Foreign Language Study : Italian

This dictionary offers over 5,000 terms translated to and from English covering all aspects of business, including office practice, the stock market, international trading, accounting and marketing terminology. more...

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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...

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Study faster, learn better-and get top grades with Schaum's Outlines. Millions of students trust Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. Use Schaum's Outlines to: Brush up before tests; Find answers fast; Study quickly and more effectively; Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks. Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!. This Schaum's Outline gives you: A full treatment of contemporary conversational Italian, including expressions, slang, and idioms; New English-Italian, Italian-English glossary section. Chapters include: The Pronunciation of Italian * Nouns and Articles * Adjectives and Adverbs * Comparatives and Superlatives * Numbers, Dates, and Time * Verbs * Negative Words and Constructions * Interrogative Words and Constructions * Pronouns * Prepositions * Special Uses of Certain Verbs * Glossaries more...

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Traumatic Encounters brings together film and psychoanalysis in an vibrantly original way. By fusing Lacanian theory with Italian cinema, the book excavates the repressed knowledge that lurks in the subconscious structure of the film narrative. Essentially, the book explores the relationship between filmmaking and its subliminal underside by locating and reading elusive traces of the subconscious hidden within the murky alcoves of the film’s narrative. The Italian directors and films discussed (Antonioni, Pasolini, Rosellini, etc.) all convey the aspiration to push cinema beyond its own representational status. By investigating the shadowy role of the unconscious in film, this book opens up a radical new way of “thinking cinema”, particularly in terms of the parallels between cinema and sociopolitical spheres. more...

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The only verb reference a student of Italian will ever need Students, business people, educators, and tourists will love this handy, compact reference. It features 575 verbs, fully conjugated in easy-to-read charts and presented alphabetically, plus more than 1,500 additional verbs in their infinitive form (cross-referenced to the appropriate conjugation), a verb conjugation review, an appendix of irregular verbs, sample sentences demonstrating usage, and more. more...

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