Imagine learning Italian through opera. L’italiano con l’opera: Lingua, cultura e conversazione is a book to help students do just that. Designed to supplement intermediate level programs, the book is rich enough to be used in courses emphasizing language, conversation, and/or culture. Six operas are examined: Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, Pagliacci, Otello, Tosca, and La traviata. L’italiano con l’opera offers serious fun for students, familiarizing them with great operas through discussion of well-known characters, plots, settings, themes, criticism, and interpretation while they acquire vocabulary, accuracy, and fluency.Each richly detailed opera unit contains interactive speaking activities, reading comprehension, contemporary vocabulary, grammar, and writing activities as well as a focus on a specific aria or duet. Students are encouraged to tell stories, interpret characters, express and react to opinions, use appropriate vocabulary, and analyze themes using modern Italian. The book includes recommended lists of high-quality opera recordings on videocassette, DVD, audiotape, and CD. Units of study are designed to be used with excerpts from English-subtitled opera videos or DVDs.
Presents a theoretical work originally written in the 1920s, long believed to be lost, by a Soviet psychologist. He responds to the proliferation of different schools within the field with the formulation of a unified theory based on Marxism. For scholars in psychology and the history of psychology.
Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist and one of the most influential psychologists in the world during the 20th century. This volume, the last of six, examines Vygotsky's scientific archives and legacy.
Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men--one L.A.' s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief--each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
The letters L.O.V.E. represent four personality dimensions that make up your personal "love style." Once you know your own love style and that of your spouse, you will be able to love him or her in a way that will help you get the love you need in return.Relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott stand on a mountain of research to show you how this single insight can draw you closer together. Never before have we had such an easy-to-use and scientifically proven tool for pinpointing each person's approach to love. You'll discover how much these dimensions inform your love style:L - Leader: The Take-Charge SpouseO - Optimist: The Encouraging SpouseV - Validator: The Devoted SpouseE - Evaluator: The Careful SpouseThe L.O.V.E. online assessment, in combination with this book, will show you how you are designed to approach everything from communication and conflict to sex and intimacy. This is not your typical marriage book. It's a practical tool for learning how to express love to your spouse and feel truly loved in return.
Are you ready to put your personal L.O.V.E. style to work? The L.O.V.E. Workbook for Women, by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, is an effective tool for doing just that. Ideal for individual or group study, this workbook takes the content in L.O.V.E. to a more personal level, where the payoffs are abundant. The insights you gained from reading L.O.V.E. (and taking the online assessment) remain as flat as the printed page if you don’t apply them to your relationship. That’s why this workbook is chock-full of quick and easy ways to personalize this experience. The L.O.V.E. Workbook for Women contains: • Discussion starters that are sure to help you understand and be understood • Fun exercises—geared specifically to your personalities—that reveal new insights about your marriage • Built-in guide for use with the optional four-session DVD (ideal for small groups)• Exercise kit for your online assessmentUse the practical tools found in this workbook as you read L.O.V.E., and you’ll learn how to express love to your husband—and feel truly loved by him in return.
