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The Fires of Vesuvius

Pompeii Lost and Found

By: Mary Beard

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Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Here, acclaimed historian Beard explores what kind of town it was, and what it can reveal about "ordinary" life there.

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0674045866

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Dear Alfonso

An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter

By: Mary Contini

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Dear Alfonso

An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter

By: Mary Contini

“A heart-warming celebration of the Italian family and its cuisine” from the bestselling author of Valvona & Crolla: A Year at an Italian Table (Alexander McCall Smith). Following the successful publication of Dear Francesca and Dear Olivia, bestselling author Mary Contini picks up the thread of her family story from 1934 in Pozzuoli, Naples, following the commercial success of the family business—Edinburgh’s acclaimed delicatessen, Valvona & Crolla—and the Dolce Vita of her parent’s generation. With her inimitable style she shares stories of exuberant family relationships, mouthwatering food and hilarious laughter, painting a vivid picture of life in wartime Italy and Scotland and the decades immediately after. “Food is everywhere in the book, and it will be a stoic reader who doesn’t fall upon the recipes at the back from Carlo’s mother’s kitchen.” —The Scotsman “Food is never far from Mary Contini’s heart and storytelling . . . may be the perfect holiday read—upbeat, sunny, and easy reading . . . as an evocation of a time long past it’s deftly written, tender, and true.” —The Wee Review Praise for Dear Francesca and Dear Olivia “Touching and inspiring . . . The book bursts with flavor.” —Financial Times “A remarkable book . . . a pleasure to read as well as to cook from.” —Homes & Gardens “Uplifts and inspires . . . Contini has augmented the family legends with historical research and imagination.” —Sunday Times “An enchanting, delectable read.” —Sainsbury’s Magazine “Don’t miss it: there won’t be a better cookbook published this decade.” —Elisabeth Luard, author of The Old World Kitchen

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Casemate Publishers

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0857909436

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Create Your Ideal Life

Applied Psychology of Personal Adjustment and Growth

By: Mary Zahm

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Create Your Ideal Life

Applied Psychology of Personal Adjustment and Growth

By: Mary Zahm

Some pursue happiness — Others create it! — Anonymous The chief purpose of Create Your Ideal Life is to empower you to proactively (intentionally and consciously) and continually create your ideal life in a joyful and balanced fashion by following the holistic (emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts) Life Creation Process described in it. Following the Life Creation Process will help you to gain the level of self-understanding required to optimize the quality of your life and achieve personal growth. As you read this book, you will be introduced to the key concepts of applied psychology of personal adjustment and growth. The term applied indicates that the material provided is practical and that you can readily use the concepts provided to create and control your self and your life. The words psychology of personal adjustment indicate that one focus of the book is upon “... the individual’s response to the physical, psychological, and social demands of the self, other people, and the environment” (Napoli, Kilbridge & Tebbs, 1996, p. 4). The words psychology of personal growth indicate that another focus is upon “... the process by which the individual changes his or her thoughts, feelings, or behaviors regarding the self, others, or the environment” (Napoli and others, 1996, p. 4). Additionally, you will learn effective strategies for exploring life choices and making decisions, managing life changes, changing self-defeating beliefs and habits, coping effectively with stress, and developing effective interpersonal relationships. You will also discover the important role that essential beliefs and core values play in the decision-making process and the problems that can arise out of value conflicts. I have provided true stories from my own life and from the lives of my family members, friends, and students to clarify and underscore key points. The stories are all true. However, some of the names were changed to protect each person’s privacy, except in cases where permission was granted to use the person’s real name. Throughout this book, I have used a cinematic (pertaining to the movie industry) analogy to explain the spiritual, psychological, physical, and social issues involved in personal adjustment and growth across the life span. I have used the cinematic analogy to both simplify and dramatize the key concepts in the holistic Life Creation Process in order to make them easier for you to understand, learn to use, and remember. In addition to the mnemonic (memory-enhancing) value of the cinematic analogy, I believe it makes the complex concepts involved in the holistic Life Creation Process easy to discuss with and teach other people. Most people are already familiar with the meaning of most of the movie industry terms used such as star, actor, screen image, script, cast, producer, director, and sequel, and they understand how all the key aspects of a movie can either contribute to its success or ruin the entire project. Therefore, using the cinematic terms makes it easier for people to comprehend how all the key aspects of their Ideal Future Life must be harmonious in order to achieve the desired results. As you complete the Life Creation Process Exercises, you will be directed to analyze the key aspects of your Present Life and create a script for your Ideal Future Life using techniques that are similar to those employed by successful movie stars, directors, producers, set designers, and script writers (e.g., DiTillio.;, 1995). You will also be guided to identify the Transitional Life goals that you will need to achieve in order to segue from living your Present Life to living your Ideal Future Life. The Ideal Future Life that you design at this present time is definitely not all there is or will ever be possible in your life. As you grow and change, you will update your vision of your ideal life. Learning the tools and techniques used in the Life Creation Process Exercises will empower you to continually recreate your Ideal Future Life through planned sequels in order to keep your life well balanced and overflowing with happiness and spiritual joy. The resources used for this book reflect my multidisciplinary approach to the Life Creation Process as well as my positive psychological orientation. I have included concepts from the traditional scholarly social-psychological literature, the popular self-help and self-improvement literature, and the media (plays, movies, tv, newspapers and magazines). The material includes both multidisciplinary academic resources and popular self-improvement resources that I have used, and found to be beneficial, during my own explorations in personal adjustment, growth, and Ideal Future Life creation. Most of the new material in this revised version of Create Your Ideal Life is from information that I have incorporated into my lectures, in-class exercises, and course assignments over the past 15 years.

