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Loredana

Lauro Martines
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Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Random House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448139828

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In 1700, a Venetian priest, Fra Benedict Loredan, compiles an assembly of documents - letters, written confessions, top-secret state files, diary excerpts, pieces of a secret chronicle - which together tell the story of two lovers caught up in a dangerous and controversial revolutionary movement which attempted to do away with the two-tiered city of Venice: Leonardo da Vinci's architectural dream to segregate the rich and the poor described in his Notebooks and realised in this novel. At the centre of the narrative are two written confessions, one by a young girl from an aristocratic family - Loredana Loredan Contarini - who writes of her disastrous marriage to a sadomasochistic tyrant and her subsequent involvement with a revolutionary Friar - himself the second confessor. As both struggle to tell their tales and confess their sins, we are shown around the city of Venice as it might have been in the sixteenth-century and given pieces of a narrative which together form an explosive whole.

Barolo

Matthew Frank
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Author : Matthew Frank
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780803228306

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At once an intimate travelogue and a memoir of a culinary education, the book details the adventures of a not-so-innocent abroad in Barolo, a region known for its food and wine (also called Barolo). Upon arrival, Frank began picking wine grapes for famed vintner Luciano Sandrone. He tells how, between lessons in the art of the grape harvest, he discovered, explored, and savored the gustatory riches of Piemontese Italy. Along the way we meet the region's families and the many eccentric vintners, butchers, bakers, and restaurateurs who call Barolo home. Rich with details of real Italian small-town life, local foodstuffs, strange markets, and a circuslike atmosphere, Frank's story also offers a wealth of historical and culinary information, moments of flamboyance, and musings on foreign travel (and its many alien seductions), all filtered through food and wine.

All Men Are Liars

Alberto Manguel
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Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101574898

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In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment. In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.

A Generation of Love

Fedele Cardinale
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Author : Fedele Cardinale
Publisher : Author House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477234792

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Does our personality originate in our mothers’ womb? Are our most ingrained fears set off by their heartbeat as we pick up their apprehensions and fears? This is a journey through Lorenzo Cardona’s teenage years, plagued by a deeply entrenched insecurity; his fear of rejection; of being the eternal unwanted creature. His struggle to build an identity in the harsh reality of small village life, in the heart of the South Italian peninsula; where conformity is the verb. Lorenzo’s fear of rejection a close scrutiny of his recurrent childhood dream of drowning in dark agitated waters, appears to have its origin as far back as his mother’s womb, as the love life of mother and son appear to be intertwined by a common destiny of emotional failure, in the apotheosis of the inescapable truth that there is no absconding from our biological fate, that our umbilical cord is eternal, nourishing us long after being severed. REVIEW A highly entertaining and witty novel - with universal appeal, where the supremacy of the love theme is mitigated by the light hearted tales of local myth, touching premises such as love, jealousy, gossip and senseless rivalry, served on a plate of typical and unique Mediterranean folklore told by the powerful voice of autobiographical narrative. KIRAN GROODOYAL author of Healing Express – Oracle Book

Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy

Giancarlo Dimaggio,Paolo Ottavi,Raffaele Popolo,Giampaolo Salvatore
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Author : Giancarlo Dimaggio,Paolo Ottavi,Raffaele Popolo,Giampaolo Salvatore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000073935

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Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy by Giancarlo Dimaggio,Paolo Ottavi,Raffaele Popolo,Giampaolo Salvatore Pdf

Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT) remains unique in providing instruments for dealing with clients with prominent emotional inhibition and suppression, a population for whom treatment options are largely lacking. This book provides clinicians with techniques to treat this population, including guided imagery and re-scripting, two-chairs, role-play, body-oriented work and interpersonal mindfulness. Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy is aimed at increasing clients’ awareness of their inner world, fostering a sense of agency over their experience, and dismantling the core, embodied aspects of the schemas. The techniques included also provide clients with fresh instruments to overcome pain and act creatively in their everyday life. Using an improved version of the MIT decision-making procedure, the authors have provided a set of techniques aimed at modifying mental imagery, body states, and behaviour, as well as at steering attention to avoid falling prey to rumination. The book is structured to gently push clients towards change, but also to always prioritize the clients’ goals and needs. Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy serves as an important guide for clinicians of any orientation.

