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Bella Figura

Kamin Mohammadi
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Author : Kamin Mohammadi
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780147529817

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Bella Figura by Kamin Mohammadi Pdf

One woman's story of finding beauty, and herself--and a practical guide to living a better life, the Italian way! Kamin Mohammadi, a magazine editor in London, should have been on top of the world. But after heartbreak and loneliness, the stress of her "dream life" was ruining her physical and mental health. Gifted a ticket to freedom--a redundancy package and the offer of a friend's apartment in Florence--Kamin took a giant leap. It did not take her long to notice how differently her new Italian neighbors approached life: enjoying themselves, taking their time to eat and drink, taking their lives at a deliberately slower pace. Filled with wonderful characters--from the local bartender/barista who becomes her love advisor, to the plumbers who fix her heating and teach her to make pasta al pomodoro--here is a mantra for savoring the beauty and color of every day that Italians have followed for generations, a guide to the slow life for busy people, a story of finding love (and self-love) in unlikely places, and an evocative account of a year living an Italian life.

La Bella Figura

Beppe Severgnini
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Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Crown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307486875

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Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors—la bella figura—and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self You won’t need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini’s fellow Italians. In fact, Beppe would prefer if you left behind the baggage his crafty and elegant countrymen have smuggled into your subconscious. To get to his Italia, you’ll need to forget about your idealized notions of Italy. Although La Bella Figura will take you to legendary cities and scenic regions, your real destinations are the places where Italians are at their best, worst, and most authentic: The highway: in America, a red light has only one possible interpretation—Stop! An Italian red light doesn’t warn or order you as much as provide an invitation for reflection. The airport: where Italians prove that one of their virtues (an appreciation for beauty) is really a vice. Who cares if the beautiful girls hawking cell phones in airport kiosks stick you with an outdated model? That’s the price of gazing upon perfection. The small town: which demonstrates the Italian genius for pleasant living: “a congenial barber . . . a well-stocked newsstand . . . professionally made coffee and a proper pizza; bell towers we can recognize in the distance, and people with a kind word and a smile for everyone.” The chaos of the roads, the anarchy of the office, the theatrical spirit of the hypermarkets, and garrulous train journeys; the sensory reassurance of a church and the importance of the beach; the solitude of the soccer stadium and the crowded Italian bedroom; the vertical fixations of the apartment building and the horizontal democracy of the eat-in kitchen. As you venture to these and many other locations rooted in the Italian psyche, you realize that Beppe has become your Dante and shown you a country that “has too much style to be hell” but is “too disorderly to be heaven.” Ten days, thirty places. From north to south. From food to politics. From saintliness to sexuality. This ironic, methodical, and sentimental examination will help you understand why Italy—as Beppe says—“can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters or ten minutes.”

Che Bella Figura!

Gloria Nardini
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Author : Gloria Nardini
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791440915

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Che Bella Figura! by Gloria Nardini Pdf

A colorful ethnography of an Italian ladies' club, this book explores the historical and linguistic importance of the women's language and behavior.

La Bella Figura

Kristi Belle
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Author : Kristi Belle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540649474

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La Bella Figura is a lifestyle guide for the woman who aspires to live a European-style life filled with simple pleasures and wants to look good while she does it. It is about making your life richer with less, not more, just like European women do. Who Should Read This Book: * Do you feel overwhelmed and yearn for a life where you spend the majority of your time, money and energy toward what you think really matters? * Have you ever looked in your closet and felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of clothing items you own and yet still feel as if you have nothing to wear? * Do you want to elevate everything in your world to an art form -- from the way you dress to how you eat and spend your leisure time? La Bella Figura shows how you can bring all the simple pleasures of a European lifestyle into your home and life no matter what your budget or where you live.

The Cypress Tree

Kamin Mohammadi
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Author : Kamin Mohammadi
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408822333

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The Cypress Tree by Kamin Mohammadi Pdf

Kamin Mohammadi was nine years old when her family fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Bewildered by the seismic changes in her homeland, she turned her back on the past and spent her teenage years trying to fit in with British attitudes to family, food and freedom. She was twenty-seven before she returned to Iran, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother's house in Abadan, with its traditional inner courtyard, its noisy gatherings and its very wallssteeped in history.The Cypress Tree is Kamin's account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today.This moving and passionate memoir is a love letter both to Kamin's extraordinary family and toIran itself, an ancient country which has survived so much modern tumult but where joy and resilience will always triumph over despair.

Che Bella Figura!

Gloria Nardini
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Author : Gloria Nardini
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791440923

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Che Bella Figura! by Gloria Nardini Pdf

A colorful ethnography of an Italian ladies' club, this book explores the historical and linguistic importance of the women's language and behavior.

Ciao, America!

Beppe Severgnini
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Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780767912365

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In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest—one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C. When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they were determined to see if they could adapt to a full four seasons in a country obsessed with ice cubes, air-conditioning, recliner chairs, and, of all things, after-dinner cappuccinos. From their first encounters with cryptic rental listings to their back-to-Europe yard sale twelve months later, Beppe explores this foreign land with the self-described patience of a mildly inappropriate beachcomber, holding up a mirror to America’s signature manners and mores. Succumbing to his surroundings day by day, he and his wife find themselves developing a taste for Klondike bars and Samuel Adams beer, and even that most peculiar of American institutions—the pancake house. The realtor who waves a perfect bye-bye, the overzealous mattress salesman who bounces from bed to bed, and the plumber named Marx who deals in illegally powerful showerheads are just a few of the better-than-fiction characters the Severgninis encounter while foraging for clues to the real America. A trip to the computer store proves just as revealing as D.C.’s Fourth of July celebration, as do boisterous waiters angling for tips and no-parking signs crammed with a dozen lines of fine print. By the end of his visit, Severgnini has come to grips with life in these United States—and written a charming, laugh-out-loud tribute.

