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  • Free Gondola Ride

    Kathleen went to Venice with a goal and a plan. The goal was to write about the lives of a cliched group of men, the gondoliers. The plan included a camera, a notebook, and the perseverance of a serious journalist. But sometimes plans must change.She soon found that a journalist's attitude didn't fly, and a single woman alone in Venice didn't go unnoticed. Changing her approach, she fell in with ... Leer más

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  • Flirting with Fortune: Casanova in Rome

    Clutching letters of introduction, intending to pave his way to the priesthood, adolescent Casanova arrived in Rome. The year was 1743. A future of religious devotion was soon abandoned as he was seduced by sparkling conversations, wild flirtations, French lessons, the lottery, libraries stuffed with books, and ices in candle-lit salons. Experience Rome through eighteenth century eyes, where ... Leer más

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  • Seductive Venice: In Casanova's Footsteps

    "Here. Here is the house of Casanova, the Italian sex machine," a gondolier claims as he points to a crumbling building. But some gondoliers are lying—or telling a different kind of truth. "Casanova, he was with many women in Venice, so he has many houses."It turns out they're right after all.Seductive Venice: In Casanova's Footsteps will take readers on seven walking tours of Venice to find the ... Leer más

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  • A Living Memory: Immortality for Sarra Copia Sulam

    Denounced for heresy, pressured relentlessly to convert, accused of plagiarism, questioned for her learning, and literally robbed of hundreds of ducats in gold and goods, Sarra Copia Sullam faced travails that would have felled those fainter of heart. As a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Venice, she had to remain steadfast in her faith while she brought together both Christian and Jewish ... Leer más

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  • Venice Rising: Aqua Granda, Pandemic, Rebirth

    Venice, a city with 1200 years of tenacity and grace under her belt, is not new to struggle. From her earliest beginnings, she has endeavored to wrestle an existence out of a Lagoon that both protects and punishes her. In recent years, the wakes of cruise ships have battered her fragile stones as tourism and economic realities have driven local Venetians out of the city.Then the aqua granda of ... Leer más

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  • How to Hatch a Reader

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    Learning to read can be tricky, but a good teacher can make all the difference!When your feathered friends start begging for books, you want to be ready with all the right tools. First, find a cozy place to rest their chicken cheeks and help them peck the right story. Make sure to avoid the scary ones (and any books with fowl language). Help your chickens practice letter sounds, point out common ... Leer más

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  • A Beautiful Woman in Venice

    A stately woman in a brocade gown steps off a golden boat. A mirror merchant in simple white blouse takes action to preserve her republic. An elegant singer poses in a private salon. Standing at a university podium, a woman holds forth in Latin on women's education. A cloistered nun in a walled up convent uses the only power she has—her pen. Artists hold in their hands pastels or pens or glass or ... Leer más

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  • How to Hatch a Writer

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    Learning to read may have felt like a breeze, but learning to write could ruffle a few feathers! It's time to hatch a plan to turn your chickens into a flock of word-smithing wonders.The award-winning team of Kari Ann Gonzalez and Rachel Suzanne pair up again in this witty sequel to HOW TO HATCH A READER! Now that your chickens are egg-cellent readers, they'll want to learn to write as well… and ... Leer más

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  • Misfit Children

    An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings

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    Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that ... Leer más

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    Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex better and thereby characterize them better in his next book. While he attempts to follow their advice and marry Evangeline, a pleasant but rather uninteresting woman, a daring American reporter has set her eyes on him. She will stop at nothing to interview him ... Leer más

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  • Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families

    Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service

    Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions-from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers-the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals and families to our country, and how these contribute to the agency, growth, and vitality of America. ... Leer más

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  • New Perspectives on State Government Fiscal Challenges

    In this book on new fiscal approaches, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities. Scholars will find the book useful as a reference tool ... Leer más

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