Valentin de Boulogne

Annick Lemoine, Keith Christiansen
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Author : Annick Lemoine, Keith Christiansen
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396020

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Valentin de Boulogne by Annick Lemoine, Keith Christiansen Pdf

Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalistic painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers." In Rome, Valentin—who loved the tavern as much as the painter's pallette—fell in with a rowdy confederation of artists but eventually received commissions from some of the city's most prominent patrons. It was in this artistically rich but violent metropolis that Valentin created such masterworks as a major altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica and superb renderings of biblical and secular subjects—until his tragic death at the age of forty-one cut short his ascendant career. With discussions of nearly fifty works, representing practically all of his painted oeuvre, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio explores both the the artist's superlative depictions of daily life and the tumultuous context in which they were produced. Essays by a team of international scholars consider his key attributions to European painting, his devotion to everyday objects and models from life, his technique of staging pictures with the immediacy of unfolding drama, and his place in the pantheon of French artists. An extensive chronology surveys the rare extant documents that chronicle his biography, while individual entries help situate his works in the contexts of his times. Rich with incident and insight, and beautifully illustrated in Valentin's complex, suggestive paintings, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio reveals a seminal artist, a practitioner of realism in the seventeenth century who prefigured the naturalistic modernism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet two centuries later.

Syntactic Parsing Strategies in Italian

M. de Vincenzi
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Author : M. de Vincenzi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0792312759

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The basic accomplishment of sentence processing research in the 1960s and 70s was to establish that perceivers assign structural representa­ tions to sentences (Fodor et al., 1974) and they do so systematically using the formation rules of the grammar (Forster, 1979). This may sound like a singularly unimpressive accomplishment to a contem­ porary linguist - mere proof of the obvious. But one must recall the extremely impoverished view of language and language processing prevalent in the U.S. in the 1950s. Processing mechanisms were thought to consist of slightly elaborated stimulus-response associations, and sentences were viewed as mere strings of concatenated words. On this view, understanding language comprehension was naturally equated with knowing how words and associations between them were learned. Consequently, language pro­ cessing was investigated by performing a seemingly endless series of tedious paired associate learning studies. The shift in the 1960s to a view of sentences emphasizing hierarchically organized structures con­ taining grammatical depencies between widely separated items was thus dramatic.

A Beam of Light

Andrea Camilleri
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Author : Andrea Camilleri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698154384

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“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window “In Sicily, where people do things as they please, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is a bona fide folk hero.”—The New York Times Book Review When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.

A Life By Design

Lucy Appadoo
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Author : Lucy Appadoo
Publisher : Lucy Appadoo via PublishDrive
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000099405

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When 20-year-old Elena Allegro leaves the Italian village of Laurino to study Fashion Design in Milan, she’s certain her dreams are about to come true. Despite her father’s warnings that risk comes with her newfound freedom, she loves her studies and develops a love interest with Francesco, the handsome young entrepreneur who offers her a part-time job in a Milan clothing store. It seems like an idyllic situation—until a stalker targets Elena, tormenting her with mind games and threatening her safety. In the face of escalating danger to herself and to Francesco, Elena must fight for her freedom, her love, and her survival.

Murder At Wittenham Park

R. W. Heber
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Author : R. W. Heber
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250091628

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Wittenham Park Manor. Dark, imposing, and impossibly expensive to maintain. The cash-poor Lord Gilroy has tried everything to raise some capital, to no avail. When Lady Gilroy goes bankrupt, Lloyd's calls in its debts, and an unethical realtor threatens to claim his land, the hapless aristocrat is forced to open the manor for an Agatha Christie Murder Weekend. The paying guests are a suspicious lot: Priscilla Worthington, the actress who keeps a bottle of gin hidden in her pocketbook; Welch, a money-hungry land developer eager to turn Wittenham Park into condominiums; Jemma Savage, a reporter for a seedy crime magazine; Jemma's father, a retired claims investigator; and a pair of adulterous lovers who spend the weekend sneaking through darkened corridors to evade their spouses. When Welch turns up dead, the game becomes all too serious. No one can leave until the killer is found, but Welch is only the first victim....

