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Book Synopsis Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome by : Rita J. Markel
Download or read book Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome written by Rita J. Markel and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in ancient Rome, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, and notable personalities.
Book Synopsis Rita and the Romans by : Hilda Offen
Download or read book Rita and the Romans written by Hilda Offen and published by Rita the Rescuer. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Roman day at the Sports Field. There's plenty of work for Rita--a toddler's being launched in the air from the catapult, a trumpeter's in trouble, and she is even called upon to build Adrian's Wall!
Book Synopsis The Fall of the Roman Empire by : Rita J. Markel
Download or read book The Fall of the Roman Empire written by Rita J. Markel and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the period of the decline of the Roman Empire, discussing the economic, social, political, religious, and military factors which led to its final downfall.
Book Synopsis Bending Toward the Sun by : Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
Download or read book Bending Toward the Sun written by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here is a memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love and toward a beautiful, light filled conclusion. Read Bending Toward the Sun and enrich your life.” — Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters and Making Loss Matter-Creating Meaning in Difficult Times A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacy—forged in the terror of the Holocaust—that has shaped three generations of lives. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie tells the story of her mother, Rita, who like Anne Frank spent years hiding from the Nazis, and whose long-hidden pain shaped both her daughter and granddaughter’s lives. Bringing together the stories of three generations of women, Bending Toward the Sun reveals how deeply the Holocaust lives in the hearts and minds of survivors and their descendants.
Download or read book Rita's Rabbit written by Laura Mucha and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be careful what you wish for!Rita really really really wanted a rabbit.Spike was NOT a rabbit.He was scaly, scary, scratchy, scrabbly, scrawny, speckled and spiky.Rita is so very sure she wants a fluffy pet rabbit and NOT a scaly, scratchy bearded dragon called Spike . . . But when a fussy, grouchy, messy rabbit comes to stay, she discovers they aren't necessarily as adorable as they seem. Spike saves the day and Rita is very glad to be rid of the rabbit and very in love with her speckled, scrawny, spiky pet.A very funny text wonderfully complemented by Hannah Peck's witty artwork.
Book Synopsis The Seven Hills of Rome by : Grant Heiken
Download or read book The Seven Hills of Rome written by Grant Heiken and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. Why did this historic city become so much more influential than its neighbor, nearby Latium, which was peopled by more or less the same stock? Over the years, historians, political analysts, and sociologists have discussed this question ad infinitum, without considering one underlying factor that led to the rise of Rome--the geology now hidden by the modern city. This book demonstrates the important link between the history of Rome and its geologic setting in a lively, fact-filled narrative sure to interest geology and history buffs and travelers alike. The authors point out that Rome possessed many geographic advantages over surrounding areas: proximity to a major river with access to the sea, plateaus for protection, nearby sources of building materials, and most significantly, clean drinking water from springs in the Apennines. Even the resiliency of Rome's architecture and the stability of life on its hills are underscored by the city's geologic framework. If carried along with a good city map, this book will expand the understanding of travelers who explore the eternal city's streets. Chapters are arranged geographically, based on each of the seven hills, the Tiber floodplain, ancient creeks that dissected the plateau, and ridges that rise above the right bank. As an added bonus, the last chapter consists of three field trips around the center of Rome, which can be enjoyed on foot or by using public transportation.
Book Synopsis Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome by : Michele Renee Salzman
Download or read book Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome written by Michele Renee Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume argue that the once-dominant notion of pagan-Christian religious conflict cannot fully explain the texts and artifacts, as well as the social, religious, and political realities of late antique Rome. Together, the essays demonstrate that the fourth-century city was a more fluid, vibrant, and complex place than was previously thought. Competition between diverse groups in Roman society - be it pagans with Christians, Christians with Christians, or pagans with pagans - did create tensions and hostility, but it also allowed for coexistence and reduced the likelihood of overt violent, physical conflict. Competition and coexistence, along with conflict, emerge as still central paradigms for those who seek to understand the transformations of Rome from the age of Constantine through the early fifth century.
Download or read book Imprimatur written by Rita Monaldi and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle for Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defendersof Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be placed under quarantine. One of its detainees, the mysterious Atto Melani, a spy in the service of France, discovers a secret passage leading deep into the Roman underworld. A plot to assassinate the pope and plans to use the plague as a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West are discovered. Meticulously researched and brilliantly conceived, Imprimatur contains startling revelations that have been concealed for centuries, drawing on original papers discovered in the Vatican archives. A thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, this novel sheds new light on the power struggles of 17th-century Europe, the repercussions of which are still felt today. First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, Imprimatur was boycotted by the Italian press and publishing world. Despite this, the novel has gained European bestseller status; it has been translated into 20 languages with editions published in 45 countries. Over 1 million copies have been sold to date.
Book Synopsis The Last Pagans of Rome by : Alan Cameron
Download or read book The Last Pagans of Rome written by Alan Cameron and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the classics, and propaganda for the old cults in art and literature. The main focus of much modern scholarship on the end of paganism in the West has been on its supposed stubborn resistance to Christianity. The dismantling of this romantic myth is one of the main goals of Alan Cameron's book. Actually, the book argues, Western paganism petered out much earlier and more rapidly than hitherto assumed.The subject of this book is not the conversion of the last pagans but rather the duration, nature, and consequences of their survival. By re-examining the abundant textual evidence, both Christian (Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Paulinus, Prudentius) and "pagan" (Claudian, Macrobius, and Ammianus Marcellinus), as well as the visual evidence (ivory diptychs, illuminated manuscripts, silverware), Cameron shows that most of the activities and artifacts previously identified as hallmarks of a pagan revival were in fact just as important to the life of cultivated Christians. Far from being a subversive activity designed to rally pagans, the acceptance of classical literature, learning, and art by most elite Christians may actually have helped the last reluctant pagans to finally abandon the old cults and adopt Christianity. The culmination of decades of research, The Last Pagans of Rome will overturn many long-held assumptions about pagan and Christian culture in the late antique West.
