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Under the Southern Sun

Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created

By: Paul Paolicelli

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Under the Southern Sun

Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created

By: Paul Paolicelli

Recently there has been a seemingly endless stream of books praising the glories of ancient and modern Rome, fretting over Venice's rising tides and moldering galleries, celebrating the Tuscan countryside, wines and cuisine. But there have been curiously few writings that deal directly with Italy as the country of origin for the grand- and great-grandparents of nearly twenty-six million Americans. The greatest majority—more than eight out of ten—of those American descendants of immigrant Italians aren't the progeny of Venetian doges or Tuscan wealth, but are the diaspora of Southern Italians, people from a place very different than Renaissance Florence or the modern political entity of Rome. Southern Italians, mostly from villages and towns sprinkled about the dramatic and remote countryside of Italian provinces even now tourists find only with determination and rental cars. In Under the Southern Sun: Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created, journalist Paul Paolicelli takes us on a grand tour of the Southern Italy of most Italian-American immigrants, including Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia, Sicily, Abruzzo, and Molise, and explores the many fascinating elements of Southern Italian society, history, and culture. Along the way, he explores the concept of heritage and of going back to one's roots, the theory of a cultural subconscious, and most importantly, the idea of a Southern Italian "sensibility" – where it comes from, how it has been cultivated, and how it has been passed on from generation to generation. Amidst the delightful blend of travelogue and journalism are wonderful stories about famous Southern Italian-Americans, most notably Frank Capra and Rudolph Valentino, who were forced to leave their homeland and to adjust, adapt, and survive in America. He tells the story of the only large concentration camp built and run by the Fascists during World War II and of the humanity of the Southerners who ran the place. He visits ancient seaside communities once dominated by castles and watchtowers and now bathed in tanning oil and tourists, muses over Matera—what is probably Europe's oldest and most unknown city – and culminates in a fascinating exploration of how one's familial memory can influence his or her internal value system. This book is a celebration of Southern Italy, its people, and what it has given to its American descendants.

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Macmillan

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146686902X

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9781466869028

Dances with Luigi

A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians

By: Paul Paolicelli

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Dances with Luigi

A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians

By: Paul Paolicelli

In this spirited memoir, veteran TV journalist Paul Paolicelli does what many of us can only dream of--he picks up and moves to a foreign country in an attempt to trace his ancestral roots. With the help of Luigi, his guide and companion, he travels through Italy--Rome, Gamberale, Matera, Miglionico, Alessandria, even Mussolini's hometown of Predappio--and discovers the tragic legacy of the Second World War that is still affecting the Old Country. He visits ancient castles and village churches, samples superb Italian cuisine, haggles at the open air market at Porta Portese, enjoys and Alessandria siesta, and frequents "coffee bars", where beggars discuss politics with affluent Italian locals. He finds lost-lost cousins during the day and performs with an amateur jazz group during the night. Along the way, he discovers deeply moving stories about his family's past and learns answers to question that have plagued him since childhood. More that just a spiritual account of one man's ancestral search, Dances With Luigi is also a stunning portrait of la bella Italia--both old and new--that is painted beautifully in all of its glamour, history, and contradiction.

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319

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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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0312273800

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9780312273804

Motor Activity and Movement Disorders

Research Issues and Applications

By: Paul Sanberg,Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp,Martin Kavaliers

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Motor Activity and Movement Disorders

Research Issues and Applications

By: Paul Sanberg,Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp,Martin Kavaliers

In Motor Activity and Movement Disorders thirteen state-of-the-art articles explicate forefront research methodologies for measuring and interpreting motor activity in animals, as well as their applications to preclinical and clinical research involving motor disorders. The contributors emphasize motor asymmetries, turning behavior, and dyskinetic movements. They also present a variety of quantitative approaches designed to assess specific aspects of motor activity and illustrate numerous computerized measuring techniques that permit detailed and objective approaches to quantifying motor behavior. Motor Activity and Movement Disorders will contribute to a greater understanding of brain-behavior relationships through its focus on methodology and its application to current animal models and to human disorders.

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379

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1592594697

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9781592594696

Virus-Like Particles

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Paul Pumpens,Peter Pushko

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Virus-Like Particles

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Paul Pumpens,Peter Pushko

This book represents the first complete and systematic guide to the virus-like particles (VLPs) and their applications as vaccines, therapeutic tools, nanomaterials, and nanodevices. The grouping of the VLPs follows the most recent virus taxonomy and the traditional Baltimore classification of viruses, which are based on the genome structure and mechanism of mRNA synthesis. Within each of the seven Baltimore classes, the order taxon serves as a framework of the chapter’s arrangement. The term "VLP" is used as a universal designation for the virus-, core-, or capsid-like structures, which became an important part of the modern molecular virology. The 3D structures, expression systems, and nanotechnological applications are described for VLPs in the context of the original viruses and uncover their evolving potential as novel vaccines and medical interventions. Key Features Presents the first full guide to the VLP nanotechnology, classified by current viral taxonomy Outlines specific structural properties and interconnection of the virions and VLPs Explains generation and characteristics of VLPs produced by various expression systems Offers up-to-date summary of VLPs designed as vaccines and delivery tools Unveils interconnection of VLPs with novel organic and inorganic nanomaterials

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CRC Press

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100056987X

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9781000569872

Dances with Luigi

A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians

By: Paul Paolicelli

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A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians

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Under the Southern Sun

Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created

By: Paul Paolicelli

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Macmillan

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Paul Tillich in Conversation

By: Paul Tillich,James B. Ashbrook

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Paul Tillich in Conversation

By: Paul Tillich,James B. Ashbrook

For those who know little about Professor Paul Tillich, this book will introduce them to both his ideas and the kind of person he was. For those who are already familiar with him and his work, this book will remind them of what he was like and the way he thought. In either case, this book is a liberal education in itself as it weaves together the warmth of his person with the range of his insights.