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1452025010

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From the Frio to Del Rio

Travel Guide to the Western Hill Country and the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

By: Mary S. Black

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From the Frio to Del Rio

Travel Guide to the Western Hill Country and the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

By: Mary S. Black

Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy Bean Visitors’ Center and Botanical Garden, Seminole Canyon State Park, and the Briscoe-Garner Museum in Uvalde, along with ghost towns, ancient rock art, sweeping vistas, and unique flora and fauna, are just a few of the features that make this distinctive section of the Lone Star State an enticing destination. Now, veteran writer, blogger, and educator Mary S. Black serves up the best of this region’s special adventures and secret treasures. From the Frio to Del Rio is chock-full of helpful maps, colorful photography, and tips on where to stay, what to do, and how to get there. In addition there are details for 10 scenic routes, 3 historic forts and 7 state parks and other recreation areas.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623495083

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Tonia

By: Adrian Roy Walker,Mary Messina

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Tonia

By: Adrian Roy Walker,Mary Messina

Tonia begins in Sicily and portrays life in the village in the turbulent years of Post-WWII. The village that had seemingly remained dormant for centuries, was suddenly restless and on the move. Many had left, mainly for the canefields of North Queensland, among them Tonia's husband, Enzo. Tonia recreates life in the village at the time and explores the raw emotions and soul searching associated with families being torn apart in the euphoria of new possibilities and new adventures. It is a story of struggle, of pain and joy, of hope, of human perserverance, but above all, it is a love story.

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Boolarong Press

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1921555181

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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

By: Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven

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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

By: Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life — from childbirth and marriage to sickness and death. Breaking free from the usual focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, The Sacred Home investigates practices of piety across the Italian peninsula, with particular attention paid to the city of Naples, the Marche, and the Venetian mainland. It also looks beyond the elite to consider artisanal and lower-status households, and reveals gender and age as factors that powerfully conditioned religious experience. Recovering a host of lost voices and compelling narratives at the intersection between the divine and the everyday, The Sacred Home offers unprecedented glimpses through the keyhole into the spiritual lives of Renaissance Italians.

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Oxford University Press

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0192548476

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Pompeii

The Life of a Roman Town

By: Mary Beard

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Pompeii

The Life of a Roman Town

By: Mary Beard

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.

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Profile Books

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1847650643

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Italian Voices

Making Minnesota Our Home

By: Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich

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Italian Voices

Making Minnesota Our Home

By: Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich

Italian Americans share rich stories of everyday life.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873515811

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The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

The Essence of Opera

By: Mary May Robertson

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The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

The Essence of Opera

By: Mary May Robertson

“But what is this scent of balmy air? What this ray of light in my tomb? I seem to see an angel, amid a scent of roses” sings Florestan in Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera. The role of scents, smells, fragrances, and odours in opera has long been neglected, just as how much opera and its stars have influenced the world of perfumery from the nineteenth century to the present day. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the relationship between opera, perfumes, and their respective protagonists in order to map out the previously undiscussed connection between the two. Through compelling close readings of librettos and rigorous research through thousands of bottles of perfume, the reader will come to appreciate and recognise the influences and exchanges between operas and perfumes and their ultimate marriage in the previously unrecognised genre of Operatic Perfumes, which is to say, perfumes named after operas, composers, and their divas.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527531287

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9781527531284

The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit

Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels

By: Mary E. Buck

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The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit

Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels

By: Mary E. Buck

In The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit Mary Buck pursues a nuanced view of populations in the Bronze Age Levant, with the objective of understanding the ancient polity of Ugarit as a kin-based culture that shares close ties with neighbouring Amorite populations.

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BRILL

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9004415114

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Princes of the Renaissance

The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

By: Mary Hollingsworth

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Princes of the Renaissance

The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

By: Mary Hollingsworth

A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones—from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and from Isabella d'Este of Mantua to Lucrezia Borgia. Many of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held Renaissance society together—but whose tensions could spark feuds that threatened to tear it apart. A vivid depiction of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Renaissance, Princes of the Renaissance is a narrative that is as rigorous and definitively researched as it is accessible and entertaining. Perhaps most importantly, Mary Hollingsworth sets the aesthetic achievements of these aristocratic patrons in the context of the volatile, ever-shifting politics of an age of change and innovation.

