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Ah! Tuscany

Author : Don McPherson
Publisher : Ah! Tuscany
ISBN 13 : 159800767X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ah! Tuscany written by Don McPherson and published by Ah! Tuscany. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTHORs REVIEW and COMMENTS on Ah! Tuscany : the Enlightenment of an ExpatraiteFive years ago my wife - Silvia - and I purchased a condominium in San Gimignano. This book is my story of what followed. Unlike most books, there is no obvious story line throughout - and this presented me with the challenge of leaving the reader with what at the end coalesces into a complete story. There are however, two shorter story lines. The first is: locating, purchasing, improving, and furnishing an apartment near San Gimignano and the second - woven throughtout the book - concerns obtaining our permission to live in Italy, official residency, car ownership and registration, Carta di Soggiorno, citizenship, and documents for a stolen car.Otherwise the book is a mosaic of personal experiences and observations that encompass our living experience and in the end it becomes clear that the real story is about getting to know the customs and people sufficiently that we felt truly at home in San Gimignano. For example, I describe shops, restaurants, a visit to the mayors office, the grape harvest and wine making, olive harvest and mushroom hunt and interactions with workmen (our artisans). I take the reader traveling to Volterra, Florence, Siena, Certaldo and Poggibonsi and Tuscan villages. We go cycling, take country walks and become acquainted with ancient books, the art scene, sunsets and winter in San Gimignano. I describe money laundering, medical sevices, doctor visits, pharmacies and the payment or avoidance of taxes. We learn several difficult lessons concerning government-controlled services: utilities, banks, telephone, post, computer connection, water and traffic violations. We learn the importance of notaries and town registrar (anagrafe), I make observations on politics, TV, strikes and the press, on All Saints Day, barbers, how a condominium functions, and festivals. During the entire process, we develop valued friendships and transition from outsiders to residents who truly belong to San Gimignano.There is a separate chapter on the special issue of Tuscan Way of Life, [the strange dichotomy of aggressive governance vs beautiful life style and wonderfully warm, friendly people] and another on the history of San Gimignano.My Target Audience comprises two groups: those who enjoy reading about life in Italy particularly Tuscany - and those adventurers who are either considering living in Italy or actually doing so. Both groups, and indeed all readers who enjoy travel will be entertained by many humorous and sometimes hilarious events surrounding the mysterious bureaucratic machinations of government, while those thinking of living there may better prepare themselves for the adventure. But all readers are sure to enjoy the pleasures of Tuscan friendliness, culture and customs.The living of this story has been an experience of a lifetime. From friends and unknown readers alike, I receive reports of pleasure, enjoyment and amazement. I therefore recommend the book to you and wish that many more will decide to share in my story.Don McPhersonclick to get published: http://outskirtspress.com/cgi/agent.cgi?key=22944

Total Speech

Author : Michael Toolan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822317906
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Total Speech written by Michael Toolan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In Total Speech, Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the same time, Toolan extends the integrationalist argument and calls for a radical change in contemporary theorizing about language and communication. In every foundational area of linguistics--from literal meaning and metaphor to the nature of repetition to the status of linguistic rules--Toolan advances fascinating and provocative criticisms of received linguistic assumptions. Drawing inspiration from the writings of language theorist Roy Harris, Toolan brings the integrationalist perspective to bear on legal cases, the reception of Salman Rushdie, poetry, and the language of children. Toolan demonstrates that the embeddedness of language and the situation-sensitive mutability of meaning reveal language as a tool for re-fashioning and renewal. Total Speech breaks free of standard linguistics' fascinated attraction with "cognitive blueprints" and quasi-algorithmic processing to characterize language anew. Toolan's reflections on the essence of language, including his important discussion of intention, have strong implications for students and scholars of discourse analysis, literature, the law, anthropology, philosophy of language, communication theory, and cognitive science, as well as linguistics.

A Year In TUSCANY

Author : Barbara Athanassiadis
Publisher : AA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0992117410
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book A Year In TUSCANY written by Barbara Athanassiadis and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cold Tuscan Stone

Author : David P. Wagner
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464210772
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Cold Tuscan Stone written by David P. Wagner and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Tuscan book in David P. Wagner's Italian mysteries introduces us to Rick Montoya, an American translator who agrees to help catch art smugglers—and soon finds himself in over his head. "Perfect for readers who enjoy a complex puzzle, a bit of humor, and a fairly gentle procedural. Don't miss this one."—Library Journal, STARRED review When Rick Montoya moves to Italy to work as a translator, he doesn't expect to get involved in an investigation. But with one favor spiraling out of control, he soon finds himself fighting for his life. Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's settling in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a gallery, ready to spend his days sipping wine and examining Roman artifacts to flush out burial urn traffickers. But before sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee dies in a brutal fall from a high cliff. The local Commissario and his team consider Rick an amateur, and worse, a foreigner. And now they suspect him in the dead man's murder. While the Volterra squad pursues its leads, Rick continues to meeting his own suspects: a museum director, a top gallery owner, a low-profile import/export businessman and his enterprising color-coordinated assistant, and a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele. As the murder mystery and the art trafficking heat up, has Rick's role made him the target of both cops and criminals? This special first-in-series edition includes an introduction by the author, discussion guide, author interview, and excerpt from the second book in the series. Praise for Cold Tuscan Stone: "This is a wonderful start to a series, which should have immediate legs, and surely will thrill everyone who has lived in Italy, been to Italy, or would like to visit. As a boy I lived in both Firenze and Napoli, and reading Wagner takes me back deeply and instantly." —Joseph Heywood, author of The Woods Cop Mysteries, The Snowfly, and The Berkut "If you are interested in Italian art and artifacts, Italian history and culture, Italian food and wine, or even just good storytelling, then Cold Tuscan Stone will be right up your cobblestone alleyway... Simply put, this exciting, intriguing, well-written mystery extends an offer no reader should refuse." —Amanda Matetsky, author of The Paige Turner Mysteries "The intriguing art milieu, mouthwatering cuisine, and the team of the ironic Conti and the bemused but agile Montoya are bound to attract fans." —Publishers Weekly Other books in the Rick Montoya Italian Mysteries: Death in the Dolomites Murder Most Unfortunate Return to Umbria A Funeral in Mantova Roman Count Down To Die In Tuscany