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Cloverdale Corporation

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1556050380

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9781556050381

Why Read Pascal?

By: Paul J. Griffiths

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Why Read Pascal?

By: Paul J. Griffiths

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is known in the English-speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensées, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace, freedom, and predestination; the nature of the church; the Christian life; what it is to write and read; the order of things; the nature and purpose of human life; and more. He was among the polymaths of the seventeenth century, and among the principal apologists of his time for the Catholic faith, against both its Protestant opponents and its secular critics. Why Read Pascal? engages all the major topics of Pascal's theological and philosophical writing. It provides discussion of Pascal's literary style, his linked understandings of knowledge and of the various orders of things, his anthropology (with special attention to his presentation of affliction, death, and boredom), his politics, and his understanding of the relation between Christianity and Judaism. Pascal emerges as a literary stylist of a high order, a witty and polemical writer (never have the Jesuits been more thoroughly eviscerated), and, perhaps above all else, as someone concerned to show to Christianity's cultured despisers that the fabric of their own lives implies the truth of Christianity if only they can be brought to look at what their lives are like. Why Read Pascal? is the first book in English in a generation to engage all the principal themes in Pascal's theology and philosophy. The book takes Pascal seriously as an interlocutor and as a contributor of continuing relevance to Catholic thought; but it also offers criticisms of some among the positions he takes, showing, in doing so, how lively his writing remains for us now.

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262

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CUA Press

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0813233844

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9780813233840

Humanae Vitae

Encyclical of His Holiness Pope Paul VI

By: Pope Paul VI

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Humanae Vitae

Encyclical of His Holiness Pope Paul VI

By: Pope Paul VI

A revised and improved translation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter, Humanae vitae.

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Ignatius Press

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1681492385

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9781681492384

The Readings of the Paul Solomon Source

By: Paul Solomon,Mary Siobhan McGibbon

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The Readings of the Paul Solomon Source

By: Paul Solomon,Mary Siobhan McGibbon

During his lifetime, Paul Solomon was considered to be one of the foremost teachers of human potential and was recognised internationally as a powerful, dynamic speaker and a leading authority on all aspects of spiritual development. This book is comprised of the readings the Paul gave during the period of October 13, 1991-May 28, 1992.

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695

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1907179496

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The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1

A Commentary

By: Paul Kalligas

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The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1

A Commentary

By: Paul Kalligas

The first volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophy This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, a document in which Plotinus’s student—the collector and arranger of the Enneads—introduces the philosopher and his work. A landmark contribution to modern Plotinus scholarship, Paul Kalligas’s commentary is the most detailed and extensive ever written for the whole of the Enneads. For each of the treatises in the first three Enneads, Kalligas provides a brief introduction that presents the philosophical background against which Plotinus’s contribution can be assessed; a synopsis giving the main lines and the articulation of the argument; and a running commentary placing Plotinus’s thought in its intellectual context and making evident the systematic association of its various parts with each other.

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Princeton University Press

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069115421X

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9780691154213

Paul Tillich

Theologian of the Boundaries

By: Paul Tillich,Mark Kline Taylor

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Paul Tillich

Theologian of the Boundaries

By: Paul Tillich,Mark Kline Taylor

Paul Tillich, forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933, settled in the United States. His many theological works and especially his three volume Systematic Theology have had a profound influence upon contemporary religious thought. This volume concentrates on the key texts and ideas in Tillich's thought. It presents the essential Paul Tillich for students and the general reader. Taylor's introductory essay and notes on the selected texts set Tillich in his historical context, chart the development of this thought and indicate the significance of his theology in the development of Christian theology as a whole. Substantial selections from Tillich's work illustrate key themes: The struggle for a new theonomy Protestant theology amid socialist crisis In the sacred void: being and God Amid structures of destruction: Christ as new being Among the ambiguities of life: Spirit and churches In the end: revisioning and hope

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351

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Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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0800634039

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9780800634032

Humanae Vitae

By: Giovanni Battista Montini

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Humanae Vitae

By: Giovanni Battista Montini

A revised and improved translation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter, Humanae vitae.

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Under the Southern Sun

Under the Southern Sun

Dances with Luigi

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Motor Activity and Movement Disorders

Motor Activity and Movement Disorders

Virus-Like Particles

Virus-Like Particles

Dances with Luigi

Dances with Luigi

Under the Southern Sun

Under the Southern Sun

Paul Tillich in Conversation

Paul Tillich in Conversation

Why Read Pascal?

Why Read Pascal?

Humanae Vitae

Humanae Vitae

The Readings of the Paul Solomon Source

The Readings of the Paul Solomon Source

The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1

The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1

Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich

Humanae Vitae

Humanae Vitae

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