Download or read book Belly Up written by Rita Bullwinkel and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.
Download or read book Secretum written by Rita Monaldi and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani - once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King - mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal's nephew's wedding, the main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II, King of Spain. Charles has no heir and Kaiser Leopold of Austria and King Louis are each demanding the throne, with the Vatican supposedly mediating. Keen to promote his master's cause, Melani sets in motion a grandiose conspiracy that will plunge him into a world of secret languages, religious sects, forged Royal wills and Europe into war.
Book Synopsis Rita's Transformation by : Rita Murray
Download or read book Rita's Transformation written by Rita Murray and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master manipulator, short-fuse angry, impatient, self-centred, controlling, and jealous. These are but a few of the adjectives Rita Murray uses to describe herself—until her transformation, that is. Can a person really change deeply-imbedded aspects of their personality? Traits that have been learned since childhood, practiced patterns of behaviour, is it possible to alter these so significantly that it is as if the person is reborn? In Rita’s Transformation the author, Rita Murray, outlines her life: what she was like, what happened to her, and what she is like today. Rita describes the incidents that warranted the changes she needed to make. Most changes came very slowly, although some were quick, but all were necessary and beneficial for Rita to have a better life and enjoy the time she has left before going Home. Some of the stories may seem funny now but at the time they were difficult—yet all were learning experiences. The author shares her understanding and advice on: • Where to go to get the right kind of help from the diseases of alcoholism and drug addiction • How to reframe one’s mind to think the right things in the right way and then to choose to act in a more positive manner • How to change to be a better person by getting to know Jesus Christ and how to follow Him by reading and studying the Bible and getting help from a spiritual leader. God has changed Rita to the point that she is not the person she was before she invited Him to come into her life and help her to be willing to change. Rita’s story has the power to motivate individuals to get help when they need to and find some of the happiness and peace that Rita has today.
Book Synopsis Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A. from the Italian by : Richard Connolly
Download or read book Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A. from the Italian written by Richard Connolly and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the story of Saint Rita of Cascia, an Augustinian nun. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Rita was beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1626 and canonized by Pope Leo XIII on May 24, 1900. At her canonization ceremony, she received the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes. This book is a story of her life and miracles.
Download or read book Rita Superhero written by Hilda Offen and published by Rita the Rescuer. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age range 5 to 7 Rita has a special secret. One day -- left out of the fun as usual by her big brothers and sister -- Rita finds a parcel on the doorstep. It is addressed to her and contains a special cloak, boots and gloves. A complete Rescuer's outfit. It gives her amazing powers and soon she is performing some very daring rescues...
Book Synopsis Our Own St. Rita by : Matthew J. Corcoran
Download or read book Our Own St. Rita written by Matthew J. Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis St. Rita of Cascia by : Joseph Sicardo
Download or read book St. Rita of Cascia written by Joseph Sicardo and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church is a faithful custodian of the “Lives of the Saints,” of those books which contain the wonderful and glorious deeds of her children who have lived and died in the odor of sanctity. And she looks on every “Life of a Saint” as a guidebook pointing out the way to Heaven to all Christians, who are only travelers on the way to their true home. After the Bible and the Catechism there is no book more precious in the eyes of Mother Church than a “Life of a Saint.” It is the dearest wish of Mother Church that her children should frequently read the lives of the Saints; by so doing they gradually become acquainted with a select society to which, in a great measure, they will be forced to raise the standard of their daily lives. Our Holy Father St. Augustine is a striking example of what the reading of the lives of the Saints may do. A friend of his, Alipius by name, gave him the life of St. Anthony the Abbot. Augustine read it, and was so extremely affected by what he read that it was one main cause of his conversion. Looking down the long calendar of saints, glancing carefully over the Church’s long honor list of men and women whose names were held in veneration in their days, we find no name crowned with a greater halo of glory and honor than that of St. Rita, the humble Augustinian nun of Cascia, now venerated under the singular title of the Saint of the Impossible. It is more than 450 years since St. Rita departed this life to be united forever to her Lord and spouse Jesus Christ, and yet her name is still held in benediction, not only among the faithful of Italy, her native country, but also among the faithful of the rest of Europe, who vie with the people of South and North America in honoring and venerating our illustrious Saint. Among the many magnificent “Lives of St. Rita” written by the Italian and Spanish Augustinians, we prefer that written by our brother religious, Father Joseph Sicardo. As his book has had a large propaganda in Spain, the Philippine Islands and in Spanish America, we have hopes that the same book, garbed in an English dress, will help to keep alive that fire of devotion which now burns in the hearts of so many clients of St. Rita in North America. That our translation of Father Sicardo’s Life of St. Rita may have the result of further increasing not only the veneration, but also the number, of the clients of our sister, St. Rita, is our only wish and ambition.
Book Synopsis Betty and Rita by : Judith E. Hughes
Download or read book Betty and Rita written by Judith E. Hughes and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the paw prints of "Betty and Rita Go To Paris", comes a Roman holiday with these two endearing labs. 40 photos.