Where Tigers Are at Home

Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
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Author : Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590515631

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Where Tigers Are at Home by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles Pdf

Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil. When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter abandons school to travel with her young professor and her lesbian lover to an indigenous beach town, where the trio use drugs and form interdependent sexual relationships; and Eleazard himself starts losing his sanity, escalated by loneliness, and his work on the biography. Patterns begin to emerge from these interwoven narratives, which develop toward a mesmerizing climax. Shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize and the European Book Award, and already translated into 14 languages, Where Tigers Are At Home is large-scale epic, at once literary and entertaining, that belongs in the company of Umberto Eco and Haruki Murakami.

The Bitter Taste of Murder

Camilla Trinchieri
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Author : Camilla Trinchieri
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641292849

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The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic. One year after moving to his late wife’s Tuscan hometown of Gravigna, ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle has fully settled into Italian country life, helping to serve and test recipes at his in-laws’ restaurant. But the town is shaken by the arrival of wine critic Michele Mantelli in his flashy Jaguar. Mantelli holds his influential culinary magazine and blog over Gravigna’s vintners and restaurateurs. Some of Gravigna's residents are impressed by his reputation, while others are enraged—especially Nico's landlord, whose vineyards Mantelli seems intent of ruining. Needless to say, Mantelli’s lavish, larger-than-life, and often vindictive personality has made him many enemies, and when he is poisoned, the local maresciallo, Perillo, has a headache of a high-profile murder on his hands—and once again turns to Nico for help.

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Francisco Pereira,Penousal Machado,Ernesto Costa,Amílcar Cardoso
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Author : Francisco Pereira,Penousal Machado,Ernesto Costa,Amílcar Cardoso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319234854

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Progress in Artificial Intelligence by Francisco Pereira,Penousal Machado,Ernesto Costa,Amílcar Cardoso Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in September 2015. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 36 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 131 submissions. EPIA 2015, following the standard EPIA format, covers a wide range of AI topics as follows: ambient intelligence and affective environments, artificial Intelligence in medicine, artificial intelligence in transportation systems, artificial life and evolutionary algorithms, computational methods in bioinformatics and systems biology, general artificial intelligence, intelligent information systems, intelligent robotics, knowledge discovery and business intelligence, multi-agent systems: theory and applications, social simulation and modelling, text mining and applications.

Burying the Typewriter

Carmen Bugan
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Author : Carmen Bugan
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555970574

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Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's behavior was too disturbing to ignore. He wept when listening to Radio Free Europe, hid pamphlets in sacks of dried beans, and mysteriously buried and reburied a typewriter. When she discovered he was a political dissident she became anxious for him to conform. However, with her mother in the hospital and her sister at boarding school, she was alone, and helpless to stop him from driving off on one last, desperate protest. After her father's subsequent imprisonment, Bugan was shunned by her peers at school and informed on by her neighbors. She candidly struggled with the tensions of loving her "hero" father who caused the family so much pain. When he returned from prison and the family was put under house arrest, the Bugans were forced to chart a new course for the future. A warm and intelligent debut, Burying the Typewriter provides a poignant reminder of a dramatic moment in Eastern European history.

Lillo the Little Shepherd Boy

Calogero Charles Campo
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Author : Calogero Charles Campo
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458217271

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It is 1943 in Sicily. The pension from America has stopped, the countryside is not producing food, and winter will soon be upon the Sicilians. Salvatore Campo is a desperate man. With five children and a wife to support, he resorts to stealing grain—a crime that eventually lands him in jail. As sorrow and despair falls on Salvatore’s family, his wife prays for a miracle. As time goes on, she begins to realize that her only hope for overcoming starvation lies within her eight-year-old son, Lillo. Three years later as little Lillo is sent away to work on a country farm to help his family, his only possessions are an extra shirt and pair of pants. With a fear bigger than himself, Lillo embarks on an unforgettable coming-of-age journey that opens his eyes to the world around him and forces him to face all the challenges that accompany his new destiny as a sheepherder. From sleeping on the cold floor to assuming responsibility for over seventy sheep, little Lillo grows up quickly while learning how to travel alone, live without his family, and most importantly, become a man. In this autobiographical novel, a Sicilian boy must rely on his inner-strength and perseverance as he helps his family survive starvation after World War II and walks into a new future.