Italy Is My Boyfriend

Annette Joseph
Italy Is My Boyfriend Book PDF

Author : Annette Joseph
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642935103

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Italy Is My Boyfriend by Annette Joseph Pdf

Annette Joseph’s years in Italy revealed this truth: Italy, in all its multifaceted, glorious history and culture has to be experienced in full. Over almost three decades, Italy has fed, entertained, confused, excited, lured, promised, lied, satisfied, occasionally disappointed, and utterly enchanted her. She’s left, but can't stay away—she’ll always return. Always. Just like a beloved partner…Italy Is My Boyfriend will take you through the journey of finding love, life, and a sense of home. While often times a lonely, challenging place, never once did the love for this special place waiver. See how one very determined lady finds her dream place in the Tuscan sun.

Italian Lessons

Beppe Severgnini
Italian Lessons Book PDF

Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780593315644

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Italian Lessons by Beppe Severgnini Pdf

One-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way—“with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini’s book not only transports us to Italy but deep into the Italian mind and spirit" (Stanley Tucci, host of Searching for Italy). Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and incredible allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic. Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials, the Italian way.

The Italians

John Hooper
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Author : John Hooper
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780698183643

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The Italians by John Hooper Pdf

Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper’s entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Fifteen years as a foreign correspondent based in Rome have sharpened Hooper’s observations, and he looks at the facts that lie behind the stereotypes, shedding new light on everything from the Italians’ bewildering politics to their love of life and beauty. Hooper persuasively demonstrates the impact of geography, history, and tradition on many aspects of Italian life, including football and Freemasonry, sex, food, and opera. Brimming with the kind of fascinating—and often hilarious—insights unavailable in guidebooks, The Italians will surprise even the most die-hard Italophile.

Ordinary Russians

Barry Broadfoot
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Author : Barry Broadfoot
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551995069

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Ordinary Russians by Barry Broadfoot Pdf

Barry Broadfoot’s Ordinary Russians artfully recounts the author’s 1987 month-long trip to the Soviet Union. Skillfully combining his own impressions with the storied experiences of Russians from all walks of life, including a trapper, a policewoman, a poet, and fishermen, Broadfoot presents a society in the midst of rapid change.

La Bella Figura

Dawn Mattera
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Author : Dawn Mattera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781493151554

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Do you want to be happy, healthy and hot? La bella figura has a figurative and literal translation. In these pages, we will reveal Italian secrets for both: looking, feeling and being your best. We’ll journey through the calendar with each month highlighting a unique aspect of the Italian culture and how we can apply it to our lives. Each chapter also has a recipe or two of Italian favorites with the fat and calories slashed. You’ll also see some twists on traditional dishes. This book holds the spark to ignite your life!

Japan Sales Mastery

Dr Greg Story
Japan Sales Mastery Book PDF

Author : Dr Greg Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4909535004

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Japan Sales Mastery by Dr Greg Story Pdf

Are you selling to Japanese buyers? Do you want to be more successful? To sell to Japanese buyers, you need to: - Create long-term partner-level trust or no sale - Fully understand Japanese buyers' real needs or no sale - Convince buyers with your solutions or no sale - Overcome your Japanese buyer's hesitation, fear, and doubt or no sale - Know how to ask for the order or no sale - Ensure re-orders and life is good This book is the product of 30 years in the trenches, experiencing real-world pain, frustration, disappointment, and elation selling to Japanese buyers. When you don't know what you are doing, Japan is a killer for salespeople. Don't get killed. Read this book.

Dirt

Bill Buford
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Author : Bill Buford
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780147530714

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Dirt by Bill Buford Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MACLEAN'S SUMMER READ The hugely anticipated follow up to Heat--Bill Buford's hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive adventures in the world of French haute cuisine. In Dirt, Bill Buford--author of the best-selling, now-classic, Heat--moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, determined that he can master the art of French cooking--or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered--Buford begins what will become a five-year odyssey by shadowing the revered French chef Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. He soon realizes, however, that a stage in France is necessary, and so he goes--this time with his wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow--to Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Studying at l'Institut Bocuse, cooking at the storied, Michelin-starred Mère Brazier, Buford becomes a man obsessed--to prove that French cooking actually derives from the Italian, to prove himself on the line, to prove that he is worthy of these gastronomic secrets. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to immerse himself in his surroundings, Bill Buford has written what is sure to be the food-lover's book of the year.

Italian Days

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italian Days Book PDF

Author : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802190291

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A “contagiously exuberant” celebration of Italian food, culture, and history that “will be the companion of visitors for years to come” (The Washington Post Book World). In an absorbing journey down the Italian peninsula, essayist, journalist, and fiction writer Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, offers a fascinating mixture of history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, arts, and literature, studded with local anecdotes and personal reflections. From fashionable Milan to historic Rome and primitive, brooding Calabria, Harrison reveals her country of origin in all its beauty, peculiarity, and glory. Italian Days is the story of a return home; of friends, family, and faith; and of the search for the good life that propels all of us on our journeys wherever we are. “Harrison’s wonderful journal will make you update your passport and dream of subletting your job, home, etc. . . . With Harrison, you never know with whom you’ll be lunching, or climbing down a ruin. You just know you want to be there.” —Glamour