, touching, surprising, and informative, it embraces every aspect of the human-dog bond and explores our furry companions’ sometimes baffling world and celebrates their impact on ours. Those quoted range from animal superheroes Betty White and Doris Day to Leonardos da Vinci and DiCaprio to dog trainers, Lassie costars, singers and actors, presidents, Walt Disney, and Martha Stewart--to name a few! Did you know that . . . Comparing canines with people, Marilyn Monroe once said, “A dog will never tell you to shut up”? Aldous Huxley explained the pooch’s popularity: “To his dog, every man is Napoleon,” while President Harry Truman advised, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”? For Renee Zellweger, “Finding exactly the right dog is a lot like falling in love”? Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz felt, “Happiness is a warm puppy”? And singer Adele is happy to be “my dog’s best friend”? Poignant, silly, and heart-warming, Life's a Pooch is a must-have for every dog lover!

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493031061

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Elizabeth Taylor by Boze Hadleigh Pdf

This book of quotes explores the many sides of the one-and-only Elizabeth Taylor. In her time, she was perceived as a celebrity, an actress, a siren, and a champion for causes. She became a popular and prominent female figure in the twentieth century, and her legacy continues to thrive today. In this book she is described in the words of others, from the stars of yesterday to the celebrities of today. Illustrated with over 80 rare photographs, this book will prove to be a fitting memento of a true film legend.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Bee Culture
ISBN : UCAL:B4243651

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Gleanings in Bee Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tony DiGerolamo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781612438054

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F*ck You, I'm Italian by Tony DiGerolamo Pdf

An entertaining, page-turning overview of Italian-American history and culture From ancient Rome to modern America, we Italians have always been the friggin’ best in art, science, culture and—Madonn’—food! Now, this fascinating collection of Italian history, people, facts and trivia will make you proudly say, “F*ck you, I’m Italian,” including . . . Culture—from the Renaissance to The Godfather Music—from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga History—from gladiators to Rocky Food—from sauce to cannoli Family—from Sunday mass to Sunday dinner

Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781400858651

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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy by Nancy G. Siraisi Pdf

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Don Cangelosi,Joseph Delli Carpini
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781451652451

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Italian Without Words by Don Cangelosi,Joseph Delli Carpini Pdf

You don't need words to speak Italian! All you really need is this unique "phrase book" of Italian body language. It's the fastest, and funniest, way to learn Italian ever published. Now, even if you don't know a single word of Italian, you can learn the most common greetings, dining small talk, bargaining tricks, hot vows of love, vicious threats and blood curdling curses. This book shows you how. There's no faster or funnier way to learn how to communicate in Italian. You don't need words to speak Italian! You don't have to study Italian or travel to Italy to communicate like a true paesano. All you really need is this unique "phrase book" of Italian body language. It's the fastest, and funniest, way to learn Italian ever published. Now, even if you don't know a single word of Italian, you can learn the most common greetings, dining small talk, bargaining tricks, hot vows of love, vicious threats and blood curdling curses. This book shows you how. There's no faster or funnier way to learn how to communicate in Italy, Italian restaurants, with your grandparents or your friends.

Author : Catherine Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208297

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Milton’s Italy by Catherine Martin Pdf

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton’s own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline during and after Milton’s travels of 1638-1639, the period immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language, cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately influenced Milton’s "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated here.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007428142

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The Spectator by Anonim Pdf

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Author : Gran Bretagna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBSR:BS001227056

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Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Italy by Gran Bretagna Pdf

Author : Edward Cornelius Toune,Graeme Mercer Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015051379744

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Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League by Edward Cornelius Toune,Graeme Mercer Adam Pdf

Author : Edward Mead Earle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338106896

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Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A study in imperialism by Edward Mead Earle Pdf

In the preface to his book, which looks at Turkish economic development from 1918, The author states, "Students of history and international relations will find in the story of the Bagdad Railway a laboratory full of rich materials for an analysis of modern economic imperialism and its far-reaching consequences." The book is critical of both American and European influences on the Turkish economy.

Author : Barbara Pape,Michael Calabrese
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1892975831

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Italy with Kids by Barbara Pape,Michael Calabrese Pdf

If you're going to Italy for a great family vacation, this is the book that will show you the way! We offer you the most family-friendly hotels, the best restaurants to take the kids, where to find the tastiest gelato, the most fun sights and activities -- and we tell you how to prepare, what books to read and websites to visit, and we even give you key Italian phrases you'll need for traveling with the kids! Book jacket.