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Master these two essential building blocks of fluency in Italian quickly and painlessly

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Pronouns and Prepositions provides you with clear, detailed explanations and all the practice tools needed to master these two knotty elements of Italian grammar. Using many realistic examples taken from everyday life, author Daniela Gobetti takes the mystery out of Italian pronouns and prepositions and gives you plenty of exercises to reinforce what you have learned.

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A comprehensive region-by-region guide to the most interesting and typical small restaurants, inns and hotels of Italy.

From the Alps to the Adriatic, from cheese fondue and white truffles to Neapolitan pizza and Sorrento lemons, the Italian peninsula comprises an incredible diversity of climates, cultures, and cuisines. In this special guide, the experts at Slow Food identify the best local places to eat and stay, providing over 2,000 profiles of traditional taverns, bed and breakfast inns, agritourism farms, and hotels.

Now available in English, and for the first time in one volume, this no-nonsense travel planner is an indispensable companion for anyone contemplating a culinary or cultural trip to Italy. Written by Italians for Italians, Osterie & Locande d'Italia is aimed at the discerning traveler who needs all the basic information (prices, accommodations, addresses), but also wants inside information on places that are "off the beaten track" and that reflect the most authentic face of Italy's regional character and cuisines..
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A dazzlingly illustrated history of Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book tells the story of the world's most famous family of jewelers, goldsmiths, and silversmiths, and the pieces that made their name..
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Where do fairies dwell? How do they talk to flowers and animals? In this delightful picture book for children, atmospheric illustrations reveal the secret life of fairies and nature spirits Their magic world, hidden within nature, is a constantly changing tableau, and as we follow them through the seasons we discover how they work and play. The enchanting, detailed pictures will appeal to both young and old..
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The theater of sensual dreams

The Czech Republic has long been a land of mystery and magic, home to alchemists, artists, and the original bohemians, all of them weavers of spells, creators of fantastic worlds of the imagination. Internationally famous Czech photographer Jan Saudek is no exception, and equally as uncompromising in pursuit of his own unique vision. For over four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most extraordinary characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful—at times ribald—pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting the traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and almost mythical theater of dreams. Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true "velvet revolution," fertile and unsettling images from the dreams we might still have..
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The second picture book from Daniela Drescher—author and illustrator of In the Land of Fairies—is filled with full-spread watercolor illustrations that reveal the secret world of the elves and their animal companions among the trees, roots, and fields. We see them at work and play through the seasons. (Ages 4–7).
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Fokus Deutsch offers a powerful new resource for teaching beginning and intermediate German. This dynamic new three-level program carefully integrates videos, texts, audio and other supplements to bring German language, history and culture into focus for students. Fokus Deutsch was created through a collaboration of the Annenberg/CPB project, WGBH/Boston, and the McGraw-Hill Companies - the trio who also created Destinos, Nuevos Destinos, and Connect with English - along with Inter Nationes and the Goethe-Institut. The result is an original and engaging program that immerses students in the reality of German life, history, and culture. The comprehensive package for Fokus Deutsch also includes such multimedia supplements as a CD-ROM resource for instructors and a text specific website! In short, Fokus Deutsch is a comprehensive, well-organized program that integrates video, audio print and technology as effectively as it integrates language, drama, culture, and history..
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Kuan Yin is revered by millions across spiritual traditions. A female bodhisattva (one who is fully devoted to the enlightenment of others), she stood at the gates of Nirvana ready to enter. But when she heard the cries of suffering in the world, she chose to remain in the human realm until the last sentient being was freed from pain. In Kuan Yin, author and devotee Daniela Schenker offers readers an exquisite book of full-color photographs and illustrations, along with invocations, meditations, and visualizations to summon the healing energy of this goddess of compassion and liberation. Daniela Schenker has been a student of Asian traditions for more than twenty years, traveling extensively throughout the world to trace both the history and modern worship of Kuan Yin. Readers join her to learn more about: * 33 of Kuan Yin's manifestations, each with its own contemplation and watercolor image * Tips and techniques to create a devotional shrine to Kuan Yin--your own sacred place to call upon her blessings * Namo Kuan Shi Yin Pusa and other powerful mantras to invoke Kuan Yin's guidance and protection * Kuan Yin's "power spot," the beautiful Chinese island of Putuo Shan Exquisite and graceful like the goddess herself, Kuan Yin makes the perfect gift; a treasured book for your personal altar; and a companion on the spiritual path to receiving this compassionate deity's lovingkindness..
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Go beyond arrivedirci and add thousands of words to your Italian vocabulary

To communicate comfortably in Italian, you need access to a variety of words that are more than just the basics. In Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary you get the tools you need to expand your lexicon and sharpen your speaking and writing skills. And how do you this? PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for a burgeoning vocabulary, you will perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence you need to communicate well in Italian.

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Vocabulary offers you:

• More than 250 exercises
• Concise grammatical explanations
• An answer key to gauge your comprehension

With help from this book, you can easily speak or write in Italian about:

Different occupations and jobs * Italian holidays and traditions * Taking the train * Growing your own garden * Where it hurts on your body * Your house * Your family and friends * What you studied in school * Your favorite TV show * Your family's background . . . and much more!

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