A Thousand Days in Tuscany

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345481097
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Days in Tuscany written by Marlena de Blasi and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany. Once again, it was love at first sight. Love for the timeless countryside and the ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the friendly church bells. Love especially for old Barlozzo, the village mago, who escorts the newcomers to Tuscany’s seasonal festivals; gives them roasted country bread drizzled with just-pressed olive oil; invites them to gather chestnuts, harvest grapes, hunt truffles; and teaches them to caress the simple pleasures of each precious day. It’s Barlozzo who guides them across the minefields of village history and into the warm and fiercely beating heart of love itself. A Thousand Days in Tuscany is set in one of the most beautiful places on earth–and tucked into its fragrant corners are luscious recipes (including one for the only true bruschetta) directly from the author’s private collection.

Rapunzel

Author : Annie Siddons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849437513
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Rapunzel written by Annie Siddons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a happy childhood picking herbs, making potions, healing the sick and helping the local villagers, Rapunzel grows into a beautiful young woman - and suddenly finds herself locked in a tower. But this is Rapunzel as you've never seen her before - tough, sassy, a survivor, a lover, a fighter - and life has a whole lot more in store for her yet.... Set in Italy, the home of this ancient folk tale, Rapunzel or The Magic Pig is a lively, funny, passionate story of abandonment and loyalty, love and betrayal, complete with mafia bosses, magic bushes, evil princes and a wonderfully helpful pig.

Frommer's? Florence and Tuscany Day by Day

Author : Donald Strachan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118167171
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Frommer's? Florence and Tuscany Day by Day written by Donald Strachan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Florence & Tuscany Day by Day" is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the region. Packed with color photos, this bestselling guide offers dozens of itineraries that show visitors how to see the best of Florence and Tuscany in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Original.

The Befana Is Returning

Author : Steve Siporin
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299337308
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Befana Is Returning written by Steve Siporin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of January 5, in certain areas of southern Tuscany, a costumed, singing troupe of characters visits residents' homes, expecting to be fed and feted. This is the Befanata, a mumming tradition centered in Tuscany, whose main character--the Befana--is a kindly old woman or grandmotherly witch who delivers toys, candies, and gifts. The Befana Is Returning is a deeply researched, deftly insightful presentation of this living tradition that adds a large missing piece to the array of contemporary ethnographic scholarship on mumming.

A System of Modern Geography

Author : Samuel Augustus Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A System of Modern Geography written by Samuel Augustus Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Silk Flower Arranging

Author : Marcianne Miller
Publisher : Lark Books
ISBN 13 : 9781579905989
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Silk Flower Arranging written by Marcianne Miller and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick, easy to make, sophisticated, and elegant, these 40 silk flower arrangements are well suited to today's busy home decorator. The basics of designing that are illustrated and presented here will soon have the arranger making creative leaps in styling. Put the new, more lifelike silk flowers in treasured tiny vases; go simply exotic with Chinese-red blossoms and a single bold leaf; or make an everlasting, never fading bride's bouquet. Show off a bucket of tall blossoms, artfully arranged to look as if you've just carried them in from the garden. Hang a unique sylvan wall sconce, with leafy greenery, ferns, and berries, and a grapevine nest hidden amid the flowers. Designer tips and project variations expand the decorating possibilities.

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts

Author : Susan Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766504X
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts written by Susan Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany

Author : Beth Elon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781892145680
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany written by Beth Elon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered and into the kitchens of more than fifty superb but little-known restaurants specializing in regional cuisine–those that are for the most part overlooked by tourists and known only to the locals. Each regional section begins with illuminating and absorbing explanations of what makes Tuscan cooking so unique: location, location, location. You’ll read about a bean so beloved by a village that it’s been elevated to cult status–but unknown a few kilometers down the road; an aboriginal baby lamb that is almost unknown outside of the Zeri valley; the endless array of vegetable tarts found nowhere in Tuscany but Lunigiana and Garfagnana. With this guide in hand, you’ll not only know where to dine but what to order when you get there. In addition to 100 recipes, also included are nearby points of interest, descriptions and contact information for restaurants, trattorie, gourmet shops, wineries, olive oil producers, local markets, and regional food festivals, and how to find the monasteries, workshops, and artisans’ studios that offer local items ranging from herbal beauty products to traditional ceramics and handwoven linens.

Every Day in Tuscany

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0767929829
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Every Day in Tuscany written by Frances Mayes and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recipe-complemented work continues the author's tribute to the region of Tuscany and its people, tracing the course of a year during which she renovated a thirteenth-century house in the mountains above Cortona.

List of Geological Literature Added to the Geological Society's Library

Author : Geological Society of London. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book List of Geological Literature Added to the Geological Society's Library written by Geological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geological Literature Added to the Geological Society's Library

Author : Geological Society of London. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Geological Literature Added to the Geological Society's Library written by Geological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Talking About Wine with Ease

Author : Linda R. Foxworth
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490758879
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Talking About Wine with Ease written by Linda R. Foxworth and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical introduction to the enjoyment and service of wines, particularly in business-social settings.