Cultural Region/Italy
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Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Now
$18.00 Read moreOne-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way–“with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini’s book not only transports us to Italy but deep in… [more below]
- Author: Severgnini, Beppe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315634
- Language: English
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Harry’s Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
$16.99 Read moreNow in paperback, the inside story of one of the world’s most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.
Harry’s Bar in Venice has remained one of the world’s most storied waterin- Author: Cipriani, Arrigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1956763066
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #10: Monday with a Mad Genius
$7.99 Read moreThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the … [more below]
- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker #19
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0375846654
- Language: English
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Conversational Italian for Travelers Just the Important Phrases 4th Edition: (With Restaurant Vocabulary and Idiomatic Expressions)
$9.99 Read moreUpdated 4th Edition. Your traveling companion in Italy! Truly different from other phrase books – this book is friendly, humorous, and also provides a method to understand and remember important Itali… [more below]
- Author: Occhipinti, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0990383482
- Language: English
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relati… [more below]- Author: Kertzer, David I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 081298367X
- Language: English
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Watermark
$17.00 Add to cartIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight sh
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539049
- Language: English
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The Prince
$10.00 Read moreThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593310861
- Language: English
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The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and Wwii’s Mission Impossible
$18.99 Read moreHailed as “masterly” (Wall Street Journal) and a “monumental achievement” (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed eve… [more below]
- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0316414522
- Language: English
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Post-Roman Kingdoms: ‘Dark Ages’ Gaul & Britain, AD 450-800
$21.00 Read moreMeticulously researched, this book examines the evidence for the post-Roman military forces of France and Britain during the ‘Dark Ages’, reconstructing their way of life and the battles they fought i
- Series: Elite #248
- Author: D’Amato, Raffaele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 147285098X
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the first book to focus on the succession of rulers of imperial Rome, using timelines and other visual aids throughout. Now no one need be in any doubt as to who built the Colosseum or when Ro
- Author: Scarre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500289891
- Language: English
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A Tower in Tuscany: Or a Home for My Writers and Other Animals
$19.98 Read moreA glimpse inside a magical Tuscan villa–rustic yet urbane, old-world elegant yet bohemian, accessible yet personal–that nurtures the world’s finest literary talents.
In the hills above Florence, San- Author: Monti Della Corte, Beatrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0789341565
- Language: English
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Sweet Sicily: Sugar and Spice, and All Things Nice
$26.00 Read moreSweet, intense, and colorful is how Sicilian pastries will appear to the fortunate eyes seeing them for the first time. Those who have time to get to know them well, however, will also find it sensual
- Author: Dammone, Alessandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 889521868X
- Language: English
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
$32.50 Read moreIn the tradition of Logicomix, Donald J. Robertson’s Verissimus is a riveting graphic novel on the life and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic of antiquity- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250270952
- Language: English
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The Traces: An Essay
$17.95 Read moreThe Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.
The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that exp
- Author: Small Staid, Mairead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1646052005
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Civil War: 49-44 BC
$20.00 Read moreFully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar’s Civil War.
Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produ- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1472855078
- Language: English
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Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide
$25.95 Read moreThe resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, mi… [more below]
- Author: Wilkinson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1350129399
- Language: English
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Adriatico: Recipes and Stories from Italy’s Adriatic Coast
$35.00 Read moreA beautifully crafted cookbook that charts the food traditions in the towns that skirt the coastline of Italy’s striking Adriatic Sea.
The food of Italy’s eastern coastline mirrors the memories and tr- Author: Bacchia, Paola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1925418723
- Language: English
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Walking the Via Francigena Pilgrim Route – Part 3: Lucca to Rome
$27.95 Add to cartA guidebook to walking the 2000km Via Francigena pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome. Part of a three-volume set, this volume covers the final 411km through Italy, from Lucca to Rome. Suitable f
- Author: Brown, Sandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1786310791
- Language: English
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Dante’s Divine Trilogy
$22.00 Read moreIn this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray – in his last work – offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this compl… [more below]
- Series: Canons
- Author: Gray, Alasdair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1786897024
- Language: English
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In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi, a Novel
$25.95 Read moreAn author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clar… [more below]
- Series: Other Voices of Italy
- Author: Maraini, Dacia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 197883392X
- Language: English
