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  • Queer Italiaby Gary P. Cestaro

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00

    This volume gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. The essays open an area in the Italian tradition wherein fixed definitions of sexual identity collapse. more...

  • The Legacy of Primo Leviby Stansilao G. Pugliese

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 81.00

    This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author. There are four essays ib Levi's complex and fertile theory of the 'Gray Zone' and further essays on the myriad aspects of this thought. This is an excellent collection with new perspectives on Levi's life and work. more...

  • Public History, Private Storiesby Graziella Parati

    University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 96.00

    Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography?a public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, Parati draws important connections between self-writing and the debate over women?s roles, both traditional and transgressive. more...

  • Fascist Virilitiesby Barbara Spackman

    University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 57.00

    Exploring different conceptions of virility?as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce?in a selection of Italian political manifestos and literary writings, Fascist Virilities exposes the relation between fascist rhetoric and ideology. more...

  • iSpeak Italianby Alex Chapin

    McGraw-Hill 2007; US$ 12.95

    See it. Hear it. Speak it. Turn your iPod into a portable translator and put 1,500 Italian phrases in your pocket. Instead of just listening to the latest hits, you can use your iPod to hear and see 1,500 essential Italian phrases. It's as simple as listening to a song by your favorite artist: Go to “Artist” --Choose the theme you want.; Go to “Album” --Select your topic within the theme.; Select the phrase you want to hear —you will not only hear the phrase but see it on your iPod screen!. Traveling has never been so easy nor sounded so good!. Designed for use with iPod. Also compatible with Zune and most MP3 players. See manual for details. Contains one MP3 audio disc and 64-page booklet. more...

  • Eating out in Five Languagesby A&C Black

    A&C Black 2004; US$ 10.40

    This volume will help you decipher menus whether they are in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. It has over 10,000 food and drink terms translated to and from English, covering dishes, ingredients, methods of cooking and useful phrases for ordering and asking for service. more...

  • Difficoltà in matematicaby Rosetta Zan

    Springer 2007; US$ 29.95

    Il volume affronta il problema delle difficolt in matematica in contesto scolastico: fenomeno diffuso e preoccupante, che a volte si manifesta in forme di rifiuto totale della disciplina e della razionalit che la caratterizza, e davanti al quale l'insegnante si sente impotente e frustrato. Il testo intende dare strumenti agli insegnanti per affrontare questo problema. Insistendo sulla necessit di uscire dall'approccio locale che caratterizza l'intervento di recupero tradizionale, centrato sugli errori e sulle conoscenze necessarie per dare riposte corrette, e che si rivela per lo pi fallimentare, propone un approccio alternativo centrato invece sull'allievo. L'intervento di recupero diventa allora l'ultimo momento di... more...

  • Macchine matematicheby Maria G. Bartolini Bussi; Michela Maschietto

    Springer 2006; US$ 39.95

    Che cosa sono le macchine matematiche? Una macchina matematica (in un contesto geometrico) uno strumento che ha uno scopo fondamentale (indipendentemente dalluso che poi se ne far): obbligare un punto, o un segmento, o una figura qualsiasi (sostenuti da un opportuno supporto materiale che li renda visibili) a muoversi nello spazio o a subire trasformazioni seguendo con esattezza una legge astrattamente, matematicamente determinata. Le macchine matematiche sono tra gli strumenti suggeriti per lattivit di laboratorio, nella proposta di nuovi curricoli avanzata dallUnione Matematica Italiana. Una ampia collezione di macchine (oltre 200), di interesse storico e didattico, stata ricostruita a Modena, dove collocato, presso il Dipartimento di Matematica,... more...

  • Lectura Dantisby Allen Mandelbaum; Anthony Oldcorn; Charles Ross

    The University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 19.96

    Contains commentary on the Purgatorio by various scholars. This book presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. It provides awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements. more...

  • Dante and the Making of a Modern Authorby Albert Russell Ascoli

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 26.00

    The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority. more...