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Simon and Schuster

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1643135473

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9781643135472

Siphonophora (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific Waters

By: Gillian M. Mapstone,Mary N. Arai

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Siphonophora (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific Waters

By: Gillian M. Mapstone,Mary N. Arai

Section 4. Ecology, by Mary N. Arai ... and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary.

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NRC Research Press

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0660198436

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Inside Job

The Looting of America's Savings and Loans

By: Stephen Pizzo,Mary Fricker,Paul Muolo

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Inside Job

The Looting of America's Savings and Loans

By: Stephen Pizzo,Mary Fricker,Paul Muolo

New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: “Hard to put down” (Library Journal). For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful institutions to spread their taxpayer-insured assets into new and risky investments. The looser regulations and reduced federal oversight also opened the industry to an army of shady characters, white-collar criminals, and organized crime groups. Less than 10 years later, half the nation’s savings and loans were insolvent, leaving the American taxpayer on the hook for a large hunk of the nearly half a trillion dollars that had gone missing. The authors of Inside Job saw signs of danger long before the scandal hit nationwide. Decades after the savings and loan collapse, Inside Job remains a thrilling read and a sobering reminder that our financial institutions are more fragile than they appear.

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Open Road Media

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1504019911

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Sicily: Catania & the Southeast (Footprint Focus Guide)

By: Mary-Ann Gallagher

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Sicily: Catania & the Southeast (Footprint Focus Guide)

By: Mary-Ann Gallagher

Footprintfocus Sicily: Catania and the Southeast is the only dedicated guide available covering this popular Italian destination. Features an Essentials section with practical tips to help plan a trip, detailed information on attractions and comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep and have fun. • Essentials section with tips on getting there and around • Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat • Highlights map of the region plus detailed street maps where relevant • Slim enough to fit in a pocket Loaded with advice and information on how to get around, this concise Footprintfocus guide will help travellers get the most out of Catania and Southeast region of Sicily without weighing them down. The content of the Footprintfocus Sicily: Catania and Southeast guide has been extracted from Footprint's Sicily guide.

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Footprint Travel Guides

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1908207027

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Italian Music Incunabula

Printers and Type

By: Mary Kay Duggan,Mary Kay Conyers Duggan

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Italian Music Incunabula

Printers and Type

By: Mary Kay Duggan,Mary Kay Conyers Duggan

A splendid piece of work . . . fascinating for bibliographers, musicologists, liturgical specialists, and Renaissance historians."--D. W. Krummel, University of Illinois "A splendid piece of work . . . fascinating for bibliographers, musicologists, liturgical specialists, and Renaissance historians."--D. W. Krummel, University of Illinois

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0520057856

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The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

By: Marco Fontani,Mariagrazia Costa,Mary Virginia Orna

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The Lost Elements

The Periodic Table's Shadow Side

By: Marco Fontani,Mariagrazia Costa,Mary Virginia Orna

The Periodic Table of Elements hasn't always looked like it does now, a well-organized chart arranged by atomic number. In the mid-nineteenth century, chemists were of the belief that the elements should be sorted by atomic weight. However, the weights of many elements were calculated incorrectly, and over time it became clear that not only did the elements need rearranging, but that the periodic table contained many gaps and omissions: there were elements yet to be discovered, and the allure of finding one had scientists rushing to fill in the blanks. Supposed "discoveries" flooded laboratories, and the debate over what did and did not belong on the periodic table reached a fever pitch. With the discovery of radioactivity, the discourse only intensified. Throughout its formation, the Periodic Table of Elements has seen false entries, good-faith errors, retractions, and dead ends. In fact, there have been more falsely proclaimed elemental discoveries throughout history than there are elements on the table as we know it today. The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side collects the most notable of these instances, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. The book tells the story of how scientists have come to understand elements, by discussing the failed theories and false discoveries that shaped the path of scientific progress. We learn of early chemists' stubborn refusal to disregard alchemy as a legitimate practice, and of one German's supposed discovery of an elemental metal that breathed. As elements began to be created artificially in the twentieth century, we watch the discovery climate shift to favor the physicists, rather than the chemists. Along the way, Fontani, Costa, and Orna introduce us to the key figures in the development of today's periodic table, including Lavoisier and Mendeleev. Featuring a preface from Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, The Lost Elements is an expansive history of the wrong side of chemical discovery-and reveals how these errors and gaffes have helped shape the table as much as any other form of scientific progress.

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0199383367

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The Fires of Vesuvius

The Fires of Vesuvius

Dear Alfonso

Dear Alfonso

Create Your Ideal Life

Create Your Ideal Life

From the Frio to Del Rio

From the Frio to Del Rio

Tonia

Tonia

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

Pompeii

Pompeii

Italian Voices

Italian Voices

The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit

The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit

Princes of the Renaissance

Princes of the Renaissance

Siphonophora (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific Waters

Siphonophora (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific Waters

Inside Job

Inside Job

Sicily: Catania & the Southeast (Footprint Focus Guide)

Sicily: Catania & the Southeast (Footprint Focus Guide)

Italian Music Incunabula

Italian Music Incunabula

The Lost Elements

The Lost Elements

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